One more unrelated thing

[starlady]

I dreamt this morning that my bird beat up another parrot in church. This was a basilica, mind you, because it was a Greek Orthodox church, because we were in Athens, because I had this dream in which my Greece trip group was on this island from which we could get spectacular (but whacky) views of Athens. And now that I'm awake I realize that Athens had spontaneously become the home of the Mausoleum of Hailkarnassos. And that said Mausoleum looked just like the Diet building in Tokyo. But yeah, there was this bigger parrot in the church, and it flew onto my prof's shoulder, and then my bird was there and he started nipping the other parrot despite being half the other bird's size, because my bird is a poicephalus parrot and they dominate other birds. And then obviously we had to separate them.

This is all because I am trying to decide how best to get back into Latin and ancient Greek, mind you. I am thinking of breaking out Sallust again for the Latin (though Sallust is what drove me out of Latin in high school), and maybe cracking this copy of Plato that I have. It's in the Oxford series, I'm not even sure which dialogues are in it. And yes I know how difficult Plato is and that maybe Homer would be an easier way to ease back in. Alternatively I could buy the green-and-yellow anthology of epistles, 500 BCE - 400 CE, in both languages, that I was ogling in Labyrinth Books yesterday. I might do that anyway.

And that's more than enough out of me for one day. If you see me on the interwebz this week poke me and tell me to write my Holmes Big Bang story, you lazy fangirl, you.

Still not a classics icon. 

Comments

[recessional]

*preemptive poke* Write your Holmes BB story! :D

[starlady]

It shouldn't be this hard, it's all there in my head, practically. I'm just lazy.

Also I wish I knew what movie!Mycroft will be like.

[olewyvern.livejournal.com]

I love your dreams.

As to Greek, I'd recommend Herodotus if you can find some. Relatively easy and endlessly entertaining. Sallust is good, too; I like him.

[starlady38.livejournal.com]

Oh, good, you had some suggestions! I like Herodotus, and obviously as a history person there are double bonus points associated with reading his stuff. Off to scour the internet for cheap copies...

[olewyvern.livejournal.com]

Or Chariton, if you can find him (I have him in Loeb form) - c. 1st century A.D. historical novel, based on the 5th century, I think; it includes important figures like Artaxerxes. Easiest Greek I've ever read, outside of Koine. And it's a novel, with all sorts of wild and crazy happenings!

[starlady38.livejournal.com]

Sweet! I live near enough universities that I should be able to find the book. (And I like Loeb, and the green-and-yellows, because of the parallel translation for if I get stumped.)