Death's brother, Sleep.
Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC), Aeneid
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I love the classics - be it Greek plays, Roman history, all of the great myths or all of the ancient philosophers that lie at the base of our western civilization. (Weren't those Atomists so prescient?) And yes, I also managed to marry a classics major.
Like Lynch, here is "the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users." So what I’ve read is in italics, what I never finished is struck through:
Via BikeMonkey I see that DrugMonkey had a "106 Books of Pretension" meme going la
Since PZ got it from Wilkins, I might as well chime in.
That must be where Hans Christian Andersen got the idea. http://www.andersen.sdu.dk/vaerk/hersholt/OleLukoie_e.html
Actually, that goes back at least as far as Hesiod's Theogony (8th cent. BCE); Vergil got a lot from him.