The Syndicate

Ulysses.

Through 40 pages it makes as much sense as its reputation suggested it might: zero

dunya wrote: ↑Wed Jul 11, 2018 7:48 pm im starting thucydides' history of the peloponnesian war tonight. pray for me.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Wed Mar 22, 2017 6:01 pm I'm knee deep in War and Peace. It feels like a Napoleonic Silmarillion at times with so many characters. I've quite liked it though.

I'm about 85% through it. It feels like running a marathon.

I'm knee deep in War and Peace. It feels like a Napoleonic Silmarillion at times with so many characters. I've quite liked it though.

I'm feeding my fascination/obsession with the ancient world with The Birth of Classical Europe by Peter Thonemann and Simon Price. It's a thorough if still somewhat basic overview of the beginnings and progression of the cultural identity we know as "European" from the early Bronze Age Aegean through the fall of the Roman Empire. Reading it has made me ache for a chance to go back to the Aegean region with more time to explore all of the sites I missed the first time. I love this stuff.