#Simon Snodgrass

[big-gentle-troll]

hello internet people!

sunny said that this is a good way to socialize so here i am! i dont quite know how to use this... app so please bear with me!

anyways i cant wait to get to know all of you!

and you can ask me any questions! ʕ´• ᴥ•̥`ʔ

[littlebugsboy]

The stacking cats

[xenopoem]

Official Report on The Intransitionalist Chronotopologies of Kenji Siratori (TRS 109)

YOU CANNOT ESCAPE THE INEFFABLE FOREST

Official Report on The Intransitionalist Chronotopologies of Kenji Siratori: Appendix 8.2.3 is a xenopoetic data/dada anthology that documents the activities of the artist collective The Ministry of Transrational Research into Anastrophic Manifolds. The anthology results from an experimental approach to impersonal literary composition. Similar to surrealist definitions, but on the scale of a technical document, members of the Ministry—poets, musicians, novelists, painters, curators, artists, scientists, philosophers, and physicians—were asked to offer a microfiction, poem, essay, fictional citation, or computer code, in the form of a footnote or annotation to a glitch-generated novel by iconoclastic Japanese artist Kenji Siratori; however, each participant wrote their contribution without any access to or knowledge about the nature of Siratori’s source text. After collecting the contributions, the “footnotes” were each algorithmically linked to an arbitrary word from Siratori’s novel. The result is a work of xenopoetic emergence: a beautifully absurd, alien document scintillating with strange potency. Bringing together algorithmically and AI-generated electronic literature with analogue collage and traditional modes of literary composition, the Ministry refuses to commit solely to digital, automated, or analogue art and instead seeks technological mutualism and a radically alien future for the arts. Accompanied by a groundbreaking original score by electro-acoustic duo Wormwood, the anthology offers the radical defamiliarization and weird worlds of science fiction, but now the strangeness bites back on the level form. Readers should expect to discover strange portals from which new ways of thinking, feeling, and being emerge. A conceptual and experimental anthology, Official Report on The Intransitionalist Chronotopologies of Kenji Siratori inaugurates collective xenopoetic writing and the conceit that the future of art will consist of impersonal acts of material emergence, not personal expression. Consume with caution.

AUTHORS AND CONTRIBUTORS Rosaire Appel, Louis Armand, David Barrick, Gary Barwin, Steve Beard, Gregory Betts, Christian Bök, Mike Bonsall, Peter Bouscheljong, Maria Chenut, Shane Jesse Christmas, Roy Christopher, Tabasco “Ralph” Contra, Mike Corrao, R.J. Dent, Paul Di Filippo, Zak Ferguson, Colin Herrick, S.C. Hickman, Maxwell Hyatt, Justin Isis, Andrew Joron, Chris Kelso, Phillip Klingler, Adam Lovasz, Daniel Lukes , Ania Malinowska, Claudia Manley, Ryota Matsumoto, Michael Mc Aloran, Andrew McLuhan, Jeff Noon, Jim Osman, Suarjan Prasai, Tom Prime , David Leo Rice, Virgilio Rivas, David Roden, B.R. Yeager, Andrej Shakowski , Aaron Schneider, Gary J. Shipley, Kenji Siratori , Sean Smith, Kristine Snodgrass, Sean Sokolov, Alan Sondheim, Simon Spiegel, Henry Adam Svec, Jeff VanderMeer, R.G. Vasicek, Andrew C. Wenaus, William Wenaus, Eileen Wennekers, Christina Marie Willatt, Saywrane Alfonso Williams, D. Harlan Wilson, Andrew Wilt

early September release

[winningthesweepstakes]

The Really Rotten Princess and the Wonderful Wicked Class Play by Lady Cecily Snodgrass, illustrated by Mike Lester

The Really Rotten Princess and the Wonderful Wicked Class Play by Lady Cecily Snodgrass, illustrated by Mike Lester

The Really Rotten Princess and the Wonderful Wicked Class Play by Lady Cecily Snodgrass, illustrated by Mike Lester. Simon Spotlight, 2022.  9781534486171  Rating: 1-5 (5 is an excellent or a Starred review) 5 Format: Paperback Beginning Reader in graphic novel format Genre: Fantasy/Humor What did you like about the book? When the Really Rotten Princes (Regina) does not get the leading role in…

[jaysterg5]

Wild Cards IV: Aces Abroad

Editor - George R. R. Martin

Authors - George R. R. Martin, Stephen Leigh, John J. Miller, Leanne C. Harper, Gail Gerstner-Miller, Walton Simons, Edward Bryant, Lewis Shiner, Victor W. Milan, Melinda M. Snodgrass, Michael Cassutt, Kevin Andrew Murphy, and Carrie Vaughn

Cover - Michael Komarck

The World Health Organization sends a group of politicians, aces, jokers and reporters on a junket around the world to discuss the ramifications and treatments of the Wild Card Virus. Several characters from previous volumes figure into this collection as do some new ones. There is never a dull moment as this group faces new highs and lows along the way.

