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I'd like an excuse to finally read Nixonland Also y'all knew that Robert Graves wrote this book after the ghost of Claudius appeared to him in a dream and demanded that he do so, right
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May 23, 2017 05:10
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rocket_man38 posted:My classical history professor praised this book, but when i mentioned his greek myths series, he told me they were "next to worthless" due to his origins/footnotes on the myths being completely wrong. However i have found nothing to confirm that. Yeah, he was right. See e.g. the reception subheading on the wiki for The Greek Myths. Or, for a more comprehensive takedown of virtually everything he says, see this review. That was written in 1955, and the book's merit in the eyes of scholars hasn't improved since then. Graves' mythological work is, as a general rule, batshit. The Greek Myths are less batshit than The White Goddess, which is extraordinarily batshit, but it's batshit nonetheless. They're both good reading, but their scholarly value is nill. chernobyl kinsman fucked around with this message at 02:02 on May 28, 2017 |
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May 28, 2017 01:56
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Good to know actually. I have a copy of The White Goddess and I never got that far into it because it kept tripping my bullshit flags. its still interesting imo, its just not, uh, true. but, then, it isn't really trying to be a scholarly work, so i guess it's not fair to judge it as such. this is what graves said about it a few years after writing it, which i think is really funny: 
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May 29, 2017 00:54
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