This Is Why I Love These Books

[thief-alchemist.livejournal.com]

I know this has been touched on previously, but I am doing an Assessment Task for Ancient History and came across these.

"...since on learning that the granddaughter of Aristogeiton was living humbly in Lemnos..."

"Ion records, also, the most successful expression which he used to move the Athenians."

These are from Plutarch's writings on Aristides and Kimon.

The only problem is these generate a strong desire to curl up on a couch with some tea and reread the series...


:D

Comments

[booksrgood4u.livejournal.com]

That's really neat!
I know that whenever I get a vocabulary list, I write quotes from books that that particular word reminds me of. This past week I came accross the word 'interloper' on a vocab. list. So naturally I scribbled "goat-footed, throne-stealing interloper" in the indent. It's a great way to remember things and have fun at the same time!

[drashizu.livejournal.com]

I know! I ran into the word "basileos" in a recent lit class and got super excited. Also, I looked up this guy named Anaximander of Miletus when he was mentioned in another course (we'd followed a vague tangent into the history of science and philosophy, which was why he wasn't described in class) and found out that the first morpheme of his name, Anax, is a cognate of annux.

[drashizu.livejournal.com]

Instead of "cognate," I should probably have said "origin." Annux I guess isn't really Greek, but was derived from Greek by our dear author.

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

Isn't there a place in the books similar to Lemnos, too?