FWIW, if you have kids... I found that reading it aloud is like a sleep incantation. My 4yo *loved* hearing it (maybe it's the rhythm of the sentences?), and was generally out cold in under five minutes.
The combo... is just crawling up one leg of the spider so I can crawl down another. I read De Anima so I could then read the Areopagitica and have some sense of who/what Dionysios was addressing (might go back at some point and read Plotinus just to fill it in further). And then Lossky talks about the Areopagitica, so... his Mystical Theology seemed the reasonable next stone to jump to. But once I've done with Lossky, I'm gonna try to go down the various other trees he's drawing from: Nazianzen, Maximos the Confessor, Gregory of Nyssa, Palamas, etc. Or might lose steam because it's not lent anymore ;)
Dunno that I have anything incisive to say about any of them-- they're all worth the read on their own accounts, but mostly I'm trying to sort out a few tangential and idiosyncratic personal questions through reading, and doubt my gleanings would be of much general interest. But I highly recommend the reading project to anybody so inclined. Highly profitable! And betweentimes one often forgets that reading old Greeks in modern translation is way easier than reading, say, Shakespeare.
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Date: 2024-05-06 11:13 pm (UTC)The combo... is just crawling up one leg of the spider so I can crawl down another. I read De Anima so I could then read the Areopagitica and have some sense of who/what Dionysios was addressing (might go back at some point and read Plotinus just to fill it in further). And then Lossky talks about the Areopagitica, so... his Mystical Theology seemed the reasonable next stone to jump to. But once I've done with Lossky, I'm gonna try to go down the various other trees he's drawing from: Nazianzen, Maximos the Confessor, Gregory of Nyssa, Palamas, etc. Or might lose steam because it's not lent anymore ;)
Dunno that I have anything incisive to say about any of them-- they're all worth the read on their own accounts, but mostly I'm trying to sort out a few tangential and idiosyncratic personal questions through reading, and doubt my gleanings would be of much general interest. But I highly recommend the reading project to anybody so inclined. Highly profitable! And betweentimes one often forgets that reading old Greeks in modern translation is way easier than reading, say, Shakespeare.