Please note this is not intended to be a comprehensive coverage of the play (despite my logorrhea and multiple posts), just a few notes on the play that I find interesting. I’m rusty at this, but let’s give it a go. Original performance, 472 BCE The tetralogy of plays at the Great Dionysia of 472 […]
I’m going to cover some of the introductory chapters from Aeschylus in case they may help you read some of his plays. Herington’s prose is clear and to the point in these chapters and reveal much about the backdrop against which Aeschylus was writing. Herington explores what we could term Aeschylus’ world view which can […]
If you’re planning on tackling some of the ancient Greek plays or other ancient Greek or Roman literature, I’d like to recommend the Hermes Books series from Yale University Press. I think I found all but one of my books from the series in used bookstores. I’ll post a few comments from John Herington’s text […]
Amateur Reader at Wuthering Expectations will be hosting a read-along of all the ancient Greek plays this year. The order of the plays can be found at this post. The schedule is one play a week, with his posts about them on or around each Friday. The first play is Aeschylus’ The Persians, starting on […]
Join the world’s largest Dante reading group. Starting September 8th and ending on Easter 2022, we will read three cantos a week, learning from teachers who know and love Dante well. (Full site coming soon) — 100 Days of Dante Baylor University’s Honors College is hosting what it call “the world’s largest Dante reading group” […]
Sad news: Donald Kagan, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Classics and History, prominent for his scholarship, teaching, and social and political commentary, and a longtime colorful figure at Yale, died Aug. 6 in a Washington D.C. retirement home. He was 89. Kagan, who came to Yale in 1969, was a distinguished scholar of Ancient Greek history. […]
The Landmark Ancient Histories has been one of my favorite editions for reading ancient texts. They have long mentioned upcoming editions of Polybius and Xenophon’s Anabasis as “forthcoming” on their website. Yesterday I stumbled across the listing of their edition of Anabasis on Amazon and promptly pre-ordered it. I fully expect the December 7th release […]
Welcome! I have wanted to have my own site for quite a while, so I’m giving it a try. The theme will eventually change and links may or may not work right now. My tags/categories did not transfer quite like I wanted, so I’ll be working on getting those updated. I’m sure there are other […]
St. John’s College brochure for their Summer Classics program came today and there are several tempting seminars I’d love to take. They should update their information page to reflect this year’s program (The Examined Life) in the next few days so you can see in detail what they will cover. It looks like there will […]
Undula by Bruno Schulz Translation and Afterword by Frank Garrett Seattle: Sublunary Editions, 2020 Paperback, 42 pages Time trickles with the kerosene lamp’s faint hissing. Old equipemnt rattles and creaks in the silence. Besides me in the depths of the room there are the shadows, pointy, crooked in shard, who skulk and cheme. They stretch […]