Margaret Connolly introduces the Greek poet C P Cavafy, his poem Ithaca and his poems on history, church, death and margins, and recommends him to Sofia readers as a kindred spirit.
Margaret Connolly surveys the mythology and development of the Greek gods, how Homer, Hesiod and the dramatists portrayed them, and how thinkers from Xenophanes to Protagoras questioned them. She notes the gods’ continuing presence in...
Margaret Connolly contrasts Browning’s resentment on learning the Iliad was not history with her own lifelong delight in myth and story. She recounts its narrative and its picture of human life alongside the gods.
Margaret Connolly reviews Paul Duff’s Jesus Followers in the Roman Empire, which explains why non-Jews joined the early Christian movement and compares its assemblies and memorial meal with Greco-Roman cults.
Margaret Connolly traces her path from a Methodist manse through Anglicanism and Catholicism to volunteering as a welcomer at St Illtud’s church in Llantwit Major, drawn by its Celtic stones and community.
