Tag Archives: Homer

Detail, Arnold Böcklin, Odysseus boasting to Polyphemus, 1896.

1,772 words

Anyone with a decent education knows that the Iliad and Odyssey concern the fall of Troy and the struggle of Odysseus against a series of eldritch terrors on his voyage homeward. The timeless appeal is clear; the style is quite gripping, which especially comes out if one has a good translation or happens to know Greek. Read more …

Published: February 18, 2021 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged academia, articles, Beau Albrecht, cancel culture, history, literature, North American New Right, originals, political correctness, the classics, the Ililad, the Odyssey, white dispossession | 19 Responses

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The Great Thanksgiving Reset

Fullmoon Ancestry

Michael Drolling, The Wrath of Achilles, 1819.

1,636 words

Thanksgiving has always been one of my favorite holidays. Along with eating turkey and pumpkin pie, it is a day where I reflect on all the things that I am thankful for in my life. As our governments take advantage of the COVID lockdowns to impose draconian measures and the Great Reset, I found myself feeling more angry than thankful Read more …

Published: November 23, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, COVID-19 pandemic, fate, Fullmoon Ancestry, Klaus Schwab, North American New Right, originals, Thanksgiving, the Great Reset, the Iliad, travel | 4 Responses

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Classics in an Age of Confusion

Alex Graham

2,507 words

Donna Zuckerberg
Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2018

Homer
The Odyssey
Translated by Emily Wilson
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2017 Read more …

Published: October 22, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged A. Graham, feminism, political correctness, Roosh V, Stoicism, the manosphere | 16 Responses

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Pagan Pound

Stead Steadman

2,381 words

The following is the text of a talk given in London on May 27, 2018 at The Poet at War, an event convened by Vortex Londinium.

“We want an European religion. Christianity is verminous with semitic infections. What we really believe is the pre-Christian element which Christianity has not stamped out . . .”[1] Read more …

Published: July 31, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Ezra Pound, North American New Right, originals, paganism, poetry | 1 Response

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The Myths We Live By

Jef Costello

Franz von Stuck, Sisyphus

4,063 words

Dutch translation here

Editor’s Note:

The following is the text of a talk Mr. Costello recently delivered to a small group of not-fully-red-pilled neophytes. — Greg Johnson

I have been asked to address the question, “what is the prevailing myth of the modern era?” In order to answer that question, we first have to distinguish between two senses of “myth.” Read more …

Published: September 25, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Adolf Hitler, articles, biological race differences, egalitarianism, equality, inequality, Jef Costello, myth, North American New Right, occultism, originals, political correctness, Third Reich, white guilt, white nationalism, World War II | 16 Responses

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The Metaphysics of Indo-European Tripartition, Part 1

Collin Cleary

Georges Dumézil

1,362 words

Part 1 of 6

Author’s Note:

This essay was originally written almost exactly thirteen years ago. I have withheld it from publication for all these years, because I considered the ideas in it a bit too speculative and daring. Read more …

Published: April 6, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, caste, Collin Cleary, Georges Dumézil, hinduism, Indo-Europeans, North American New Right, originals, Plato, tripartition | Leave a comment

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L’action française 2000 Interviews Dominique Venner

Dominique Venner

1,525 words

Translated by Giuliano Adriano Malvicini

L’Action française 2000: You define yourself as a “meditative historian.” What precisely do you mean by this term? Read more …

Published: September 24, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Charles Maurras, Christianity, Dominique Venner, Ernst Junger, history, interviews, North American New Right, originals, paganism, translations | 1 Response

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The Worth of Fame

Andrew Hamilton

Benjamin West, The Bard, 1778

2,309 words

In retrospect, Aryans appear to have harbored a naïve faith in the natural relationship between reputation, fame, and merit. True, our conceptions served us well enough in our own world. But that was prior to the Age of Defamation. Now we see that fame, reputation, and moral worth can be completely unrelated. It is child’s play for dominant, cunning, and unscrupulous elites to destroy reputations, fabricate evidence and opinions, and reverse the judgments of history—and have their constructs stick, and be universally accepted.

