Episode 223 is up. I wax unpoetically about the beauty of the bookshop, the importance of store layout/organization, and share a few of my favorite bookstores - booksoftitans.com/p/the-bookshop…

Just got accepted into the Catherine Project reading group covering these two works by Thucydides & Xenophon. It will correspond time wise almost exactly with when these are coming up on my Great Books reading list. I can’t wait!!

Wow. Medea was intense! The idea that you can’t actually kill someone. “Dead? No! They live to haunt your life with vengeance.”

“O Zeus! Why have you given us clear signs to tell true gold from counterfeit; but when we need to know bad men from good, the flesh bears no revealing mark?” ~ Medea in the Euripides tragedy Medea

Medea in her chariot pulled by the sun with the bodies of her two sons murdered by her hands. ~ Medea on her golden chariot, by Germán Hernández Amores

Euripides has 17 surviving tragedy plays. I had to get all of these (plus I love fragments) to get all 17. Now I need help selecting the reading order. Do I read them in order of: Publication Chronology by mythological story Random

This is insane. A full audio reading of the Iliad and the first 7 books of the Odyssey in meter, with poetic diacritics and a rocking drum beat. Check all the boxes at the top and then click on the 1st line. #ancientgreek hypotactic.com/my-reading-of-…

I’m continually amazed at how relevant the Greek Tragedies are to our modern conundrums.

120 days remaining in 2024. What are you going to read until then?

The utter importance of direction: “Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you

Finished reading Hecabe by Euripides this morning. This is one of his 17 surviving tragedy plays out of 92 that he wrote during his lifetime. Each tragedy takes about 2 hours to read and I’m enjoying them so much. Hecabe takes place in the immediate aftermath of the Trojan War.

In Hecuba, the tragedy by Euripides, Agamemnon hears of a prophecy by Dionysus through the telling of Polymestor. The prophecy states that Clytemnestra will kill both Agamemnon and Cassandra. So, according to this, Agamemnon was warned of his impending doom. Did that cross his

My August reading recap and September list is now up - booksoftitans.com/p/reading-reca…

Monthly reading recap now up: booksoftitans.com/p/reading-reca…

Tomorrow's podcast - I cover Medea by Euripides. There's the kind woman there in a chariot pulled by dragons (or snakes depending on the translation) with her two dead sons she has just killed. Good times! I actually loved this tragedy and talk about how it connects to

Check out this 1855 edition of Euripides I came across at Landmark Booksellers yesterday.

Episode 224 is up. I cover murderous Medea, a tragedy play by Euripides. I address a question later explored by Dostoevsky in Crime and Punishment - does murder simply end with the act itself? Some interesting themes in this play. booksoftitans.com/p/medea-by-eur…

I was really intrigued by the idea in Euripides' Medea that you can't just kill someone. Even if the murder is justified, it can unleash the Furies. I talk about how that relates to Crime & Punishment in the latest episode of the podcast - booksoftitans.com/p/medea-by-eur…

Someone just gifted this book to me and said it was so good they read it four times in a row. Anyone else read it? And have you ever read a book four times in a row in your life?

I just read about Polyxena in Euripides’ Hecabe!