Baylor Great Texts

Great Texts Program, Honors College,
Baylor University

[Ascend: The Great Books Podcast @TheGreatB00ks]

The great books will change your life.
And the Iliad is the first great book.

If you haven't read it, make a goal for 2025 to do so.

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Don’t miss the excellent essay on Boethius from our colleague @SJ_Murray in @CTmagazine. Well done, Dr. Murray!

[Sarah-Jane (SJ) Murray @SJ_Murray]

Which classic book did C.S. Lewis’s Screwtape fear most? Boethius’s Consolation has been neglected by modern readers for decades. It’s time for a revival. I hope you enjoy this piece I wrote about him and Lewis for Christianity Today (@CTmagazine): https://t.co/ycetUlmoCk
#CSLewis #TheBoethiusProject

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It’s Another Brave New World

Don’t miss this excellent essay from our Baylor Honors College colleague Darin Davis! https://t.co/VIlhxtveBN

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Are you lost in a dark wood?

https://t.co/rSTQpXua99

Thanks to @SJ_Murray and @greatsstorylab

@Dante_Aligheri @100DaysofDante

[Sarah-Jane (SJ) Murray @SJ_Murray]

What is creativity? In today’s #GreatThought, Tolkien reminds us that our creativity comes not from ourselves, but is instead an invitation to step into our roles as “sub-creators.”

[Just Joyce @johnstonglenn]

Giambattista Vico was born OTD in 1668

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Happy Juneteenth!

#OTD in the history of great texts, Blaise Pascal (1623) and Salman Rushdie (1947) were born, and J.M. Barrie (1937) and William Golding (1993) died.

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OTD, James Weldon Johnson (1871) and Jürgen Habermas (1929) were born, and Thomas Kuhn (1996) died.

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OTD in 1313, Giovanni Boccaccio, author of The Decameron and one of the “Three Crowns” of Italian literature (with Dante and Petrarch), was born.

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OTD in 1716, Alexander Pope published the first volume of his translation of the Iliad.

The esteemed classical scholar Richard Bentley said, “It is a very pretty poem, Mr. Pope, but you must not call it Homer.”

Pope would get his revenge in The Dunciad.

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Happy #Bloomsday!

OTD in 1904 James Joyce began his relationship with Nora Barnacle and later commemorated it as the day his character Leopold Bloom wandered throughout Dublin in the 1922 novel *Ulysses*

[Jeremy Wayne Tate @JeremyTate41]

10. The Honors College at Baylor University

[Thomas M. Ward @prof_tom_ward]

Boethius died 1500 years ago this October. His Consolation of Philosophy was one of the most widely read books in Europe for over a thousand years. If you’ve never read it, make this the year you do!

[Zena Hitz @zenahitz]

Common mistake: People think that the great books are packed with familiar cliches, whereas the great books are always startling, whether it's startling familiarity or startling weirdness.

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On this day in the history of great texts, Elizabeth Bowen (1899), Gwendolyn Brooks (1917), and Orhan Pamuk (1952) were born, and Friedrich Hölderlin (1843) and E.M. Forster (1970) died.

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Congratulations to our colleague @prof_tom_ward on this important new translation and commentary! We look forward to reading it. Well done!

[Thomas M. Ward @prof_tom_ward]

Some scotch to celebrate the release of my Scotus translation and commentary.

Scotus deserves a widely recognized place among the greatest natural theologians. I hope this book boosts his reputation.

Hardest professional thing I’ve ever done. Cheers!

[Adrian Tudor @AdrianTudorDr]

This is splendid! How did medieval Christians make the works of pre-Christian, pagan writers ("the ancients") into Christian teachings? How could pagans like Aristotle & Ovid write Christian truths? @SJ_Murray and a team at @Baylor explain in a terrific short film...

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What a great thread.

[CoffeeWithTheClassics @CoffeewClassics]

Nothing like a good hook to reel in the reader!

A Thread of the 50 Best Opening Lines in Classic Literature. 🧵 👇

[Sarah-Jane (SJ) Murray @SJ_Murray]

What is the Medieval French Ovide? Well, we spent a decade translating it, because we believe it's a "lost book" that changed and shaped the world. Quite possibly, you might think of it as the Divine Comedy of France. Now, learn about how it all began -- and then dig into the translation from @boydellbrewer. With thanks to our editor, @CanaryCaroline :)