[SunkenCiv]

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	Gods Graves Glyphs	I picekd this book up in softbound (which is a more durable, larger format paperback) for $10 at Costco, night before last, and uncharacteristically ordered some takeout, and cracked this new book while waiting for the food to cook. I've not even gotten out of the author's preface and have to tell you I haven't been excited like this (about a book anyway) in a long time. I think we've got us a winner for summer reading. John R. Hale also helped crack the secret of the Delphic oracle -- that, just as the ancient descriptions all said, the pythoness sat in a cloud of gas that seeped out of cracks in the temple floor -- despite a French joker a century ago who claimed there were no such cracks. The freakin' cracks (there are two of them) cross at right angles right under where that moistened bink used to prophesy. No one bothered to check the original debunker's work, because, well, that's because debunkers are merely true believers. related topics: Questioning the Delphic Oracle Vast and Deadly Fleets May Yield Secrets at Last (re-post) Tracking Myth to Geological Reality Questioning the Delphic Oracle (re-post) To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother, and Ernest_at_the_Beach
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[Betis70]

Sounds interesting. Might be a good gift for my brother—he is a serious ancient Greece hound (more Sparta than Athens though).

After watching some of the riots in Greece, it makes me wonder how far they have fallen. They went from independent city-states that could take on a world superpower to people who need the government to coddle them cradle to grave.

[GeronL]

That sounds very interesting to me.

[Cincinna]

Thanks, Civ. Sounds like your summer reading is getting off to a great start.