We can start discussing as comments to this post. Info on the time and location of the Corvallis
colloquium* is coming soon. We are still looking into an online group for those who live elsewhere, are
not able to make it to the colloquium or are at the discussion and cannot help but be our over-achievers.
It should take about an hour per to read this if you read every day, but that is a very general estimate, so be sure you are staying on top of it. This first reading is so interesting. Plato before a court, then with a
friend. Then, Aristophanes, a surprising comedian of Greek times, and critic of Socrates.
October 2013
PLATO: APOLOGY, CRITO Vol. 7, pp. 200-219
ARISTOPHANES: CLOUDS, LYSISTRATA Vol. 5, pp. 488-506, 583-599
*Colloquium, in this case, basically means discussion of a shared experience.
I have purchased my set of great books. Amazon was pretty reasonable, looking forward to receiving them in the mail (and readin them)!
ReplyDeleteI just read Lysistrata from the Gutenberg Project online* and it was very sexual in nature, so I will just give you that warning before you consider watching any productions on youtube or something, and for those youth or who have youth. Feel free to replace this with another writing of Plato's or a Shakespeare play that isn't in our reading plan.**
ReplyDelete* http://www.gutenberg.org/files/7700/7700-h/7700-h.htm
**Midsummer Night's Dream is one that I don't think we'll be reading, look at the Angelfire site on the MS Doc of all ten years to see what else isn't listed.
I missed the discussion on this. Was there ever an online makeup discussion? Is there one planned? Thanks!
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Not yet, I am just about to post & send out an announcement about it. So go to the newest post.
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