2026 Reading Challenge
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Philology


Philology Books

The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities (The William G. Bowen Series)
Beowulf
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language
The Great Gatsby
A Guide to Old English
J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century
Romeo and Juliet
Studies in Words (Canto)
Madame Bovary
Mrs. Dalloway
The Odyssey
The Language of the Third Reich: LTI--Lingua Tertii Imperii: A Philologist's Notebook
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The Night of the Gods by John O'NeillBaal, St. George, and Khidr by Robert D. Miller IIThe Werewolf in the Ancient World by Daniel OgdenKa by Hugh CrosthwaiteThe First Ghosts by Irving Finkel
•Bottomless Antiquarium
103 books — 2 voters
The Riddle of the Labyrinth by Margalit FoxBreaking the Maya Code by Michael D. CoeThe Code Book by Simon SinghLost Languages by Andrew RobinsonThe Writing of the Gods by Edward Dolnick
Cryptolinguistics
16 books — 17 voters

The Normans by Judith A. GreenThe Normans by Lars BrownworthThe Norman Conquest by Marc MorrisThe Normans in Sicily by John Julius NorwichThe Guernsey Norman French Translations of Thomas Martin by MC Jones
Norman History And Philology
10 books — 1 voter
The Iliad / The Odyssey by HomerThe Iliad of Homer PLUS The Odyssey of Homer (translated by R... by Richmond LattimoreThe Iliad by HomerThe Iliad by HomerThe Odyssey by Homer
Homeric Deep Dive: Translations, Scholarship, and Companion Reads
58 books — 1 voter

BREAKING THE BIAS OF ENGLISH by Vivian ProbstThe Power of Babel by Michel PierssensText Structure by Nelly TinchevaAfrikan Alphabets by Saki MafundikwaExophony by Yōko Tawada
•Lingualish'tics
106 books — 16 voters

Quotes Tagged “Philology”

James Henry Breasted
“ Very often conditions are recorded as observable "under thy fingers" [...] Among such observations it is important to notice that the pulsations of the human heart are observed. ...more ”
― James Henry Breasted, The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus, Vol 1: Hieroglyphic Transliteration, Translation and Commentary
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Friedrich Nietzsche
“ It is not for nothing that one has been a philologist, perhaps one is a philologist still, that is to say, a teacher of slow reading ”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality
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Videos Tagged “Philology”

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“Convergence and Divergence in Pentateuchal Theory: Bridging the Academic Cultures of Israel, North America, and Europe.” 1 of 2
“Convergence and Divergence in Pentateuchal Theory: Bridging the Academic Cultures of Israel, North America, and Europe.” 1 of 2
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