Here is a rough outline of what we will be reading and what the schedule will be. If you have any suggestions, or think something needs changing, please let me know. Also, please let me know if you are interested in guest blogging/leading the discussion on any of these texts in whole or part.
The list is in progress. I will update it based on how things go and on suggestions I receive. Right now, I've only scheduled through the Classical Era. We will continue moving chronologically through to the Modern era.
The Iliad, by Homer
-Start: 1/11/15
-End: Apx: 5/23/16
-Pace: 1 Book (chapter) a week
The Odyssey, by Homer
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-End: Apx.
-Pace: 2 Books (chapters) a week
Agamemnon, by Aeschylus (play)
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-End: Apx.
-Pace: Whole play in one week
Oedipus the King, by Sophocles (play)
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-End: Apx.
-Pace: Whole play in one week
Trojan Women, by Euripides (play)
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-Pace: Whole play in one week
History of the Peloponnese War (selections), by Thucydides
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The Clouds, by Aristophanes (play)
-Pace: Whole play in one week
Apology, by Plato
-Pace: Whole dialogue in one week
The Republic, by Plato
-Pace: Two Books (chapters) a week
Nicomaechean Ethics, by Aristotle
4 comments:
Can we request to add great books we want to read that weren't necessarily part of GBK? I.e. I've always wanted to read A Hundred Years of Solitude. Not anytime soon, obviously, but I've always wanted to read that one in a class/discussion setting.
Yes! Though I might make you lead the discussion :)
So, it looks like we'll be spending up to a year on the Greeks (FYI: typo in end date for Oddyssey). Sensible approach to pick just one play per playwright, and just selections from longer books, or we'd never finish this in our lifetimes. As it is, this will be a muiti-year, even decade project if we keep it up. What fun!
A typical college Great Books program takes a full 4 years, but we are reading at much a slower pace (because, life). But as long as people keep wanting to participate, I'm in for the long haul :) Thanks for the typo catch!
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