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Whatcha Reading?; War and Peace? Best of Jugs? I'm curious
Topic Started: Apr 26 2006, 05:09 PM (3,435 Views)
Snefaldia
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I'm salivating over my Arts & Humanities reading list-

Homer- The Iliad
Aeschylus- Oresteia
Euripides- Bacchae
Sophocles- Antigone
Plato- Republic
Aristophanes- Lysistrata
Thucydides- excerpts from The Peloponnesian War
C.D.C Reeve- The Trials of Socrates (Excerpts from Xenophon, Plato, Aristophanes)

I have read almost the entirety of the Iliad, having started wednesday last week. It's amazing how much a modern translation can clarify the work for you- I seriously found myself close to tears when Achilles killed Lycaon, and Priam's lament. Good lord, it's powerful stuff.
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Snefaldia,Jan 18 2008
06:25 PM
I'm salivating over my Arts & Humanities reading list-

Homer- The Iliad
Aeschylus- Oresteia
Euripides- Bacchae
Sophocles- Antigone
Plato- Republic
Aristophanes- Lysistrata
Thucydides- excerpts from The Peloponnesian War
C.D.C Reeve- The Trials of Socrates (Excerpts from Xenophon, Plato, Aristophanes)

I have read almost the entirety of the Iliad, having started wednesday last week. It's amazing how much a modern translation can clarify the work for you- I seriously found myself close to tears when Achilles killed Lycaon, and Priam's lament. Good lord, it's powerful stuff.

Thucydides and Xenophon are pretty good reads as well.
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The Palentine,Jan 19 2008
10:38 AM
Snefaldia,Jan 18 2008
06:25 PM
I'm salivating over my Arts & Humanities reading list-

Homer- The Iliad
Aeschylus- Oresteia
Euripides- Bacchae
Sophocles- Antigone
Plato- Republic
Aristophanes- Lysistrata
Thucydides- excerpts from The Peloponnesian War
C.D.C Reeve- The Trials of Socrates (Excerpts from Xenophon, Plato, Aristophanes)

I have read almost the entirety of the Iliad, having started wednesday last week. It's amazing how much a modern translation can clarify the work for you- I seriously found myself close to tears when Achilles killed Lycaon, and Priam's lament. Good lord, it's powerful stuff.

Thucydides and Xenophon are pretty good reads as well.

I have the History of the Peloponnesian War at home, but I'm trying to get my hands on Anabasis.
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Snefaldia,Jan 18 2008
10:25 AM
I'm salivating over my Arts & Humanities reading list-

Homer- The Iliad
Aeschylus- Oresteia
Euripides- Bacchae
Sophocles- Antigone
Plato- Republic
Aristophanes- Lysistrata
Thucydides- excerpts from The Peloponnesian War
C.D.C Reeve- The Trials of Socrates (Excerpts from Xenophon, Plato, Aristophanes)

I have read almost the entirety of the Iliad, having started wednesday last week. It's amazing how much a modern translation can clarify the work for you- I seriously found myself close to tears when Achilles killed Lycaon, and Priam's lament. Good lord, it's powerful stuff.

I'd recommend The Odyssey later, if you have the time. It's a great read.

As for the Socrates trial one, I read the Plato version last year in philosophy. It was pretty interesting stuff. If you get a chance to read The Apology, I'd recommend that too. :D
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I hated the Odyssey, mostly because I hate Odysseus and everything he stands for. Out of all the characters in Homer and Greek history, I think I hate Odysseus the most, because of the horrible things he perpetrates. Agamemnon is a horrendous, craven warlord, but he's not intelligent like Odysseus- honestly, I think Odysseus does more harm to both sides than any other character, and throughout the entire Odyssey I just despised him, and sympathized with those trying to do him harm.

I tried to work my way through Plutarch's Lives, but the old-style translation is giving me trouble.
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Hmm, my memory on Odyssey is a bit fuzzy ... it wasn't nearly as good as the Iliad, but I don't nearly recall such a level of resentment for Odysseus. What specifically did he do that you found so abhorrent? I read both Homeric epics in high school, and naturally favored the Iliad because it had a lot more action, and violent death scenes. The entanglements of the gods were far more interesting in the latter as well. I had basically the entire Antigone play memorized one year in college, when I played the Sentry and the Messenger (we fused them into one character) -- and all-purpose understudy, wherein I ended up reading most of the parts for rehearsals.

I own the Robert Fitzgerald translations for all three books; I think his pentameter is classy.
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See, now, I always thought Achilles was a little bitch, and he irritated me far more than any of the others.
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I did Odyssey and Pelopowotsit War for Greek at school, and I've got to say it really killed my enthusiasm for either (as did the Cicero I had to do for Latin) but that was five years ago so maybe I should consider them a review (in English). I loved Euripides's Medea, for sixth form English.

Currently reading Why Americans Hate Politics by E.J. Dionne, Jr.
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I hated the Odyssey, mostly because I hate Odysseus and everything he stands for.


Hm, you might want to read "Troilus and Cressida", a play by William Shakesphere set in the Trojan Wars.

It's probraly isn't one of his best works, but I liked it, and just finished reading it.
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Coincidentally, I got Chaucer's version out from the library today.
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Achilles was a bitch, but I disliked Odysseus because: 1. he killed Astanayax by throwing him off the walls of Troy, 2. was quick with his tongue to encourage the war, refused to fight when Diomedes wanted to push back the Trojans 3. Every single one of his Ithacan contingent died.

I will have to remember Troilus and Cressida.
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Reading Frankenstein now, through no fault of my own.

And hi, peoples, I'm back. In a sense.
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Akimonad,Jan 24 2008
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Reading Frankenstein now, through no fault of my own.

And hi, peoples, I'm back. In a sense.

Hee. I'm still reading Frankenstein at the moment...but that's because I want to.

And, yay! Aki's back! :w00t: Posted Image
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The Iliad is tedious beyond belief. Umpteen pages listing the crew of boats ain't my idea of a fun read (I know, I know, it's meant to be oral and is there as a sort of crowd pleaser thing, but still). I at least managed to finish The Odyssey.

Troilus & Cressida's a good play, though Ulysses doesn't half go on at times.
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