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		<title>A Roman Ghost Story</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:49:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is a 2000 year old tale told by Pliny, a consul in ancient Rome. I copied it from The Letters of Pliny the Consul, translated by William Melmoth, Esq. (printed in 1810).
There was at Athens a large and commodious house, which lay under the disrepute of being haunted. In the dead of night [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Origin of the World</title>
		<link>http://tententwo.com/2008/03/10/the-origin-of-the-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:42:35 +0000</pubDate>
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A double feature today. Two versions of the nature of the universe, and how everything works. Lucretius&#8217; &#8220;On the Nature of the Universe&#8221; was written around 50-100BC by a Roman Epicurean. Lucretius was an atomist, which means that he believed that all matter was composed of a bunch of unseen atoms that, while they have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marius the Epicurian</title>
		<link>http://tententwo.com/2008/01/31/marius-the-epicurian/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:56:55 +0000</pubDate>
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The introduction to this book states that it is the best novel ever written in the English language. With an endorsement like that I had to buy it. It was written in Victorian times and so the language is quite complex. Initially I thought that it would be unreadable for me, but with some persistence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Last Days of Socrates</title>
		<link>http://tententwo.com/2007/12/03/the-last-days-of-socrates/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2007 20:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mooche</dc:creator>
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I seem to be in a rut with the Plato books, but here is another. The Last Days of Socrates has several dialogs starting with Socrates defending himself against a charge of corrupting the youth of Athens and for being an atheist. He describes how the Oracle of Delphi proclaimed him to be the wisest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cicero</title>
		<link>http://tententwo.com/2007/11/26/cicero/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2007 19:51:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mooche</dc:creator>
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Another book from my favorite bookstore, McLeod&#8217;s Books, on Pender St., a couple/few blocks east of Granville. I can&#8217;t even remember the cross street, but this is a great book store. I buy these little penguin classics for ~$3. What a bargain! Its hard to imagine such a bargain as $3 for some of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protagoras and Meno</title>
		<link>http://tententwo.com/2007/11/14/protagoras-and-meno/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mooche</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This book is fascinating. I always feel like such a dullard reading this stuff. I have trouble following the arguments and noticing logic issues that the writer of the introduction never fails to point out. What&#8217;s more these Greeks seem like pretty sharp cookies, at least compared to me. Plato seems to have spent a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Satyricon</title>
		<link>http://tententwo.com/2007/10/09/the-satyricon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2007 21:32:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mooche</dc:creator>
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The Burnaby Translation

Went to my favorite used book store and found a copy of the Satyricon, translated to english by William Burnaby in 1694. The book was written, during the Imperial Roman era by Titus Petronius. Nothing is known of Petronius except for a few fragments believed to be of the same man:
From Tacitus, Annals. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Republic</title>
		<link>http://tententwo.com/2007/10/02/republic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 23:34:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Republic offers a reasoned argument for why a person should live a just, rather than an unjust, life. It does so without recourse to religion or natural law or appeals to self evidence. In the process of the proof, the nature of a just society is also described and how the various unjust forms [...]]]></description>
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