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Erik Rostad (Books of Titans)

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Seeking the ancient paths and reading The Immortal Books by 200 authors chronologically over the next +/- 40 years.

Franklin, TN Katılım Ocak 2017
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Erik Rostad (Books of Titans)@booksoftitans·
Books on tap for 2026: Jan/Feb: The Bible Mar-Jun: Plato & Early Greek Philosophy July: Books about Gilgamesh Aug-Nov: Aristotle Dec: Books about trees 🌳 You’ll also see some books on the right that I’ll be reading for the monthly Short Great Books reading group I lead in person in Franklin, TN.
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@_1paco_ I've only read a few chapters so far, but it's been very helpful, especially in tying together Plato's responses to the early Greek Philosophers and Sophists.
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Paco@_1paco_·
@booksoftitans Do you recommend "From Plato to Christ"? That sounds like an interesting book to mix with my read of Dominion
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Erik Rostad (Books of Titans)@booksoftitans·
I’m doing a bit of a dive into Plato’s myth of the Birth of Love (Eros) and read selections from each of these books this morning. This is in preparation for Friday’s podcast episode. Louis Markos takes a look at this myth, tying it to Christianity while Plotinus considers the difference between Aphrodite and Eros in his Third Ennead on Love.
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Jay Trott
Jay Trott@trottskyathome·
@booksoftitans I tried to share this myth once at a dinner party. Didn't go well. Wouldn't recommend it.
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Erik Rostad (Books of Titans)@booksoftitans·
@Hillsideviews It's not fully on Eros, he covers a variety of the myths. I'm just consulting the chapters on Eros for the time being but plan to read these both in their entirety.
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Joshua D Phillips@JoshPhillipsPhD·
There are about 100 canonical books everyone should read. These are the foundational texts that hold our culture together. Once you’ve covered these books, go in whatever direction you want Ex: Homer, Greek plays, Bible, handful of Shakespeare, Dante, Dickens, Austen, Tolstoy
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Erik Rostad (Books of Titans)@booksoftitans·
@JoshPhillipsPhD @michaeljhout I'm currently in the midst of revamping the list. I think I may switch from a list of Great Books to a list of authors, with the goal of reading most if not all works by those 200 authors. The hard part will be limiting to just 200 authors.
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Erik Rostad (Books of Titans)@booksoftitans·
You ascend a set of stairs, turn the corner, and see this as the entrance to the Duke Humfrey’s Library at Oxford University. It’s a portal to Plato’s heavenly Form of the perfect library.
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Erik Rostad (Books of Titans)@booksoftitans·
We had @DAMendelsohnNYC in for an event last year at Landmark Booksellers. He shared insights like this about different phrases from the Odyssey. It was absolutely delightful and was one of my favorite events we've ever had at the store.
Daniel Mendelsohn@DAMendelsohnNYC

Another Homeric epithet that’s fun to think about is the one that Anglophones know as “the wine-dark sea”—which, like “wingèd words,” has by now entered the English language so forcefully that it’s hard to see what image H was actually thinking of. The Greek adjective “oinôps”…

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Andrew Snyder@Andrewnsnyder·
It’s very important that I add this edition to my collection one day.
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YSL_PSAPPHA@sapho_1900·
@booksoftitans In the book , are the myths written/told by Plato or by someone else ?
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Erik Rostad (Books of Titans)@booksoftitans·
I’m doing some additional reading on 10 myths that Plato creates in his dialogues. Catalin Partenie, in the introduction, describes the Greek view of myths as pertaining to “unveiled reality,” and so that they were true stories. Plato didn’t necessarily hold that view, yet utilized created myths like The Cave and The Origin of Love in his dialogues. Very interesting so far!
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Christian Weisstanner
Christian Weisstanner@c_whity·
@booksoftitans I started to write with a Muji pen 12 months ago and wouldn't go back. I use a 0.5 mm, but I will give 0.38 a try.
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Erik Rostad (Books of Titans)@booksoftitans·
Simply chronicling the expiration of one Muji pen and the initiation of a new Muji pen. I use 0.38mm pens for note taking in books, so the depletion of one signifies abundant enjoyment of reading material. On this day the 24th of May in the year of our Lord 2026.
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Plato's Trojan Horse
Plato's Trojan Horse@PlatosTrojanH·
The Greeks generally treated myth as unveiled reality — true accounts of how the world works. Plato did not. By his time the pre-Socratics had attacked the mythopoeic view. So when Plato uses myth in the dialogues, he is doing something new with an old form. The question is what.
Erik Rostad (Books of Titans)@booksoftitans

I’m doing some additional reading on 10 myths that Plato creates in his dialogues. Catalin Partenie, in the introduction, describes the Greek view of myths as pertaining to “unveiled reality,” and so that they were true stories. Plato didn’t necessarily hold that view, yet utilized created myths like The Cave and The Origin of Love in his dialogues. Very interesting so far!

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Erik Rostad (Books of Titans)@booksoftitans·
@JamesCostopoul1 She covers these discrepancies in the intro. It’s kind of neat to see them all separated from their dialogue homes. However, I am reading the dialogues first before I read the particular myth in this book.
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James Costopoulos
James Costopoulos@JamesCostopoul1·
@booksoftitans I just don't think you can separate the myths from their context and function in the dialogues and still grasp its meaning. Also, what exactly is a myth? The Myth of Er, for sure, but the allegory of the Cave?
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