Xmas 2020 freebies

Don't forget to visit my patreon for some FREE Xmas reading 

Also 90 of pre june 2020 n 2019 posts have been unlocked 

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New Year Wish

 Hoping you experience JOY and Victory in the New Year 2021 !

This is an image of NIKE from Ephesus !

December Dionysia

 Let us not forget December was probably the month in which the Winter Dionysia were held.

Party safely people and dont spread Covid !

CHRISTOUGENNA

 CHRISTOUGENNA - okay it s  NOT  Classical ! but Happy Christmas Everyone !

December on Metousia Patreon

Coming in December to my Metousua Patreon 

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Gifts for you 

 A Fine mix of free ecards and mini booklets plus everythings going into the open to all patreons settings so you can sample all my tiers fanfic poetry hellenika original fiction 

Do visit ! 

Bacchon in his Cape ?

There is a character in #Plutarchs #Amatorius  called #Bacchon described as a youth or young man in his late teens an ephebe wearing a cape. I saw this image of a statue found at Tralles and thought this could be very similar to the cape Bacchon wore and perhaps his posture and character described as thoughtful and respectful. 

Do read Plutarchs" Amatorious ?

If you can read Greek I'm doing a commentary in instalments over on my Metousia Patreon  in the Hellenika tier.

on reference writers

There are several ancient authors people often cite for references but rarely read all the way through.

Heres my list of Greek Authors that you should try to read completely at least once so you have some context for quotes.

Plutarch 

The Lives n the Moralia 

Athenaios also spelt

Athenaeus 

 the Deiphnosophists 

It will make you realise how much poetry we have lost.

All of Thucydides and Herodotus not just the passages set for an undergrad class 

Likewise Strabo Polybius and other Hellenistic writers

I also recommend Lysias a d the Greek anthology.

All of these are available free online as downloadable pdfs and in other formats if you don't mind reading older translations or flipping pages between the greek n english in loeb reprints 

Finally may I recommend you read or acquire Diogenes Laertius a major source for ancient philosophy.