Christmas Haul:The Platypus Reads Part CXXXVI

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Thanks to a generous family at our school, this year's Christmas haul has a decidedly Greek twist to it.  New titles added to the "independent study" list:

The Best of the Achaeans by Gregory Nagy
The Cambridge Companion to Homer ed. Robert Fowler
Epic Bards and Oral Singers by A.B. Lord
Blackwell's Companion to Ancient Epic ed. Miles Foley

Now I can go back and re-write my Master's Thesis.

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