mythos
swiss 🇨🇭 classics and history undergrad student ❤️ classical literature, fantasy, queer lit 🏳️🌈 reads in: english, german, french. wanna connect? discord @myraculously, insta @my.thological
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Isocrates talks about Helen of Sparta for like, less than 30% of his enkomion of Helen and instead talks about men, which is eh, but he gives kind of a valid reason for it. It was weirdly funny to read exactly because of this, but it was also very interesting because of his critiques of sophistry which are very obvious (e.g. Hercules and Theseus representing the sophists and the "real" philosophers/orators), and therefore also his reflections on the purpose of oration. So very interesting in a philosophical and allegorical lens, despite the lack of Helen in the Helen enkomion.
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Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)
Martha Wells
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Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)
Martha Wells
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Fugitive Telemetry is not as good as the first four books, but was still quite enjoyable. I feel like the mystery could have been executed better, especially since the solution comes kind of out of nowhere. I also felt like Murderbot's personality shone through less in this installment, which I found very sad.
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Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)
Martha Wells
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The Vegetarian
Han Kang
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You know those things where you're like... Wait do people actually do that?
Here is a non-exhaustive list that I am curious about;
- let out a breath you didn't know you were holding
- felt the gaze of someone on your back
- saw someone's eyes darken
- melted
- kissed someone and genuinely described it as "crashing your lips together"
- slammed a door and slid down with your back against it
Maybe these things happen to people and I am just not living life to it's most romantic but please tell me your stories! It could also be my autistic ass has trouble understanding which ones are more metaphorical and which ones the author is using genuinely 🤭
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hello friends! i’ve really loved whenever we do little getting to know each other games on pb club, so i wanted to start another little one! if you want to, i’d love to hear about some of your favorite things, and what makes them so special!! everyone here is just so passionate and excited about the things they love and it always makes my heart so happy to see :) you can answer multiple for one, you can just do one of the following or do them all, whatever you’d like!
- favorite book (for me: station eleven)
- favorite movie (for me: the martian among many others)
- favorite character (for me: ellie williams my beloved)
- favorite tv show (for me: station eleven or the haunting of hill house)
- favorite video game (for me: the last of us i and ii, i also love bg3 and stardew)
- favorite non-reading hobby (for me: video games)
- favorite random interest (this is really just an excuse to yap about something nobody ever directly asks about but maybe you know a lot about - for me: alien abduction stories 😭 and also the now-gone great movie ride at disney’s hollywood studios not in a disney adult way but in a media studies way)
- favorite color (for me: yellow)
- favorite animal (for me: cats and manatees)
- favorite meal (for me: all things pasta)
- favorite musical artist / album/ song (for me: samia anything by her) and if you have any other favorites of any other category you want to share, please do!!!!
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Rules For The Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse
Mary Oliver
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Rules For The Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse
Mary Oliver
0mythos commented on mythos's review of Lieutenant Nun: The True Story of a Cross-Dressing, Transatlantic Adventurer Who Escaped From a Spanish Convent in 1599 and Lived as a Man
A very fascinating insight into the life of a famous gambler, murderer, colonizer, and ex-nun.
De Erauso's story, which s/he* wrote down her/himself in form of a memoir, is shocking and riveting. There is admittedly a lot of murder, and also a lot of running away from the consequences of said murder. It was a fun read, and quick, too.
I give props to the translators, since the text is agreable to read, and captures well de Erauso's wit (-ahem- insolence -ahem). It feels quite modern, really.
I found the foreword by M. Garber and the introduction by M. Stepto to be educational, methodology and information wise, especially pertaining to the evaluation of de Erauso's possible gender identity. I do think, though, that today such a foreword would look slightly different and more well-rounded for today's audience, simply according to the evolving understanding of "gender". It was especially important to me that they really put an accent on the fact that de Erauso was, despite the cool possible gender-fuckery and cross-dressing, a Spanish colonizer, a mercenary who killed native Peruvians for money, a slave-owner, and just a murderer in general. I wouldn't want de Erauso to become a girlboss-feminism historical blorbo figure.
*Note: I am using s/he because it is unknown what gender identity de Erauso would have identified as due to the cultural, conceptual, and historical differences pertaining to the category "gender". de Erauso uses mostly masculine adjectives to refer to her/himself throughout the memoir (per the foreword), but never mentions anything that could hint at her/his self-understanding as a man, or even really as a woman as a matter of fact. It's all very complicated, really.
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