After picking up 🔗Papyrus recently, my childhood obsession with ancient Greece has come roaring back. It is now an adult sized special interest! 🏛️✨

I've already grabbed a few things for my TBR: 🔗The Iliad 🔗The Odyssey 🔗Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes by Edith Hamilton Currently reading: 🔗Letters from a Stoic by Seneca

But I feel like I'm still missing some good ones! I'd love recommendations that are: ✅ Non-fiction or primary historical sources ✅ Educational but not dry or textbook-y ✅ Lyrical and a joy to read ❌ Not looking for fictional retellings (as tempting as they are 😅)

Think along the lines of histories, philosophy, archaeology-adjacent reads, or beautifully written scholarship. Basically: teach me things, but make it gorgeous.

What am I missing? 👇

plus a sticky note with a scrawled cursive message pressed to the mirror at eye-level: take your time, mama! What an elegant little ambush. Amelia might as well have scrawled the true meaning in all-caps lipstick across the mirror: pull yourself together, you selfish little freak :)

I‘m too autistic for this, I genuinely thought the mother-in-law was being nice

“This one’s American. From New York.” “I don’t believe such a place exists.”

I… huh? What? Sorry, what? Didn’t know we could just… not believe in the existence of major cities. Or of America, if that’s what he means. That’s… uh… okay? Weird take, man. Real weird.