I've still got this book token that the school gave me as a reward for passing the second round of the Greek contest, so I'd like your recommendations.

I was thinking that I'd maybe get myself James Davidson's The Greeks and Greek Love because I'm intrigued by the topic and the only book which I have about it is from the 60ties and pretty antiquated ( Read more... )

Snatched from furius
1. Pick 10 of your favorite books or series.
2. Post the first sentence of each book. (If one sentence seems too short, post two or three!)
3. Let everyone try to guess the titles and authors of your books.

( Here be the books )

I'm reading "Empire of Ashes" by Nicholas Nicastro at the moment and must say that it's rather craptastic. And some parts really made me go "Uh-oh, is this some weird fanfic?" But see yourself.

"Hephaestion is another bit player in Aeschines's story. Alexander would never have countenanced this. They were friends since boyhood, and lovers for almost ( Read more... )

Today I once again had to enlighten Marius, the boy I'm tutoring in Greek, this time on the fact that Achilles and Patroklos might not only have been good friends. He saw this button on my bag and asked what "syllektroi" means, so I told him that it means "lovers." He was obviously clearly shocked -
I don't know what they are teaching the kids these ( Read more... )