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Jun 9 2011 11:56am
School's out. What do you recommend for reading this summer.

So far on the list:

1. Homer's Ilead
2. Homer's Odyssey
3. Virgil's Aeneid
4. Plato's Republic
5. Aristotle's Ethics

Please suggest others. :D
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Jun 9 2011 03:47pm
Homers Ilead and Odyssey might seem a bit weird at times as it is written in prose. Plato would be my favorite out of that list, dont know Virgils work though.
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Jun 10 2011 12:53am
You should definitely start with the Iliad and Odyssey if you want to get into Ancient Greece. If you can get ahold of the Lattimore translations you shouldn't have any trouble. I've never really found an Aeneid translation that I really liked, but that's Roman anyway. if you are focusing on Greece, I'd wait on that. If you are going to read philosophy, I'd start with the Socratic dialogues, then Plato, then Aristotle. The progression will make more sense. Other things I'd suggest:

Plays by Sophocles, Euripides, and, Aeschylus
Herodotus' History (first real attempt at history--kind of long, but some amusing parts; more worth skimming than reading entirely)
Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War (first real political history/science--probably the best history of a war ever written--at least the most influential)
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Jun 11 2011 01:04pm
if you like the old classics:

dantes inferno
tale of two cities
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