i think a lot about that guy in the early 1900s who went to bosnia to the last illiterate communities in europe and found out they were still reciting homer epic-length poems to each other from memory.
but when they became literate they lost the ability to remember the poems
The second volume of our two volume edition of Plutarch's Lives. Follow the lives of the mythical and inimitable Grecians, from the foundation myths of Athens and Sparta, to the last days of the Diadochi (and the rise of a new Empire).
This beautiful A4 sized volume is bound in deep shades of blue-green teal leather from our tannery in West Lothian, covered in navy and copper veined Jemma Lewis hand-marbled papers. The book is illustrated by artist @Rux_Dacoromana, with the great heroes of antiquity brought to life with a mystical chromatic blue watercolour
This edition uses the Dryden translation.
This item is a pre-order. Expected delivery date is end of March 2026.
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What is life?
• Dostoevsky: It’s hell.
• Socrates: It’s a test.
• Aristotle: It’s the mind.
• Nietzsche: It’s power.
• Freud: It’s death.
• Marx: It’s the idea.
• Picasso: It’s art.
• Gandhi: It’s love.
• Schopenhauer: It’s suffering.
• Bertrand Russell: It’s competition.
• Steve Jobs: It’s faith.
• Einstein: It’s knowledge.
• Stephen Hawking: It’s hope.
• Kafka: It’s just the beginning.
Each one must therefore give life a meaning according to how you one perceive.
Dostoevsky, the only psychologist from whom I’ve anything to learn.
― Friedrich Nietzsche
Dostoevsky gives me more than any scientist, more than Gauss.
― Albert Einstein
The real nineteenth century prophet was Dostoevsky, not Karl Marx.
― Albert Camus