Hey Beehaw (and friends)! What’re you reading?

Novels, nonfiction, ebooks, audiobooks, graphic novels, etc - everything counts!

  • Lavenderlily@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    11 months ago

    It was definitely hard going. I had multiple browser tabs open, the heavily annotated modern library version, and my years of Catholic upbringing to guide me through it all and it was definitely a journey. I read it right after reading Dante’s divine comedy and while the comedy and they both really blew me away. Half of Paradise Lost (and Dante too for that matter) is just really deep references to the Aeneid, the Iliad, the odyssey, and Ovid’s metamorphoses.

    • HipPriest@kbin.social
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      11 months ago

      I’ve read Dante and enjoyed that a lot. It’s interesting how Dante also puts a lot more of his contemporaries into the various parts of the afterlife then I was expecting; so footnotes can veer from talking about Greek mythology to minor figures from the civil war that had led to his exile. Which can be a little jarring sometimes!