Tag: Homer

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Many dismiss Atlantis as merely a myth or allegory by Plato. The theosophists and other peddlers of pop culture esotericism embrace the myth and embroider it, for instance, claiming that Atlantis had flying machines. I have always taken the radical centrist stance that Atlantis existed, minus the fantastical claims. It was probably a settlement in North Africa that was advanced for its time, like Göbekli Tepe in Anatolia.

The only two primary sources on Atlantis are Plato’s Timaeus and Critias which are sequels to The Republic.[1] But modern myth mongers rarely examine them, even in passing.  A close reading of them suggests that the Greeks remembered Homer’s Troy but not Solon’s Atlantis because it was closer in time with fewer intervening disasters and because Homer could devote his attention to poetry while Solon could not. The Critias ends abruptly mid-sentence with a council of the gods to echo the start of the Odyssey, further emphasizing the comparison to Homer’s Troy. (more…)

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Als die Napoleonischen Kriege 1814 endeten, schrieb der prominente Schriftsteller Benjamin Constant erleichtert: “Wir sind im Zeitalter des Handels angekommen, einem Zeitalter, das notwendigerweise das Zeitalter des Krieges ersetzen muss, so wie das Zeitalter des Krieges notwendigerweise vorangehen musste.” Naiver Benjamin! Er griff die weit verbreitete Vorstellung von einem unbestimmten Fortschritt auf, der den Frieden zwischen Menschen und Nationen fördert. (more…)

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Greg Johnson, David Zsutty, and Angelo Plume (aka Pox Populi: Telegram, YouTube) convened on the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio to discuss Tucker Carlson’s controversial interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin last week, and also answered listener questions. It is now available for download and online listening. (more…)

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Have you ever thought, right, but you don’t know, but you may have already lived the happiest day in your whole fucking life and all you have left to look forward to is fucking sickness and purgatory? — Johnnie, Naked

Of all creatures that move and breathe upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man. — Homer, the Odyssey

I saw Mike Leigh’s 1993 movie Naked the week of its release, and during a rare English heatwave. (more…)

Unknown artist and date, The Pilgrimage to Canterbury

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There’s an old story within a story told by a pilgrim knight about ancient Thebes and two Theban cousins named Arcite and Palamon.^[1] According to everyone who knew them, no two warriors were more perfect. (more…)

Horace Vernet, Napoleon at Jena: “En Avant!”

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1. Homer, Iliad. W. C. Bryant, trans. Perth, Aus.: Imperium Press, 2019, 576 pp.: While everyone knows the story, few people today have actually read it. You can bet that almost every great military commander in Western history read it. Composed during the Greek “Dark Ages” and (probably) based on a real event, Iliad is an echo of the even earlier Bronze Age — of war’s power at its all-encompassing, glorious, and terrible pinnacle. (more…)

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Dante’s Inferno

Dante Alighieri’s conceptual map of Hell also lay at the intersection where biblical and classical ideas about the afterlife crossed. Virgil, fellow Italian poet and ancient Roman author of the Æneid, accompanied him during much of his journey, for Virgil was someone who had imagined his own hero Aeneas successfully navigating the underworld. (more…)

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Guillaume Durocher
The Ancient Ethnostate: Biopolitical Thought in Classical Greece
Self-published, 2021

It almost goes without saying that any book written today by someone from the Dissident Right on the subject of Classical Greece will be more accurate to the spirit of antiquity and more honest about the racial realities that underlie it than anything that could be published in contemporary academia. This book gives a good survey of the history, culture, and ideas of key writers of various sorts in Ancient Greece. (more…)

Ingres, Die Apotheose Homers, 1827, Musée du Louvre

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English original here

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Einführung: Am Anfang war Homer… Seine Epen sind durch die Zeit gegangen. (more…)

Nietzsche at age 18.

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In the Alps I am unconquerable, that is, when I am alone and have no enemy other than myself. — Nietzsche, letter to Malwida von Meysenburg

Friedrich Nietzsche remains the most enigmatic of philosophers. Claimed by both the political Left and Right over the 121 years since his death (by which time he had been incurably insane for 11 years), the Lutheran pastor’s son left a philosophical legacy which remains mysterious, and yet to the “philosophers of the future” for whom Nietzsche wrote, ultimately uplifting even in its ominous predictions for the Western culture to which he felt he was a physician. (more…)

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“And there was the Odyssey, whose vigorously sonorous, measured numbers gave an intimation of a vanished, clearly articulated and joyous life.” – Hermann Hesse[1]

“An easily forgotten fact of cultural history [is] the radical, white-to-black, up-and-then-down variations in the periodic estimates of men and works. . . . To the Renaissance, Cicero was the supreme man of letters; today he has been banished even from the classroom.“ — Jacques Barzun[2] (more…)

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Für die Ältesten war Homer “der Anfang, die Mitte und das Ende”. Eine Weltanschauung und sogar eine Philosophie leiten sich implizit aus seinen Gedichten ab. Heraklit hat den kosmischen Sockel mit einer formulierung gut zu ihm zusammengefasst: “Das Universum, das für alle Wesen gleich ist, wurde von keinem Gott oder menschen geschaffen;sondern es war immer, ist und wird ewig lebendiges Feuer sein . . .” (more…)

Illustration of a firebird by Kay Nielsen in Hansel and Gretel & Other Stories (1925)

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Yet more and greater ills by land remain.
The coast, so long desir’d . . .
Thy troops shall reach, but, having reach’d, repent.
Wars, horrid wars, I view a field of blood,
And Tiber rolling with a purple flood.

— The Æneid [1]

I hope Counter-Currents readers are enjoying the first flush of spring and continue to find moments of happiness despite all the petty Javerts in our midst. (more…)