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<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Fra Verus</title><link>https://fraverus.com/</link><description></description><lastBuildDate>Sun, 17 Nov 2019 16:27:00 -0500</lastBuildDate><item><title>Wizardly Virgil's Foundational Fan Fiction and Farming Facts</title><link>https://fraverus.com/wizardly-virgils-foundational-fan-fiction-and-farming-facts.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Next up is the three major works of the Roman poet &lt;a href="https://amzn.to/2qZMu6H"&gt;Virgil&lt;/a&gt;, being the &lt;em&gt;Eclogues&lt;/em&gt;, the &lt;em&gt;Georgics&lt;/em&gt;, and the &lt;em&gt;Aeneid&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The &lt;em&gt;Eclogues&lt;/em&gt; have not aged well. It is essentially an overtly political idyllic poem. The issues addressed and alluded to are so particular to Virgil's time and place that I …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Fra Verus</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 17 Nov 2019 16:27:00 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:fraverus.com,2019-11-17:/wizardly-virgils-foundational-fan-fiction-and-farming-facts.html</guid><category>Roman</category></item><item><title>Platonic Poltinus</title><link>https://fraverus.com/platonic-poltinus.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Next up on the list is a brutal seven-volume slog through Plotinus' six &lt;a href="https://amzn.to/2U8CiWj"&gt;Enneads&lt;/a&gt;. Plotinus was a 3rd-century AD Greek-speaking Neoplatonist philosopher. He also marks the end of the pre-Christian philosophers in the Great Books list. In many ways, his school of philosophy and his place in time allow him …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Fra Verus</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 16 Nov 2019 23:01:00 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:fraverus.com,2019-11-16:/platonic-poltinus.html</guid><category>Roman</category></item><item><title>The Freed Man</title><link>https://fraverus.com/the-freed-man.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Next up is &lt;a href="https://amzn.to/2A0C7lh"&gt;Epictetus' Discourses and the Handbook&lt;/a&gt;. Epictetus is yet another Stoic author. Unlike our previous two Stoic authors, Marcus Aurelius and Seneca, Epictetus was neither wealthy nor powerful. Rather, he was a freed slave he strove to live simply. His explanation of Stoic principles is the most rigorous …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Fra Verus</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2018 22:54:00 -0400</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:fraverus.com,2018-10-09:/the-freed-man.html</guid><category>Greek</category></item><item><title>The ABCs of Stoicism</title><link>https://fraverus.com/the-abcs-of-stoicism.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;While it's not technically on the GBWW list, Seneca's &lt;a href="https://amzn.to/2OgvTTg"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Letters&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; fits right in with Marcus Aurelius and Epictetus. Seneca is a hard man to describe. He was a first century moral philosopher, a playwright, and a billionaire (by Roman standards). He had dealings, good and bad, with multiple Roman emperors …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Fra Verus</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2018 23:41:00 -0400</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:fraverus.com,2018-07-26:/the-abcs-of-stoicism.html</guid><category>Roman</category></item><item><title>That Other Western Civilization</title><link>https://fraverus.com/that-other-western-civilization.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Backtracking a little after &lt;em&gt;Meditations&lt;/em&gt;, I bit the bullet and read Lucretius' &lt;a href="https://amzn.to/2K1eUCu"&gt;De Rerum Natura&lt;/a&gt;.This title is and can be translated a number of different ways, owing to the broadness of the Latin word &lt;em&gt;res&lt;/em&gt;. The most literal translation would probably be "About the nature of things". However, in …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Fra Verus</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2018 14:50:00 -0400</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:fraverus.com,2018-04-19:/that-other-western-civilization.html</guid><category>Roman</category></item><item><title>Our Empire, Ourselves</title><link>https://fraverus.com/our-empire-ourselves.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Well, for various reasons, I have been reading a lot of other stuff not on the list. I took a stab at Lucretius in Latin but it was a slog. I will attempt it with a better edition and better self-preparation. Aquinas is also still waiting for me to forget …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Fra Verus</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2018 13:17:00 -0400</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:fraverus.com,2018-04-10:/our-empire-ourselves.html</guid><category>Roman</category></item><item><title>Quadwrecker</title><link>https://fraverus.com/quadwrecker.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Completing the set of early-modern satires is Jonathan Swift's &lt;a href="http://amzn.to/2jLe6Hm"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Gulliver's Travels&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. This book has seen a ton of editions and you can't go wrong with most of them. I mostly chose this edition because it comes in hardcover and it has original illustrations by Jon Corbino. It is a solid …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Fra Verus</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2017 14:04:00 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:fraverus.com,2017-01-21:/quadwrecker.html</guid><category>English</category></item><item><title>NEETs in Enlightenment France</title><link>https://fraverus.com/neets-in-enlightenment-france.