I thank my critics for time, thought, and effort put into their commentaries. Since obviously I can’t respond to everything, I will try to address what strike me as the most important questions they ask and objections they raise. I think I have decent answers to some questions and decent responses to some objections, in other cases it seems enough to clarify the relevant view, and in still othe...

Even if an almost entirely imaginary vision, the Hyperboreans remain most productive and persistent Northern motif in ancient Greek literature. The were thought to have traversed Greece during its mythical prehistory left their mark on some of innermost sanctified places, thus helping create, sometimes maintain, important values thought, such as justice, right, moral purity religiosity. This st...

he history of Geoffrey Chaucer’s “Man of Law’s Tale” is complicated, as is the narrative itself. Part love story, part saint’s life, Chaucer’s tale of the extremely pious, self-effacing Custance exhibits a pathos that is little appreciated by modern readers. While literary audiences in the medieval period were “unusually receptive” to deeply emotional tales (Frank 179), since the late nineteent...

This document is a review of the book Cyclops: The Myth and Its Cultural History, written by Mercedes Aguirre Richard Buxton. It presents summary book's content highlights main arguments put forward authors during its development.

due to the existence of different criticism criteria in different eras, the critics have applied different and sometimes opposing methods in literary criticism. the present article studies the popular methods of literary criticism and the evolution of one special method which has been called preference in some era and comparison in some other era.

Following on from recent newspaper articles, BJSM podcasts and the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy’s recent Back Pain Myth buster campaign, a short article was published in the Daily Mail Online in August of this year. The article summarised the messages of the back pain myth buster campaign and advocated basic evidencebased approaches to exercise and management. The article was accessed ove...