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5Discourses Delivered to the StWentworth Press. 2016.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of …Read more
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5Seven Discourses on ArtCassell & Company. 2009.Sir Joshua Reynolds RA FRS FRSA (1723-1792) was an important and influential 18th century English painter, specialising in portraits and promoting the "Grand Style" in painting which depended on idealisation of the imperfect. Showing an early interest in art, Reynolds was apprenticed in 1740 to the fashionable portrait painter Thomas Hudson, with whom he remained until 1743. From 1749 to 1752, he spent over two years in Italy, where he studied the Old Masters and acquired a taste for the "Grand …Read more
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9SNL, Satire, and SocratesIn Jason Southworth & Ruth Tallman (eds.), Saturday Night Live and Philosophy, Wiley. 2020.This chapter argues that SNL tends, with some exceptions, away from the philosophical and satirical areas of the spectrum and more towards the smart‐assical, silly side. Moreover, just like SNL sketches, Aristophanes' plays often subjected contemporary figures, celebrities, and politicians to intense ridicule. The sketch provided SNL a way of criticizing its own network by allowing the writers and actors to adopt a different persona, thus creating a safe distance between critic and target. Setti…Read more
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8In The Beginning: A Serious Satire on Myth, Philosophy, and BeliefWindowless I Publishing. 2017.Timon is an ancient Greek skeptic fed up with dogmatic nonsense about the beginnings of the universe. One night, he dreams of a boisterous "Battle of Brains" between history's major religious and philosophical authorities. Highly satirical, IN THE BEGINNING depicts this battle in a clear and readable style, faithfully detailing each contender's cosmology, including wisecracks and barbs aimed at rival sages. Timon himself pulls no punches in attempting to resolve the debate, even bashing belief i…Read more
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9SNL, Satire, and Socrates: Smart‐Assery or Seriousness?In Ruth Tallman & Jason Southworth (eds.), Saturday Night Live and Philosophy: Deep Thoughts Through the Decades. pp. 39-50. 2020.
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4Review of A. Preus, Historical Dictionary of Ancient Greek Philosophy (review)Aestimatio 6. 2009.
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9Proving Power: Signs and Sign-inference in Thucydides’ ArchaeologyTransactions of the American Philological Association 139 (2): 325-368. 2009.
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33Review of Darien Shanske, Thucydides and the Philosophical Origins of History (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2007 (6). 2007.
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25Review of Richard Seaford, Money and the Early Greek Mind: Homer, Philosophy, Tragedy (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2004 (11). 2004.
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