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Next up on the French side of things is Denis Diderot's &lt;a href="http://amzn.to/2ejGpqj"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Le Neveau de Rameau&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;em&gt;Rameau'sNephew&lt;/em&gt;. This edition is available in paperback, hardcover, and &lt;a href="http://www.openbookpublishers.com/htmlreader/978-1-78374-007-9/main.html"&gt;on-line&lt;/a&gt;. The hardcover edition is well-bound and printed on heavy paper. I can not really speak for the paperback edition. The on-line edition includes much …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Fra Verus</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2016 20:08:00 -0400</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:fraverus.com,2016-10-16:/neets-in-enlightenment-france.html</guid><category>French</category></item><item><title>The Possibility of the Pre-Photonic Rulebreaker</title><link>https://fraverus.com/the-possibility-of-the-pre-photonic-rulebreaker.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Next up is the first part of St. Thomas Aquinas' &lt;a href="http://amzn.to/2dv2nso"&gt;Summa Theologiae&lt;/a&gt;. This edition is fantastic. Physically, the volumes are as beautiful as they are sturdy. The English translation is solid. There are not really really any footnotes but Aquinas designed the &lt;em&gt;Summa&lt;/em&gt; to serve as a first introduction to …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Fra Verus</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2016 23:51:00 -0400</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:fraverus.com,2016-10-05:/the-possibility-of-the-pre-photonic-rulebreaker.html</guid><category>Judeo-Christian</category></item><item><title>How to Become a Mamamouchi</title><link>https://fraverus.com/how-to-become-a-mamamouchi.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Next up in my French reading is Molière's &lt;a href="http://amzn.to/2c8Ew0U"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. It is in the same Dover volume as &lt;em&gt;Le Tartuffe&lt;/em&gt; and has the same translator. Therefore, my comments on the actual edition remain the same as in my last post. I would only note that because this play is …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Fra Verus</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2016 22:37:00 -0400</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:fraverus.com,2016-09-23:/how-to-become-a-mamamouchi.html</guid><category>French</category></item><item><title>Le Faux Dévot</title><link>https://fraverus.com/le-faux-devot.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Next up in my French reading is Molière's &lt;a href="http://amzn.to/2c8Ew0U"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Le Tartuffe&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. This is a no-frills Dover dual-language paperback edition, much like my copy of &lt;em&gt;Candide&lt;/em&gt;. However,the translation of &lt;em&gt;Tartuffe&lt;/em&gt; is a lot less literal than &lt;em&gt;Candide&lt;/em&gt;. In fact, some of the translation choices are simply bizarre. This is perplexing because …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Fra Verus</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2016 21:35:00 -0400</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:fraverus.com,2016-09-06:/le-faux-devot.html</guid><category>French</category></item><item><title>Satirizing the Problem of Evil</title><link>https://fraverus.com/satirizing-the-problem-of-evil.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Skipping around a bit in the list to learn some French, I picked up a dual-language (facing translation) edition of Voltaire's &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://amzn.to/2byv0T7"&gt;Candide&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. This edition is a cheap paperback. There are probably better editions of the French and better translations of the English out there. However, side-by-side translations are great for …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Fra Verus</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2016 21:47:00 -0400</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:fraverus.com,2016-08-17:/satirizing-the-problem-of-evil.html</guid><category>French</category></item><item><title>The Real Stuff</title><link>https://fraverus.com/the-real-stuff.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Squaring off the Greek math section is Nicomachus of Gerasa's &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://amzn.to/2ayB5R9"&gt;Introduction to Arithmetic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. Sadly, this work is long out of print. You can scrounge Amazon or Abe Books for a copy. There are some paperback versions floating around that are just the translation without any of the introductory material. They …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Fra Verus</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2016 21:54:00 -0400</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:fraverus.com,2016-08-03:/the-real-stuff.html</guid><category>Greek</category></item><item><title>Only True Coneheads Need Apply</title><link>https://fraverus.com/only-true-coneheads-need-apply.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;This technically is not next on the list, but I have now read Sir Thomas Heath's translation of Apollonius of Perga's work &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://amzn.to/2a03xHX"&gt;On Conic Sections&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. Cambridge University Press still has this book in print, though in paperback only. For a hardcover edition, you will need to go scrounging through the …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Fra Verus</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2016 19:08:00 -0400</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:fraverus.com,2016-07-25:/only-true-coneheads-need-apply.html</guid><category>Greek</category></item><item><title>Grecian Pi[e]</title><link>https://fraverus.com/grecian-pie.