Blades upon Books - Traditionals

Pretty good for a Michigan whiskey! Lots of orange notes, caramel and spice. It’s balanced and not too hot for 100 proof. It’s not a sourced product — by which I mean they are actually distilling and bottling their own hooch unlike a lot of start-up brands — so I give them a ton of credit.
 
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Back in June 2025, Will Power Will Power wrote a post
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/blades-upon-books-traditionals.1472512/page-129#post-23108985
about a Classical Roman novel (2nd century AD or CE) that inspired me to hunt down the book and read it myself this past fall. I recently discovered that I had never posted about the book here as I'd intended. Here's a photo of the book I checked out from the public library.
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Will's post provides a good description of the book and a brief summary of the story, including how a human spent much of the tale as an ass observing a lot of other humans behaving badly. There were several courtroom scenes in the book, and I was struck by how similar the court system almost 2000 years ago was to aspects of the current American judicial system. Several consecutive chapters of the book were devoted to the mythological story of Psyche and Cupid (that supposedly inspired the tale of Beauty and the Beast). I'd heard that myth before, but never in such detail as presented in this book.

- GT
 
Thanks Gary 5K Qs 5K Qs And an appropriate beauty of a knife with Roman origins you show to go with it too :cool:

The Ancients' polytheism could certainly be a hazardous path to tread...worshipping one god too much might inflame the jealousy of other gods-they could throw down some misery for you in a fit of rage (that sounds like modern political leaders of all stripes....) The gods were a quarrelsome assortment for sure. However it meant you had protectors too, the Egyptians even got animals and birds into the frame: Cats, crocodiles, egrets, tortoise and maybe others? Monotheist revealed religion has no time for such things, but it certainly has had a lot of time for 'heresy', sects, warring with each other and persecution of 'deviation' from truth, so in a way it's not that different :D:eek:
 
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