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Augustine’s The City of God, Part 2

March 14, 2016Posted in Book reviews, Christian thought and philosophy, Great Books, Humanities

The first 10 books of The City of God was a polemic against Roman polytheistic religion. As we saw last week, Augustine…

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Augustine’s The City of God, Part 1

March 6, 2016Posted in Book reviews, Christian thought and philosophy, Great Books, Humanities

It’s been a very difficult and crazily busy last three weeks since I posted, but I managed to at least…

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Update on Great Books Reading Program

February 15, 2016Posted in Great Books, Liberal Arts, Polymathy

It’s over a month since I began the new commitment to a 5-year plan in reading the Great Books. I have since…

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Augustine: On Christian Doctrine

February 13, 2016Posted in Book reviews, Christian thought and philosophy, Great Books, Humanities, Theology

I went back to Augustine this week, starting with his shorter work, On Christian Doctrine (OCD), which is less than 150 pages,…

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Sophocles: Ajax, Philoctetes, The Trachiniae

February 8, 2016Posted in Book reviews, Great Books, Humanities

This last week I’ve finally finished reading the last three plays of Sophocles out of the seven which survive today…

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Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone

February 2, 2016Posted in Book reviews, Great Books, Humanities

We continue off from the review of the first, and most famous play of the Oedipus trilogy, Oedipus the King. The…

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Sophocles: Oedipus the King

February 1, 2016Posted in Book reviews, Great Books, Humanities

Oedipus is famous in Western culture as a character who infamously killed his father and married his mother by mistake.…

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The Electras of Sophocles and Euripedes

January 30, 2016Posted in Book reviews, Great Books, Humanities

Having finished reading all of the Aeschylus plays in GBWW Volume 4, I decided to proceed with the two Electra plays by…

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Aeschylus: The Persians, The Suppliant Maidens, Seven Against Thebes, Prometheus Bound

January 26, 2016Posted in Book reviews, Great Books, Humanities

I managed to finish reading the four remaining plays by Aeschylus in Volume 4 of GBWW this weekend. As I…

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Aeschylus’s Oresteia: Part 2, The Libation Bearers and The Eumenides

January 20, 2016Posted in Book reviews, Great Books, Humanities

I managed to resume my reading of the rest of the Oresteia trilogy this week after previously having read and wrote about Agamemnon,…

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