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

Every month the Classics Club asks its members a question about their reading, or sets them a small challenge. These things are totally optional, and I haven’t partaken as yet. At least, not until now.

The current challenge is called a Classics Spin. Instructions are to take 20 titles from your identified to-read list, number them 1-20, and on Monday 7th March, they will announce a number between 1 and 20. Members are then challenged to read the corresponding title from their own lists matching that number by the 2nd May. i can imagine someone somewhere ready with a gigantic chocolate wheel, or blindfolded and aiming at a dartboard, but the reality is probably an online random number generator such as https://www.random.org/

As it is reasonably important to my project to read my titles in their specific order, I wondered how I could apply this challenge to my list. Since the next couple of dozen titles I have are short plays, what I have decided is to list the next twenty plays, and when the Club announces the target number, try to read all the titles up to that number before the due date in May. So readers of this blog (yes, both of you!) will hopefully see a lot more activity in March and April.

The list is

1. Sophocles : The Trachiniae (Women of Trachis)
2. Euripides : The Heracleidae (Children of Heracles)
3. Sophocles : Oedipus the King
4. Euripides : Hippolytus
5. Euripides : Andromache
6. Aristophanes : The Acharnians
7. Euripides : Hecuba
8. Aristophanes : The Knights
9. Euripides : The Suppliants
10. Aristophanes : The Wasps
11. Aristophanes : Peace
12. Euripides : Electra
13. Aristophanes : The Clouds
14. Euripides : Heracles
15. Aristophanes : The Birds
16. Euripides : Ion
17. Euripides : Iphigenia among the Taurians
18. Euripides : Helen
19. Aristophanes : The Thesmophoriazusae
20. Aristophanes : Lysistrata

I will come back on Monday and let you know the number.