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“... Dare you but write, you are Minerva’s bird,The owl at which these bats and crows must wonder,They’ll criticise upon the smallest word:This wanteth number, case, that tense and gender.If​ you think you know what the 17th-century poet Anne Southwell means by referring to Minerva’s owl, you are probably wrong. Southwell is alluding to Ovid’s story of a jealous crow, who worries that the owl has usurped his position as Minerva’s favourite ...”

“... Character beliefs build on vapour, congeal into something solid and can then dissolve once more. Katie Ebner-Landy’s The Character Sketch as Philosophy is pitched between intellectual history and philosophy. It tells the story of the reception and dissemination of Theophrastus’ character sketches, but also does much more than that. ...”