Honestly, I was a bit disappointed in this book. I truly enjoyed some of the stories, and found others a chore to get through. I know this can be the case with any collection of short fiction, but the previous volumes were all pretty uniform and higher quality. The latter half of the book kind of rescued the earlier portion. While Leanne Harper's previous contributions were high water marks, I found "Blood Rites" to be tough to get through. I was excited by the new characters and the environment, but it just never really developed for me and I got bogged down in the mire of characters I didn't care about. While the ending was important and had a lasting impact on the series, I felt that I was just happy to be moving on. Similarly, I had issues with Victor Milan's entry, "Puppets." It's another pivotal story, but I had issues with the writing and I found most of the new characters irritating or just unlikable.

Melinda Snodgrass put forth an excellent effort in her story by deepening Doctor Tachyon even more than her previous stories. It's amazing how she has taken this character through so much in so few pages. Walton Simons and Gail Gerstner-Miller did excellent work in developing some new characters and making their stories very engaging. I also really enjoyed the bridging pieces in this book - particularly the diary entries from "Mayor of Jokertown" Xavier Desmond. He's been present in all the previous volumes, but we were never really able to see him in full light until now. A truly excellent part of the book.

In the edition I read there were two new stories add in 2014 by Kevin Andrew Murphy and Carrie Vaughn. Both were solid entries in the book and fleshed out characters that would otherwise have only been brief mentions in this book. Troll is a gentle giant that is often judged by his monstrous appearance, and Lady Black is a government agent who's mere touch can kill. Intriguing characters that should have more done with them down the line.

There's a lot of set up in this book for the rest of the "cycle" of Wild Cards. Heroic and villainous characters, mysteries, and big action seem to be on the way for this universe. Even though this installment wasn't my favorite, I have high hopes for the rest of this cycle and look forward to reading more.

[derangedrhythms]

Hi! do you have any poems/quotes that are about being in love with someone who isn't real?

Sylvia Plath, Mad Girl's Love Song

"At times I hardly can believe in you. / Except this ache, / this longing in my gut, / this emptiness which theorizes you"

— Erica Jong, Half-Lives; from ‘The Evidence’

"Though dreams can be deceiving / Like faces are to hearts / They serve for sweet relieving / When fantasy and reality lie too far apart"

— Fiona Apple, 'Slow Like Honey'

"I don’t know why the hell I’m writing you. I must like to, or something. I think I pretend you are real."

— Anne Sexton, A Self-Portrait in Letters; to W. D. Snodgrass, c. 11th February 1959

"I’m building memories on things we have not said"

— Fiona Apple, 'The First Taste'

"You’ve fallen in love with someone that doesn’t exist."

— Sarah Kane, Complete Plays; from ‘Crave’

"The idea of you is a part of my mind..."

— Willa Cather, from 'My Ántonia'

"I love you and feel a powerful spiritual connection to you, / even / though we've never met."

"I love you, but one or both of us is/are fictional."

— Kim Addonizio, Lucifer at the Starlite: Poems; from 'Forms of Love'

" … I love you. I wish we were real."

— Anne Sexton, from ‘A Self-Portrait in Letters’

"I dread the loss of her I’ve never touched / love keeps me a slave in a cage of tears / I gnaw my tongue with which to her I can never speak / I miss a woman who was never born / I kiss a woman across the years that say we shall never meet"

— Sarah Kane, Complete Plays; from '4:48 Psychosis'

"Love needs reality. What is more terrible than the discovery that through a bodily appearance we have been loving an imaginary being. It is much more terrible than death, for death does not prevent the beloved from having lived. That is the punishment for having fed love on imagination."

— Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace; from 'Love', tr. Emma Crawford

[oxfordpaws]

Oxford Paws members

since i dont wanna venture into maincord and you cant flute to them, also since the wiki is down for maintenance

Lineup

Milli Kalette Umi Furnace Rodreguez Internet* Palomo Relish Lyra Hirsch Mia Malackey Ralph Yuniesky Ilhan Markow Oliver Nettle Dexter Snodgrass

Rotation

Eris Zoobrambana Viola Fightcastle Mambo Maybane Leach Ingram* Ephraim Skagerrak Simon Tankris

Shadows (incomplete because i cant flute to them or apple see it)

Dabney Reeves Caim Succotash Hans Atkinson Jocobus Harper** Tybal Dotcom Doc Scrollbar Buster McCoy Ennead Prettygood Buck Bimblebottom Pigeon Selach

*the two survivors of the breath mints **sent by the millennials

[sciencespies]

Cicadas Are Delightful Weirdos You Should Learn to Love

https://sciencespies.com/nature/cicadas-are-delightful-weirdos-you-should-learn-to-love/

Cicadas Are Delightful Weirdos You Should Learn to Love

Around this time of year, Marianne Alleyne hosts dozens of houseguests in her basement. Far from using camping equipment or cots, they sleep upside-down, clinging to a curtain. The entomologist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has collected cicadas, those bizarre and misunderstood cyclical insects, for four years.

