ClassicalLit

Aeneid | Virgil

I sing of arms and of the man, fated to be an exile, who long since left the land of Troy and came to Italy to the shores of Lavinium; and a great pounding he took by land and sea at the hands of the heavenly gods because of the fierce and unforgetting anger of Juno. #firstlinefridays @ShyBookOwl

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Super_Jane

Orestes and Other Plays | Euripides

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3.75/5 🌕🌕🌕🌖🌑

Reading greek plays in Greece. 🇬🇷 🏛️🏺

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LiseWorks

Charles Dickens' Children Stories | Charles Dickens

February 16 #LuckyInLove Heart @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs 🖤❤️🩶 2mo

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 🖤🩶🖤 2mo

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RamsFan1963

Oh My Gods: A Modern Retelling of Greek and Roman Myths | Philip Freeman

I am posting one book per day from my extensive, and ever growing, TBR shelves. Some are old and some are new, some were gifts and some I don't remember why I bought them.
Day 28
#ABookADay2024

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Leftcoastzen

The Satyricon | Petronius

#NewYearNewBooks #TitleThatBeginswithS
This has been on my TBR for years , I bought this lovely copy years ago , who knows when I will get around to reading it!

Eggs, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs Ever seen the film Satyricon directed by Federico Fellini? 3mo

Leftcoastzen @Eggs I have seen several of Felinnis films but not that one.😀 3mo

Eggs @Leftcoastzen I don‘t know if they‘re even related. 3mo

Bookwomble The tagged book I finished today, set in a New York hotel in the 1920s, has a chapter called "The Banquet", which extracts a big chunk of Petronius's "Trimalchio's Banquet" to make a satirical comparison to the author's American contemporaries. It's neat to see your post about the Satyricon, as it's now on my Radar of Book Acquisitiveness ?

Hotel Splendide

3mo

Leftcoastzen @Bookwomble a great example of how one book leads to another!😂 3mo

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Zuhkeeyah

Selected Letters | Cicero

I'm getting back into the #litsylove groove. Thank you to this wonderful group for being patient with my silence (despite my best intentions) in 2023. I'm excited to be back to writing letters.

(Not pictured is the puppy I managed to distract with a chew long enough to write four cards.)

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 🩷🩷🩷 3mo

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Kitta

Rage of Achilles | Homer

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Starting off the year with a short excerpt from Homer‘s The Iliad.

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I really enjoyed this. A good taster of stories of Achilles. I was a bit confused at times but that‘s because I don‘t know enough Greek mythology.

Who is who‘s son and who is his mother? 🤣

Great little intro. Read in the bath because it‘s been a stressful day.

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monkeygirlsmama

Metamorphoses | Ovid

Totally loving my new Loch Ness Monster bookmark my oldest gave me for Christmas. 💓📚

Aims42 It‘s so cute!! 😍 4mo

monkeygirlsmama @Aims42 Isn't it though?! I love it! (edited) 3mo

monkeygirlsmama Sadly I haven't been in the right mood for deep Greek poetry and have, therefore, been taking my sweet time with this one. This wouldn't ordinarily be a problem, but apparently it's due back at the library already and there's someone else anxious for its return. As I don't want to be THAT person, you know the one that holds up the queue, I guess it will have to go back onto my TBR list so I can return it tonight. Until next time, beautiful book! 3mo

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monkeygirlsmama

Metamorphoses | Ovid

Stopped by the library to pick up a book my daughter had on hold, and ended up being distracted by the NEW ARRIVALS shelf. Ended up grabbing these two to dive into. I'd be lying if I didn't say I picked the Ovid purely because of this stupid, amazing, beautiful Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition cover! (And the blurb for the other one sounded way too trippy to pass up.)

#stacks

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