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BooksandCoffee4Me
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#threelistThursday #tlt @dabbe

I‘ve read so much American literature because that‘s what I taught. So many titles here that I should have read!!

dabbe And I'm an American-Brit lit kind of gal! World lit? 😳 #TFPAS (Thanks for playing and sharing) 😊 2w
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dabbe
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#Two4Tuesday
@TheSpineView (thanks for the tag! 😍)

1. Latin.
2. I'd love to be able to read THE AENEID in Latin.

Play? @TheLudicReader @BarkingMadRead @mcctrish

TheSpineView YW! Thanks for playing 2w
TheBookHippie Latin my second choice! Although we learned a good bit in nursing. 2w
dabbe @TheSpineView 😍🤩😍 2w
dabbe @TheBookHippie 😍🤩😍 2w
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Phoenix in Flight
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Dante called Boethius the “last of the Romans and first of the Scholastics“. He wrote The Consolation of Philosophy while unjustly imprisoned in 523. In the book he is visited by Lady Philosophy who teaches him that transient things do not bring happiness.

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bibliothecarivs
Fabulae mirabiles | Victor Barocas
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Random book from our home library:

📖 Fabulae Mirabiles: Fairy Tales in Latin (Hippocrene Foreign Language Studies) by Victor Barocas

BooksandCoffee4Me Oh, this book is one for my son! He loves Latin and assisted his professor at a conference for instructors of Latin. He may or may not have translated an excerpt of Fahrenheit 451 into Latin for fun. 2mo
bibliothecarivs @BooksandCoffee4Me, that's great! I'd like to see that if it's available anywhere. Here's the rest of my Latin collection if he's interested: https://www.librarycat.org/lib/bibliothecarivs/search/tag/Latin. 2mo
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Graywacke
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Pickpick

Several contemporary (2002) poets translating Horace's Odes freely. All must have some knowledge of Latin. All were born from ~1920 to ~1965. So a bunch of older classically inclined poets. Each translation is a combination of Horace's and the poet's meanings. Overall it leaves an interesting impression, and I enjoyed that. I‘ve been working through this since Jan 13, a little bit each morning.

Suet624 Great job on your commitment to checking in on this every morning. I always end up petering out at some point 2mo
dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 2mo
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Trashcanman
The Satires | Juvenal
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Leftcoastzen Word ! 2mo
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Born.A.Reader
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💐 Tulips! Love them! 🌷
💐 💐 Nora Roberts' The Garden Trilogy

@TheSpineView #Two4Tuesday

TheSpineView Thanks for playing ❤️ 🌷 3mo
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Graywacke
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Something I found used in California and have been paging through

dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 4mo
Hanna-B Hello puppy dog 🐶🐶 4mo
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Doppoetry
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Mehso-so

This could have been a really interesting spiritual successor (at the time) to Homer, but this read more like Roman Empire propaganda than an original work.

Virgil does have *some* original ideas and portrayals of the characters and events in the overall story, but it still feels like you're better off reading the Iliad and the Odyssey.

Doppoetry Not to say that this *isn't* an important work, it very much is, but I suppose I came into this expecting a more interesting epic poem about heroism and perseverance, and not just veiled “Guys the emperor is a really cool guy, and everything will be okay with him in charge.“ type thing.

No wonder Virgil tried to wipe it from existence, it's a bit *too* on the nose.
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TheEllieMo
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Eggs So true👏🏻👏🏻 5mo
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