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If pic related changed my life, what else would I like?
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Picrel. If you provide more information I can probably give you more recs.
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>>24816115
Jaeger's Paideia
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>>24816140
While I can't say exactly, I think it was mostly the deep dive into the religious practices, primarily surrounding the family and tribal aspects of the early greco-roman societies. It was just more detailed than others I remember reading and a lot of it just rang true to me, though I admit it's possible it was merely the way Fustel de Coulanges presented the material and the seriousness with which he treated original sources as I'd never read his work before. I also admit I haven't done a deep dive into the subject in a long, long time. I suppose I'd be looking for recommendations on similar time periods, or also maybe if there's a sort of line of succession that follows even further back in history, I might be interested.
>>24816177
Thanks for that rec. I will check it out.
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>>24816115
How did it change your life?
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>>24817288
Um...a bit hard to explain, I guess. Just that I've had some misgivings about our more modern societal structures for a while and some things that I "felt" were not correct or that I felt were missing and, I don't know, just kinda made me feel that I wasn't a crazy person. How much of who I am is inherited and how much of who I am lives in a shadow of the sort of long, unbroken chain of hearth fires reaching back to the first fires of human faith and kinda reminded me to honor my family, my home, and the memory of all those that came before me. That every day is mysterious and meaningful. Sacred. Nothing too crazy. Just sort of helped recenter my philosophical or religious perspectives, I guess.
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The Homeric Gods by Walter F. Otto. Which is as dubiously researched and as inspiring as OP. Interesting because it's almost trying to convert you into being Greek in the homeric mold.

Then read >>24816140

Followed by The Greeks and the irrational
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>>24817224
From Yahweh to Zion
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>>24817421
Will definitely check out this recommendation as, at a glance, it sounds interesting and seems to be even more detailed or focused on the actual religion itself. Thanks.
>>24817515
You can correct me if I’m wrong but don’t most argue that there was a distinct difference between the Ancient Greek (even earlier civilizations) through early Roman religions and that Judaism was an markedly Asian religion? Right now I’m mostly interested in the western religion and social philosophy rather than the eastern of the time. From before any of the syncretism took place, I mean.
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>>24818389
It's important to see the contrast and then to see how one supplants the other.
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>>24818389
2nd on the Otto, and the Dodds.
A few others:
Bruno Snell, The Discovery of the Mind in Greek Philosophy and Literature
Xavier De Maistre, pic rel (A Voyage Around My Room)
Johan Huizinga, The Autumn of the Middle Ages
Gaston Bachelard, Water and Dreams
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>>24816115
Picrel

I did a review of it here: https://adolfsbookreviews.substack.com/p/inventing-the-individual-the-origins
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>>24819852
will check out. thank you.
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>>24820218
You're welcome. I shitpost a lot here and make rude comments occasionally but I do like contributing to the discussion by talking about books I'm genuinely interested in.



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