Posts Tagged Ancient Greeks
Ancient Greeks Tour in Retrospect
Posted by admin in Tour in Retrospect on February 8, 2011
Our Ancient Greeks Tour has come to an end. Did you miss any of the stops? What will be your next Ancient Greek read?
See where the tour visited below.
Wednesday, January 26 Lifetime Reading Plan shares thoughts on “Who was Homer?”
Wednesday, January 26 Badgerish.Net writes about The Odyssey by Homer
Wednesday, January 26 Aurelia writes about Electra by Sophocles
Thursday, January 27 2606 Books and counting writes about Lysistrata by Aristophanes
Thursday, January 27 Shelf Love writes about The Oresteia by Aeschylus
Thursday, January 27 The Literary Rapport writes about the character Electra in Euripides and Sophocles
Friday, January 28 Birdbrain(ed) Book Blog writes about The Odyssey by Homer
Friday, January 28 fictional100 writes about Oedipus the King by Sophocles
Saturday, January 29 Pining for the West writes about Protagoras and Meno by Plato
Saturday, January 29 Sasha and the Silverfish writes about Grief Lessons by Euripides, edited by Anne Carson
Saturday, January 29 Rebecca Reads writes about Poetics by Aristotle
Sunday, January 30 pages turned writes about Plato’s Selected Myths
Monday, January 31 Breathing Space writes about Lysistrata by Aristophanes
Monday, January 31 First Impressions writes about The Orestia by Aeschylus
Monday, January 31 Moored at Sea writes about Hippocrates
Tuesday, February 1 Libellule writes about The Birds by Aristophanes
Wednesday, February 2 The Reading Life writes about The Bacchae by Eurpidies
Wednesday, February 2 Fat Books & Thin Women writes about The Frogs by Aristophanes
Thursday, February 3 Notes from the North writes about Medea by Euripides
Thursday, February 3 Read the Book writes about The Iliad by Homer
Friday, February 4 A Literary Odyssey writes about Lysistrata by Aristophanes
Friday, February 4 A Common Reader writes about The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
Friday, February 4 Bibliophilopolis writes about Anabasis by Xenophon
Ancient Greeks Tour in Progress
Posted by admin in Schedules and Updates on January 29, 2011
We are now a third of the way through our Ancient Greeks tour, and there is another week of posts coming. Have you been following it? Don’t worry if you haven’t yet. Start now. The tour schedule is a sticky post on the blog. See it here. Each day, visit the Classics Circuit page to see which bloggers are welcoming the Ancient Greeks to their blog.
Enjoy!
Ancient Greeks Tour Schedule
Posted by admin in Schedules and Updates on January 3, 2011
The button for the Ancient Greeks Tour is a statue of Achilles’ last stand. I personally find Achilles as portrayed in The Iliad very fascinating, so I’m glad that folks on twitter seemed to like this picture best! This statue stands in Hyde Park in London and is dedicated by King George III to the Duke of Wellington for victorious battles. The picture was taken by flickr user swanksalot (Seth Anderson) and is used under creative Common License with attribution.
I’m really excited to read everyone’s posts about the classics Greek works, most of which I personally have not read yet. Below is the current schedule.
Do you want to join in too? We’d love to add you to the schedule! Send an email to rebecca [at] rebeccareid [dot] com with your blog name and url, the work you’d like to post about, and any date preferences.
Wednesday, January 26 Lifetime Reading Plan shares thoughts on “Who was Homer?”
Wednesday, January 26 Badgerish.Net writes about The Odyssey by Homer
Wednesday, January 26 Aurelia writes about Electra by Sophocles and/or Euripides
Thursday, January 27 2606 Books and counting writes about Lysistrata by Aristophanes
Thursday, January 27 Shelf Love writes about The Oresteia by Aeschylus
Thursday, January 27 The Literary Rapport writes about the character Electra in Euripides and Sophocles
Friday, January 28 Birdbrain(ed) Book Blog writes about The Odyssey by Homer
Friday, January 28 fictional100 writes about Oedipus the King by Sophocles
Saturday, January 29 Pining for the West writes about Protagoras and Meno by Plato
Saturday, January 29 Sasha and the Silverfish writes about a play (undecided) by Euripides
Saturday, January 29 Rebecca Reads writes about Poetics by Aristotle
Sunday, January 30 pages turned writes about Plato’s Selected Myths
Sunday, January 30 Breathing Space writes about Lysistrata by Aristophanes
Monday, January 31 First Impressions writes about The Orestia by Aeschylus
Monday, January 31 Moored at Sea writes about Hippocrates
Tuesday, February 1 A Striped Armchair writes about Grief Lessons: Four plays by Euripides trans by Anne Carson
Tuesday, February 1 Libellule writes about The Birds by Aristophanes
Wednesday, February 2 The Reading Life writes about The Bacchae by Eurpidies
Wednesday, February 2 Fat Books & Thin Women writes about The Frogs by Aristophanes
Thursday, February 3 Stiletto Storytime writes about The Histories of Herodotus’
Thursday, February 3 Notes from the North writes about Medea by Euripides
Thursday, February 3 Read the Book writes about The Iliad by Homer
Friday, February 4 A Literary Odyssey writes about Lysistrata by Aristophanes
Friday, February 4 A Common Reader writes about The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
Friday, February 4 Bibliophilopolis writes about Anabasis by Xenophon
Introduction to the Ancient Greek Classics: Sign Up for the January Tour
Posted by admin in Intro and Sign Up on December 13, 2010
Welcome to a brief introduction to Ancient Greek Classics! Below, you can read other blogger’s and reader’s thoughts on ancient works and you can sign up for the upcoming (late January) Classics Circuit tour.
Although dates are tentative, the Ancient Greek tour will probably begin Monday, January 24, 2011 and will run for between five days (ending January 28) and ten days (ending February 4), depending on the number of people who join the tour.
For this tour, you can read and write about anything written in Ancient Greece before 338 B.C.E., which was when Philip of Macedon had overtaken all the Greek city states and the Hellenistic age begins. (See note below about flexibility. We aren’t picky.) Below, I have information about epic poets, lyric poetry, Greek tragedy, Greek comedy, historians and philosophers.
About the Classics Circuit: The Classics Circuit: Ancient Greek Classics Tour is a blog tour of Ancient Greek classics. Participants select a work to read and let us know of the selection. Via email, we will assign participants a day to post about the work. On the assigned days, participants post about the work on their blogs. Participants write in their own style, for whatever length of post they’d like. After the tour is over, we will post on our site a list of permalinks to all those who participated in the tour. Note that you must have a blog to participate. Only one day will be included on the tour schedule and only one post linked to on the permalink post, although bloggers may post as many times as they want during the tour.
Get ideas of what to read after the jump.
Sign up is currently closed. If you’d still like to participate in this tour, please send an email to rebecca[at]rebeccareid[dot]com with the following information: your blog name and url, the work you’d like to read for the tour, and any date preferences.
Coming in January: Ancient Greek Classics Circuit
Posted by admin in Coming Soon on November 22, 2010
The result of the poll is the Ancient Greeks! Our late January Classics Circuit will focus on welcoming the Ancient Greeks to the blogosphere.
Sign up for the Ancient Greek Circuit will be in the middle of December. Check back in a few weeks to sign up. And don’t forget to follow the Trollope tour, starting December 6!
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