Sunday, 26 July 2026

Joined by guests Matteo, Bianca from the University of Bologna
As well as Nikita’s friend Katy, visiting us from NY

Person	Review (1–10)
Andrew	5
Matteo	6
Nikita	6
Bianca	7
Katy	7
Elisa	8
Spence	8
Ben	TBD

See discussion notes

Major works meeting

Continuing De Rerum Natura
Resuming from midway around line 640 of Book VI, Weather and the Earth
Ending with finishing Book VI and the whole poem
Next week we’ll begin reading Theocritus (Idylls I, VII, XI, XIV, XV)

Minor works meeting

Continuing Sophist
Starting from the beginning of after 244d
Stopping just before 249a

Sophist reminder for next week:

[Elisa]: we discussed the differences between the one, a whole, and “that which is” and being. We realized the one must have no parts and also either can’t be or is somehow is and isn’t. That which is must be a whole, because it encompasses everything. Yet the trouble comes down to everything being one, which is indivisible, and including the whole, and also the contradiction between having a name and an account or just a name. We then moved on to discussing being and becoming.

Sunday, 26 July 2026

Special pre-meeting to discuss Nolan’s The Odyssey

Major works meeting

Minor works meeting

Sophist reminder for next week:

Progress: De rerum natura

Progress: Sophist

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