Required texts. If you want to buy a couple books for this group, these are the ones to get. >The Iliad >The Odyssey >Sarah B. Pomeroy. A Brief History of Ancient Greece: A Political, Social, and Cultural History >Any edition, and either the full one or the Brief one
Optional texts: >Stephen Trzaskoma. Anthology Of Classical Myth: Primary Sources in Translation (ACM) >Edith Hamilton. Mythology
Image is of Zeus wielding a lightning bolt while an eagle perches on his other hand. Louvre G204.
The average daily reading load is about 30 pages. There will be catch-up days throughout, and the pace is subject to change.
If some of the content doesn't interest you, you are free to skip it.
Ethan Richardson
Timeline of important literary figures in the Archaic Period.
Levi Cox
Pop Quiz
Define the following terms: >archon >oikist >thetes >agora >symposium
Isaiah Watson
I'm about 6 books into the Iliad and holy shit does this thing show it's age. I think the thing I hate most about it is the number of times one character will say something, then tell another character to tell someone else and they repeat it word for word. It's interesting how it views war though. You have people stabbing each other in the gut, through the neck, in the eye socket and men falling over dead all over the place and yet you still have the two sides coming together every so often for a 3 page long dialogue. It's kind of jarring since my modern sensibility forces me to wonder if they can get along so well, pray to the same gods and exchange gifts why can't they just declare peace. It all seems like such a meaningless waste of life.
Jordan Morales
>symposium drinking party
>agora central square of the polis
Eli Flores
>It's kind of jarring since my modern sensibility forces me to wonder if they can get along so well, pray to the same gods and exchange gifts why can't they just declare peace.
Really?
Easton Hernandez
WW1 was the most pointless war in history.
Logan Walker
>WW1 >Modern
Ryan Barnes
This was really good and really makes u think, anyone finishing The Iliad should give this a read considering it's only 50 pages.
