Not from a text scanned by me, but from a book I downloaded from archive.org, titled _Survivals of Roman Religion_:
a chapter titled "The Egyptian Dieties: Isis, Serapis, and Harpo."

Reread and then reread again. Yes, that is what the text says.

Wander down the page a few lines and find the word "crates."

Still...

Honk if you love Harpo!

This ( Read more... )

I am really lusting after this book ( Read more... )

I was planning on saving the best one for last, but I've been feeling under the weather for the past few days, so I'm going to link to Alexx's post about this dead Greek guy who really managed to convey some of life's truly timeless aspects ( Read more... )

Diogenes the Cynic 5th century BC ( Read more... )

Alexx nobly patched together my fragmented and slightly scrambled scan of _Seven Greeks_ translated by Guy Davenport, which features seven Greek poet/performers who chronologically came after Homer and Hesiod but before the classical period. This translation was made by a poet, not a classical scholar, and this reflects its strength and its ( Read more... )

I especially like the final line where someone reprimands the storytellerfor telling stories that will give kids nightmares--good to know spooky stories at bedtime is a timeless tradition.http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/the-masters-tools.

Last week I scanned a paper copy of Guy Davenport's _Seven Greeks_, which is a collection of his translations of the writings of seven Greek poets who came after Homer and Hesiod ( Read more... )

_The Pregnant Male as Myth and Metaphor in Classical Greek Literature_ by Dr David D. Leitao (Cambridge University Press, 2012)