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Next up on the list are &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://amzn.to/2akBjeN"&gt;The Works of Archimedes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. This Dover edition is basically your only option these days. Sir Thomas Heath's translation is the only game in town and Dover's edition is the only edition still in print. If you are desperate for a better quality binding, Cambridge …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Fra Verus</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2016 16:04:00 -0400</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:fraverus.com,2016-07-24:/grecian-pie.html</guid><category>Greek</category></item><item><title>Angles that Euclid Would Know</title><link>https://fraverus.com/angles-that-euclid-would-know.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Next up on the list, as promised, is Euclid's &lt;a href="http://amzn.to/29CXkkK"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Elements of Geometry&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. This is a dated but still definitive translation of Euclid's foundational work on Geometry done by Sir Thomas Little Heath. This particular edition is a slimmed down version his translation with the notes removed so that it can …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Fra Verus</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2016 21:41:00 -0400</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:fraverus.com,2016-07-13:/angles-that-euclid-would-know.html</guid><category>Greek</category></item><item><title>Novum Testamentum</title><link>https://fraverus.com/novum-testamentum.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Way later than promised, I have finished reading the New Testament, also known as Bible II: The Adventures of God Junior. For details about the editionI choice, see my previous post: &lt;a href="http://blog.fraverus.com/post/2016/06/05/Antiquum-Testamentum"&gt;Antiquum Testamentum&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;While it should come as no surprise to readers with a Christian background, the New Testament is …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Fra Verus</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2016 19:45:00 -0400</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:fraverus.com,2016-06-18:/novum-testamentum.html</guid><category>Judeo-Christian</category></item><item><title>Antiquum Testamentum</title><link>https://fraverus.com/antiquum-testamentum.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;The observant reader will note that I have not updated this blog in roughly a year and a half. He or she may also note that the next item on my reading list is Euclid's &lt;em&gt;Elements&lt;/em&gt;. While I did start Euclid, I did not get very far before I started …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Fra Verus</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jun 2016 23:22:00 -0400</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:fraverus.com,2016-06-05:/antiquum-testamentum.html</guid><category>Judeo-Christian</category></item><item><title>Galen and the Crazy</title><link>https://fraverus.com/galen-and-the-crazy.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Next up is &lt;a href="https://amzn.to/2WvCoaN"&gt;Galen: On the Natural Faculties (Loeb Classical Library)&lt;/a&gt;. It's another Loeb but aside from the original Great Books volume, it's just about the only translation available. The remarks in my previous post about Hippocrates and the respective Loeb editions more or less apply equally to this volume …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Fra Verus</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2015 00:42:00 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:fraverus.com,2015-01-23:/galen-and-the-crazy.html</guid><category>Greek</category></item><item><title>I might not have a med-school degree...</title><link>https://fraverus.com/i-might-not-have-a-med-school-degree.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Next up on the list is &lt;a href="https://amzn.to/2WujT6z"&gt;Hippocrates, Volume I: Ancient Medicine (Loeb Classical Library, No.147)&lt;/a&gt;. Well, that's just the first volume. The complete Hippocrati ccorpus comes in ten volumes. This is almost certainly more than is in the corresponding Great Books volume. Someone less crazy than myself may wish …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Fra Verus</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:fraverus.com,2015-01-20:/i-might-not-have-a-med-school-degree.html</guid><category>Greek</category></item><item><title>Brecht vs. Aristotle (Aristotle, Part II)</title><link>https://fraverus.com/brecht-vs-aristotle-aristotle-part-ii.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Next up is the second half of Aristotle's complete works: &lt;a href="https://amzn.to/2CqHIVM"&gt;The Complete Works of Aristotle: The Revised Oxford Translation, Vol. 2(Bollingen Series LXXI-2)&lt;/a&gt;. My previous entry describes my general thoughts on this particular edition. I will only add that the binding on my copy of volume twohas started to …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Fra Verus</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2014 21:14:00 -0400</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:fraverus.com,2014-07-29:/brecht-vs-aristotle-aristotle-part-ii.html</guid><category>Greek</category></item><item><title>On the Generation of 2,500 Pages (Aristotle, Part I)</title><link>https://fraverus.com/on-the-generation-of-2500-pages-aristotle-part-i.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Long time no read/write. It has been over a year. This is even worse than mylast lapse. I got distracted reading other books that aren't on the list. I even learned Calculus. Maybe I should start doing write-ups about more stuff not on the list.