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October 2, 2008

If you would like to share your reviews for the Really Old Classics Challenge, please leave a link to your post in the comments to this post.

If you do not have a blog, feel free to share your thoughts to the works you’ve read in the comments as well.

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Really Old Classics Challenge « Becky’s Challenges

[...] peek here.) This one is hosted by the fabulous Rebecca of Rebecca Reads. (Sign up on this post, post review links at this one.) The rules of this one are simple. Each participant decides for herself (or himself) how many [...]

Reply Friday, October 3, 2008 at 11:14 am
Rebecca Reid

Here’s my review of Hippolytus by Euripides.

Reply Tuesday, October 21, 2008 at 9:02 pm
Tuesday

Well, I can’t really call this a review, but I posted my thoughts on Knight’s 1959 translation of The Aeneid here

Reply Thursday, October 30, 2008 at 8:50 pm
Rebecca Reid

My review of the Fagles translation of The Iliad is here and here.

Reply Thursday, November 20, 2008 at 6:49 pm
Tuesday

I finally completed the Odyssey! My review of the Chapman & Fitzgerald translations can be found over here =]

Reply Thursday, December 4, 2008 at 5:38 pm
tuesday

Just finished The Canterbury Tales

Reply Sunday, January 25, 2009 at 11:29 pm
hopeinbrazil

I just finished reading a pretty good version of Aesop’s Fables and liked it a lot. My review: http://worthwhilebooks.blogspot.com/2009/01/aesops-fables-not-just-for-kids.html

Reply Friday, January 30, 2009 at 6:29 am
Jeska

I have posted my first review for the challenge!! It is of Le Morte D’Arthur and can be found here.

Reply Monday, February 16, 2009 at 11:52 am
Shelley

At long last I have reviewed The Iliad. My review is here:
http://blog.chainreader.com/2009/02/iliad-robert-fagles-translation.html

Reply Thursday, February 26, 2009 at 12:07 pm
Becky

Here is my review of Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. (1605/1615)

Reply Thursday, February 26, 2009 at 7:31 pm
Becky

Here is my review of the Wycliffe New Testament. I loved this one

Reply Friday, February 27, 2009 at 11:07 am
Jeska

One more finished – The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. This edition is highly recommended! (Modern English Prose Translation by David Wright)

Reply Friday, March 13, 2009 at 12:00 pm
Penny

I finished my first one for this challenge. Yay! I read The Aeneid by Virgil and my review is at http://ilovemybooks.blogspot.com/2009/03/aeneid-by-virgil-translated-by-robert.html

Reply Saturday, March 14, 2009 at 10:55 pm
Penny

Still plugging away! Finished The Prince by Machiavelli. Review is here:
http://ilovemybooks.blogspot.com/2009/04/prince-by-niccolo-machiavelli.html

Reply Tuesday, April 14, 2009 at 9:56 am
Jessica

Here is my review for Gilgamesh.

Reply Monday, April 20, 2009 at 12:55 pm
Becky

Here is my review of Tyndale’s New Testament (1534).

Reply Monday, June 8, 2009 at 9:57 am
Shelley

I’m disappointed in myself that I have not yet read the four that I planned for this challenge. I just read Gilgamesh (review here:
http://blog.chainreader.com/2009/07/hiatus.html,
but be forewarned, it’s brief and part of a list of reviews.
I ordered an illustrated copy of Beowulf that I’m excited to get to, but probably post July.
Thanks for hosting such a great challenge. I’m definitely motivated to read more ancient classics.

Reply Thursday, July 23, 2009 at 12:00 am
Rebecca Reid

Shelley, we all do what we can! I’m glad you got a few done, and I hope you enjoy Beowulf.

Reply Thursday, July 23, 2009 at 6:36 am
Rebecca Reid

My review for The Odyssey (trans. Fagles) is here and here.

My review of Utopia by Thomas More is here.

My review of The Arabian Nights trans. by Husain Haddawy is here.

Reply Sunday, July 26, 2009 at 5:10 pm

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