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Agapi & Other Kinds of Love by Luka Lesson

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Agapi & Other Kinds of Love by Luka LessonAgapi & Other Kinds of Love, is poet & rapper Luka Lesson's verse novel inspired by Plato's Symposium. Socrates is telling a banquet of friends everything he learned from a mysterious lover named Diotima. The gods then take the reader on a journey collapsing time to arrive in modern day Athens, where two reincarnations of the ancient lovers fall in love (again) in the midst of a riot, beneath the shadows of the Acropolis. The lovers, both modern and

Agapi & Other Kinds of Love, is poet & rapper Luka Lesson's verse novel inspired by Plato's Symposium.

 

Socrates is telling a banquet of friends everything he learned from a mysterious lover named Diotima. The gods then take the reader on a journey - collapsing time to arrive in modern day Athens, where two reincarnations of the ancient lovers fall in love (again) in the midst of a riot, beneath the shadows of the Acropolis.

 

The lovers, both modern and ancient, then encounter the 7 kinds of love: Eros, Storgy, Filoxenia, Philautia, Filia, Pragma and the ultimate: Agapi. Self-love, erotic love, the love of the stranger, familial love and more, all collide with marble statues of Aphrodite, protestor's chants and the Parthenon's steps.

 

Equal parts rap novella and classical history lesson, Agapi & Other Kinds of Love shows us how love prevails despite the trials and tribulations of the ages.

 

"Luka never fails to delight in this vibrant and beautiful dive into love" ~Omar Sakr

 

"ï»ï»ï»ï»Luka is a genuine artist of high quality whose poetry is powerful and poignant. I salute his prophetic witness" ~Dr Cornel West

 

"Agapi & Other Kinds of Love is a romance throughout space and time told in rolling verse. With an excellent rhythm and natural flow, the story expertly weaves the stories together through time. I enjoyed watching the two sets of lovers experience the forms of love and realize the impact that their love can have. I especially loved the notes that Chaos adds on at the end, bringing additional insight and humor." ~Anonymous Review

 

Agapi & Other Kinds of Love is a project from Luka Lesson, taking the form this book, a studio album and a live show. In 2022 the live show of Agapi & Other Kinds of Love, premiered at the National Museum of Australia during their exhibition Ancient Greeks: Athletes, Warriors & Heroes.

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Corine Larson
Boise, US
★★★★★ 4
Shines a light on the reality of the War in the Pacific
Format: Audiobook
Well-written and it really laid out all of the details of how this battle unfolded. I listed to the audio-book, and it was helpful to have the PDF to see a map. How the soldiers on each side endured the battles in the Pacific Theater is beyond me. Man's inhumanity to man that result in this battle outlined here is depressing, but also the sacrifice of those called on to endure and suffer through that inhumanity is equally inspiring and humbling to those whose lives are so comfortable in comparison.
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Reviewed in the United States on October 11, 2021
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Fritz D.
Lexington, US
★★★★★ 5
Good book
Format: Hardcover
If Ww2 interest u at all then u want to read this book. I have read the other books on this subject ( so why read another one?) well what i luv about this book is that because so much time has passed that most all of the people in this book are gone & so much more info has been released about these battles, that the combatants ( especially the higher officers are written about as if they are human (mistakes & warts & all) & not like they were all Bull Halsey type Gods which they were certainly not as in most all the books released within the 1st 30 yrs of the war. This makes for a much different & more interesting story about these battles than even the original books on the subject. You come to understand the where & whyfores better, by knowing the real true strenghts & weakness's & fears that drove these men. Hey they are all the bravest of heroes to me. But the were not perfect, & because of this, mistakes were made, that were really not acknowledged or maybe not even known about in early books on WW2
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Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2018
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Kaselyn
Dallas, US
★★★★★ 5
Great structure
Format: Paperback
I had to get the book for class, so did not exactly get it because I “wanted to.” It was a good read though. I liked the structure of each section. Everything simple enough to understand while also diving a bit deeper.
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Reviewed in the United States on October 24, 2020
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Outlier
San Leandro, US
★★★★★ 5
A must have for every intelligence professional - collector or analyst!
Format: Paperback
An excellent resource for any intelligence collector or analyst. The chapters are written by world-class experts in each discipline with an excellent final chapter on collection management written by Drs. Lowenthal and Clark. Each chapter defines the elements of the particular intelligence discipline, its history and producers, as well as how the INT is managed and explores likely future trends. An extensively researched and documented text that is nonetheless an approachable resource that would make an excellent addition to any intelligence related syllabus.
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Richard
Louisville, US
★★★★★ 4
informative
Format: Paperback
most relevant for today’s challenges
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Reviewed in the United States on August 17, 2018

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