I am halfway through the Iliad by Homer (my copy is a Penguin edition edited by E. V. Rieu). but looking forward a little, I thought I would post the likely titles for August. In my order, they are
- The Odyssey (Homer)
- The Book of Songs, or Shih Ching (Chinese poetry, roughly contemporary to Homer)
- The Book of Changes, or I Ching (Chinese book of divination)
- The Upanishads
- Theogony, and Works and Days (Hesiod) c. 700 BC
- Elegies (Theognis)
- The Homeric Hymns (not written by Homer 🙂 )
That should be enough to be going along with for now. Happy reading, and watch for my review of The Iliad in coming days.
