From last time, we saw that the reign of Honorius resulted with the loss of Britain and all of the territory…
In the last two posts, we reflected on the latter half of Volume I of Gibbon. Struggling under its immense size…
Here we shall continue with the second half of Volume I, but focusing on Gibbon’s chapters on the progress of…
Having covered Rome’s Golden Age and the chaotic succession of short-lived or tyrannical emperors during the 2nd and 3rd centuries…
The time has finally come for the last part of the trio of Great Books volumes in our 5-year reading…
Finally we encounter the last two plays in Aristophanes’ surviving body of works. I’ve chosen to group these two together…
Continuing right where we left off, we move away from alternate visions of economic systems and back into anti-war territory as…
In the first post about Aristophanes, we learned about four plays named after the type of chorus. We commented upon…
I’ve finally finished all 11 of Aristophanes’ plays in the Great Books collection in the last 3 weeks. It took…
We finally finish off Euripedes’ works with the last five remaining tragedies. Compared to the dramas of the last few…