Homer, Paul Ramsay and Me : Rewriting the Mythology of Western Civilisation

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Author:agent Catherine Walsh

Issue Details: First known date: 2019... 2019 Homer, Paul Ramsay and Me : Rewriting the Mythology of Western Civilisation

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'It is a truth universally acknowledged that scholarly appreciation of Western literature requires a familiarity with the works of the Judeo-Christian tradition and classical mythology. I understood this to be valid, so when I attended university as a mature-age student in the 1990s I did a major in myth and ancient literature in translation along with an English major. Having been raised as a Catholic I thought I had the Judeo-Christian part covered. It turned out not to be so simple.' (Introduction)

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Epigraph: Scepticism is as much the result of knowledge, as knowledge is of scepticism. To be content with what we at present know, is, for the most part, to shut our ears against conviction; since, from the very gradual character of our education, we must continually forget, and emancipate ourselves from, knowledge previously acquired; we must set aside old notions and embrace fresh ones; and, as we learn, we must be daily unlearning something which it has cost us no small labour and anxiety to acquire. —Theodore Alois Buckley’s introduction to Alexander Pope’s translation of Homer’s Iliad

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y Meanjin vol. 78 no. 1 Autumn 2019 16531898 2019 periodical issue Abstract
'We were just a little surprised when the Australia Council said yes. But then a year later—as you were—they said no.

'Three years back, when the council redrew the map of arts funding, Meanjin lost its rolling three-year key organisation grant, a pattern that had allowed if not luxury then a degree of certainty. Money was the root of it all: the council’s budget had been gutted and cuts had to be made. Whatever discomforting ripples were felt through opera, ballet and theatre companies had become a toxic trickle by the time the tide of change made its way down the funding food chain to bodies whose business was literature.' (Jonathan Green, Introduction)
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