A Momentary Taste of Being

Dwight shares his experience reading Arrian and encourages up to take Reading Odyssey up on some future courses.

The Common Reader continues to share wonderful insights into Arrian's work. Go to the main page and look back over the last several days--the work is wonderful, the insights worthwhile.  Would that we all took the time to go back and read and learn from these classics.

The Common Reader, who is most decidedly an uncommon reader, takes on Arrian. And then starts his reading and analysis I have had this one for a while to read, but the debris of all the more recent publications simply drowns it.

Thucydides hates realists

I don't have the Landmark Arrian , wasn't even aware of its availability.   Looks like I need to add a book to my list.

http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/stratblog/2011/02/17/rapporteurs-report-the-peloponnesian-war-by-thucydides/

Thucydides on American Foreign Policy Wonderful reading.  A glance tells us why reading the classics is a good practice beyond the mere exercise for the mind.

Oedipus with Vegetables

The End of the War and a summative post featuring Auden

The Peloponnesian War

Gloomier winter for Athens in The Peloponnesian War

In ancient Greece

Peloponnesian War continued

The Peloponnesian war continues in Syracuse The notes that the Common Reader posts are really both interesting and quite helpful as a companion read.  If you've never indulged in Thucydides, you would do well to avail yourself of this marvelous series of insights into one of the great histories of ancient times.

For those following our intrepid Greeks

Revisiting the endless war

An interchange on The Oresteia

Yep, now enriched with Video,  the Peloponnesian war now in its 300th decade!

Considering Delium

Homeric translations online Richmond Lattimore interlineal translation Richmond Lattimore was THE definitive translation before the most recent by Robert Fagles, and probably the one many of us received our introduction to Homer through.  Seeing it played out against the Greek text (even though I read only a little Greek) is indeed lovely.