Readings

Below is a reverse chronological listing of our readings, each with its own conspectus.

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* = selections of work

† = currently reading
Order	Title	Author	Period	Year	Arc
48	Metamorphoses†	Ovid	Roman imperial period	2026	Magna I
47	Hymns*	Callimachus	Hellenistic Period	2026	Metamorphoses III
46	Epigrams	Callimachus	Hellenistic Period	2026	Metamorphoses III
45	Hekale	Callimachus	Hellenistic Period	2026	Metamorphoses III
44	Idylls*	Theocritus	Hellenistic Period	2026	Metamorphoses III
43	Sophist†	Plato	Classical Greece	2026	Memorabilia III
42	De rerum natura	Lucretius	Roman Republic	2026	Metamorphoses II
41	Life of Epicurus	Diogenes Laertius et al.	Hellenistic Period	2026	Metamorphoses II
40	Elements*†	Euclid	Hellenistic Period	2026	Metamorphoses II
39	Theaetetus	Plato	Classical Greece	2026	Memorabilia III
38	Argonautica	Apollonius of Rhodes	Hellenistic Period	2026	Metamorphoses II
37	Cratylus	Plato	Classical Greece	2026	Memorabilia III
36	Anabasis of Alexander	Arrian	Classical Greece	2026	Metamorphoses I
35	Poetics	Aristotle	Classical Greece	2026	Elementa I
34	Phaedo	Plato	Classical Greece	2025	Memorabilia II
33	Life of Alexander	Plutarch	Classical Greece	2025	Metamorphoses I
32	Crito	Plato	Classical Greece	2025	Memorabilia II
31	On the Crown	Demosthenes	Classical Greece	2025	Anabasis III
30	Apology	Plato	Classical Greece	2025	Memorabilia II
29	First Philippic	Demosthenes	Classical Greece	2025	Anabasis III
28	Characters*	Theophrastus	Classical Greece	2025	Anabasis III
27	Dyskolos	Menander	Classical Greece	2025	Anabasis III
26	Euthyphro	Plato	Classical Greece	2025	Memorabilia II
25	Topics*	Aristotle	Classical Greece	2025	Anabasis III
24	Posterior Analytics*	Aristotle	Classical Greece	2025	Anabasis III
23	The Frogs	Aristophanes	Classical Greece	2025	Anabasis III
22	The Bacchae	Euripides	Classical Greece	2025	Anabasis III
21	Prior Analytics*	Aristotle	Classical Greece	2025	Anabasis III
20	De Interpretatione*	Aristotle	Classical Greece	2025	Anabasis III
19	Categories*	Aristotle	Classical Greece	2025	Anabasis III
18	Philoctetes	Sophocles	Classical Greece	2025	Anabasis III
17	Against Conon	Demosthenes	Classical Greece	2025	Anabasis III
16	Against Simon	Lysias	Classical Greece	2025	Anabasis III
15	Second Tetralogy	Antiphon	Classical Greece	2025	Anabasis III
14	The Persians	Aeschylus	Classical Greece	2025	Anabasis III
13	Laws	Plato	Classical Greece	2025	Memorabilia I
12	Odyssey	Homer	heroic age	2024	Nostoi I
11	Seventh Letter	Plato	Classical Greece	2024	Anabasis II
10	Herakles	Euripides	Ancient Greece	2024	Anabasis II
9	Republic	Plato	Classical Greece	2024	Anabasis II
8	Hellenica*	Xenophon	Classical Greece	2023	Anabasis I
7	History of the Peloponnesian War	Thucydides	Classical Greece	2023	Anabasis I
6	Zhuangzi*	Zhuangzi	Warring States period	2023	Theogony II
5	The Federalist Papers*	Publius et al.	Confederation Period	2023	Theogony II
4	Arabian Nights*	Anonymous	Islamic Golden Age	2023	Theogony II
3	Antigone	Sophocles	Classical Greece	2023	Theogony I
2	The Tempest	Shakespeare	English Renaissance	2023	Theogony I
1	Meditations	Marcus Aurelius	Pax Romana	2022	Theogony I