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What I unwittingly used dad's card for yesterday

The Orphic Hymns -- this rounds out the mythos triad, my own terminology for them for Orpheus, Homer and Hesiod. When I think of Orpheus I think of French filmmaker Jean Cocteau. Who was he though, this Orpheus, was he even a real person, or a bunch of mystics who said to each other "Hey let's all call ourselves Orpheus". Anyway this is some serious mystical stuff here, which could be a gateway to the esoteric, not gonna be going down that route anytime soon, but I do have a nice little array of that kind of thing already.

The Voyage of Argo: The Argonautica by Apollonius Rhodes, a Penguin edition, I never yet had gotten this, it's a major classic, so it's high time I have it along with the next one:

Daphnis and Chloe by Longus -- a love story like no other is the idea I have of it from just browsing the info about it, was this made into an opera by Ravel or someone like that?

Demosthenes, Speeches 18 to 26 in 3 volumes, long time ago I got the first one which collects the first 17 speeches of Greece's most acclaimed orator, they go up to 60 some speeches, these are nice ones with Intros and footnotes from University of Texas Press, collect them all today!!

and a real cheapie Early Greek Philosophy by John Burnet, a well respected old time scholar cited often by Guthrie, for less than the price of a cup of coffee you can get what some say is the best Introduction to this subject.

I won't get into the Kindle Unlimited things I got besides some Heidegger on ancient philosophy and some easy lighthearted Plato things like these




If they can help me out then i'll get more out of the more scholarly ones.

 
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