Greek Classics Challenge Wrapup
I read a bunch of things--I did manage to get to the final level--and though I wanted to read more, I am pretty happy. I got quite a few plays read, and some philosophy. I am not pleased that I didn't manage to finish Herodotus, and I have this beautiful Thucydides on my shelf--I'm sad I didn't get to that. I still plan to read those things, though. Thucydides is very intimidating to me; I read it in college and didn't understand a word. I never do well with battles, really, especially in ancient wars. (I tried to read Caesar's Gallic Wars last year and gave up in despair; it was incomprehensible and boring too. And it's supposed to be easy!)
Here are the titles I read:
The Oresteia, by Aeschylus
Theogony, by Hesiod
Works and Days, by Hesiod
Antigone, Oedipus the King, and Oedipus at Colonus, by Sophocles
Herodotus' Histories: Book I, Book II, Book III, Book IV,
Aristophanes: The Peace, The Birds, The Frogs
The Symposium, by Plato
Euripides: Alcestis, Medea, Iphigenia in Tauris,
Helen
Aristotle's Rhetoric
Plato's Republic
Herodotus' Histories (more!) : Book V, Book VI,
Orestes, by Euripides
If anyone is left, tell me how you did!
Wow, that is one impressive list! I didn't do as well as I'd hoped. I wanted to read the whole Oresteia but only made it through Agamemnon. Oh well. Thanks for being a great hostess :)
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