It was a bit on the short side, assumes you already know the salient facts (thankfully, I did) and attempts to analyze how much of the legends are true.
I'm into Proverbs now on the Septuagint (finished Psalms and Odes).
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
It's the Solemnity of Mary, the start of AD 2014, and doubtless someone has read some crap, right?
- 01/01/2014 07:00:29 AM
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I plan on reading Goran Petrović's The Siege of the Church of the Holy Savior
- 01/01/2014 07:04:22 AM
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I'm about a quarter through Red Seas under Red Skies by Scott Lynch. *NM*
- 01/01/2014 02:45:20 PM
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Still reading the Septuagint.
- 01/01/2014 06:29:24 PM
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I have a copy, but I need to devote a year or two to improving my Greek to manage that
- 02/01/2014 08:39:45 AM
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The Hill book was okay but not stellar.
- 12/01/2014 03:16:39 AM
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It might be a product of its time, if it's like his other histories
- 26/01/2014 11:17:33 PM
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Still Virginia Woolf's Melymbrosia.
- 01/01/2014 08:12:48 PM
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I have exams for most of the month, but I guess i'll read something over the last week or so. *NM*
- 02/01/2014 12:00:45 AM
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Reread gentlemen bastards, currently restarting republic of thieves... *NM*
- 02/01/2014 12:56:53 AM
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The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared *NM*
- 12/01/2014 01:27:03 AM
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