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| Dormant: Bug Collectors : Problems w/ Touchstones | | 32 | AnnaClaire, November 2007 | |
| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 27 October 2007 | | 127 | philosojerk, November 2007 | |
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| Dormant: poetry in translation : good, better , best and terrible translations and translators/editions | | 12 | Robertgreaves, August 2007 | |
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| The Green Dragon : Have you bought and books lately? Do tell! | | 298 | AnnaClaire, February 17 |
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| Dormant: The Green Dragon : High school curriculum | | 123 | aviddiva, November 2007 |
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| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 20 October 2007 | | 174 | celestria, October 2007 |
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Fathers and Sons Ivan Turgenev
Night, Mother Kurt Vonnegut
Oedipus the King Sophocles
Autobiography of Mother Jones
Finding My Father Rod McKuen ... I got several off the 10 for $1.00 kids' books, and got 15 for myself... and one for BookMooch.
For myself:
Sophocles I
Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon and Beloved
Dickens' Hard Times and Great Expectations
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
Billy Budd by He ... New Lifetime Reading Plan
1. The Analects, Confucius
2. Three Theban Plays, Sophocles
3. Electra and Other Plays, Euripides
4. Medea and Other Plays, Euripides
5. Bacchae and Other Plays, Euripides
6. The Histories, Herodotus
7. The History of the Peloponnesian War, T ... ... but here goes:
The Bible
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Iliad
The Odyssey
Le Petit Prince
The Oresteia
Sophocles' Theban Plays
The Republic
The Arabian Nights
The Communist Manifesto ...
7. Lord of the Rings
8. Pride and Prejudice
9. His Dark Materials
10. Le Petit Prince
11. The Odyssey
12. The Theban Plays
13. Romeo and Juliet
14. Anna Karenina
15, War and Peace
16. A Wrinkle in Time
17. Macbeth
18. The Aeneid
19. The Republic
20. The Or ... Looking at the Theban Plays and Alice in Wonderland pages, in both cases the secondary window is centered on the upper left corner of the screen, not floating in the middle. There's nothing available for me to grab to bring it back, so I can only see one quarter of it.
Running Windows XP, IE ... Some remakes from antiquity:
Satyricon by William J. Bennett
The Golden Ass by Paris Hilton
Oedipus the King by George W. Bush
Aristotle's Poetics by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Lysistrata by Don Imus
The Collected Poems of A.E. Housman
Robinson Jeffers Selected poems
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Oedipus Plays of Sophocles
Waiting for Godot Samuel Beckett 1. The Oedipus Cycle by Sophocles
2. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
3. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini ... now that's horror), another classic of this nature is Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, but back to the Greeks, read Three Theban Plays (touch the stone for details) by Sophocles. The word tragedy was coined for his works, well not really, but no one has written tragedy as well as he ... I'm a HS English teacher and I'm prepping two new units. I'll be reading the Oedipus Cycle, Emerson, Whitman, Thoreau, and others, in preparation for the new units. But in personal reading, I'm going to work on, and hopefully finish, Perdido Street Station by China Mieville. ... read now will it? I'm in 12th grade now, here's what we've read in chronological order, (mostly anyway):
Julius Caesar
The Oedipus Cycle
The Odyssey
Lord of the Flies
The Canterbury Tales
The Decameron (parts of)
Jane Eyre
Walden (parts of)
Secret Life of Bees
Lovely B ... ... culture by Walter Burkert
o 881 Classical Greek poetry
o 882 Classical Greek drama - The three Theban plays by Sophocles
o 883 Classical Greek epic poetry & fiction
o 884 Classical Greek lyric poetry
o 885 Classical G ... The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles translated by Paul Roche couldn't survive my 50 page rule. I don't know if it was because I know the story too well already, have been reading too much about the Greeks lately, too long ago or maybe the translation, but I gave up on it.
Now I'm reading At L ... ... Companion to the Ilaid by Malcolm M. Willcock. Just to stay with the Greeks I started Paul Roche's translation of The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles.
Touchstones not working for some titles. ... Companion to the Ilaid by Malcolm M. Willcock. Just to stay with the Greeks I started Paul Roche's translation of The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles. ... fiction: Don Quixote
873--Latin epic poetry & fiction: The Aeneid
880--Hellenic literatures; Classical Greek: Oedipus
882--Classical Greek drama: The Oresteia
883--Classical Greek epic poetry & fiction: The Odyssey
888--Classical Greek miscellaneous writings: Protagoras ... 43. The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles translated by Paul Roche
44. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen ... department hallway* revealled a box of free books some kindly professor was giving away! I snatched up Sophocles's The Theban Plays and Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
* I work in a university ... Robert Fagles. I have approximately zero competency with Latin and Greek, but I love his translations - Sophocles' The Three Theban Plays, Homer's epics and most recently Virgil's Aeneid (haven't finished the latter translation yet) - they all have a fluidity, pace and idiom ... ... in the World, Inside Javascript, Look Away!, Dictionary of Roman Religion, The Last Best League, Amazonia, Trachiniae, Wikinomics, Don't Make Me Think!
That's a random selection of books I can see from chair. The only one that turned up wrong on the first try was Amazonia ... ... :P):
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
Jane Eyre
The Member of the Wedding
Romeo and Juliet
The Robe
Oedipus Rex
Oedipus the King
Antigone
Rebecca
The Great Gatsby
A Farewell to Arms
Lost Horizon
Brave New World
The Things They Carried
O Pioneers
... ... ng)
The Odyssey by Homer Fagles
Old Testament KJV Job, Genesis
Greek Lyrics by Lattimore
Agamemnon by Aeschylus
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
Histories by Herodotus
Medea by Euripedes
Hippolytus by Euripedes
The Bacchae by Euripedes
The Birds by Aristophanes
The Clouds ... My daughter is a Freshman in high school. So far I believe she's read To Kill a Mockingbird, The Odyssey and Oedipus Rex. ... all-around lousy reads.
Don't misunderstand me, please - sex, incest and torture can be great topics for drama (think Oedipus Rex, Marathon Man, half of Shakespeare's plays - but Andrews was a terrible writer. A terrible storyteller. And a millionaire, of course...
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