by Ralph Benko | Apr 15, 2014 | Uncategorized
Polymnestor kills Polydorus. Engraving de Bauer for Ovid’s Metamorphoses Originally posted on Tuesday, April 15th, 2014 Virgil, in Book 3, line 56 of the Aeneid, reflecting upon the the treacherous murder of Polydorus: Quid non mortalia pectora cogis, Auri sacra...
by Ralph Benko | Apr 10, 2014 | Uncategorized
Aeneas and the Sibyl, ca. 1800, Yale Center for British Art Originally posted on Thursday, April 10th, 2014 In the Aeneid, Book Six, Line 126, Virgil writes: Facilis decensus Averno. Translated: “Easy is the descent into Hell.” In full context: Facilis...
by Ralph Benko | Apr 8, 2014 | Uncategorized
Plato, copy of Silanion, Capitoline Museums Originally posted on Tuesday, April 8th, 2014 As the great contemporary philosopher Karl Popper (teacher and inspiration of George Soros) teaches in The Open Society and its Enemies, Plato is the proto-totalitarian and a...
by Ralph Benko | Apr 3, 2014 | Uncategorized
Genoa Conference, 1922, courtesy of Wikipedia Originally posted on Thursday, April 3rd, 2014 “[W]hat went down in the disaster and shame of the Great Depression was not the gold standard but its grotesque caricature in the form of the gold-exchange...
by Ralph Benko | Apr 1, 2014 | Uncategorized
Goethe, courtesy of Wikipedia Originally posted on Tuesday, April 1st, 2014 Herr Jens Weidmann, president of the German central bank, gave an erudite and subtle speech on September 18, 2012 citing Goethe’s Faust, Part II. Faust II is a long, learned, parable of...
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