14 thoughts on “The League Book Club

    1. That’s a fair point. I’m hoping that someone here will propose the next selection from more contemporary fare. My problem is I’m really out of touch with good fiction, especially newer stuff.

      Maybe one of the Leaguers would like to do the next book?

  1. This is a *GREAT* one to start with. (The only other one I’d feel a worthy challenger to start with would be the Lysistrata.)

    It’s been a while since I’ve read this (well, excepting Arisophanes’s story… I keep coming back to that one). I look forward to reading it again!

    1. I’m wondering if it would be possible to embed a video… I remember a cartoon of that story in Hedwig and the Angry Inch, which I’m assuming is on Youtube.

  2. Ritual wine drinking is optional.

    I was with you until this part. No, it isn’t.

    1. Well, you’re certainly welcome to do it. I just don’t want to tell people they can’t post comments if they’re sober. Not that it would necessarily be a problem for anyone here.

      1. Actually, non-sobriety is problematic for me. I do my posts at the university. (and I dont have drinks at home).

        But hey, I’m weirdly conservative that way.

  3. Looking forward to it. Haven’t read any Plato since a high-scool trip to Greece about 10 years ago.

  4. Rufus,

    My collected dialogues is the Bolligen Series edited by Edith Hamilton and Huntington Cairns. My Symposium translation is Michael Joyce’s. Did I buy the wrong collection?

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