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In any case, next …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Fra Verus</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2014 18:48:00 -0400</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:fraverus.com,2014-07-19:/on-the-generation-of-2500-pages-aristotle-part-i.html</guid><category>Greek</category></item><item><title>Don't Eat the Plato</title><link>https://fraverus.com/dont-eat-the-plato.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;After many months, I finally knocked out the next item in the list: &lt;a href="https://amzn.to/3eA6QXm"&gt;Plato: Complete Works&lt;/a&gt;. First, as per the usual, here a few words about this edition. It has a few things going for it. It's relatively cheap for the massive amount of content--roughly $50 for 1,800 pages …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Fra Verus</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2013 21:05:00 -0400</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:fraverus.com,2013-06-03:/dont-eat-the-plato.html</guid><category>Greek</category></item><item><title>Athens vs. Sparta</title><link>https://fraverus.com/athens-vs-sparta.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Next up is Thucydides' &lt;a href="https://amzn.to/3jjfZH9"&gt;History of the Peloponnesian War&lt;/a&gt;. It is the history of the ~30 year war between Sparta and Athens told by a prominent Athenian citizen who spent half of the war in exile with the Spartas due to his having commanded a failed expedition. Thus a lot …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Fra Verus</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 04:14:00 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:fraverus.com,2012-11-14:/athens-vs-sparta.html</guid><category>Greek</category></item><item><title>Èrodotus' Ìstories</title><link>https://fraverus.com/erodotus-istories.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Next up on the list is Herodotus' &lt;a href="https://amzn.to/2CirG0q"&gt;The Histories&lt;/a&gt;. Here Herodotus provides adetailed account of the Persian Wars, the parties involved, and the events leading to the wars.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But first, a word about the edition I selected: This is part of a series of Greek histories in translation, each called …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Fra Verus</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2012 20:05:00 -0400</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:fraverus.com,2012-10-27:/erodotus-istories.html</guid><category>Greek</category></item><item><title>Aristophanes Brings the Lulz</title><link>https://fraverus.com/aristophanes-brings-the-lulz.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Rounding out the volume of Greek drama is &lt;a href="https://amzn.to/2C1UKJa"&gt;Aristophanes: The Complete Plays&lt;/a&gt;. Now, the translation of Aristophanes one gets is extremely important. His plays have a lot of swearing and sometimes massive strap-ons. For the bulk of the 20th century, this stuff was considered too racy as is. Unfortunately, this …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Fra Verus</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2012 15:54:00 -0400</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:fraverus.com,2012-09-24:/aristophanes-brings-the-lulz.html</guid><category>Greek</category></item><item><title>The End of Tragedy</title><link>https://fraverus.com/the-end-of-tragedy.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;After many long weeks, I've finally made it to &lt;a href="https://amzn.to/3hdC3kO"&gt;the last volume of Euripides&lt;/a&gt;. Though this is not actually the end the corresponding volume of the Great Books series. I still have the comedies to go. But this still feels like an important milestone. Also, there are far fewer comedies …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Fra Verus</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2012 02:11:00 -0400</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:fraverus.com,2012-09-07:/the-end-of-tragedy.html</guid><category>Greek</category></item><item><title>Euripides and Insanity</title><link>https://fraverus.com/euripides-and-insanity.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Status: published&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Next up is the &lt;a href="\%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0195373405/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=390957&amp;amp;creativeASIN=0195373405&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;tag=fraver-20\%22"&gt;fourth volume&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img 1_="1\&amp;quot;&amp;quot;" alt="\&amp;quot;\&amp;quot;" height="\" src="\%22http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=fraver-20&amp;amp;l=as2&amp;amp;o=1&amp;amp;a=0195373405\%22" width="\"&gt; of Euripides, including:&lt;em&gt;Herakles&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Phoenician Women&lt;/em&gt;, and &lt;em&gt;Bacchae&lt;/em&gt;. Yeah, onlythree in this volume so I would say it is the shortest volume of Euripides butthe physical book is actually like an inch taller than the others. This made menotice that there are …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Fra Verus</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2012 01:37:00 -0400</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:fraverus.com,2012-09-06:/euripides-and-insanity.html</guid><category>Greek</category><category>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;</category></item><item><title>Hippolytos, the most fucked up play ever. And some other plays, too.</title><link>https://fraverus.com/hippolytos-the-most-fucked-up-play-ever-and-some-other-plays-too.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Status: published&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Next up is &lt;a href="\%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0195388771/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=390957&amp;amp;creativeASIN=0195388771&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;tag=fraver-20\%22"&gt;yet another volume of Euripides.