Great Books
May I ask some advice concerning reading the Greats with our teens? I am planning a course of study and trying to anticipate how long the reading of each book will take. I'm specifically wondering...
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You wrote: I'm specifically wondering about the Iliad, Odyssey, The Republic, Nicomachean Ethics, Inferno, and Paradise Lost. For the Ancient Period , I would read the Iliad* and the Odyssey*, and I...
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Thank-you for your help, Denise. I will certainly get a copy of Leithart's book.I was thinking of reading the Iliad one year, the Odyssey the next year, and the Aeneid another year. Also we would read...
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I don't think its a mistake. Especially if your children have a comfortable grasp of history, so that the books and the times they were from can be easily pegged. I try to allow 4-6 weeks for each...
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I just discovered this board, and am looking forward to learning lots! I wanted to say, on this subject, however, that there is a set of books, companions to the Greats, called "Gateway to the Great...
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Dear Marliss,Please post a bit more about your find. Can you post the title, author, publisher, copyright date and so on so that we can look for these ourselves? Would this happen to be the guide that...
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Yes, indeed-- Gateway to the Great Books was edited by Robert M. Hutchins and Mortimer J. Adler, and published by Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc. in 1963. In an introductory letter to the reader, Mr....
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