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Thirty-three Greek tragedies by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides survive. For novices like me, I recommend reading them in mythological order for a more coherent experience. Here's a suggested reading order by Epic Cycle and Mythological timeline: booksoftitans.com/p/greek-traged…

Do you think the lost epics and tragedies of the past will be accessible in heaven?

Morning reading: book 2 of the fragments of Euripides. I’m reading about the lost plays of Euripides and what we know of the stories from references, fragments, and vase paintings. It’s sad to think of how many plays have been lost.

What reading order would you suggest to a newbie for the Greek Tragedies? I read them in a haphazard manner but propose a mythic coherence approach in this article - booksoftitans.com/p/greek-traged…

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“Virtue does not perish even if a man dies, but lives on when his body is no more. With cowards everything dies and is lost beneath the earth.” ~ a fragment from Temenidae, a lost tragedy by Euripides

Episode 250 of the podcast is up. I talk about Greek Tragedy and the experience of reading through all surviving plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. booksoftitans.com/p/reading-the-…

In the latest episode of the podcast, I share my 7 favorite Greek tragedy plays. Most of them never make Great Books lists. There are some real gems in the 33 that survive from Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides: booksoftitans.com/p/reading-the-…

Finished reading the fragments of Euripides this morning, thus concluding my journey through the Greek Tragedies. It was an incredible experience. Now onto Aristophanes and the comedies!

Current status: making the jump from the tragedies to the comedies starting with Aaron Poochigian's translation of Aristophanes.

I'm on a 15 year reading journey through The Immortal Books by 200 authors in chronological order. I finished the 15th author/set this morning and only have 185 to go 😉. Here's what I've read so far and what's coming up next: 1. Enheduana 2. Gilgamesh 3. Writings from Ancient

This was the translation that jumpstarted Penguin Classics. A generation who had experienced war firsthand read this clear prose version with new eyes. And Rieu began it to distract his family in London during the Blitz, reading them new episodes as the bombs fell.

I started reading Aristophanes this morning for the first time in my life. I’m dedicating June to all 11 of his surviving comedy plays using these books from bottom to top. Here’s the plan: Clouds, Birds, Lysistrata, Women of the Assembly (Aaron Aaron Poochigian Translation) The

Does anyone know if Socrates attended the performance of Aristophanes' Clouds at the City Dionysia? Aaron Poochigian

Erik Rostad (Books of Titans) Plato implies, in the "Apology," that Socrates attended the production of "Clouds" in the Theater of Dionysus. The City Dionysia (at which "Clouds" was performed) was a major festival, and Athenians were eager to attend the dramatic productions. Socrates very likely was there.