Ancient History

[close] A group for those who enjoy reading about hilariously awful, tragically undertaught historical events and ideas. If your friends and family don't want to hear any more talk about corpse medicine, radioactive cosmetics, or the plights of executioners, then you'll find a ready ear right here. Both fiction and non-fiction are welcome; primary sources as well as academic studies. If it's interestingly awful, you're in the right place. We do prefer to focus on relatively unknown aspects of the past (for example, medicinal cannibalism in 17th century Europe) rather than well-known topics. That said, even the most familiar historical stories have some interesting nooks and crannies.

[close] This global discussion group has been designed to encourage debates about important and underreported issues of our era. All you need is an enquiring mind and a desire to gain or share “underground knowledge”. This is also a place to discuss the controversial topics explored in The Underground Knowledge Series (non-fiction books) by James Morcan & Lance Morcan as well as the Underground Knowledge podcast show.

[close] Named so because when historians from the Greek and Roman era's were inspired, they believed it was one of the nine muses conversing directly with them through divine powers. Our muse would be Clio, the muse of history. In this group we'll hopefully be reading primary and secondary literature regarding the ancient past, as well as discussing historical matters and ideas.

[close] The original Inklings were a literary set in Oxford whose members comprised of lecturers and academics from the University of Oxford between the 1930s up until 1950. Most notable among these were CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien, Charles Williams, and Owen Barfield. The Inklings of GoodReads is a copy-cat group for those who may have an interest in: philosophy, theology, the classics [Homer, Virgil, Sophocles etc] folklore (esp. Nordic or European, but not exclusivly!), mythology and ancient legend [from Greek mythology to Eastern]; and connected subjects and areas of reading. The creator and moderator of this group is a philosopher of religion [with a paticular interest in philosophical theology] and will therefore be mostly reading books to that end, however all book and discussions in any area/related area to the topics mentioned above are welcomed. The original Inklings, Lewis and Tolkien notwithstanding, was not a religous group-neither is this one.