The meta-literary bloggers website Classics Club (https://theclassicsclubblog.wordpress.com/author/theclassicsclubblog/) is running another spin starting Monday June 6 and finishing August 1. The idea is to pick 20 of your to-read books, and when the spin number (1-20) is announced on Monday, to read your corresponding book before the August deadline.
My spin on their spin (which I achieved – just – last time) is to read up to their number before the deadline e.g. if the number is 14, I have to read all books 1-14 on my list. Since I have at least 20 Greek plays in order to read next before striking out into the more intellectual forests of Plato and Aristotle, this seems a good way of pushing through. Wish me luck!
So my next twenty books are, in order,
| 1 | Electra | Euripides |
| 2 | Heracles | Euripides |
| 3 | The women of Troy | Euripides |
| 4 | The Birds | Aristophanes |
| 5 | Ion | Euripides |
| 6 | Iphigenia among the Taurians | Euripides |
| 7 | Helen | Euripides |
| 8 | The Thesmophoriazusae | Aristophanes |
| 9 | Lysistrata | Aristophanes |
| 10 | The Phonecian Women | Euripides |
| 11 | Philoctetes | Sophocles |
| 12 | The Cyclops | Euripides |
| 13 | Orestes | Euripides |
| 14 | Oedipus at Colonus | Sophocles |
| 15 | Electra | Sophocles |
| 16 | The Bacchae | Euripides |
| 17 | Iphigenia at Aulis | Euripides |
| 18 | The Frogs | Aristophanes |
| 19 | The Ecclesiazusae (Assemblywomen) | Aristophanes |
| 20 | Wealth | Aristophanes |
Hope you can stay warm and dry this weekend.
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May not have much choice. I was hoping to get outside for a spot of geocaching as well, but looks more like a books and movies weekend
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Wow, feels like I’m back in school! (I’m Greek and we had to study the plays). I hope, ehichever you get, you’ll enjoy it 🙂
My list: http://thereadingarmchair.blogspot.gr/2016/06/the-classics-club-spin-13.html
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Great list! Some I haven’t read, and the only ones I’ve read but didn’t like is Wealth by Aristophanes. Plan on revisiting that with a different translation. I prefer early Aristophanes, I think 🙂
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Way to read down your list! I have NO Greek works on my list, but at some point I should do a classics jag. I have not read or seen any since school.
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