Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Greek reads

I promised when I blogged for The Lipstick Chronicles that I would post the list of books I'm reading before my trip. Most of these were recommended to me by the wonderful Gillian Roberts, but I've added a few of my own. I'm also open to other suggestions...

Homer: Iliad, The Odyssey (Fagels translations--this guy is one of my literary heroes)
Sophocles: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonnus, Antigone
Plato, Republic, Bks I, II, VII, IX; Apology; Crito; Symposium
Aristophanes: Clouds; Lysistrata
Aristotle: Nichomachean Ethics, Bks I-III, VIII
Aeschylus: Agamemmnon, Libation Bearers, Eumenides
Euripedes: Electra
Thucydides, Peloponnesian War, Bks. II, III, V (ch 17) VI, VII
Frank Miller: 300

The "Eyewitness" guides by DK: Greece (Athens and the Mainland), The Greek Islands

There will probably be more, and there are luscious, luscious maps to pore over (me loves me some maps!), but for now...hey, it's keeping me off the streets.

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