thoodleoo:

if you ever feel like you’re too obsessed with something, just remember that, according to plutarch, alexander the great slept with his prized copy of the iliad under his pillow alongside a dagger, presumably so that he could murder anyone who tried to take his copy of the iliad away from him

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    *worried that someone would once destroy all existing copies and then claim to the next generation Achilles and...
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