“In Illinois, we have 20 species, and hardly anything is known about them,” Alleyne says. “We know very little about what they’re doing underground.”

Cicadas have a longstanding reputation as loud, swarming pests that keep obnoxiously particular schedules. In the United States, they got a bad rap from the beginning, as early colonists misidentified these clouds of emerging cicadas as locusts. “They were thought of as a biblical plague,” says John Cooley, an assistant professor in residence at the University of Connecticut. That impression has been a lasting one: a group of cicadas is still referred to as a plague or a cloud. “The question I get the most is ‘How do I kill them?’” Cooley says.

Chris Simon, an entomologist with more than 40 years of experience working with cicadas, says that feeling has changed—somewhat. “Some people freak out,” she says. “But the other half…they take their kids out, they go watch [periodical cicadas] come out of their shells. They think it’s amazing.” As another group of cicadas awakens in some U.S. states this spring, experts still have much to learn about them. What we do know, however, is that they are delightfully weird, and researchers across the sciences are studying these creatures to answer big human challenges.

Cicada moulting while attached to a curtain in Marianne Alleyne’s basement.

(Marianne Alleyne)

Prime weirdness

Cicadas spend the majority of their lives underground. They spend years developing into adults before they can emerge to sing, mate and lay eggs. For a majority of the nearly 3,400 cicada species, that emergence happens every two to five years and can vary from cycle to cycle. The strange periodical cicadas, on the other hand, are very different.

Periodical cicadas like Magicicicada spend 13 or 17 years underground, and millions of them surface together. To make sense of it all, biologists classify the periodicals into one of 15 existing “broods” based on their species, location, and—importantly—which years they emerge. This year, for example, Brood IX is emerging in North Carolina, West Virginia and Virginia for the first time since 2003.

Once cicadas do emerge, the sheer volume can be overwhelming. Some people wake up to find millions of cicadas blanketing nearby cars, trees, and houses. According to Cooley, when male cicadas sing in a full chorus on a hot sunny day, they immerse you in sound from every direction. “It’s the most unusual sensation,” he says. Many species sound pleasant, but the periodical cicadas “are like a jet engine or a buzz-saw.” Only a handful of weeks after emerging, the chorus fades away with the cicadas. They leave behind only calories for their predators, nutrients for the soil, and eggs destined to repeat their multi-year cycle.

But why do cicadas emerge in 13- and 17-year cycles, anyway? One hypothesis with much buzz among mathematicians is that it’s because both numbers are prime; the theory goes that the cycles prevent specialized predators from springing up. Cicadas are easy prey. They’re not hard to catch, Cooley says, and “anything that can catch ‘em will eat ‘em.” But predators, such as foxes or owls, whose populations cycle up and down every one to ten years can’t sync up with such irregular prey.

Cooley sees the merits of the hypothesis but is skeptical. Of the thousands of cicada species, only a handful are periodical. If pressure from predators was exceptional enough to make these species periodical, then why aren’t all cicadas periodical? He says we just don’t know.

“This work has been characterized by a hell of a lot of surprises,” Cooley says. “Every time you come up with a great idea for why [cicadas] are periodical, it’s pretty easy to just blow a hole in it. And they do have specialized predators—fungus.”

1930 illustration of a 17-year Magicicada cicada

(Robert Evans Snodgrass)

Zombie cicadas

In recent years, researchers have unearthed peculiar and sometimes horrifying relationships between cicadas and fungi. Massospora fungi infect cicadas and hijack their bodies. The fungi can even synchronize to the cicada’s life cycle, staying dormant until the cicada is ready to emerge. Once active, they take over the bottom half of the cicada’s body while somehow keeping the cicada alive. The infected cicada flies away, spreading spores that infect future generations.

“Once the host is neutralized, it’s a walking zombie,” says Cooley, who was involved in the work. “It is the walking dead.”

That’s not the only fungus to wreak havoc on cicadas. Ophiocordyceps fungi also invade the underground cicada. But rather than keep the cicada alive, this fungal parasite coaxes its host to crawl upwards towards the forest floor and die. With nothing in its way, the fungus grows to sprout a mushroom out of the soil—all from within the cicada’s body.

