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Good man, Fitzgerald or Lattimore, Pope for neo-classical couplet wankery (good thing), collected myths are bullshit, might as well wiki them. Hesiod, Homeric odes and Ovid provide the basis. Greeks are the only culture who can sublate uninhibited comfies and noble regality. Anyone saying start with the Egyptians or resume with the Romans has completely missed why every scholar in England learned Greek two thousand years after it's fall

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