Raynor Reads Stuff | Midway through Historathon 2024 Q1 @RaynorReadsStuff | Uploaded February 2024 | Updated October 2024, 5 hours ago.
We are midway through the first quarter of #historathon2024 so here is a half-time wrap-up of what I have been reading and what I will be reading next.
#historathon2024 is the brainchild of Vin at @revenantreads
The co-hosts for the event are:

@passageoftime8561
@bookssongsandothermagic
@BookTimewithElvis
@billruttenberg
@ReadbyFred
@NicholasOfAutrecourt
@TheHistoryShelf
and me :) I am a new co-host for this year and I am so honoured to have been asked to join this fabulous team of booktubers and history freaks :)

#historathon2024 challenge splits the year into four quarters
Q1 - pre-history to 500CE (Jan-Mar)
Q2 - 500 to 1500 (Apr to Jun)
Q3 - 1500 to 1820 (Jul to Sept)
Q4 - 1820 to present (Oct to Dec)

Books I mentioned:
SPQR by Mary Beard
The Wisdom of the Ancients by Neil Oliver
The Celts by Alice Roberts
Buried by Alice Roberts
Ancestors by Alice Roberts
Boudicca by MJ Trow
Scenes from Prehistoric Life by Francis Pryor
70 Great Mysteries from the Ancient World by Thames and Hudson
The Rise of the Roman Empire by Polybius
Unquiet Women by Max Adams
Antigone by Sophocles
Caligula by Seutonius
Come Close by Sappho
I Hate and I Love by Catallus
Jason and Medea by Apollonius of Rhodes
O Cruel Alexis by Virgil
Socrates' Defence by Plato
The Fall of Icarus by Ovid
The Madness of Cambyses by Herodotus
Trimalchio's Feast by Petronius
Circe and the Cyclops by Homer
The Dolphins, The Whales and The Gudgeon by Aesop


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