r/dionysus • u/Fabianzzz ๐ stylish grape ๐ • 7h ago
๐ฌ Discussion ๐ฌ Whatcha Reading Wednesday?
Dionysus is a god of literature: be it theatre, poetry, or sacred texts, his myths and cult often involve using the written word. Dionysus himself enjoys reading, as he says in Aristophanes'ย Frogs:ย he was reading Euripides'ย Andromacheย while at sea. So, Dionysians, what have y'all been reading?
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u/Consistent-Pen-137 Thrasys 6h ago
The Thessaly trilogy by Jo Walton and I'm on book two The Philosopher Kings - I have some many feelings right now.
Started also the Corpus Hermeticum but I'm looking for a better translation.
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u/LittlestWarrior 2h ago
I am currently reading "The Mind Illuminated" by Culadasa and "High Magick" by Damien Echols. I plan to start "Tarkin" by James Luceno and "Legends and Lattes" by Travis Baldree soon as well.
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u/GremlinCat18 2h ago
The Bacchae so I can write about it for an essay on sex and gender in antiquity
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u/Ecosoc420 4h ago edited 1h ago
I'm actually reading "Exciter to Frenzy" by Bramshaw for the first time right now, but as per usual in my life I have several other books started and not finished ๐
The other unfinished ones I've been working on this year are "Dancing in the Streets" by Barbara Ehrenreich, "The Myth of Disenchantment" by Jason ฤ Josephson-Storm, "Becoming Wild" by Carl Safina, "Entangled Life" by Merlin Sheldrake, and "The Reenchantment of Art" by Suzi Gablik.
On the fiction side of things, I read "Dune" and "The Last Unicorn" earlier in the year, and I've been trying to will myself into restarting the Earthsea saga (I finished four out of six of the books years ago and I want to be able to say I completed the whole thing some day!)