PROCLUS: COMMENTARY ON PLATO’S TIMAEUS 
Baltzly, Dirk (Three vols., Cambridge University Press, 2007, 2009 & 2013; ISBN 978-0521183888)
The masculine squalor of a man’s first share-house often owes as much to his housemates’ incompetence at housework as to their disdain for it. Some may know how to replace fuse wire or unblock a toilet, but few men of eighteen have any tangible notion of how to clean a grill trap or defrost a refrigerator.
When Dirk Baltzly moved out in the eighties, many young men couldn’t even cook. Continue reading