Yes, the Classics Club have announced another spin. The challenge for classics lovers is to create a list of 20 titles and when the random spin is announced next Friday, the challenge is to read the correspondingly numbered title by May 1. See more at https://theclassicsclubblog.wordpress.com
Since my readings for this blog are in roughly chronological order, I am loathe to skip titles to get to the one matching the number, so what I have tried in the past is to read all titles up to the one matching the number by the deadline, and have been mostly successful so far.
I was going to give it a miss this time, as I have a few things on my plate right now, but what the heck – I happen to have twenty titles left of the 4th century (most of them Aristotle) so maybe this will help push me through. Here goes…wish me luck.
| 1 | Historia animalium (History of animals) | Aristotle |
| 2 | De partibus animalium (On parts of animals) | Aristotle |
| 3 | De motu animalium (On motion of animals) | Aristotle |
| 4 | De generatione animalium (On generation of animals) | Aristotle |
| 5 | Organon (logic) | Aristotle |
| 6 | Metaphysics | Aristotle |
| 7 | Nicomachean Ethics | Aristotle |
| 8 | Poetics | Aristotle |
| 9 | Politics | Aristotle |
| 10 | Rhetoric | Aristotle |
| 11 | The Athenian Constitution | Aristotle |
| 12 | Physics | Aristotle |
| 13 | speeches | Demosthenes |
| 14 | Enquiry into plants | Theophrastus |
| 15 | Characters | Theophrastus |
| 16 | Dyskolos | Menander |
| 17 | Elements of Geometry (c. 300 BC) | Euclid |
| 18 | Writings | Zhuangzi |
| 19 | Writings | Mencius |
| 20 | The Old Testament : the Prophets |
Haha! It will be no surprise to learn I’ve read precisely none of your list! Hope you get one you enjoy – I hope you get Nicomachean Ethics, since I’d quite like to find out what that is… 😉
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I must confess my list does not fill me with joy (sorry, Marie Kondo) but it will make the likes of Elizabethan drama all the more sweeter when I get there in a couple of years’ time (gak!)
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Physics….Well, that should keep you out of trouble 🙂
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That sounds like famous last words 🙂
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