Speaker’s Book:

A General History of the Pyrates, by Charles Johnson (Daniel Defoe)

Infernal Acts & Interpreting Infamy

Print:

• Plutarch’s Lives, Vol 1, by Plutarch; George Long & Aubrey Stewart (Translators)
• Memorable Doings and Sayings, Volume II: Books 6-9, by Valerius Maximus, D.R. Shackleton Bailey (Translator)
• Terrorism for Self-Glorification: Herostratos Syndrome, by Albert Borowitz
• Geography, Volume I: Books 1-2, by Strabo, Horace Leonard Jones (Translator)

Online:

• “On Caring about One’s Posthumous Reputation” – Geoffrey Scarre
• “The Comparative Authenticity of Tacitus and Suetonius, Illustrated by the Question, ‘Whether Nero was the Author of the Memorable Conflagration at Rome?'” – Arthur Browne
• “Nero Reconsidered” – Edward Champlin
• “The Temple of Diana at Ephesus, with Especial Reference to Mr. Wood’s Discoveries of its Remains” – James Fergussen
• “KINKAKUJI: Reality and Betrayal” – Kinya TSURUTA

La Maupin: Swordwoman, Lover, Adventuress, Opera Star

Print:

• Queens of Song: Being Memoirs of Some of the Most Celebrated Female Vocalists, by Ellen C. Clayton

Online:

• “Julie D’Aubigny” – Badass of the Week
• “The History of La Maupin” – Mlle. Maupin
• “Women in Men’s Guise” – Oscar Paul Gilbert

Aleister Crowley: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Online:

• The Libri of Aleister Crowley: a collection of Aleister Crowley’s writings, including books, essays, articles, a resource list of Crowley’s numbered Libri written for the occult orders A∴ A∴ and O.T.O., and other related materials – The Hermetic Library
• The Aleister Crowley Bibliography Project: Newspaper Articles About and by Aleister Crowley – The 100th Monkey Press

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afP-Y8xez_I&feature=youtu.be

Sympathy for the Devil

Print:

• Paradise Lost, John Milton

• The History of the Devil and the Idea of Evil, by Paul Carus

Online:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMHqqXYaB8g

Ships of Infamy & Cargos of Fear

Print:

• The Ship of Fools, by Sebastian Brant, Edwin H. Zeydel (Translator)
• Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason, by Michel Foucault
• Viking Longship, by Keith Durham

Online:

• The Queen Anne’s Revenge – Christopher Minister 
• History of the Queen Anne’s Revenge – The Queen Anne’s Revenge Project
• “10 Shocking Facts About Modent Day Piracy” – Criminal Justice USA

Stede Bonnet: the Crummiest, Least Effective Pirate EVER

Print:

• The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down, by Colin Woodard
• Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates, by David Cordingly

Online:

• A General History of the Pyrates – Captain Charles Johnson
• The Court Proceedings from the Trial of Stede Bonnet 
• Stede Bonnet: Charleston’s Gentleman’s Pirate – Christopher Byrd Downey

For each salon, we invite our speakers to share the resources and interesting reading they came across in researching their talk, so that we can all dig more deeply. This reading list was compiled by Odd Salon with Andrey Tselikov, Rheanna Bates, Jade Hoffman, Michael Solazzo, Egan Hirvela, and Kelly Jensen. Thank you!