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BookMaven9
The Odyssey | Homer
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️the original hero‘s journey. I loved the beautiful language and seeing what lengths we go through to get back to home and those we love. Always loved mythology and nice to read the origin story.

dabbe An epic hero's quest story doesn't get much better than this one. 💙🩵💙 1w
BookMaven9 It truly doesn‘t get better agreed 1w
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Shemac77
Beowulf | Unknown Unknown
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Mehso-so

Meh.

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Shemac77
Beowulf | Unknown Unknown
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I‘m listening to Smash Hit by Sarah Richardson on audible. But it‘s not in the database.

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Texreader
Beowolf | Anonymous
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TheKidUpstairs Love this. Thanks for sharing! 2mo
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HeatherBookNerd
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Mehso-so

I try to read classics periodically and I‘d never read this. I tried to be excited. It was fine.

Erinreadsthebooks I tried to teach this to seniors my first year of teaching. We were all miserable. 😩😅 3mo
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JenP
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In what is a supreme act of avoidance from writing grants (which probably won‘t get funded anyway in this climate), I decided to take a world literature course from Harvard extension. They offer a bunch of free online courses although I may pay the certificate fee just to support them. Gilgamesh is the first text they are discussing and I hadn‘t ever read it so finally getting to it

merelybookish Once upon a time I taught world lit to undergraduates (not at Harvard 😆) and always started with this. And it was often the book they liked best. Enjoy your course! Sounds fun! 6mo
JenP @merelybookish I‘m certainly liking it more than the Odyssey which I read freshman year (many years ago 😂). How fun you taught world literature. I‘m enjoying this class so far. 6mo
Tamra It‘s a fantastic historical study! 6mo
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DGRachel I decided at the beginning of the years that I wanted to do a deep dive into Ishtar, and the book I‘m reading references Gilgamesh quite a lot, so I picked up a copy last month. I‘m looking forward to getting to it. 6mo
JenP @DGRachel it‘s a very quick read. Hope you like it. I found it interesting 6mo
JenP @Tamra yes! I‘ve found it interesting to compare the deluge to the version in genesis. The historical background from the class has also been fascinating 6mo
Tamra @JenP there are several parallels with later mythologies! Humans have been asking the same questions and telling the same stories. 6mo
Avanders Love this! ♥️ 6mo
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llwheeler
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1. My degrees are in Classics, so I have (or had, super rusty now) Latin and Greek. I'd love to learn Old English so I could read...

2. ... Beowulf in the original. I love the Seamus Haney translation.

@TheSpineView #two4tuesday

TheSpineView Thanks for playing! 6mo
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dabbe
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#Two4Tuesday
@TheSpineView (thanks for the tag! 😍)

1. Latin.
2. I'd love to be able to read THE AENEID in Latin.

Play? @TheLudicReader @BarkingMadRead @mcctrish

TheSpineView YW! Thanks for playing 6mo
TheBookHippie Latin my second choice! Although we learned a good bit in nursing. 6mo
dabbe @TheSpineView 😍🤩😍 6mo
dabbe @TheBookHippie 😍🤩😍 6mo
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