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Podcast: CraftLit
Episode: 455: Chs 77-78 of The Count of Monte Cristo
Description: 455 - Swangry! 2:06 BOOKTALK a Guzla (Gusle) is like a lute. Listen here. "How was it that Dionysius the Tyrant became a schoolmaster? REALLY it was Denys the Younger who was (a tyrant and) expelled from Syracuse in 343BC OR even MORE REALLY it was Dionysius the Younger or Dionysius II (ibid) But Maier wrote a legend about Dionysius II in his book Atalanta Fugiens (1617), where he was shipwrecked at Corinth and—although he lived poorly—he became a teacher. (Um... Yeah...that's supposed to mean poor-but-happy-because-teaching, I think). Pythoness is a female soothsayer or prophetess Proverbs 19:17–`He who giveth to the po...