Thoughts about reading fiction, nonfiction, and children’s books, new and old
Subject Tag: really old classics challenge
Really Old Classics Challenge Reviews
Written by Rebecca Reid on Thursday, October 2, 2008 Filed under: ChallengesIf 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.
Thanks, and enjoy!
Really Old Classics Challenge
Written by Rebecca Reid on Wednesday, October 1, 2008 Filed under: ChallengesChildren 2,000 years ago read and memorized Virgil and Homer, and Aesop’s Fables were common knowledge. Even 200 years ago these classics were widely read. Now, there are thousands of new books published each year. But what about those really old ones? Have we read those yet? Any of them?
That’s why I’ve decided to host [...]
Really Old Classics
Written by Rebecca Reid on Wednesday, October 1, 2008 Filed under: UncategorizedHere is a sample of some Really Old Classics that were written pre-Shakespeare (i.e., pre-1600s). This list is, of course, not exclusive. You can purchase books through my Amazon Store.
Gilgamesh
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Holy Bible
The Apocrypha
Bhagavad-Gita
Homer Iliad, Odyssey
Aeschylus Oresteia, Seven Against Thebes, Prometheus Bound,
Sophocles Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone
Euripides Orestes
Aristophanes
Herodotus The Histories
Thucydides The [...]
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This blog is a collection of my thoughts about books and reading and reviews of books I've read. I'd love to hear your thoughts, too. Please share!
From October 2008-July 2009, I'm hosting the Really Old Classics Challenge.
Also, as an ongoing personal challenge, I'm reading all the works on the How to Read and Why reading list compiled by Harold Bloom. I'd love for you to either join me in this challenge or to follow along with me as I try to learn to read well.