Despite these wild parasites, cicadas are far from doomed. Recent research suggests some cicadas have flipped the script and domesticated their fungal parasites. Rather than turning into a fungal flowerpot for the parasitic Ophiocordyceps, a few species live symbiotically with the parasite. The fungus gets a home and probably provides the cicada with essential nutrients in return. This has happened in species all over the world, but the origin of this arrangement is a mystery.

Simon says this fungal relationship is currently her lab’s major project. “Maybe it’s the fungus that decided to give up its parasitic ways and live inside a comfy cicada.”

Massaspora cicada

(Wiki Commons / TelosCricket under Creative Commons 4.0)

Endlessly adapting

While periodical cicada broods are enormous and remarkably synchronized, once in a while some “stragglers” do come out early. In 2017, for example, periodical cicadas clouded the East coast four years early. This May, Brood XIX crashed the party ahead of schedule, too, leaving scientists curious as to whether climate change has played a role. “We’ve predicted that the warmer it is, the more we’re going to see these four-year accelerations,” Simon says. If these 17-year stragglers keep emerging early, they may permanently synchronize to a 13-year cycle.

Or perhaps they will change in more unexpected ways. Because 17-year cicadas are so abundant, their fussiness makes them living, breathing gauges for the environment. “They’re sitting down there integrating 17 years’ worth of data on what the forest is doing,” Cooley says. “And if the forest is screwed up or broken, that’s going to show up.”

Cicadas develop differently in cities, too. In 2018, a group led by DeAnna Beasley at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga showed that urban cicadas grow larger. Urban areas use more fertilizer, and their concrete and population density turn them into “heat islands” that can be 5 degrees warmer than rural areas—stimulating conditions for these insects. (Cicadas develop faster with more warmth and nutrients.)

But it’s not yet possible to conclude how (or if) climate change threatens cicadas. Since historical data isn’t as reliable as current data—Cooley says that scientists are essentially still establishing the starting point. “So if we want to be able to consider these to be indicators of forest health, we’ve got to do the legwork to figure out what normal is.”

Learning from cicadas

Scientists have been looking to cicadas to solve human-sized problems. That’s because cicadas’ late-life wings are covered in a natural engineering marvel: minuscule uniform nanopillars that repel water, kill bacteria and self-clean. The germ-killing wings inspire chemists and engineers who want to harness these properties.

Some try to design these nanopillars as glare-free, self-cleaning surfaces for solar panels. Others, like Susan Kelleher, a chemist at University College Dublin, were captivated by the antibacterial surfaces. “Controlling cell behavior is not only so interesting but essential for biomedical science,” Kelleher says. “The next step is to translate what we learn from the natural world, into a scalable and manufacturable material.”

For years, engineers have focused only on the dimensions of the wing patterns. Recently, though, Marianne Alleyne’s team of biologists, chemists and engineers looked deeper. They published evidence that specific chemical compounds secreted by cicadas are essential to building and maintaining those ingenious nanopillars. The work shows that for those seeking to design technology with cicada-inspired antibacterial traits, it’s not enough to mimic what the cicadas look like—the secrets lay deeper. Revealing those secrets, Alleyne says, means working with biologists to actually learn how these mysterious cicadas build what they build.

“Sometimes the engineers can go like, ‘we can make this better, we can do it in a clean room’,” Alleyne says. “But insects can make this material out of nothing, right? Maybe we can be inspired to do it that way.”

When she goes out to collect cicadas, Alleyne makes a point to bring the engineering students along. All the collected nymphs wind up in Alleyne’s basement. Overnight, they inch their way up the curtain and spread their wings. “Now and then, one of them mysteriously disappears, and that’s when my family is not happy with me. ” Alleyne says. “But it’s all for science.”

#Nature

[big-gentle-troll]

Hey, it's Eli. Do you know what Omegaverse is? I'm still really confused

[littlebugsboy]

This is your sign to draw your silly hpma ocs into animal crossing villagers

Sunny - @endermen-like-cookies

[itunesbooks]

