New Project: Ides of March...and all of April

10:18 pm 5 March 2020
Classics: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) - Mary Beard, John Henderson Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures and Innovations - Mary Beard SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome - Mary Beard Frogs and Other Plays - Aristophanes, David B. Barrett, Shomit Dutta The Persians and Other Plays - Alan Sommerstein, Alan H. Sommerstein, Aeschylus Medea and Other Plays - John Davie, Euripides, Richard Rutherford The Oresteia: Agamemnon / The Libation Bearers / The Eumenides - William Bedell Stanford, Aeschylus, Robert Fagles

Having finished three underwhelming books in a row, I need something good.

 

While I will also pick up Woolf's A Room of One's Own (in celebration of having my flat back after the window-fitting has finished) and have high hopes for that one, I'm also hankering for some reads about Ancient Greece and Rome.

 

I'll leave it to your opinion whether this was inspired by starting to read Mary Beard's Confronting the Classics, but let's say that I've had a lot of fun spending time in Ancient Greece last August and have been wanting to embark on a similar project for some time. 

 

So, while I'm getting an introduction to the Classics provided by Mary Beard, I'll kick off the project on the Ides of March with a read of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar followed by as many of the listed titles I can get to all the way through April. 

And as many of these are also on my physical shelves, this should tie in nicely with my 2020 Mt. TBR Project.

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