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Specifically, fantasy stories set in the historical period of Greece and Rome, or rather with those influences. Way too often we get the standard Medieval European Fantasy(tm), and the few ventures into Greco-Roman styles are marked by the usual trappings of sword and sandal "epics" and others: rehashes of the famous monsters and heroes, no unique or original plots, just a direct transplant of the mythology behind a different pen or camera lens.

Now, I'll say it outright that ...

Finally, the library got the copy of Blacks in Antiquity (by the late Frank Snowden) that I ordered two months ago! I'm going to read it voraciously, at least three times over. I have to consume all the information within its covers in the short two weeks I'll have it.

So I've started up and got a job, and it's looking pretty fine for me for the next while. However, this week's been incredibly long and hectic, what with the hoops I have to jump through when it comes to work and getting everything going for that. It's really tiring, overall, and it doesn't help that it's 1AM right now and I should be sleeping.

But, I think the worst part of it is Leo (LeopardBear, of course) being busy due to his school stuff. I mean, I'm really proud of him for just ...

I needed to kill time today around noon, since I didn't want to leave my bike hanging around high school kids on their lunch break, and so I decided to go to The Book Man, the awesome local used books store.

I was initially thinking of just meandering around in there for an hour or so, but then I checked the Languages and History sections - coming upon some things that intrigued me greatly.

The Latin books were apparently stocked up to maximum, with way more than I even ...

After doing quite a lot of reading, I've come to the conclusion that the assassination of Julius Caesar may have, in fact, been a strategic suicide on Caesar's part, a reversal of the plot of Cassius Longinus and Junius Brutus. I believe that Caesar intended this suicide after some contemplation as a pragmatic method of creating an empire or ensuring lasting political power in Rome.

I'll write up a full pseudo-essay later on, possibly tomorrow.