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[im-an-aesthetic-mess]

EMAIL BOOK CLUBS MASTERLIST !!!

alright, there are a lot of email book clubs now, so here's ALL of them, in one convenient list

NOTE: IF YOU FIND MORE PLEASE SEND !!! put them in the notes, my ask box, dm them to me, just notify me in SOME way and i will edit this base post so they all remain in one place

without further ado:

Dracula Daily - dracula, the one that started it all || real time

may 3, 2022 - november 10, 2022

Whale Weekly - moby dick || real time

starting december 2022, continuing for 3 years

Frankenstein Weekly - frankenstein || wednesdays and sundays

begins february 1, 2023

Letters from Watson - sherlock holmes

begins january 1, 2023

What Manner of Man - a new original work by st john starling (its gay vampires click the link)

begins january 2023

Edgar Allen Poe Daily - the works of edgar allen poe || weekdays where dracula daily does not post

began may 13, 2022

The Penny Dreadful - penny dreadful

begins TBA

Ovid Daily - the works of p. ovidius naso (note: these are in latin but they contain a translation)

dates depend on the in-progress work (from what i can tell)

Werther Rewritten - the sorrows of young werther, slightly modernized || real time

may 4, 2022 - christmas 2023

The Sorrows Of Young Werther - the original of the above || you pick the dates

from what i can tell, it begins when you subscribe and you pick the frequency of emails

Carmilla Quarterly - carmilla, just click the link its lesbian vampires

begins TBA

Literary Letters - lesser known public domain works

begins november 12, 2022

Pride and Prejudice Weekly - working title, im doing pride and prejudice now || mondays and fridays

march 10, 2023 - october 6, 2023

The Woman In White Weekly - the woman in white || sundays

begins july 31, 2022

Musketeers Daily - the three musketeers

begins march 14, 2023

LOTR Newsletter - lord of the rings || real time (i think)

september 15, 2022 - march 2023

Rizal Weekly - jose rizal's works (these are in filipino, i don't see a full translation but please correct me if im wrong)

began may 26, 2022

Divine Comedy Weekly - dante's divine comedy || begins on good friday, then updates tuesdays and thursdays

april 7, 2023 - march 5, 2024

Austen Weekly - jane austen's works

find more info on the posting schedule here

The Case Files Of Sheridan Bell - new original fantasy detective novels from em rowene

begins may 29, 2022

Big Dalloway Energy - mrs. dalloway by virginia woolfe || commentary encouraged

begins june 1, 2022

Nightly Knights - excerpts from arthurian texts

posted at random

Samuel Pepys's Diary - daily entries from samuel pepys's diary

the site posts a new entry at the end of each day

Dangerous Liaisons Daily - dangerous liaisons || real time

august 3rd, 2022 - january 14, 2023

Les Chroniques de Choderlos - dangerous liaisons, but in the original french || real time

august 3rd, 2022 - january 14, 2023

Wilde Weekly - oscar wilde's works

begins june 12, 2022

Logbooks of the HE-631-CORDELIA - a new original sci-fi series about a pilot and her robot by loreley

begins july 21, 2022

Les Mis Letters - les misérables || daily

january 1, 2023 - december 31, 2023

The Worst Journey in the World - r.f. scott's diaries + supplemental readings from cherry-garrard’s the worst journey in the world and others’ diaries

intro began july 12, 2022. diary entries begin november 25, 2022, and end in march, 2024

Daily Kafka - franz kafka's letters

began august 31, 2022

[ovid-daily]

Happy Birthday Mark Antony!

January 14 is Mark Antony's 2105th birthday! On contemporary Roman fasti, such as the Fasti Verulani (below), the date is marked as D•VITIOSUS•EX•S•C.

image source (the first full line says: [F xi]x EN d . vitiosus . ex . s . c . anT . naTal, i.e. F [nundinal day] xix [days before the Kalends] EN [endotercissus: the type of day, where most religious or political proceedings were not permitted in the morning or evening but were acceptable in the middle of the day] d [dies] vitiosus ex . s . c . [abbreviation of Ex Senatus Consulto i.e. by decree of the Senate] anT [abbreviation for Antonius/Antony] naTal [abbreviation of natalis, a substantive noun meaning "birthday"] transl.: "a defective day, as decreed by the Senate, Antony's birthday")

Octavian (not yet Augustus), after the death of his brother-in-law/ally-turned-enemy at Actium in 30 BC and his assumption of power over Rome, had the Senate label Mark Antony's birthday as a DIES VITIOSUS (i.e. a bad, faulty, defective, corrupt day) so that Antony's remaining followers would be unable to celebrate his birthday.

However, after the death of Augustus, this decree appears to have somewhat weakened, as the Emperor Claudius celebrated Antony's birthday, claiming that he was also celebrating the birthday of his father Drusus in addition to his grandfather Antony.

