Tag: Greece
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Early Reflection on my Journey to Greece: Black Classicism, Childhood and American Identity
I just returned abroad from my journey to the island of Hydra (Gr: Ύδρα, romanized: Ýdra) and Athens in Greece back home to the state of Illinois and came back very happily engaged to my beautiful partner. It has been over two years since I went on a trip through a tour agency to Italy…
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“Your History is Entirely at Sea”: The Legend and Classical Reference to Atlantis
ATLANTIS THE CLASSICAL REFERENCE TO THE MYTH OF ATLANTIS One vital classical source for the Atlantis legendand its remembrance, is from two dialogues writtenby Plato, in Timaeus and Critias.It is described as an island in the Atlantic Ocean.In Timaeus and Critias, Solon, an Athenian andprominent statesman c. 6th c. BCE, described theisland as a country bigger…
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American Founders inspired by Classical Greece and Rome
A number of the American founders were classicists, and were trained in the classics in their colonial education, and American Romanità demonstrates how Classicism was integral to education in the U.S., and not simply an “elite education.” It should also be kept in mind, that the first U.S. president, George Washington was honored on Masonic…
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Samuel Fales Dunlap on the Ancient Origin of Names of Great Gods, Cities, Rivers and Countries
In Samuel Fales Dunlap’s work The Origin of Ancient Names of Countries, Cities, Individuals, and Gods (Cambridge, 1856), he argued that the proper names of countries, cities, individuals, and gods, drawn from regions including Greece, Italy, Asia Minor, Babylon, Egypt, Phoenicia and Judaea, are generally compound words incorporating the names of ancient sun-gods. This reveals…
The American Minervan 