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Best Books B.C. (Part 1 of Mr B's
Here begins Mr B's romp through a random collection of great books through the ages. Part 1 takes us B.C. to the classic plays, histories, stories and philosphies of Sophocles, Ovid, Herodotus, Homer and Plato.
Next up "Mr B's Best Books of the First Seven Centuries". Coming soon to a list near this one.
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Metamorphoses Ovid/Raeburn Sex, pride, and punishment; Randy gods and fit mortals; love and obsession; the psychological motivations of human beings; the story of the world from the beginning to Julius Caesar; the inspiration for much of Shakespeare and Western art and literature to this day; A … |
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The Histories Herodotus/Waterfield From gold digging ants to the happiest man in the world contest, the father of history takes us round the the known (as well as the frankly made up) world of the 5th and 6th centuries B.C. - the bizarre lifestyles, the weird beliefs, the legends, the empires, the rebellions, and the religi… |
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The Odyssey Homer/Rieu 3 years of storms & adventure; 7 years with a nymph called Calypso - Odysseus, the original man with a cunning plan, makes his way home from Troy. But will Penelope even recognise him when he gets there? Find out in the first and best adventure/travel ta… |
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The Symposium Plato What is Love? Are we all just half a hermaphrodite desperately seeking "our other half"? Socrates has other ideas. A bunch of Greeks discuss Love, Beauty, the Universe, and the One, get shitfaced and tell each other what turns them on. Paperback - Penguin (Gr… |
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The Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus Sophocles/Fagles Pride, power, blindness, duty, and incest. And punishment all round. Sophocles dishes up lashings of Horror and Pity in the ultimate cycle of tragedy, and provides the metaphorical framework for Freud's analysis of the human psyche. Paperback - Penguin - 1984… |
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