The Other Greek Woman

The Other Greek Woman

Regarding Penelope: From Character to Poetics, Second Edition By Nancy Felson.  Harvard University Press, 2025.  Hardcover, 220 pages, $24.95.  Reviewed by Jesse Russell. Until the recent fascination with Cleopatra VII, Helen of Sparta / Troy has been the most readily...
Educating in the Good, the True, and the Beautiful

Educating in the Good, the True, and the Beautiful

Passing the Torch: An Apology for Classical Christian Education By Louis Markos. IVP Academic, 2025. Paperback, 240 pages, $30. Reviewed by David Hein. This fine study by Louis Markos, an English professor at Houston Christian University and the author of many books,...
Lessons from Sparta

Lessons from Sparta

Sparta’s Third Attic War: The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, 413-404 B.C.  By Paul A. Rahe. Encounter Books, 2024. Hardcover, 640 pages, $41.99. Reviewed by Jeffrey Folks. In Sparta’s Third Attic War, Paul H. Rahe continues his multi-volume history of...
The Character of the People is the Character of the Regime

The Character of the People is the Character of the Regime

Sparta’s Sicilian Proxy War: The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, 418-413 B.C. By Paul A. Rahe. Encounter Books, 2023.  Hardcover, 376 pages, $34.99. Reviewed by David Talcott. “In their haste to identify a formula for politics that would be applicable to all...
Claiming the Classical Tradition

Claiming the Classical Tradition

The Black Intellectual Tradition: Reading Freedom in Classical Literature By Angel Adams Parham and Anika Prather.  Classical Academic Press, 2022.  Hardcover, 272 pages, $29.95. Reviewed by Sean C. Hadley. Classical Education finds itself at the heart of a serious...