Academic Platypus

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My series of posts on Ancient Witches continues over at Eidos with parts 2 and 3. I've worked my way from the Sons of Asclepius to Helen of Troy and now on to Circe. Euripides Medea is coming up, followed by Apollonius of Rhodes reboot. After that, it's on to Vergil and Ovid. I plan on applying to grad schools again in September, so hopefully this popular-level writing will still be a help in upping my academic game.

Meantime, it is summer and that should mean some summer reading. I just finished volume 9 of Neil Gaiman's Sandman as well as Anne Bronte's Tenant of Wildfell Hall (a book that's way ahead of its time in discussing Fundamentalism, Alcoholism, Home-Schooling, and Gender. There's a popular biography of Catullus on the list, and we'll see where things go from there.

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