St. Antony’s Cave

A wiser man than I said, “For every current book you read, read five at least 100 years old.”  I would modify that a bit and say, “For every 19^th, 20^th, or 21^st century book you read, read five from before then.”

One old book worth reading is Plutarch’s Lives of the Nobel Greeks (His Lives of the Nobel Romans is good as well.).   In his entry about the hero of Athens’s, Pericles, he begins with this rather stunning observation by Caesar: (more…)