Owen’s Classical Meanderings

Poetry, Poetasters, and the Dark Glass of History

A call for reappraisal of Heian-era Japan.

Jul 15 • 

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March 2025

The Credibility Trap

The Power of Narrative.

Mar 10 • 

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Mystery Solved?

An Epithet fit for an Amazon Queen.

Mar 7 • 

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February 2025

Poetry… What is it for?

A meditation.

Feb 9 • 

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The Uniqueness of Homer

Mental meanderings and random thoughts.

Feb 8 • 

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A Tale of Two Cities

Mistaken identity or sour grapes?

Feb 7 • 

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A Voyage to Nowhere?

The Teuthranian Debacle.

Feb 5 • 

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Our Iliad is not Homer’s Iliad

An exercise in “original intent.”

Feb 3 • 

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January 2025

Dio or Don’t You?

Another short interlude while I get some more ducks in a row...

Jan 28 • 

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The Geography of a Legend

The Cyclic Phase and Final Phase: The Trojan War as we know it.

Jan 24 • 

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The Geography of a Legend

Aeolic/Anatolian Phase, the Mythopoetic Phase and Homer

Jan 22 • 

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The Geography of a Legend

A roadmap to history’s most misunderstood conflict.

Jan 19 • 

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