I Got Books Today!

[+ Avalon]

"Constellation Myths" by Erasthones and Hyginus

with Aratus "Phaenomena"

 

"The Library of Greek Mythology" by Apollodorus

 

"The Homeric Hymns"

 

All the above are Oxford World's Classics. When I was young I liked Penguin but now Oxford.

 

Aelian "On Animals Book 1-5". This is a Loeb Classical Edition. Greek on one page with English on the opposite page.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudius_Aelianus

 

"Allegories of the Illiad" by John Tzetzes - 12th century Byzantine author

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tzetzes

[+ WilliamM]

I bought books today too:

 

Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

 

Olivia de Havilland and The Golden Age of Hollywood by some "great" author, Ellis Amburn.

 

At least de Havilland is still alive!!

[+ Avalon]

I bought books today too:

 

Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

 

Olivia de Havilland and The Golden Age of Hollywood by some "great" author, Ellis Amburn.

 

At least de Havilland is still alive!!

 

But Homer will live in hearts forever!

 

I wonder if grade school students even know about the Trojan Horse? Btw it's not in the "Iliad".

 

When they hear Homer they probably think of "The Simpsons? :(:(

[+ WilliamM]

You must have no idea as to who Marcel Proust was, and not just in France.

[+ Avalon]

You must have no idea as to who Marcel Proust was, and not just in France.

 

I know the name

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Proust

 

Just like I know that Georges Sand was a woman.