The Greek Epic Cycle and it's Ancient Reception

This was a joy.  Thanks to books like this I'm digging deeper into Greek mythology than I ever would have anticipated.

My main takeaway is the vastness of the corpus of Greek epic.  

We know it centered on Homer and his Iliad and Odyssey.  But as this study underscores, although those two works were the shining stars, they were a tiny portion of the sum total.

And I just can't say enough about these Cambridge companion books as I read more and more of them.  They dig so much deeper than anything else I've read; they challenge me, occasionally leaping far over my head, but mostly pull me further into these fascinating topics.

And now for something completely different, we are starting to talk about visiting China in the fall of 2027, which has deep implications for my reading over the next 18 months.  Very exciting.  More to come!