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Starting a habit of reading a pair in-between other books.

Pericles and Fabius ✔️
Two prudent and cautious men. Fabius, however, was the more public-spirited of the two and took the reins of the state in more dire circumstances.

The concision and precise argument actually make this surprisingly accessible.

When the Christmas gift is perfect for Pre-New Year’s reflection 👌

Listening to a book from each grade we teach at the school. This one is 7th.
Listened to the majority while on a solitary night drive across Ohio. There was a ton of dry lightning and a very large, very orange moon. Strange experience.

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader but with more side quests and make it a prelude to the Iliad

The movie cut out the prayers but also the Pelagianism

It feels slightly hackish, but I am going to count each commentary volume as an individual read with no apologies.

Smells like Popery

A great poem about an awful war. The first read felt like learning what to read for the second time.

Joyce’s translation is nice, but her habit of breaking “lyrical” lines in two is distracting and takes away from the unity of the epic.

He’s calling out the Cambridge school (Skinner and Laslett by name) on the first two pages of the introduction. This is gonna be spicy.