A review by eralon
Great Books: My Adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf, and Other Indestructible Writers of the Western World by David Denby

3.0

This book lists many classics, some that I've previously read, and some that I stopped to read before continuing with Denby. The commentary on the books is not amazing and veers off into memoir, but it's motivational and gives it the feeling of actually attending the class. Overall, I really enjoyed it.

First Semester:
Chapter 1- [b:The Iliad|1371|The Iliad|Homer|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1388188509s/1371.jpg|3293141] by Homer (read previously)
Chapter 2- The Poetry fragments of Sappho (read 2018)
Chapter 3 & 5- [b:The Republic|30289|The Republic|Plato|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1386925655s/30289.jpg|1625515] of Plato (also read [b:Apology|73945|Apology|Plato|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1212606317s/73945.jpg|1692879], [b:Meno|846122|Meno|Plato|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1415425069s/846122.jpg|140111], and [b:Euthyphro|811970|Euthyphro|Plato|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1347516561s/811970.jpg|797907] 2018)
Chapter 4- [b:The Odyssey|1381|The Odyssey|Homer|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1390173285s/1381.jpg|3356006] by Homer (read previously)
Chapter 6- [b:Oedipus Rex|1554|Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)|Sophocles|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1388182316s/1554.jpg|3098166] (read 2018)
Chapter 7- [b:The Nicomachean Ethics|19068|The Nicomachean Ethics|Aristotle|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1520339295s/19068.jpg|2919427], [b:Poetics|13270|Poetics|Aristotle|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1520340549s/13270.jpg|2301058], and [b:Politics|19083|Politics|Aristotle|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1391135988s/19083.jpg|14746717] by Aristotle- not yet
Chapter 8- [b:The Oresteia|1519|The Oresteia Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides|Aeschylus|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1391822282s/1519.jpg|2378] and [b:Prometheus Bound|297593|Prometheus Bound|Aeschylus|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1407894339s/297593.jpg|1156090] by Aeschylus (read 2018)
[b:The Bacchae|380609|The Bacchae|Euripides|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1328704140s/380609.jpg|1842204] and [b:Medea|752900|Medea|Euripides|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1328868366s/752900.jpg|2936587] by Euripides- in progress
Chapter 9- [b:The Aeneid|12914|The Aeneid|Virgil|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1386923968s/12914.jpg|288738] by Virgil - previously read
Chapter 10/11- [b:Holy Bible: New International Version|280111|Holy Bible New International Version|Anonymous|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1382581321s/280111.jpg|19119100] (read 2017)
Chapter 12- [b:Confessions|27037|Confessions|Augustine of Hippo|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1266454051s/27037.jpg|1427207] by Augustine (read 2018)
[b:City of God|25673|City of God|Augustine of Hippo|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1539435514s/25673.jpg|5814]- not yet
Chapter 13- [b:The Prince|28862|The Prince|Niccolò Machiavelli|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1390055828s/28862.jpg|1335445] and [b:The Discourses|99328|The Discourses|Niccolò Machiavelli|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1520802947s/99328.jpg|162187] by Machiavelli

Still in progress...