This is the list for the second year of readings. Thought it might be nice for people to be able to plan ahead. I won't be linking to Amazon or B&N any more as it seems that link drift kills off any helpful aspect. And it isn't too difficult to find the items through their websites. Instead I'll simply link to the Project Gutenberg edition or similar.
I'm curious which of these pieces people are looking forward to. Or if any of my more well read fellow travelers have comments on the year ahead.
January
Homer: The Iliad link
February
Aeschylus: Agamemnon, Choephoroe, Eumenides link, link, link
Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Antigone link
March
Herodotus: The History (Book 1 and 2) link
April
Plato: Meno link
Aristotle: Poetics link
Aristotle: Ethics (Book 2, Book 3 Ch. 5-12, Book 6 Ch. 8-13) link
May
Nicomachus: Introduction to Arithmetic link
June
Lucretius: On the Nature of Things (Book1-4) link
July
Marcus Aurelius: Meditations link
August
Hobbes: Leviathan (Part 1) link
Milton: Areopagitica link
September
Pascal: Pensees (72, 82-83, 100, 128, 131, 139, 142-143, 171, 194-195, 219, 229, 233-234, 242, 277, 282, 289, 298, 303, 320, 323, 325, 330-331, 374, 385, 392, 395-397, 409, 412-413, 416, 418, 425, 430, 434-435, 463, 491, 525-531, 538, 543, 547, 553, 556, 564, 571, 586, 598, 607-610, 613, 619-620, 631, 640, 644, 673, 675, 684, 692-693, 737, 760, 768, 792-793)* link
Pascal: Treatise on the Arithmetical Triangle link
*think of these as being like 'proverbs'
October
Swift: Gulliver's Travels link
November
Rousseau: A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality link
Kant: Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals link
December
Mill: On Liberty link
Overall the year two readings seem more up my alley than year one. I'm looking forward to read the fictional books (Homer, Sophocles, Euripedes, Swift), as well as Pascal's Pensees, Herodotus' History, Plato and Lucretius. I'm not to excited about revisiting Rousseau and reading Nichomachus (math and I will never be friends) and Mill's On Liberty.
ReplyDeleteI've read Herodutus before, and parts of Marcus Aurelius. Gulliver has been on my 'to read' list for some time and I've never gotten to it before. I've recently run into commentary on 'Areopagitica' and 'On Liberty' and I'm kind of excited for them too.
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