[catilinas]

o that we then could come by caesar's spirit and not dismember caesar! well according to ovid maybe you can! or maybe you can dismember caesar’s spirit and not come by caesar? how are they killing caesar’s ghost if caesar is not already dead before they kill him? the simulacra kind of makes sense but the umbra really does Not and i am enjoying it immensely

[zmaragdos]

I want to do an Ovid’s Fasti daily email newsletter (for next year, starting in January and going thru June) using the public domain Loeb edition

would people be interested in that?

[homhymndaily]

From the imitators of Ovid Daily and copycats of E-pistulae, i bring you 

Hom Hymn Daily

The newest e-mail newsletter bringing ancient literature to you every day! I thought it was high time to balance out all of those Latin authors with some Greek, so starting September 19th I will be sending out the Homeric Hymns, a collection of 33 ancient Greek hexameter hymns dating from anywhere between the 7th century BCE to the 4th century AD. 

These hymns, in the style of Homer, praise a particular deity to whom they are dedicated, but also recount some of the best myths about the cosmos of the Olympian gods, such as divine births, founding of cult-places, and miraculous deeds. 

There are five longer hymns which will be sent out in bits of 100 lines, but the shorter hymns will each get their own e-mail. 

Join us now for: 

Demeter causing the apocalypse

Apollo turning into a fat dolphin

Hermes farting and sneezing at the same time

Aphrodite catfishing a shepherd

-> subscribe here! <-

[deermouth]

emails are great right now

[poetrixx]

dracula daily this ovid daily that. enough. we need an email subscription version of those dated kafka diary entries the girls reblog on here

[hartenlust]

In fact, you who but lately were a girl are now a boy

ok gender slay

[classicschronicles]

Hi lovelies,

‘Carmen et Error’- A Poem and a Mistake (aka my Instagram bio). Anyways this quote just makes me laugh every time I think about it because, of course, it belongs to no other than Ovid. I know he says some questionable things, but he writes it so nicely and I like to think that he was just in a silly goofy mood. Anyways, if you hadn’t guessed yet, todays post is all about the Roman poet Ovid. This post is also for @morallyunethicalintellectualtax because it’s her birthday and she is Ovid’s biggest fan, the ultimate Ovid apologist if you will.

Publius Ovidus Naso (also known as Ovid) was a Roman poet born in 43 BC and is most famously known for his works Ars Amatoria and Metamorphoses. He was born to an old and wealthy family in a small town about 90 miles away from Rome. His family must’ve been pretty well to do as his father was able to send both Ovid and his brother to Rome to be educated. Like almost every other poet ever, Ovid had daddy issues, and despite his fathers disapproval, he neglected his studies in favour of writing poetry. Relatable king.

As a member of the Roman gentry (above the plebeians but not quite at the rank of the senate) Ovid was marked out for an official career and even held some minor judicial posts. He soon decided, however, that he was not suited to this position and abandoned his official career to pursue poetry full time. Literally everyone was kind of confused by this decision because he really did have the makings of a great politician. Indeed, when Augustus became the emperor he tried to recruit Ovid as a politician, but Ovid turned the offer down so he could write his poetry instead.

The first work that he published was the Amores (The Loves), which was met with immediate success, and was very shortly followed by the Heriodes (Epistles of the Heroines). Fun fact, it’s because of the Heriodes that a lot of people consider Ovid a proto-feminist and therefore take a feminist reading to works such as Book 3 of the Ars Amatoria, saying that the book is meant to be seen ironically. All of his works seemed to reflect the pleasure seeking company that came with his position as a well established poet. Details of his life can be found in his autobiographical poem Tristia (Sorrows).

With his position amongst the poets secured, Ovid began to move on to more ambitious works like the Metamorphoses and Fasti. The Metamorphoses was almost complete when his life took a complete 180 and he was exiled, by Augustus, to Tomi (near Constanta, Romania). The exact reason for his exile is still unknown, but Ovid states that it was because of a ‘poem and a mistake’. It is widely accepted that the ‘poem’ was the Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love), which was a controversial set of three didactic poems, instructing on the art of affairs. Given Ovid’s popularity, this was detrimental to Augusts’ programme of moral reform (the Lex Julia) which outlawed infidelity and encouraged childbirth. The ‘mistake’, however, is less agreed upon. Ovid insists that what he did was worse than a crime but that it was a mistake made by an error of his judgment. Some suggest that his exile was due to his affair with the granddaughter of Augustus- Julia (for whom the Lex Julia were named)- as she was also exiled at the same time. I just want to say that if his exile was because he was sleeping with the emperors granddaughter after whom the laws were named, it is the ultimate ultimate slay, and also biggest fuck you. I love it. However, his exile was the milder form (called relegation) and it did not include the confiscation of property or loss of his citizenship. His wife, who was also born to a rich family, remained in Rome to safeguard his interests and to intercede for him.

