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At the heart of Boethius’s most famous book lies a familiar problem: injustice. For him, this wasn’t an academic chin-scratcher for egg-headed intellectuals to discuss. Like a roaring tiger, it was shredding his relationship with God and threatening his very life as he sat imprisoned, falsely accused of treason. He wrote this book to declaw that tiger.

This new edition adapted into modern English by Brent Karding is on sale this week at Roman Roads Press! Audiobook with audio discussions available as well.

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We cannot keep or recover our nation if we don't know what it is we are keeping or recovering.

Read the documents that shaped American liberty!

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Cicero believed On Duties to be his magnum opus, and much of history has agreed with him on this.

Martin Luther: “Let those who wish to see a true philosophy read Cicero. Cicero was a wise and industrious man, and he suffered much and accomplished much.”

On Duties was the second book to be printed by Gutenberg’s press. Parts of it served as inspiration for Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy.

St. Ambrose was so enamored with the work that he wrote his On the Duties of the Clergy with Cicero’s On Duties as the model, and refers to it throughout his own book.

The three books that make up On Duties are full of historical examples which are worth their weight in gold. They, like Homeric similes, are marvelous windows into an age that is not described in any ancient texts since the audience of the texts are written to people who shared the age and therefore needed no descriptions. But they also give us Cicero’s own culturally conservative interpretations of the events of his time, and this is very valuable indeed.

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Word Hoard: The Rhetoric of Poetry

Edited with introductions by poet, author, teacher, and rugby coach Joffre Swait.

Let us take a brief excursus, one that will help to heal us in our conception of what it is to be a poet.

In the year 800, the poet was a sailor.
In 900, the poet was a warrior.
In 1000, the poet was a prince.
In 1100, the poet was a priest.
In 1200, the poet was the son of a priest.
In 1300, the poet was a lover.
In 1400, the poet was a knight errant.
In 1500, the poet was a soldier.
In 1600, the poet was a privateer.
In 1700, the poet was an essayist.
In 1800, the poet was a naturalist.
In 1900, the poet was a traveler.
In the year 2000, the poet was lost.

If you are knowledgeable of history, you may notice a pattern. When Christendom hiccups, poets begin to stare at their belly-buttons. Or rather, belly-button starers become poets. This cannot be a coincidence.

The first step in recovering poets is to recover the poetry that came before us. That is why this book is important.

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“Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom, and makes the heroic virtues hereditary."
—Sir Walter Scott

The Roman Roads Classics collection is ON SALE this week!

Explore the growing collection of beautiful classics, with scholarly introductions from a Christian and pastoral perspective from scholars who love and appreciate Western culture.

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Can a movie do justice to Homer's Odyssey?

Experience Homer with the voice of the past.

First, Homer's own words (albeit in translation).

Then, as he was depicted in art throughout the centuries.

Finally, with a guide.

How?

Pair the Old Western Culture Companion (Vol 1, The Epics) with the Old Western Culture video curriculum, and of course the actual texts from Homer.

Wes Callihan prepared his lectures by reading Homer's works one more time, and then proceeded to tell the tale and lecture through the text without notes apart from those scribbled in the margins of his well-worn Iliad and Odyssey.

Read Aloud. Watch the lectures. Explore the world of Homer with The Epics Companion.

And then, weep at the impoverished medium that is film.

This isn't to say a movie hasn't or can't do a good job. Rather that when one has experienced the joy that is Homer's text in its entirely, and participated in it through the contagious joy of a mentor and lover of the great books, a movie adaptation simply falls short. And that's ok. The text will endure when films are forgotten.

Begin YOUR journey through Homer: HomerPoem.com

The Old Western Culture Companions – Roman Roads Press Background to the Project We are pleased to announce a project we have been working on for over two years, yet planning for much longer than that. What sets Old Western Culture apart from other great books curricula is that it is a guide through the great books, while remaining focused on the great....

The Epics Companion is prepping to go out the door!

But have no worry: The Companion will arrive at your house much faster and more directly (we hope) than Odysseus on his journey home! The map on the back of our special Epics Companion packaging is not a suggestion for the postal service! 📦

Learn about this beautiful exploration of the world of Homer, designed to accompany Old Western Culture: The Epics, or to enhance a standalone reading of Homer.

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Introducing The American Civics Curriculum!

The American Civics Curriculum is divided into two main parts:
• The sourcebook (The Forgotten Realm)
• The consumable student text (The Civil Realm).

There is also a Teacher’s Edition and Exam Pack available.

Learn more! CivilRealm.com

Your Companion to Homer.

All the wonder, all the “Digressios,” all the fun, all the artwork, built on the Old Western Culture foundation. The Old Western Culture Companions are NOT the “textbook version” of Old Western Culture. They are truly a companion to the great books themselves and to the Old Western Culture lectures.

Learn more, and SAVE during our Summer Sale today:
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The Summer Sale is live!

Save on all curriculum and books, including the brand new Old Western Culture Companion Series, The American Civics Curriculum, Word Hoard, and the Roman Roads Classics collection.

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