18th Century Henry Fielding on 21st Century Dictatorship
In Fielding’s 1749 masterpiece, The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling, on Tom’s journey to London he and his servant, Partridge, encounter a Gypsy community. Partridge is lured into trouble…
Nestor ~
In the Iliad, Nestor was the oldest Greek at the Siege of Troy. He looked upon the great Achilles, Ajax, and Diamedes as puny compared to his generation of heros at the Siege of Thebes…That was a real battle! So much for Homer’s view of cranky oldsters…