Amanda’s Comments (group member since May 11, 2021)

Amanda’s comments from the #Ancientsathon 2021! group.

Fran wrote: "I'm going for Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich, and I'm very excited about it!!"

Revelations of Divine Love is one of my favorites!

Lana wrote: "For this prompt I'm going with Jennifer's suggestion - 'The Saga Of The Volsungs'."

The Saga of the Volsungs is really a fun ride. It's so wild and interesting.

Over the last few years I have been slowly making my way through the list of histories in The Well-Educated Mind by Susan Wise Bauer. I plan to start The Ecclesiastical History of the English People by the Venerable Bede in June.

I would like to read Sophocles, specifically his non-Theban plays. I read the Theban plays (or Oedipus cycle) last year. Now my goal is to complete the rest.

A short and interesting work from America by a woman is Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson. Like I said it's really short and it follows Mary Rowlandson's capture by Native Americans during King Philip's War. The book was first published in 1682.