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BOTM: Homer, tr. Lattimore, The Illiad
P.F. Bradshaw, Ordination rites in of the ancient churches of east and west
Caesarius of Arles, tr. W. E. Klingshirn, Life, Testament, Letters
R. Cholij. Clerical celibacy in east and westCaesarius of Arles, tr. W. E. Klingshirn, Life, Testament, Letters
A. Christie, Crooked House
G. Flaubert, Salammbo
K. Fraser (ed.), The Worst Journeys in the worldHilary of Poitiers, tr. L. J. Wickham, Conflicts of Conscience and Law in the Fourth-Century Church
Homer, tr. Lattimore, The Odyssey
Plutarch, Parallel Lives (Loeb vol 1)
R.A. Salvatore, Homeland
T. Shah, In Arabian NightUnread remainder: 118
A better month, though with the depressing realisation that I really should have done Classics, and definitely should have gone to Turkey at eighteen. Not much stellar though I did enjoy Keith Fraser's collection of travel literature. But reading the grown-up version of the Illiad was any disappointments elsewhere (the Odyssey I could have left). It's magnificent, and revelatory. I grew up reading children's versions of classical myths endlessly and I don't really remember how I dropped the ball on the transition to adult versions, because they've been stunning. One of these days I'm going to get through bugger in Greek, but I may wait till the doctorate is done, as it's a lot of wasted Greek to work through when Sozomen beckons.
2 comments:
You are so wrong. The Iliad is a deeply tedious set of very simple tricks, butchered by centuries of bad poets repeating it.
The Odyssey, on the other hand, is actually a sophisticated literary text.
But you're quite right, don't read either of them as it will infect your Greek horribly!
And of course you should have read Greats. It's a proper degree, unlike Journalism, or whatever you did...
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