"I’d like to string together various tales in the Milesian style, and charm your kindly ear with seductive murmurs, so long as you’re ready to be amazed at human forms and fortunes changed radically and then restored in turn in mutual exchange, and don’t object to reading Egyptian papyri." We will read I–VI from Apuleius, Metamorphoses, discuss in the Forum, and meet via Zoom on Tuesday July 27 at 11… Read more
Our next Book Club selection is different this month. You can bring your own selection, one book that you like or dislike, and share your thoughts about it. You can read any book you like, whether primary or secondary source. We will start and continue discussion in the Forum, where you can post your selection, and will meet via Zoom on Tuesday, June 29, at 11 a.m. EDT. Read more
"If I believed it possible, friends who are attending this burial, to set forth in speech the valor of the men who lie here, I should have reproved those who gave me but a few days’ notice of having to speak over them." Our next Book Club selection is Lysias: Orations. Of those orations which have survived, some are speeches made during legal cases, while others are in praise or… Read more
"What from the founder Esop fell, In neat familiar verse I tell: Twofold's the genius of the page, To make you smile and make you sage." This month's Book Club selection are the Fables of the Roman writer Phaedrus. You can read whatever selection you wish. As always, discussion will start and continue in the Forum, and we will meet via Zoom at 11 a.m. EDT, on Tuesday April 27. Read more
"So much for the beginnings of philosophy, its subsequent developments, its various parts, and the number of the philosophic sects. ... It remains to speak of the philosophers themselves..." This month's Book Club comprises selections from Diogenes Laertius Lives of Eminent Philosophers. We will start and continue discussion in the forum, and will meet via Zoom on Tuesday, March 30 at 11 a.m. EDT. Read more