Wild Cards IX: Jokertown Shuffle - George R.R. Martin & Wild Cards Trust

Wild Cards IX: Jokertown Shuffle (Book Two of the Rox Triad) George R.R. Martin & Wild Cards Trust Genre: Adventure Price: $9.99 Expected Publish Date: April 30, 2019 Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates Seller: Macmillan Soon to be a show on Hulu! Rights to develop Wild Cards for TV have been acquired by Universal Cable Productions, the team that brought you The Magicians and Mr. Robot , with the co-editor of Wild Cards , Melinda Snodgrass as executive producer. George R. R. Martin's Wild Cards classic adventure, in trade paperback for the first time: a dangerous superpowered gang rises to power and threatens the citizens of New York City Bloat, the boy-governor of the Rox, wanted to make Ellis Island a safe haven for Jokers, and made a choice to recruit the Jumpers, superpowered teen outcasts who could steal a man's body in the blink of an eye. But under the leadership of Dr. Tachyon's psychotic grandson, the Jumpers grow more vicious and uncontrollable every day, becoming the greatest threat the Wild Cards have ever faced.... Edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author George R. R. Martin, Jokertown Shuffle features the writing talents of Walton Simons, Chris Claremont, Lewis Shiner, William F. Wu, Victor Milan, Stephen Leigh, Melinda M. Snodgrass, and John Jos. Miller, along with previously unpublished stories from Carrie Vaughn and Cherie Priest. The Wild Cards Universe The Original Triad #1 Wild Cards #2 Aces High #3 Jokers Wild The Puppetman Quartet #4: Aces Abroad #5: Down and Dirty #6: Ace in the Hole #7: Dead Man’s Hand The Rox Triad #8: One-Eyed Jacks #9: Jokertown Shuffle #10: Dealer’s Choice #11: Double Solitaire #12: Turn of the Cards The Card Sharks Triad #13: Card Sharks #14: Marked Cards #15: Black Trump #16: Deuces Down #17: Death Draws Five The Committee Triad #18: Inside Straight #19: Busted Flush #20: Suicide Kings The Fort Freak Triad #21: Fort Freak #22: Lowball #23: High Stakes The American Triad #24: Mississippi Roll #25: Low Chicago #26: Texas Hold 'Em At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. http://dlvr.it/R3mFHq

[xenopoem]

A masterpiece RPG "I am Game" featuring 50 anonymous characters brawling on an analog glitch book by Colin Harrick and Wormwood soundtrack led by Andrew Wenaus. And look at these gorgeous voice actors!!!!

Rosaire Appel, Louis Armand, David Barrick, Gary Barwin, Steve Beard, Gregory Betts, Christian Bök, Mike Bonsall, Peter Bouscheljong, Maria Chenut, Shane Jesse Christmas, Roy Christopher, Tabasco "Ralph" Contra, Mike Corrao, R.J. Dent, Paul Di Filippo, Zak Ferguson, Colin Herrick, S.C. Hickman, Maxwell Hyatt, Justin Isis, Andrew Joron, Chris Kelso, Phillip Klingler, Adam Lovasz, Daniel Lukes, Ania Malinowska, Claudia Manley, Ryota Matsumoto, Michael Mc Aloran, Andrew McLuhan, Jeff Noon, Jim Osman, Suarjan Prasai, Tom Prime, David Leo Rice, Virgilio Rivas, David Roden, B.R. Yeager, Andrej Shakowski, Aaron Schneider, Gary J. Shipley, Kenji Siratori, Sean Smith, Kristine Snodgrass, Sean Sokolov, Alan Sondheim, Simon Spiegel, Henry Adam Svec, Jeff VanderMeer, R.G. Vasicek, Andrew C. Wenaus, William Wenaus, Eileen Wennekers, Christina Marie Willatt, Saywrane Alfonso Williams, D. Harlan Wilson, Andrew Wilt

This RPG is a big favorite game of 2023!!!

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BOOK REVIEW: LEAGUE ONE LEEDS A Journey Through The Abyss by Rocco Dean (2022)

Leeds United seem to be re-establishing themselves in the top-flight of English football, albeit somewhat tentatively at the moment having only just survived relegation last season (finishing 17th out of 20). Hence being under new management; Bielsa (Argentina) out, Marsch (USA) in.

LEAGUE ONE LEEDS looks back at the worst of times, rather than the best of times - in one sense. Three seasons spent in the third tier (then named, League One) spryly written by “Peacocks” fan, Rocco Dean. 

Despite “The Whites” being in the lower reaches - operating under the burden of various administrative and financial pressures - they still achieved three decent finishes during the three seasons in question. 

2007/08 5th

2008/09 4th

2009/10 2nd (and automatic promotion to the Championship)

Promotion, a testament to the determination of their ex-manager, Simon Grayson (who writes the hardback’s Foreword), combined with the exciting tenacity of their playing squad, which included prolific goal scorer, Jermaine Beckford.

A trio of soccer seasons under Chairman Ken Bates taking on the likes of Carlisle United (2007/08), Southend United (2008/09) and MK Dons (2009/10) although there were some interesting Cup clashes along the way with Crystal Palace, Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur.

There’s also a Roll Call of United players, such as Leigh Bromby, Gary McSheffrey, Robert Snodgrass, Sam Sodje and Sam Vokes and the words and pictures describe in detail how Leeds United indeed have not only journeyed through, but finally escaped, The  Abyss, a handful of games into a new Premier season, 2022/23.

