September 18, 2004
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The First Idea
From aldaily.com,
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The Chronicle of
Higher Education:
New Books
“Mr. Oppenheimer, given what has happened since, would you again accept to develop the bomb? Even after Hiroshima?” “Yes”… more»
The foundations of civilization are but modest: consider for instance games of peekaboo and patty-cake… more»
Peekaboo:
Wallace Stevens on “The First Idea”
Patty-cake:
“A specialist in Homer’s Odyssey and early Greek lyric poetry, Joseph Russo is the only American classicist among six international scholars to provide commentary for Oxford University Press’ three-volume edition of the epic poem.”
– Introduction to an inaugural lecture, “Language, Poetry, Philology, and ‘The Stateliest Measure,’” at Haverford College given by Joseph Russo on Feb. 26, 1999
