#the oresteia trilogy

Went to Half Price Book Store- found a gorgeous hardcopy of the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. I read it last year and it was fabulous. I recommend. Still looking for the upcoming Aeschylus, Confucius, and Sophocles. Publishers need to make more good translations that are pretty classics too.

For anyone who wants to read with me the beginning of the Mother of All Book lists is as follows (looks crappy when you realize that I’m still on 3- but I have read a lot of these already, just not in context):

1. 1800 BC Anonymous. The Epic of Gilgamesh
2. 1000 BC Vyasa. The Mahabharata
3. 900 BC Sage Ved Vyasa. The Bhagavad Gita (Part of the Mahabharata) *date unknown
4. 855 BC Homer. The Odyssey.
5. 850 BC Homer. The Iliad
6. 512 BC Sun Tzu. The Art of War (Recorded in the Records of the Grand Historian)
7. 500 BC Lao Tsu. Tao te Ching
8. 500 BC Mencius. The Book of Mencius
9. 480 BC Aeschylus. Prometheus Bound.
10. 479 BC Confucius. The Sayings
11. 478 BC Confucius. The Analects
12. 472 BC Aeschylus. The Persians
13. 467 BC Aeschylus. Seven Against Thebes
14. 463 BC Aeschylus. Suppliant Maidens
15. 458 BC Aeschylus.  Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, Eumenides(The Oresteia Trilogy)
16. 450 BC Sophocles. Ajax
17. 450 BC Sophocles. Trichinae
18. 441 BC Sophocles. Antigone
19. 438 BC Euripides. Alcestis
20. 431 BC Thucydides. The History of the Peloponnesian War.