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img 1_="1\&amp;quot;&amp;quot;" alt="\&amp;quot;\&amp;quot;" height="\" src="\%22http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=fraver-20&amp;amp;l=as2&amp;amp;o=1&amp;amp;a=0195388771\%22" width="\"&gt; This volume's plays are:&lt;em&gt;Hippolytos&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Children of Herakles&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Suppliant Women&lt;/em&gt;,and &lt;em&gt;Ion&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hippolytos&lt;/em&gt; is one of the more fucked up things I've ever read.Basically, Aphrodite gets annoyed that Hippolytos is a merry virgin and favoredby Artemis, the virgin huntress …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Fra Verus</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 01 Sep 2012 03:12:00 -0400</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:fraverus.com,2012-09-01:/hippolytos-the-most-fucked-up-play-ever-and-some-other-plays-too.html</guid><category>Greek</category><category>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;</category></item><item><title>Euripides, Trojan Sympathizer</title><link>https://fraverus.com/euripides-trojan-sympathizer.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Status: published&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Backtracking a little, due to the previously mentioned shippinginconsistency, I've now read the &lt;a href="\%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0195388674/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=390957&amp;amp;creativeASIN=0195388674&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;tag=fraver-20\%22"&gt;first volume of Euripides&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img 1_="1\&amp;quot;&amp;quot;" alt="\&amp;quot;\&amp;quot;" height="\" src="\%22http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=fraver-20&amp;amp;l=as2&amp;amp;o=1&amp;amp;a=0195388674\%22" width="\"&gt;. It includes&lt;em&gt;Andromache&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Hecuba&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Trojan Women&lt;/em&gt;, and&lt;em&gt;Rhesos&lt;/em&gt;. I'm going to keep this post brief.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The first three plays all deal with women of Troy after the fall of Troy.Basically …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Fra Verus</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2012 00:39:00 -0400</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:fraverus.com,2012-08-23:/euripides-trojan-sympathizer.html</guid><category>Greek</category><category>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;</category></item><item><title>Euripides Retcons the Orestia</title><link>https://fraverus.com/euripides-retcons-the-orestia.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Status: published&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So, my new UPS driver has decided that he only likes delivering one packageat a time. So if I have, say, three packages coming in a day, things get alittle complicated. UPS always flags these delays as "external factors". Butit's totally just the UPS driver not searching for …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Fra Verus</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2012 16:43:00 -0400</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:fraverus.com,2012-08-12:/euripides-retcons-the-orestia.html</guid><category>Greek</category><category>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;</category></item><item><title>Sophocles Gets Homeric</title><link>https://fraverus.com/sophocles-gets-homeric.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Status: published&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sophocles' &lt;a href="\%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0195373308/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=fraver-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=390957&amp;amp;creativeASIN=0195373308\%22"&gt;remaining plays&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img 1_="1\&amp;quot;&amp;quot;" alt="\&amp;quot;\&amp;quot;" height="\" src="\%22http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=fraver-20&amp;amp;l=as2&amp;amp;o=1&amp;amp;a=0195373308\%22" width="\"&gt; all have some connection toHomer's stuff. Unfortunately, they are all horribly depressing and I don'treally have a lot worth saying about them. But I did enjoy them quite alot.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;First up is &lt;em&gt;Aias/Ajax&lt;/em&gt;. In it, Ajax flips out and goes on amurdering spree because …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Fra Verus</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 00:51:00 -0400</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:fraverus.com,2012-08-06:/sophocles-gets-homeric.html</guid><category>Greek</category><category>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;</category></item><item><title>Sophocles' Theban Plays</title><link>https://fraverus.com/sophocles-theban-plays.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Status: published&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Shimmying down the list brought me to Sophocles. I started off with his&lt;a href="\%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0195388801/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=390957&amp;amp;creativeASIN=0195388801&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;tag=fraver-20\%22"&gt;Theban plays&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img 1_="1\&amp;quot;&amp;quot;" alt="\&amp;quot;\&amp;quot;" height="\" src="\%22http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=fraver-20&amp;amp;l=as2&amp;amp;o=1&amp;amp;a=0195388801\%22" width="\"&gt;, being&lt;em&gt;Antigone&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Oedipus the King (or Rex)&lt;/em&gt;, and &lt;em&gt;Oedipus atColonus&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Antigone&lt;/em&gt; picks up roughly where Aeschylus' &lt;em&gt;Seven AgainstThebes&lt;/em&gt; left off. The sons of Oedipus have killed each other. [K|C]reon,Oedipus' brother-in-law …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Fra Verus</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2012 20:27:00 -0400</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:fraverus.com,2012-07-20:/sophocles-theban-plays.html</guid><category>Greek</category><category>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;</category></item><item><title>Remaining Aeschylus</title><link>https://fraverus.com/remaining-aeschylus.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Status: published&lt;/p&gt;
