This week I finished four plays by Euripedes. I’m going slower that I’m anticipating, having yet to read anything by…
These three plays round off the series of Euripedes’ plays on the events concerning the aftermath of the Trojan War.…
Last summer I took the time to read through some of Plato’s major dialogues, including The Republic, Meno, Crito, Phaedo, The…
Similar to last week, the three plays I read over this weekend have women at the center of the story.…
Having finished the massive tome that is The City of God, starting this week I’m returning back to the Greek…
It’s been a very busy last two weeks, such that while I finished Augustine’s The City of God on March 19, I’ve…
The first 10 books of The City of God was a polemic against Roman polytheistic religion. As we saw last week, Augustine…
It’s been a very difficult and crazily busy last three weeks since I posted, but I managed to at least…
It’s over a month since I began the new commitment to a 5-year plan in reading the Great Books. I have since…
I went back to Augustine this week, starting with his shorter work, On Christian Doctrine (OCD), which is less than 150 pages,…