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2018 Programs
Julius Caesar
Landmark Caesar (phone-based – begins February 2018)
Come time travel with the Reading Odyssey to ancient Rome – the decline of the Roman Republic and the rise of Caesar. Caesar was one of history’s great populists (a ‘populare’ in Latin) – and with the rise of populism around the world today his writings have become even more relevant.
We’ll be reading together a selection of Caesar’s writings from the wonderful recently issued Landmark Caesar (published after a decade of work by leading scholars).
And – as always – we’ll have the scholars involved join us in some of our conversations.
Click here to register: https://Caesar2018.Eventbrite.com
See our search and tags to the right for more information on previous books from Aristotle to Darwin and Shakespeare.
Landmark Caesar – Gallic War, Book 8; Civil War, Book 9
Hi Everyone,
We had another great discussion during our Landmark Caesar reading group on Tuesday, May 8th!
You can listen to the call here.
Thanks,
Kristen
Landmark Caesar – Gallic War, Books 2-4
Hi Everyone,
We had another great discussion during our Landmark Caesar reading group on Tuesday, March 13th!
You can listen to the call here.
Thanks,
Kristen
Landmark Caesar – Introduction and Gallic War, Book 1
Hi Everyone,
We had a great discussion during our first Landmark Caesar reading group on Tuesday, February 13th!
You can listen to the call here.
Thanks,
Kristen
Greek Plays – Electra
Hi Everyone,
On August 15, 2017 we held our last Greek Plays discussion group. On this call we talked about both Sophocles’ and Euripides’ versions of “Electra”.
You can listen to our discsussion here:
Thanks!
Kristen
Greek Plays – ”Antigone”
Hi Everyone,
We had another great call in our Greek Plays series. For this month’s call, we discussed “Antigone”.
Professor Paul Cartledge was also gracious enough to join us and we had a great discussion.
You can listen here:
Thanks!
Kristen
Greek Plays – ”Oedipus the King”
Hi Everyone,
We had a great call on June 6, 2017 to discuss ”Oedipus the King” for our Greek Plays reading group.
You can listen to the discussion here:
Thanks!
Kristen
Greek Plays – “The Oresteia: Eumenides”
Hi Everyone,
We had another great call in our Greek Plays series. This time we discussed “The Oresteia: Eumenides”.
Sarah Ruden was once again gracious enough to join our discussion!
You can listen here:
Thanks,
Kristen
Landmark Caesar – Gallic War, Books 5-7
Hi Everyone,
We had another great discussion during our Landmark Caesar reading group on Tuesday, April 10th!
You can listen to the call here.
Thanks,
Kristen
11. April 2018 by Kristen Kmiec
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