Classics Book Discussion
Last Tuesday each month at 5:00 pm

Come wander with us, along the thread that connects the great works of Western literature. Sometimes veering off on a few tangents, as well! You can sign up and check out a copy of the latest title at the main service desk (1st floor).

Or, email Matt Weston mweston [at] dowagiacdl (dot) org

February 27:
The Republic (VII-X), by Plato (Allan Bloom, trans.)

March 26:
Silas Marner, by George Eliot

April 30:
The Poetic Edda, (Carolyne Larrington, trans.)

Past discussions:

The Iliad, by Homer/Fagles translation
The Odyssey, by Homer/Fagles translation
Ulysses, by James Joyce
Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, and The Eumenides, by Aeschylus
The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas
The Aeneid, by Virgil
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark; Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
& one selection from The Arabian Nights by René Bull.
The Inferno, by Dante Alighieri
Purgatorio & Paradiso, by Dante Alighieri
Aeschylus (Seven Against Thebes, The Persians, The Suppliant Maidens)
Sophocles (Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus)
Euripides (Alcestis, Medea, Children of Heracles, and Hippolytus)
Paradise Lost, by John Milton
The Red Badge of Courage (and other short stories & poetry) by Stephen Crane
Jaws, by Peter Benchley
The Federalist Papers (selections), by Alexander Hamilton, et. al.
The Once and Future King, by T.H. White
Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo by Plato
The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War
The Landmark Arrian: The Campaigns of Alexander, by Arrian
Gulliver’s Travels (Penguin Classics), by Jonathan Swift
Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison
Second Treatise of Government, by John Locke
A Discourse on Inequality, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Prince, by Niccolo Machiavelli
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, by Ken Kesey
The Taming of the Shrew, by William Shakespeare
Macbeth, by William Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice, by William Shakespeare
Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus, by Mary Shelley
The Woodlanders, by Thomas Hardy
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings, by Charles Dickens