Enjoy reading regular posts on Early Christianity, Late Antiquity, and related disciplines (Classics, Biblical Studies, Medieval and Byzantine Studies). My plan is to post regularly on things connected to my interest in these disciplines. Some of the posts will come from my teaching, some will come from my research, and some will arise from other… Continue reading Welcome to Patrology
Didymus the Blind and Porphyry of Tyre on Allegorical Hermeneutics: Achilles and Hector, Christ and the Devil
During the first few class periods each semester in my ancient and medieval survey class, we read Stanley Lombardo's abridged version of the Iliad.1 Invariably, my students have no trouble differentiating what they see as the character flaws of Achilles from the virtues of Hector. The Iliad invites such a comparison: Achilles appears in the… Continue reading Didymus the Blind and Porphyry of Tyre on Allegorical Hermeneutics: Achilles and Hector, Christ and the Devil
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