tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8585732092994259978.post425547082042362299..comments2024-02-26T19:22:15.069-06:00Comments on Lex Christianorum: Lactantius: The Natural Law Delivered to the ChristiansAndrew M. Greenwellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17242573723573203387noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8585732092994259978.post-87177056711955620212010-03-12T08:12:22.808-06:002010-03-12T08:12:22.808-06:00Probably very true.
Classical studies is very im...Probably very true. <br /><br />Classical studies is very important to not only knowing classical antiquity but also philosophy and natural theology and Hellenism and the Hellenistic Age in which Christianity was born. It is also very important to understanding the Greek words and ideas in the New Testament! I find a lot of Eastern Orthodox adverse to Classical studies. One must have a good and true classical education in order to know and understand the New Testament and the works of St. Paul.<br /><br />The Lacedaemonians would not nor ever created prose writing. They were first adverse to (A) writing anything down, though they all knew how to write (B) lengthy speaking of any sort was also an aversion. Two points against them. Yet, they were the seat of philosophy. It was to others, non-Dorians, to write and witness to their stuff. They passed a lot of things around.<br /><br />Plato started out writing tragedies before he met Socrates. Plato was destined to be a student of Socrates and hence start writing this down. (Socrates didn't write either.) It was kind of hard, I suppose, for God to find somebody down here to take diction!!! Everybody he inspired, didn't want to write! Finally, God found Plato! (I could see God getting a little exasperated here, the Spartans didn't write, and then God transferred it to Socrates, and he didn't write---I can see a little frustration, on God's part, going on:)WLindsayWheelernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8585732092994259978.post-16862594274044898882010-03-11T18:39:28.882-06:002010-03-11T18:39:28.882-06:00I glanced at your article on Sparta. I'm goin...I glanced at your article on Sparta. I'm going to have some time off work, and I will be able to read it. Although I vaguely remembered the Spartan references, I have never seen them handled the way you handled it. I guess in short you are saying there is more of Sparta in us than Athens. Maybe Tertullian would have better said, "What has Sparta to do with Jerusalem?"Andrew M. Greenwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17242573723573203387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8585732092994259978.post-42365502109648624512010-03-11T15:27:51.385-06:002010-03-11T15:27:51.385-06:00Cicero, in his speech defending Murena, says this ...Cicero, in his speech defending Murena, says this about Cato and his Stoicism; "...the Spartans, who invented your life-style and way of talking". (Cicero, <i>On Government</i>, trans. Michael Grant, Penguin Classics, 1993, pg 150.)<br /><br />The Classicist Michael Grant also said somewhere that Cicero may have plagiarised Dicaearchus of Messana's lost work, <i>Tripoliticus</i>, which is about Sparta's form of government. What you read in Cicero's <i>De republica</i> is most probably from the Spartans.WLindsayWheelernoreply@blogger.com