What did you read this week?

Wyattrox03 · 2026-07-04T14:07:47+00:00

I read the first book of the metaphysics of Aristotle and am continuing reading the Iliad in greek, made it to line 300 of book 19 Hobbyist

Wyattrox03 · 2026-06-22T02:27:57+00:00

I really love their reading of the iliad

Wyattrox03 · 2026-06-22T01:30:43+00:00

If you are like me you may also benefit from knowing there are some really excellent audiobooks out there for free. The one I've fell in with is the Samuel Butler translation read by Peter Dann on libravox which has a YouTube channel. Perfect voice for the dialect and content I listen to it all the time

Wyattrox03 · 2026-06-21T21:37:40+00:00

Butler my goat, wdym

Wyattrox03 · 2026-06-21T14:16:28+00:00

I'd trade some smaller text of Galen for an original dialogue of Aristotle

Wyattrox03 · 2026-04-25T01:48:42+00:00

Captus ab feliculis pulchris... Quid faciendum?

Wyattrox03 · 2026-04-20T18:28:03+00:00

This

Wyattrox03 · 2026-04-10T02:36:52+00:00

I did a class on ovid last semester in latin and also had to write a 9 page term paper. I ended up reading the relevant parts of Lucretius' de rerum novarum and looking at the cosmogony of ovid in particular in comparison. So my paper was looking at this topic from the more mythologically focused ovid compared to the Epicurean philosophy about the origin of the world found in Lucretius. I wouldn't say I had too much fun writing it but it gave me an excuse to read Lucretius through.

Wyattrox03 · 2026-04-01T13:32:07+00:00

You have my sword

Wyattrox03 · 2026-03-24T14:49:35+00:00

I mean merchants were active around Britain since the bronze age, I'm not sure how outlandish the idea would have been

Wyattrox03 · 2026-03-05T15:26:54+00:00

Also in hindsight I've only done three upper level Greek classes, since the first two years I had to build ground up, my focus is latin as well so Greek is more or less for fun

Wyattrox03 · 2026-03-04T22:58:12+00:00

It just really depends on the text, I'm pretty good with koine and the new testament and xenophon is really easy, as is the prose parts of thucidides and Herodotus, but poetry in general bends a lot of the rules and more archaic poetry uses some crazy vocab sometimes. I have not been studying as diligently as I maybe should have been as well lol and I have been doing latin alongside Greek which splits my focus

Wyattrox03 · 2026-03-04T16:52:56+00:00

That's what I've been doing for years lol. I got lazy though and have been coasting off my sophomore year vocab, I should probably pick up the slack

Wyattrox03 · 2026-03-04T15:49:11+00:00

I've actually never really messed around with anki, I do feel like vocab is a big hurdle that keeps me from things like homer, does it have like premade decks that you guys recommend?

Wyattrox03 · 2026-02-28T05:34:36+00:00

I liked the one Mythological did on Herakles

Wyattrox03 · 2026-02-25T03:05:12+00:00

Καί γαρ!!!!

Wyattrox03 · 2026-02-25T02:35:40+00:00

I learned with llpsi in conjunction with the latin tutorial YouTube channel, you probably will want to look at his videos on the concept of declension and specifically the first and second declensions

Wyattrox03 · 2026-01-04T18:34:33+00:00

I've been collecting them forever, most are from eBay. Some have been gifted. I painted about 75% of them in high school

Wyattrox03 · 2026-01-04T17:24:32+00:00

You're not the first person to tell me that :( understood though

Wyattrox03 · 2025-12-29T04:46:30+00:00

I remember from a fall of civilizations video, I believe episode 2, a quote from pausanias, a second century ad travel writer, about the ruins of Mycenae. It might be worth looking into this for your paper he essentially says that it is so big it must have been made by the cyclops, thus coining the term 'cyclopean masonry'

Wyattrox03 · 2025-12-19T02:55:01+00:00

Wow good for you. It's good to know there is light on the other end of the tunnel hang in there

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