Out on Monday (29 August, 2022) on Pitch Publishing.

Rating: 9.5/10

https://www.pitchpublishing.co.uk/shop/league-one-leeds

Mark Watkins, Dare radio, 28 August, 2022

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𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙗𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙨 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝘼𝙣𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙂𝙧𝙚𝙚𝙘𝙚 𝙝𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮❓

𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗘𝗥𝗔𝗟

The Oxford Classical Dictionary Simon Hornblower (first published 1949)

For more than half a century, the Oxford Classical Dictionary has been the unrivaled one-volume reference work on the Greco-Roman world. Whether one is interested in literature or art, philosophy or law, mythology or science, intimate details of daily life or broad cultural and historical trends, the OCD is the first place to turn for clear, authoritative information on all aspects of ancient culture.

Greek History: The Basics Robin Osborne (2004).

A very short, compressed primer on Greek history from the Dark Age up to the Roman conquest, written by one of the top experts.

Ancient Greece: A History in Eleven Cities Cartledge, Paul Anthony ( 2009)

Designed for a non-expert audience, but again by a top expert, this book uses a series of microhistories to tell a story of Greece’s history from the Dark Age to the Byzantine Empire.

𝗟𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗕𝗿𝗼𝗻𝘇𝗲 𝗔𝗴𝗲 (𝗰𝗮. 𝟭𝟲𝟬𝟬 𝘁𝗼 𝟭𝟮𝟬𝟬 𝗕𝗖𝗘)

The Aegean Bronze Age Dickinson, Oliver ( 1994)

A comprehensive synthesis of a wide range of data, useful for beginners and researchers alike.

The End of the Bronze Age: Changes in Warfare and the Catastrophe Ca. 1200 B.C. — Third Edition Drews, Robert ( 1993)

This is the only halfway decent book on the Bronze Age collapse that affected Greece, Anatolia, and Syria. Drews’ rebuttal of some widely-accepted theories on the collapse is the most useful part. His own argument, that the collapse was caused by changes in military practice, is much less useful (though his theory is at least no worse than its competitors).

𝗗𝗮𝗿𝗸 𝗔𝗴𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗶𝗰 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗼𝗱 (𝟭𝟮𝟬𝟬 𝘁𝗼 𝟰𝟳𝟵 𝗕𝗖𝗘)

Archaic Period (c. 800- 479 BCE), Greek Dark Ages c. 1100 — c. 800 BC

Archaic Greece: The Age of Experiment by Snodgrass, Anthony ( 1980)

A classic book: though it has been superceded in some ways, this can probably be regarded as embodying the conservative orthodoxy on the period.

The Trojans and their Neighbours Trevor Bryce (2006)

Though focused on Troy, this is currently the best book that deals with the relationship between Bronze Age Greeks and the peoples of Anatolia.

Greece in the Making 1200–479 BC Osborne, Robin ( 1996)

One of the definitive surveys of Dark Age and Archaic Greece.

A Companion to Archaic Greece Kurt Raaflaub and Hans van Wees (2009).

A thorough guide with over thirty chapters written by world experts.

(TEXTBOOK) A History of the Archaic Greek World: ca. 1200–479 BCE by Hall, Jonathan ( 2006)

Another of the definitive histories of Dark Age and Archaic Greece, by one of the greatest living historians of the period.

“Scholars as well as students of historical practice and specialists in Greek history will find this book indispensable … Highly recommended.” (Choice)

“Very attractive physical appearance … an extensive bibliography and index. Hall’s style is clear and crisp … .The book is to be recommended.” (Canadian Journal of History)

𝗖𝗟𝗔𝗦𝗦𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗟 𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗜𝗢𝗗 (𝟰𝟳𝟵 𝗧𝗢 𝟯𝟮𝟯 𝗕𝗖𝗘)

(upper-level undergraduates textbook) A History of the Classical Greek World: 478–323 BC P.J. Rhodes (2006).

Partner to Jonathan Hall’s textbook on Archaic Greece, listed above. Both provide accessible and up-to-date overviews of the period they cover.

“A leading authority on Athens, Rhodes has written a superbnarrative of Classical Greece for upper-level undergraduates:lucid, concise, and balanced. Welcome additions to the secondedition are chapters on life and culture, and brief selections fromcontemporary sources.”

(undergraduates textbook) The Greek World 479–323 BC Hornblower, Simon ( 1983)

A frequently used overview, written by a top scholar. Hornblower also pays a nice amount of attention to cities other than Athens and Sparta.

