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Mentioned as 'a wonderful book about the Greek gods' during the discussion of Dionysus. The speaker quotes a memorable line from it about Dionysus's phallus.

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Described as 'really fantastic, highly recommended' when discussing how Ovid shaped our understanding of Greek mythology and Apollo's stories of metamorphosis.

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Described as 'a fabulous book' and 'really, really brilliant' about Norse shamanism and Odin. The speaker mentions reading it as a PDF before publication and describes it as 'like a Samizdat work that people were handing around.'

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Mentioned as the successor book to The Viking Way during the discussion of Odin and Norse mythology.

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Described as 'a wonderful collection of short stories about the Odyssey' and 'highly recommended' when discussing Athena's relationship with Odysseus.

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Mentioned as 'the only kind of surviving Roman novel in its entirety' when discussing the cult of Isis and the ecstatic religious experience described in the book.