January 18, 2018

snippets, 1-18-2018

If you would read the Bible (3 Quarks Daily).

Reading The Odyssey to my four-month-old (Hyperallergic).

'Trash girl' won't back down (TreeHugger).  "...if they are going to call me trash girl, they can say it with respect." Right on.
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  1. j-anneJanuary 18, 2018

    Yay for the Odyssey--and the rhythm of the language
    alas that nursery rhymes are not much in vogue--we are losing the flow of the language.

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    1. mgrJanuary 19, 2018

      I like what he said about "bright-eyed" Athena, and it got me thinking that between Hera, Calypso, Circe, the Sirens, Nausicaa, Eurycleia and Penelope, there are *lots* of interesting women in that story - I might have to read the new translation...

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