imaginarycircus

He is so gossipy: The Persians totally blame the Phoenicians because they carried off Io and the Greeks carried off Europa and also Medea and then the Persians were mad at the Greeks and OMG The Greeks say... I haven't read him in almost 16 years. Time to reread. I've been having a total desire to reread my freshman year of college, which means Plato, Herodotus, Aristotle, Thucydides, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Homer. I don't think I could actually get through all of it without classes and discussions to spur me on. But I can reread Herodotus. I find him utterly charming.

Also the maps of the ancient world always confuse me. The Red Sea then was the Indian Ocean so I keep looking in the wrong places for cities and whole countries were much smaller or larger than they are now. I seem to be stuck in wacky research mode. Its actually more focused than I'm making it sound. Or so I lie to myself that it is.

I read through hundreds of abstracts today looking for pertinent articles in archeology and classics journals. Its curious how little anyone knows about Medusa or where she came from. Then there are all her wacky connections to Athena and the theory that they were once the same Goddess. It makes my head all spiny.

But I'm struck by how many women were carried off in both Greek history and Greek myth. I find it rather shocking that NOT carrying off women is such a contemporary western construct.

I think I woke up at six am after an hour of sleep and threw up, but the memory is hazy. Then I woke up again at 9:30 feeling sick. I went back to sleep after having a glass of water and getting a cough drop for my sore throat.

Then I woke up at 5pm. My back is not working. I think someone replaced all my muscles with buckets of sharp pointy things while I was sleeping.

So I've lost a day. D: I think it is probably time to call the neurologist and have him send me to a surgeon, but iirc I will need braces for 6-10 months before I can have the surgery. Which means another year of this crap.

Hi, I'm ray of sunshine. I will burn out your retinas.