`To write a standard history which contains the essential material and yet is interesting and says things which have not been said before is one of the hardest tasks. Hornblower has performed it excellently.’ — Times Literary Supplement

`Packed with worthwhile ideas and impressive erudition. It will stimulate thought’. — David Whitehead, Classical Review

`An undergraduate text book which neither the professional ancient historian can afford to ignore nor the interested non specialist fail to read with profit and pleasure’ — History Today

𝗛𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗼𝗱 (𝟯𝟮𝟯 𝘁𝗼 𝟯𝟭 𝗕𝗖𝗘)

(TEXTBOOK) The Greek World After Alexander 323–30 BC by Shipley, Graham ( 1999)

An introduction to the Hellenistic Period. For more in-depth detail, the researcher will still need to go to Peter Green’s enormous Alexander to Actium (1990).

“the seventh volume to appear in Routledge ‘History of the Ancient World’ series is clearly and sensibly written, has an excellent and original selection of tables, maps, diagrams, and photographs, and provides and thorough, reliable, and up-to-date introduction to key topics. — Zofia H. Archibald, University of Liverpool.”

(TEXBOOK) Thundering Zeus: The Making of Hellenistic Bactria by Holt, Frank L. ( 1999)

A good introduction to Greek culture outside of its traditional homelands, and more specifically Greek cultures of the Hellenistic era. Well researched, and highly current.

A Companion to the Hellenistic World by Erskine, Andrew ( 2003)

A thorough guide with nearly thirty chapters written by world experts.

Alexander the Great in His World by Thomas, Carol G. ( 2006)

A fairly academic but very good biography of Alexander.

“An engaging and persuasive book, which offers a newperspective … .It will maintain the interest of specialists… yet remain accessible to the general reader.”Canadian Journal of History

𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗰𝗲 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗥𝗼𝗺𝗲 (𝟭𝟰𝟲 𝗕𝗖𝗘 𝘁𝗼 𝟯𝟵𝟱 𝗖𝗘)

Troy Between Greece and Rome: Local Tradition and Imperial Power by Erskine, Andrew ( 2001)

In this book Andrew Erskine examines the role and meaning of Troy in the changing relationship between Greeks and Romans, as Rome is transformed from a minor Italian city into a Mediterranean superpower. The book seeks to understand the significance of Rome’s Trojan origins for the Greeks by considering the place of Troy and Trojans in Greek culture. It moves beyond the more familiar spheres of art and literature to explore the countless, overlapping, local traditions, the stories that cities told about themselves, a world often neglected by scholars.

“A detailed and spirited sifting of evidence.” — Times Higher Education Supplement

Greek Literature and the Roman Empire: The Politics of Imitation by Whitmarsh, Tim ( 2002)

Greek Literature and the Roman Empire uses up-to-date literary and cultural theory to explore the phenomenal rise of interest in literary writing in Greece under the Roman Empire. Greek identity cannot be properly understood without appreciating the brilliant sophistication of the writers of the period, whose texts must be considered in the historical and cultural context of the battles for identity that raged under the vast, multicultural Roman Empire.

“An important contribution to the study of the so-called ‘Second Sophistic’ period…. Whitmarsh offers illuminating and provocative readings of texts both familiar and less known.” — Choice

Local Knowledge and Microidentities in the Imperial Greek World by Whitmarsh, Tim ( 2010)

“The nine chapters, whose authors represent an all-star cast of thinkers about this period, are all innovative and well-written.” Bryn Mawr Classical Review

𝘼𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙣𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝘼𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙣𝙞𝙖𝙣 𝘿𝙚𝙢𝙤𝙘𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙮​

(textbook) Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens: Rhetoric, Ideology, and the Power of the People Ober, Josiah ( 1989)

Examines the political dynamics between different classes in democratic Athens, with an emphasis on the role of persuasive speaking in the assembly and the court system.

The Athenian Democracy in the Age of Demosthenes: Structure, Principles, and Ideology by Hansen, Mogens Herman ( 1991)

A comprehensive account of the workings of Athenian democracy and of Athenian political ideology.

𝗦𝗣𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗔 𝟵𝟬𝟬𝘀–𝟭𝟵𝟮 𝗕𝗖

(textbook) Sparta and Lakonia: A Regional History 1300–362 BC by Paul Cartledge (1979).

While dated in many ways, this remains one of the pillars of scholarship on Sparta, and one of the works responsible for reviving the subject in the modern academy

(textbook) Spartans: A New History Nigel M. Kennell (2010)

An accessible new introduction to Sparta, taking into account the latest scholarship transforming our view on the subject.

Sparta by Whitby, Michael ( 2001)

An up-to-date collection of studies on aspects of Spartan history and society, most of them by the world’s top historians of Sparta.

(textbook) A Companion to Sparta Anton Powell (2017)

A collection of summaries of the very latest research on Sparta, written by the foremost scholars in the field.

𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗸 𝗪𝗮𝗿𝗳𝗮𝗿𝗲

The Ancient Greeks at War Louis Rawlings (2007

Perhaps the finest recent introduction to the topic; up-to-date and comprehensive.

“This is a fine book, which strikes a judicious balance between accessibility and scholarship, covering a much wider range of topics than most books on warfare, and offers an intelligent and original interpretation of its subject.” — Hans van Wees, University College London

Classical Greek Tactics: A Cultural History Roel Konijnendijk (2017)

A comprehensive reassessment of how and why Greeks fought pitched battles.

The Peloponnesian War by Kagan, Donald ( 2003)

Written by one of the top experts on the war, this intelligent account is a condensed version of his four-volume history first published in the 1960s.

𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗰𝗲

The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece Josiah Ober (2015)

An attempt to explain the spectacular wealth and impressive achievements of Classical Greece through models from economic theory and game theory

The Ecology Of The Ancient Greek World by Sallares, Robert ( 1991)

A tremendously important (though not always well-written) study of the relationship between the environment, the realities of agrarian economy, and human society.

The Invention of Coinage and the Monetization of Ancient Greece by Schaps, David ( 2003)

A useful and sane study of the development of currency and its role in Greek society.

A Companion to Ancient Greek Government Hans Beck (2013)

A collection of chapters on all aspects of Ancient Greek government — its different forms, institutions, practices, and values.

Courtesans and Fishcakes: The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens James Davidson (1997)

An exploration of the theme of desire and the Greek obsession with controlling it; a survey of all the things and people the Greeks desired.

Source:

Late Bronze Age collapse — Wikipedia

Map of Archaic Ancient Greece (750–490 BC)

AskHistorians’s ‘ancient-world’ books on Goodreads (53 books)

books/europe — AskHistorians

Footnotes

[1] Archaic Greece — Wikipedia

[2] Greek Dark Ages — Wikipedia

[3] Classical Greece — Wikipedia

[4] Hellenistic period — Wikipedia

[5] Greece in the Roman era — Wikipedia

[6] Sparta — Wikipedia

[7] Ancient Greek warfare — Wikipedia

[8] Ancient Greece — Wikipedia

[9] Ancient Rome — Wikipedia

Image source: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/%22The_School_of_Athens%22_by_Raffaello_Sanzio_da_Urbino.jpg

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Wild Cards III: Joker’s Wild

Editor - George R. R. Martin

Authors - George R. R, Martin, Melinda M. Snodgrass, Leanne C. Harper, Walton Simons, Lewis Shiner, John J. Miller, and Edward Bryant

Cover - Michael Komarck

It's the fortieth anniversary of Jet Boy's failed mission to stop the spread of the Wild Card virus. Now, it's a mix of celebration, memorial and outright bacchanalia in the streets of New York. The Astronomer plots his revenge against the Aces that stopped him previously, and a mobster sends his crew on a frantic search for some incriminating evidence stolen from him in the night. Everything will come to a head in one of the most memorable Wild Card Days in decades! in this installment of the series, we are treated to a novel instead of short stories or similar vignettes. Now in this case it's a novel assembled from stories written about several characters by several authors and it doesn't always fit together smoothly, but it does make for an interesting read. Many of the spotlight characters from previous books are relegated to cameos or small roles, allowing for other characters (a few new) to take the spotlight. Dr. Tachyon and Fortunato maintain large roles and provide some of the main fuel for the story, getting some nice development in the process. While the main storylines are fun and enjoyable for those who enjoy genres like superheroes, pulp crime, and thrillers, the most interesting parts of the book are in the development of the characters. Smaller characters like Sewer Jack, Bagabond, and Hiram Worchester (proprietor of the famous Aces High restaurant) are expanded on and given time to shine. I feel that's the true fun of a shared universe anthology series - exploring all of these fun ideas through the different characters. But don't feel too attached to anyone you've met previously, because some of them meet their ends in this volume. Seems very typical for a George R. R. Martin project! As with previous books, there is a lot of social commentary, adult content, and even some political opinion. This certainly won't be every readers cup of tea, especially some of the more violent sexual content and the ideas exploring homosexuality. An open-minded reader can appreciate what's being said and extrapolate to other themes and opinions, but on the surface it may be a bit off-putting for some. I enjoyed the book, and will continue to explore this series, but I do think taking a break between volumes is a good idea. I would have enjoyed this less had I read it back-to-back with it's predecessor as it would almost have seemed "too much of the same meal too soon." A little space was a good thing to allow for a certain freshness to return to the characters and scenarios. Overall, it wasn't perfect by any means, but it was a fun ride that hit a lot of good buttons for me.