On Horsemanship, by Xenophon, Part 2, and Project Gutenberg License

Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep

Sharon Handy

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🗓️ 27 May 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

This week, we conclude a relaxing Greek classic about getting the best from your cavalry horse, including what to wear, and then fall asleep to the riveting legalese of Project Gutenberg’s usage license for all these free eBooks I share with you. The horse stuff is more fun, to be honest.

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0:00.0	Good evening, and thank you for joining me for another boring books for bedtime.
0:08.0	I hope tonight selection provides all the boredom your busy brain needs to quiet down and let you get some
0:17.8	sleep.
0:19.8	Before we begin, I'd like to give a special shout out of thanks to some new members of our Patreon family,
0:27.2	Cato, Victoria, and Carol. Thank you all so much for supporting this podcast.
0:36.0	By becoming members of Patreon,
0:38.0	you join a small group of wonderful people
0:42.0	who keep this podcast ad free for tens of thousands of
0:46.8	listeners every week and it's very much appreciated and because you joined in the month of May, you and everyone who supports boring books for bedtime on Patreon, will be entered into a special giveaway at the end of the month. Four winners will be
1:05.3	given the chance to choose our August episodes. Something old, something new,
1:16.8	something we just read that you can't get enough of. It's up to you, and I can't wait to see what you choose.
1:21.9	If you're interested in being included in that giveaway and finding out
1:26.3	more about the perks available to subscribers, you'll find a link to Patreon in the show
1:31.9	description. I hope you'll take a moment to check it out. Now let's read and relax.
1:43.0	Find a comfortable spot.
1:47.0	Adjust your volume.
1:50.0	Take a nice deep breath in.
1:55.0	Let it out slowly.
1:59.0	And off we go.
2:02.0	Tonight. And off we go.
2:12.0	Tonight, let's relax with the remainder of a manual written almost 2,400 years ago, on horsemanship by Athenian General and writer Xenophon, who recorded
2:19.1	this advice around 355 BCE. and because there was a lot less of this book left than I thought,
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