Published: July 11, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Andrew Hamilton, articles, duty ethics, Eddas, Herodotus, honor, media, North American New Right, originals, reputation, warrior ethics, William Pierce, Wilmot Robertson | 4 Responses

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A Tríade Homérica

Dominique Venner

903 words

English version here

Para os antigos, Homero era “o começo, o meio e o fim.” Uma visão do mundo e até mesmo uma filosofiaestão implicitamente contidas em seus poemas. Heráclito resumiu seu alicerce cósmico com uma frase bem colocada: Read more …

Published: November 30, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Dominique Venner, duty ethics, Heraclitus, in Portuguese, in translation, philosophy, religion, reprints, warrior ethics | Leave a comment

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Christopher Gérard Interviews Dominique Venner

Dominique Venner

Giampetrino (school of Leonardo), "Diana the Huntress"

Giampietrino (school of Leonardo), “Diana the Huntress”

2,196 words

Translated by Giuliano Adriano Malvicini

Translator’s Note:

The following is an interview with Dominique Venner from 2001, originally published on the occasion of the release of his book Dictionnaire amoureux de la chasse. It seems fitting, as a last farewell, to let Dominique Venner himself speak.

Christopher Gérard: Who are you? How do you define yourself? A werewolf, a white falcon?

Dominique Venner: I am a Frenchman of Europe, or a European whose mother tongue is French, of Celtic and Germanic ancestry. Read more …

Published: October 9, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Dominique Venner, European identity, hunting, interviews, North American New Right, reprints, translations | 2 Responses

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Αγάπα την Βροχή, αγάπα την Ζωή

Dominique Venner

457 words

Μετάφραση Greg Johnson

Μετάφραση στα ελληνικά: Ρωμανός

Δεν ξεχνώ ούτε μια στιγμή τους αγώνες της εποχής μας. Δεν ξεχνώ ούτε μια στιγμή τις μάχες του παρελθόντος που μας έκαναν αυτό που είμασθε. Δεν ξεχνώ ούτε μια στιγμή ότι το να υπάρχεις δεν σημαίνει μόνον να αφιερώνεσαι και να αφοσιώνεσαι , αλλά επίσης, να μάχεσαι. Ούτε ξεχνώ ότι η ζωή έχει έντονες στιγμές και ήρεμες στιγμές, χαρές και στεναχώριες.

Published: August 31, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Dominique Venner, Heraclitus, in Greek, in translation, living well, modernity, nature, North American New Right, reprints | Leave a comment

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Tribute to Dominique Venner

Alain de Benoist

1,429 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

Translations: Czech, Greek

The reasons for living and the reasons for dying are often the same. This was definitely the case for Dominique Venner, whose gesture aimed at bringing his life and death into deep accord. He said he chose to die in the way that was the most honorable in certain circumstances, particularly when words become powerless to describe, to express what we feel. Read more …

Published: June 26, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alain de Benoist, Albrecht Dürer, articles, Dominique Venner, Johnson translation, North American New Right, on Venner, originals, suicide, translations | 3 Responses

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The Uniqueness of Western Civilization, Part 3
Hegel & the Struggle for Recognition

Collin Cleary

G. W. F. Hegel, 1770-1831

4,986 words

Part 3 of 5

Ricardo Duchesne
The Uniqueness of Western Civilization
Leiden: Brill, 2011

7. Hegel and the Struggle for Recognition

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Video of the Day
Ezra Pound Reads Canto I

Ezra Pound

time: 6:09 / 588 words

Published: February 28, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Ezra Pound, poems, video of the day, videos | 1 Response

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O Guerreiro e a Cidade

Dominique Venner

718 words

English version here

Em 1814, ao final das guerras Napoleônicas, Benjamin Constant escreveu com alívio: “Nós chegamos à era do comércio, à era que deve necessariamente substituir a da guerra, como a da guerra necessariamente tinha que precedê-la”. Ingênuo Benjamin! Ele tomou generalizada idéia de progresso indefinido, como promotora do advento da paz entre homens e nações.

Published: January 26, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Dominique Venner, in Portuguese, in translation, North American New Right, reprints, the military, war, warrior ethics, warriors | Leave a comment

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Love Nature, Love Life

Dominique Venner

421 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

Greek translation here

Not for an instant do I forget the struggles of our time. Not for an instant do I forget the struggles of the past that made us who we are. Not for an instant do I forget that to exist is not just to dedicate and devote oneself but also to fight. Nor do I forget that life has intense moments and calm moments, joys and cruelties.

Published: January 22, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Dominique Venner, Heraclitus, Johnson translation, living well, modernity, nature, North American New Right, originals, translations | 5 Responses

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El Guerrero y la Ciudad

Dominique Venner

742 words

English version here

En 1814, al final de las Guerras Napoleónicas, Benjamin Constant escribió con alivio: “Hemos llegado a la era del comercio, la era que debe necesariamente reemplazar a la de la guerra, tal como la era de la guerra tuvo que necesariamente preceder.” ¡Iluso Benjamin! Asumió demasiado amplia la idea del progreso indefinido apoyando el advenimiento de la paz entre hombres y naciones.

