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    Classical Considerations: Musings Prompted by the Late Harvard Master John H. Finley, Jr.
    Classical Considerations: Musings Prompted by the Late Harvard Master John H. Finley, Jr.
    Classical Considerations: Musings Prompted by the Late Harvard Master John H. Finley, Jr.
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    Classical Considerations: Musings Prompted by the Late Harvard Master John H. Finley, Jr.

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    Life’s foundational questions come elegantly to the fore in this skillfully crafted nonfiction story about the late John H. Finley, Jr. For 51 years Finley was the celebrated and erudite Eliot Professor of the Classics at Harvard. Luminous and compellingly relevant, his story leads readers into direct engagement with the fundamental wisdom questions of a fulfilled life. Classical Considerations is a small treasure, offering a compact but brilliantly lyrical array of intellectual sparks that will kindle an exuberant fire in every reader’s soul.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSteven McFadden
    Release dateJan 30, 2013
    ISBN9781301154777
    Classical Considerations: Musings Prompted by the Late Harvard Master John H. Finley, Jr.
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    Steven McFadden

    I've been an independent writer since 1975 when I graduated from journalism school at Boston University. Since then I've been happily involved with my life's work writing, and consulting. Over the years I've authored hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles, blog posts, and over a dozen nonfiction books.It's my honor to have served as the author of an epic, nonfiction saga of contemporary America, Odyssey of the 8th Fire. It's freely available online at www.8thfire.net Odyssey of the 8th Fire is the true, epic saga of a historic pilgrimage for the earth across North America by people of all colors and faiths under the Sky Sign of the Whirling Rainbow. The 8th Fire arises from the deepest roots of our land. In it, circles upon circles, elders make a great and generous giveaway of the teachings they carry.The titles I have listed on Smashwords arise out of the Soul*Sparks publishing venture in which I partner with my wife, Elizabeth Wolf.As of 2019, I'm designating Chiron Communications, my umbrella publishing venture, as the publisher for the book I've recently finished writing, "Deep Agroecology: Farms, Food, and Our Future." The eBook version will be available here on Smashwords.Peace and good cheer, Steven

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      Classical Considerations - Steven McFadden

      - Classical Considerations -

      Musings Prompted by

      the Late Harvard Master John H. Finley, Jr.

      By Steven McFadden

      Soul*Sparks Books

      Copyright 2013 Steven McFadden

      ISBN: 9781301154777

      Cover: Photo of Corinthian column from Istock.com

      Design by Elizabeth Wolf and Rita Toews.

      License Notes: This eBook is created and licensed for your reading enjoyment and contemplation. All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise) without the prior permission of the copyright owner and publisher. - S.M.

      Table of Contents

      Prologue

      I. Magna Cum Laude Musings

      II. It’s All There in the Classics

      III. The Choices People Have to Make

      IV. You Are Who You Are

      V. Mentor

      VI. Paean to Nature

      VII. Freshness of Impression

      VIII. What is the Purpose of Knowledge?

      IX. What the Epics Are Really About

      Epilogue

      Bibliography

      About the Author

      Reviews

      With respect and appreciation for

      Master Thomas McClary Mercer (1902-1989)

      Acknowledgements

      In beginning I must echo the thought expressed by himself, Master John H. Finley, Jr. in 1965: If apology is desirable for treating great subjects in a small space, it is wholeheartedly offered. Further, I offer my apology to authors of articles read long ago which now escape proper citation.

      I extend my acknowledgement and gratitude to a far-flung web of life associates for their influences and assistance in completing this and other works. Thank you. I love you. I thank especially my Muse and wife, Elizabeth Wolf, who the grey-eyed goddess Athena Aleia hath graced with far-ranging wisdom, deep beauty and noble heart.

      For the elders whose messages are woven into this and the other Soul*Sparks Books — those living and those in spirit — I fill my lungs with wind of the Anemoi, then lift my voice in paean to you all via earth and ethers. You have made generous giveaways to the world with your insights and your lives, and are worthy of acknowledgement and honor.

      - Ευχαριστώ (Efharisto - Thank you), Steven McFadden

      The Moiras (The Fates) - as depicted by sculptor Johann Gottfried Schadow. These Triple-Moon Goddesses of ancient Greece were also known as The Apportioners. Clotho holds a spindle that she might spin out the thread of life. Lachesis, The Allotter, holds a scroll to measure the thread of a soul’s destiny. Atropos, The Unturnable, holds shears to cut when fate has been fulfilled. Photo courtesy of Wikipedia Commons.

      Prologue

      "We are a part of all we have met. Yet, experience is an arch wherethro gleams that untravl'd world whose margin fades forever and forever when we move." ~ Odysseus to Athena, at the end of The Odyssey

      It has been my moira in life to meet and to talk at length with a great many

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