Some years ago, in a fit of religious enthusiasm, I decided that I wanted to learn Greek. This was so that I could read the New Testament in its original language, a desire I could not really explain, ...

"Some of this, I don't get." Recently, I heard a member of the chorus of Agamemnon make that declaration. And I sympathised. I was attending An Oresteia, the poet Anne Carson's translation of three ...

The Oxford University Press recently published portions of Scripture rewritten in politically correct Newspeak with God the Father purged of his offensive masculinity and transformed into our ...

‘Love of honour’, its official translation, is a utilitarian yet insufficient attempt to convey the constellation of virtues squeezed into the word’s four syllables. In his second summer in the ...