Published: November 29, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Dominique Venner, in Spanish, in translation, North American New Right, originals, the military, war, warrior ethics, warriors | Leave a comment

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The Homeric Gods

Mark Dyal

4,074 words

Athena

Walter F. Otto
The Homeric Gods: The Spiritual Significance of Greek Religion
Translated by Moses Hadas
North Stratford, N.H.: Ayer Company Publishers, 2001

“My goal is to create total enmity between our current ‘culture’ and Antiquity. Whoever wants to serve the former must hate the latter.”—Friedrich Nietzsche[1]

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The Unforeseen, the Chinese, & the Favorable Moment

Dominique Venner

The Trojan Horse: Detail of the neck relief on an early 7th century BCE earthenware amphora from Mykonos

743 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

Current events sometimes offer striking examples of the unforeseen. Last spring, we were all shocked by images of one of the great and powerful looking despondent, his wrists shackled, having suddenly fallen from his perch of impunity. By means of the media, spectators felt that they were following much more than a single news event. Read more …

Published: November 2, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Carl von Clausewitz, China, Dominique Venner, Johnson translation, North American New Right, strategy, translations, war | 4 Responses

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The Yogi & the Commissar

Dominique Venner

722 words

Translated by M. P.

Arthur Koestler, the author of Le zéro et l’infini (in English, Darkness at Noon), once played an important role in the Spanish Civil War as an agent of the Comintern. Through his writings, he set the tone of an anti-Francoist propaganda that has endured. Later, his deceptions made him an acute critic of Stalinism. Read more …

Published: September 13, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aesthetics, Arthur Koestler, articles, Communism, Dominique Venner, Eastern religion, European New Right, French New Right, manliness, North American New Right, originals, religion, spirituality, translations | 4 Responses

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The Warrior & the City

Dominique Venner

717 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

Translations: Portuguese, Spanish

In 1814, at the end of the Napoleonic wars, Benjamin Constant wrote with relief: “We have arrived at the age of commerce, the age that must necessarily replace that of war, as the age of war necessarily had to precede it.” Naïve Benjamin! He took up the very widespread idea of indefinite progress supporting the advent of peace between men and nations.

Published: January 24, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commercial society, Dominique Venner, Johnson translation, North American New Right, originals, the military, translations, war, warrior ethics, warriors | 1 Response

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Two Cantos, with Recordings of Pound’s Recitations

Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound by Arno Breker

928 words

Canto I (“And then went down”)

For Ezra Pound’s recitation (5:32), click here: MP3

Published: October 30, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged banking, economics, Ezra Pound, money, North American New Right, poems, poetry, reprints, usury | Leave a comment

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Homer: The European Bible, Part 3

Dominique Venner

John William Waterhouse, “Penelope and the Suitors”

1,744 words

Part 3 of 3. Read Part 1 here, Part 2 here.

Translated by Greg Johnson

The Odyssey: The Place of Man in the Cosmos

Published: September 11, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Dominique Venner, European identity, Johnson translation, literature, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, translations, women | Leave a comment

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Homer: The European Bible, Part 2

Dominique Venner

1,754 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

Part 2 of 3. Part 1 here.

The Anger & Remorse of Achilles

After ten years of a very long siege, along with raids in the area, a quarrel opposed Agamemnon, chief of the Achaean coalition, and Achilles, the most famous hero of his camp. Read more …

Published: September 8, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Dominique Venner, European identity, Johnson translation, literature, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, translations | 4 Responses

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Homer: The European Bible, Part 1

Dominique Venner

2,463 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

Part 1 of 3

François Julien, one of the most acute minds of our time, recalled:

When I was in school, people called me and a friend “the Homerists” . . . Read more …

Published: September 7, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Dominique Venner, European identity, Johnson translation, literature, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, translations | 3 Responses

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The Homeric Triad

Dominique Venner

Rembrandt, “Aristotle Contemplating a Bust of Homer,” 1653

930 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

For the Ancients, Homer was “the beginning, the middle, and the end.” A vision of the world and even a philosophy are implicitly contained in his poems. Heraclitus summarized his cosmic foundation with a well-turned phrase: “The universe, the same for all beings, was not created by any god or by any man; but it always was, is, and will be eternally living fire . . .” Read more …