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Posts tagged classics

Sometimes I’m like “ancient greek plays are so old, how am i going to relate to the characters?” but then

Alice and Martin Provensen

Barry B. Powell reads Book 1, Lines 1-155, from his new free verse translation of The Odyssey by Homer. Powell is Halls-Bascom Professor of Classics Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin, Madison

The classics reimagined as board books for toddlers.
No seriously, this is a thing.

The classics reimagined as board books for toddlers.

No seriously, this is a thing.

classicpenguin:

A few years old now, but still too much fun: Amy Fleischer’s lovely, inventive redesigns of our Penguin for the 75th anniversary. Classics, indeed.

Penguin has a sense of humor! Who knew?

Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.

Jorge Luis Borges (via writersrelief)

iheartclassics:
“ Book trees!
Build enough of these, and you could have your very own forest library.
”

iheartclassics:

Book trees!
Build enough of these, and you could have your very own forest library.