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Book Club: Lysistrata by Aristophanes

We will have a  Book Club discussion of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata. Our discussion will be held via Google+ Hangout on Thursday, May 21 2015 at 11:00 a.m EDT. Everybody is welcome to join in! Please sign up in the Forum if you would like to join, or if you are… Read more

Book Club Frogs by Aristophanes

September: Aristophanes Frogs Our next Book Club selection is Aristophanes’ Frogs. You can find the English text here: Frogs – Matthew Dillon’s translation on Perseus or Frogs  – Ian Johnston’s translation Our discussions will be held via Google+ Hangout on Friday,… Read more

Current Book Club Selection: Aristophanes’ Clouds

The Book Club of Hour 25 will be opening with Aristophanes’ Clouds. Cedric H. Whitman in his book Aristophanes and the Comic Hero (Harvard University Press 1964) describes Clouds as: “… a  serious work that is almost universally accepted as a manifesto of Aristophanes’ educational beliefs, his… Read more