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Surazeus Astarius

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in Portland, Oregon, The United States

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Poetry, Literature & Fiction, Historical Fiction

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Homer, Ovid, Lucretius Lucretius, Dante Alighieri, William Shakespeare ...more

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November 2009

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Surazeus is the nom de plume of Simon Seamount. He is a cartographer and epic poet. He wrote an epic poem in 126,680 lines of blank verse as historical fiction called the Hermead about the lives of philosophers and scientists.

Hermead page
https://www.facebook.com/Hermead

Hermead Epic
http://tinyurl.com/HermeadEpic

Astarian Scriptures
https://www.facebook.com/AstarianScri...
https://astariad.neocities.org

Hermead:
http://tinyurl.com/Hermead

Hermead Volume 1:
http://tinyurl.com/Hermead01

Hermead Volume 2:
http://tinyurl.com/Hermead02

Hermead Volume 3:
http://tinyurl.com/Hermead03

Hermead Volume 4:
http://tinyurl.com/Hermead04

Hermead Volume 5:
http://tinyurl.com/Hermead05

Hermead Volume 6:
http://tinyurl.com/Hermead06

Hermead Volume 7:
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	Hermead Volumen 1 (Hermead #1) 3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2013 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hermead: Philosophers it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hermead of Surazeus Volumen 4 (Hermead #4) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gothiniad it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hermead Volume 2 (Hermead #2) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Angeliad of Surazeus 2001 Towers of Babel 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Angeliad of Surazeus 2002 Church of Glass 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Angeliad of Surazeus 2004 Muse of Arcadia 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Angeliad of Surazeus 2005 Laughing Skull of Hamlet 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Angeliad of Surazeus 2007 Diamond of Istari 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Surazeus Astarius's Blog: Hermead of Surazeus

Hermead Volume 2, an epic poem about philosophers, has been published, with 16,000 lines of epic blank verse that contain the tales of Thales, Anaximandros, and Pythagoras.

Thales was the first scientist, who was the first to argue that lightning storms were clouds of water crashing together and not giant angry men, devising a natural explanation for all phenomena. Thales developed the monist conc Read more of this blog post »

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Published on August 21, 2014 18:29 • Tags: epic, epic-poem, historical-fiction, philosopher, philosophy, poem, poetry, science, scientist

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Hermead (7 books)
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Surazeus’s Quotes

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

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Ancient & Medieval Historical Fiction — 6128 members — last activity Dec 20, 2025 02:43PM
The focus of this group is historical fiction set in Ancient and Medieval eras(with some post Medieval), in any geographical location. Preference is g ...more

¡ POETRY ! — 22597 members — last activity Dec 19, 2025 04:08PM
No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more

Western Canon (Theocratic Age) [Harold Bloom] — 2 members — last activity Jul 18, 2011 09:18AM
A group based on the first appendix ("The Theocratic Age") in Harold Bloom's book, The Western Canon. ...more

Skylight Press — 144 members — last activity Jul 11, 2016 02:20PM
We are a small independent British publisher specialising in literary fiction, drama, poetry, theory, criticism, and the esoteric. Our Website: http: ...more

Myths, Legends, Fairy Tales, Fables, Folktales, and Epics — 27 members — last activity Dec 24, 2023 12:10PM
A reading challenge of myths, legends, fairy tales, fables, folktales, Epics. All books are on the "read" bookshelf read what books you want in what ...more

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A group for people to discuss and recommend works of mythic fiction. Mythic fiction is literature that contains elements from mythology, fairytales, l ...more

Paradise Lost by John Milton — 7 members — last activity Oct 05, 2015 09:50AM
A group for readers dedicated to studying Milton's epic poem. A place to dissect passages, share favorite quotes, argue over editorial versions, etc. ...more

Epic Poetry and Prose — 22 members — last activity May 27, 2023 04:56AM
This group is dedicated to the discussion and promotion of ancient and contemporary epic poetry and prose. This group is dedicated to the idea that th ...more

New York Quarterly — 19 members — last activity Feb 18, 2009 09:29PM
The New York Quarterly was established in 1969 by the late William Packard out of a growing concern for the pure craft and technique of poetry writing ...more