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2018 Reading Plan

Even though we’re almost a month in, there’s still plenty of time left in the year to get started reading if you haven’t already. And if…

Jan 23, 2018

Jan 23, 2018

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2017 Year In Reading

My goal for 2017 was to read 12 sacred/epic texts at the pace of one a month. The selection of texts was based on a combination of…

Dec 11, 2017

Dec 11, 2017

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Impelled by Fear: Historical Name-dropping

I mentioned in my last post that Aeneid was more visibly self-conscious than Iliad or Odyssey, suggesting that it was the distance afforded…

Jul 31, 2017

Jul 31, 2017

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Sorrow, Unspeakable Sorrow

The Aeneid

Jul 26, 2017

Jul 26, 2017

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Thus Spoke Athena

The Odyssey + Midyear Check-in

Jun 28, 2017

Jun 28, 2017

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Sing the Rage 2: The Odyssey

Or, Poseidon vs Odysseus

May 8, 2017

Sing the Rage 2: The Odyssey

May 8, 2017

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The Fame That Never Dies

A Confluence of Funerary Practices

Apr 10, 2017

The Fame That Never Dies

Apr 10, 2017

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Sing the Rage: The Iliad

M y post-Beowulf lull allowed the new month to steal upon me and catch me unawares. I am therefore underprepared this time around and…

Apr 1, 2017

Sing the Rage: The Iliad

Apr 1, 2017

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Bad History and Ancient Globalization

Earlier, I mentioned that the Sekandar character in Shahnameh was none other than Alexander the Great, and to a large extent the analog…

Mar 6, 2017

Mar 6, 2017

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In those days, in those far-off days

Update on The Epic of Gilgamesh

Mar 2, 2017

In those days, in those far-off days

Mar 2, 2017

S. Nightingale

S. Nightingale

Veni, legi, scripsi. Infovore. Reader. Writer. Language enthusiast. Aspiring polyglot: English, Español, немного по-русски, robiginosus cum linguam Latinam.

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