How was your year when it came to reading? I decided to…
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How was your year when it came to reading?
I decided to start reading the Greeks this year. I'm so happy I decided to. Not only did I thoroughly enjoy these works, I felt like I learned a lot about history, culture, myth, and the human condition in the process. I was challenged and felt like I grew.
This year, I read
1. The Iliad (Lattimore) 564 (with notes)
2. The Odyssey (Fagles) 514 (with notes)
3. Herodotus (Landmark edition) 878! (with notes and appendices)
4. Thucydides (Hammond) 685 (with notes)
5. Sophocles (Fagles) 407 (with essays and notes)
6. Hesiod (Lombardo) 103 (with notes)
Totaling 3,151 pages, which was great for me.
My favorite book (as well as the longest) was Herodotus' "Histories". The Landmark Edition made it all the more enjoyable to read with its notes and maps. At times I felt like a kid cosplaying as Indiana Jones, trying to wrap my mind around all of the information Herodotus presented. I absolutely loved the experience of reading this book for the first time.
My least favorite was the Iliad. As much as I love lists of ships and chapters upon chapters of random side characters being killed... I just found it to be kind of a slog. The Odyssey was significantly more enjoyable.
The hardest was Thucydides. I struggled to get a feel for his pacing and his prose. I think my average pace with him for the first half was about 10 pages per hour. Thank god for footnotes and Google. But by the end of his book, I did come to appreciate him, and I hold the speeches and dialogues in incredibly high esteem. I can see why Pericles' Funeral Speech is so revered, among others.
How was your year? What books did you read and how did they affect you?
#entertainment
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I decided to start reading the Greeks this year. I'm so happy I decided to. Not only did I thoroughly enjoy these works, I felt like I learned a lot about history, culture, myth, and the human condition in the process. I was challenged and felt like I grew.
This year, I read
1. The Iliad (Lattimore) 564 (with notes)
2. The Odyssey (Fagles) 514 (with notes)
3. Herodotus (Landmark edition) 878! (with notes and appendices)
4. Thucydides (Hammond) 685 (with notes)
5. Sophocles (Fagles) 407 (with essays and notes)
6. Hesiod (Lombardo) 103 (with notes)
Totaling 3,151 pages, which was great for me.
My favorite book (as well as the longest) was Herodotus' "Histories". The Landmark Edition made it all the more enjoyable to read with its notes and maps. At times I felt like a kid cosplaying as Indiana Jones, trying to wrap my mind around all of the information Herodotus presented. I absolutely loved the experience of reading this book for the first time.
My least favorite was the Iliad. As much as I love lists of ships and chapters upon chapters of random side characters being killed... I just found it to be kind of a slog. The Odyssey was significantly more enjoyable.
The hardest was Thucydides. I struggled to get a feel for his pacing and his prose. I think my average pace with him for the first half was about 10 pages per hour. Thank god for footnotes and Google. But by the end of his book, I did come to appreciate him, and I hold the speeches and dialogues in incredibly high esteem. I can see why Pericles' Funeral Speech is so revered, among others.
How was your year? What books did you read and how did they affect you?
#entertainment
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