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My love of encyclopedias goes back to my earliest memories, when I would dig through my grandfather’s 1978 World Book Encyclopedia set for hours every afternoon, from the time I got home from school till supper, and often late into the night, well past my bedtime. I started editing Wikipedia in May 2019, though I had been lurking and browsing Wikipedia since around 2008. My username is a reference to the color of the Greek volumes published by the Loeb Classical Library. I hope to own every volume they publish one day.

I am a graduate student in political theory currently writing my thesis on Plato's Laws, and most of my edits here revolve around things relevant to my scholarly interests: classical philosophy, ancient and medieval history, Islamic intellectual history, Abrahamic religions, the early American republic, the long nineteenth century, philosophical hermeneutics, Romanticism, philosophy of science, and right-wing critics of liberal modernity. My own chief intellectual influences are the Hebrew prophets, Confucius, Plato, Aristotle, Origen, Plotinus, St. Augustine, al-Farabi, the English metaphysical poets, German idealism, Alexis de Tocqueville, Søren Kierkegaard, John Henry Newman, Thomas Carlyle, T. S. Eliot, Hannah Arendt, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Leo Strauss, Michel Foucault, Alasdair MacIntyre, Christopher Lasch, and Giorgio Agamben.

When it comes to the arts, I am a great fan of the Nazarene movement, neoclassicism, capriccio, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, the Northern Renaissance, Primitivism, the Arts and Crafts movement, Symbolism, Art Nouveau, Romanesque and Gothic architecture, Gothic revival, Brick Gothic, Brick Expressionism, Art Deco, the WPA style, American vernacular architecture, and American Regionalism. In music, I have basically comprehensive knowledge when it comes to country music, and am also a great fan of American folk, Delta/acoustic blues, ragtime, and bop/post-bop jazz. My favorite poet is R. S. Thomas, and my favorite novels are Absalom, Absalom! and A Canticle for Leibowitz.

I read a lot, and you are welcome to follow me on Goodreads.