Friends of the Santa Rosa Libraries

GREEK MYTHOLOGY ROMANCE & ROMANTASY
Shadows of Sparta: A Greek Mythology Romantasy by C R Jane
Wild Reverence by Rebecca Ross
Lore Olympus: Volume One by Rachel Smythe
Sweetbitter Song by Rosie Hewlett

GREEK MYTHOLOGY FOR KIDS & TEENS
Lit for Little Hands: The Odyssey by Homer - Olga Skomorokhova - Brooke Jorden
ABCs of Greek Myths: From Aphrodite to Zeus by Kathleen Marcotte
Olympians Boxed Set Books 1-6: Zeus, Athena, Hera, Hades, Poseidon & Aphrodite by George O'Connor
Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book One: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
Trials of Apollo, the Book One: The Hidden Oracle by Rick Riordan
The Aftermyth by Tracy Wolff
Medusa by Katherine Marsh

Keep the Epic Going After The Odyssey
Read These After Seeing The Odyssey
The Iliad by Homer
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
The Rage of Achilles by Terence Hawkins
Son of Nobody by Yann Martel
The Hymn to Dionysus by Natasha Pulley
Agrippa: A Novel of Ancient Rome's Descent Into Dictatorship by Robert Harris
Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes
Ithaca by Claire North
A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes
The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
I, Medusa by Ayana Gray
Clytemnestra by Costanza Casati
Penelope's Daughter by Laurel Corona
Circe by Madeline Miller in

Did you find what you were looking for at the Friends Summer Sale during the past three days? Yes? That’s wonderful. If, though, your answer was in the negative or maybe or not quite range, we have good news for you. The Friends Fall Sale is really just a moment away, just a hop-skip-and-a-jump to the first weekend in October. It’s the BIG ONE — four days long — at the Santa Rosa Veterans Memorial Building. October 2-5. Mark your calendars. Update your lists. Make your plans.

Okay, just one more none-too-subtle hint. One Last Blitz. Friends Summer Sale doors open at 1 today.

No more subtle hints. CDs and Vinyl and sheet music and fake books and “how to” kazoo and other instruments at the Friends’ Summer Sale. And more books, too. Restocked all over the room.
Ten to five-thirty today. Library. 211 E St. Forum Room and Patio.
We’re burnin’ daylight here. Giddy-up.

If you didn’t hear the singer (no, not THAT singer) sing a song yesterday, well, shoppers who shop til the amost bitter end can probably, maybe, hear something not entirely unlike music, not entirely unlike song, at 5:15 p.m. at the Friends Summer Sale, the Saturday Edition, which will be getting underway in just minutes (about 120 of them) from now, if now is for you as is for us 8 a.m.

TODAY
Members Preview at 10 am
Doors open to all comers at noon

That magic moment (10:00 a.m.) we mentioned here yesterday is almost here. It’s knock knock knockin’ on heaven’s — that is to say, the Friends’ Summer Sale — door.

In an epic, we find the events of commonplace life told from the point of view of an ideal man of the race; this point of view, embodying, as it does, the ideals of the race, gives greater dignity to the expression of the story.
— Lillian H Smith, The Unreluctant Tears A Critical Approach to Children’s Literature, 1953

The Odyssey – a truncated timeline of the translations into English from the ancient Greek and the English language movie adaptations (we took note of a couple of these on the tablesawaiting buyers at the Friends Summer Sale – tomorrow)
Composed (attributed to Homer, ca. 8th century BCE)
The Whole Works of Homer (including translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey by George Chapman, 1616)
The Odyssey, translated by Alexander Pope, 1726
The Odyssey, translated by Samuel H Butcher and Andrew Lang. 1867
The Odyssey, translated by George Herbert Palmer, 1884
The Odyssey, translated by Samuel Butler, 1900
The Odyssey, translated by E V Rieu, 1946
The Odyssey, translated by Robert Fitzgerald, 1961
The Odyssey of Homer, translated by Richmond Lattimore, 1965
The Odyssey, translated by Robert Fagles, 1996
The Odyssey, translated by Emily Wilson, 2023
The Return (movie, 2024)
The Odyssey (movie, 2026)