Despite Augustus banning all of Ovid’s work from public libraries, the immense popularity that Ovid enjoyed during his lifetime continued after his death. From around 1100 onward, Ovid’s fame (which had eclipsed slightly during the Early Middle Ages) began to rival, and on occasion, overtake Virgil. The apparent ‘Age of Ovid’ began in the 12th and 13th centuries, where his work were seen not only as entertaining, but as educating, and his works were taught in schools. His popularity grew during in the Renaissance, particularly amongst humanists who wanted to recreate the classical approached to thought and feeling. The appeal of his writing to the renaissance audience was because it offered an accessible look into Greek mythology and also because of the humanity of his writing. Literally, read the Metamorphoses, it’s sympathetic and heartbreaking and sensual and just amazing.

Anyways. There you have it. A quick fire introduction to Ovid. I think it’s pretty hard to do any justice to his works without just telling you to read it, so yeah everyone go read some Ovid. Happy birthday @morallyunethicalintellectualtax and I hope you all have a lovely rest of your weekend <3

~Z

[agardenandlibrary]

Metamorphoses I. 445-556

But even now in this new form [a tree] Apollo loved her [Daphne]; and placing his hand upon the trunk, he felt the heart still fluttering beneath the bark. He embraced the branches as if human limbs, and pressed his lips upon the wood. But even the wood shrank from his kisses.

[iphisesque]

“Why is one able to make soft, pretty speeches, while her ravished tongue dooms the other to silence? Since he calls me mother, why does she not call me sister? Remember whose wife you are, daughter of Pandion! Will you be faithless to your husband? But faithfulness to such a husband as Tereus is a crime.”

[ovid-daily]

Ovid Daily's Summer Book Club 2023:

The Heroides

The first fifteen poems feature letters (written in elegiac couplets) from famous heroines of myth to their lovers, including: Penelope to Odysseus, Dido to Aeneas, Medea to Jason, among many others. The last six (aka the Double Heroides) are paired letters from heroes and responses from heroines, including Paris and Helen, among others.

The Heroides will run from Monday, July 10, 2023 to Monday, September 25, 2023. Each poem will be spread over 2 to 3 days, depending on its length. The Latin and translation will be those featured in Grant Showerman's 1914 edition.

Schedule:

July 10 & 11: Penelope to Odysseus

July 13 & 14: Phyllis to Demophoon

July 17 & 18: Briseis to Achilles

July 20 & 21: Phaedra to Hippolytus

July 24 & 25: Oenone to Paris

July 27 & 28: Hypsipyle to Jason

July 31 & August 1: Dido to Aeneas

August 3 & 4: Hermione to Orestes

August 7 & 8: Deianira to Hercules

August 10 & 11: Ariadne to Theseus

August 14 & 15: Canace to Macareus

August 17 & 18: Medea to Jason

August 21 & 22: Laodamia to Protesilaus

August 24 & 25: Hypermnestra to Lynceus

August 28 & 29: Sappho to Phaon

August 31, September 1 & 2: Paris to Helen

September 5, 6 & 7: Helen's response to Paris

September 11 & 12: Leander to Hero

September 14 & 15: Hero's response to Leander

September 18, 19 & 20: Acontius to Cydippe

September 23, 24 & 25: Cydippe's response to Acontius

[catilinas]

spontaneous generation REAL. ovid would never lie to me.

[zmaragdos]

"The Emperor was not the only victim of the cold water cure, which had been made fashionable by Antonius Musa, physician to Augustus. Having recalled his imperial master from the gates of death by cold baths and copious draughts of cold water in the style of Doctor Sagrando, the Roman doctor blossomed out into fame: the Emperor rewarded him liberally: the Senate showered money and honours on him: his admirers subscribed for a portrait-statue of the good physician, which was set up beside that of his divine prototype Aesculapius. Cold water now became the rage and the last word in medical science. The fashionable doctor compelled poor Horace, shivering and shuddering, to submit to cold douches in the depth of winter, when he longed for the sunshine and the myrtle-groves of Baiae. But Musa tried his nostrum once too often when he applied it to the youthful Marcellus, the hope of Rome and perhaps the destined heir of the empire; for the young man succumbed to the cure." Frazer, Appendix to Fasti, p. 434

Also a big 'hello and what the fuck' to this ancient Roman Dr. Oz who almost killed Horace and definitely killed Marcellus

[hoeratius]

I don't think these are his sex books...

[oldshrewsburyian]

So, @ovid-daily summer book club, is anyone else on here... interested in posting about this? Am I missing things in Tumblr’s infamous tagging system? I’m already a bit behind because (it turns out) my Latin poetry-reading skills are horrendously rusty. But I’m loving the cadences and the imagery (the deities of the hills! the Milky Way!) and would love to exchange ideas about the Metamorphoses.¹

¹ Since this is an international group, I’ll mention that I can understand German, French, and Italian, though my own responses would probably continue to be in English. We could always go really old-school and try writing our responses in Latin as well.