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Next on my list was [the rest of Aeschylus](\%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0195373286/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=fraver-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0195373286\%22)![\\"\\"](\%22http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=fraver-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0195373286\%22){width="\"1\"" height="\"1\""}. The remaining plays being*Persians*, *Seven …&lt;/div&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Fra Verus</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2012 02:39:00 -0400</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:fraverus.com,2012-06-06:/remaining-aeschylus.html</guid><category>Greek</category><category>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;</category></item><item><title>The Oresteia</title><link>https://fraverus.com/the-oresteia.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Status: published&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Next up on the list was &lt;a href="\%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0199753636/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=fraver-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=390957&amp;amp;creativeASIN=0199753636\%22"&gt;Aeschylus' Oresteia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img 1_="1\&amp;quot;&amp;quot;" alt="\&amp;quot;\&amp;quot;" height="\" src="\%22http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=fraver-20&amp;amp;l=as2&amp;amp;o=1&amp;amp;a=0199753636\%22" width="\"&gt;. In summary, it is a trilogyof plays recounting Agamemnon's death, his son Orestes seeking vengeance, andthen Orestes seeking absolution by a court of law convened by the goddessAthena. I chose a translation from a new series from Oxford University Press …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Fra Verus</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 05:43:00 -0400</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:fraverus.com,2012-05-03:/the-oresteia.html</guid><category>Greek</category><category>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;</category></item><item><title>A Brief Introduction</title><link>https://fraverus.com/a-brief-introduction.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Status: published&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So, I've set out to read the long list of the most significant works in theWestern canon as judged by the venerable Mortimer J. Adler. I have two majorreasons for doing this: First, you cannot take part in the great discussions ofthe Western Civilization(tm) without familiarizing yourself …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Fra Verus</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2012 08:51:00 -0400</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:fraverus.com,2012-04-28:/a-brief-introduction.html</guid><category>Marginalia</category><category>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;</category></item><item><title>The Odyssey</title><link>https://fraverus.com/the-odyssey.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Status: published&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Next up on the list is the Odyssey. This was actually my first time aroundfor this one. It has been a long time coming. This being my first time, I optedfor the more traditional Fagles translation: &lt;a href="\%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0140268863/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=fraver-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=390957&amp;amp;creativeASIN=0140268863\%22"&gt;The Odyssey&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img 1_="1\&amp;quot;&amp;quot;" alt="\&amp;quot;\&amp;quot;" height="\" src="\%22http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=fraver-20&amp;amp;l=as2&amp;amp;o=1&amp;amp;a=0140268863\%22" width="\"&gt; Also, while StephenMitchell is planning an edition of the Odyssey …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Fra Verus</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2012 07:16:00 -0400</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:fraverus.com,2012-04-28:/the-odyssey.html</guid><category>Greek</category><category>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;</category></item><item><title>The Iliad</title><link>https://fraverus.com/the-iliad.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Status: published&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This is my second time reading the Iliad, having read through it under theguidance of one Professor D- R-. during my undergrad years. Since this was mysecond time through, I picked a new, rather unorthodox edition "translated" byStephen Mitchell (not the Old Norse guy at Harvard): &lt;a href="\%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1439163375/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=fraver-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=9325&amp;amp;creativeASIN=1439163375\%22"&gt;The Iliad …&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Fra Verus</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2012 07:03:00 -0400</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:fraverus.com,2012-04-28:/the-iliad.html</guid><category>Greek</category><category>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;</category></item></channel></rss>