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Hellenistic and Roman Sparta — Paul Cartledge & Antony Spawforth
December 8th, 2011, No Comments
Hellenistic and Roman Sparta Paul Cartledge & Antony Spawforth 312 pages including index published in 2002 When most people think of Sparta their first thought will probably be about that godawful movie based on that godawful Frank Miller comic 300: This! IS! Sparta! and all that. For all its faults, it does mirror the common [...]
My Loot, let me show you it (again)
April 1st, 2009, No Comments
I spent a little bit too much money getting more classic science fiction, but there was so much good stuff and honestly I could’ve walked out with twice the number of books I did: The Halfling and Other Stories – Leigh Brackett Odd John Olaf Stapledon The Island Under the Earth Avram Davidson Mutiny in [...]
Diff’rent strokes
February 2nd, 2009, No Comments
Andrew Wheeler goes through his weekly ritual of making the rest of us jealous by reviewing his mail and gets excited about Dan Simmons’ newest novel, Drood: It’s a historical novel about Charles Dickens, with Wilkie Collins as narrator. (A similar connection got me to read Peter Carey’s excellent Jack Maggs.) And it sounds like [...]
