A Reading Odyssey

Aeschylus update

Folks,

How's the reading of "The Persians" going?

Phil

P.S. We went to the Harvard Club in New York last night to hear a Professor lecture on Ovid, the Roman poet. It was GREAT. Can't wait until we read Ovid (the professor agreed to come onto the phone and speak to us).

Next book: Aeschylus

Folks,

I'm finally back from travels and ready to start our next book:

        Aeschylus II (start with "Persians")

Buy it from Amazon: http://tinyurl.com/92ess. This is the University of Chicago Edition.

I'll send out another note shortly with a date to discuss. We'll be doing several playwrights through the holiday season then we'll tackle Thucydides come January.

Thanks!

Phil

Aeschylus next

Folks,

Pat and I are choosing the edition of Aeschylus that we'll be reading next and will get that to you shortly.

Meanwhile, I'm sending a clip from yesterday's NY Times about an archaeological discovery that may confirm the burial of Patroclus that Homer describes in "The Illiad".

Anyone want to go to Athens to  to the Museum of Cycladic Art to check it out? ;-)

Phil

P.S. After plays by Aeschylus and several other Greek playwrights this fall, we'll tackle Thucydides sometime in the new year.

ADVISORY: TRAVEL NOTES; A Look at Achilles' Time
By GERALDINE FABRIKANT
http://tinyurl.com/bosuy

In ''The Iliad,'' Homer writes about the burial of the war hero Patroclus, who had battled the Trojans and was slain. His great friend Achilles saw to the burial, and in the ancient tradition Patroclus was burned on a funeral pyre while 12 Trojan soldiers were sacrificed nearby in an act of ritual vengeance.

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