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The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome

by Susan Wise Bauer

bookshelves: nonfiction, currently-reading, history

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read in November 2021

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""Chapter 10: The First Epic Hero"

trying to read my classics in chronological order (very ambitious, i know) and it starts with the epic of Gilgamesh, so..." — Jun 22, 2022 11:42AM

Nov 13, 2021 12:32PM

“But as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born. Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of today, or the agonies which are have their origin in the ecstasies which might have been.”
― Edgar Alan Poe, Berenice

tags: joy, memory, past, sorrow, yearning

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“All your life you wait, and then it finally comes, and are you ready?”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

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“Yet mad I am not...and very surely do I not dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Black Cat

tags: dreaming, dreams, insanity, sanity

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“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

tags: animal-farm, animals, closing-line, man, satirical

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