Why You Should Read the Greek Plays with Ascend

You can read the Greek plays with Ascend!

Dcn. Harrison Garlick flies solo this week as he explains why you should read the Greek plays. He discusses how the plays are an intellectual bridge between Plato and Homer and explains some of the major themes you can expect in their writings: justice, eros, fate, divinity, etc.

He’ll then introduce each Greek play to be read and why it is worth reading.

Join us! Schedule below:

HESIOD’S THEOGONY & GREEK PLAYS (2025)

1/1 Intro to the Greek Plays

1/7 Hesiod’s Theogony

THE ORESTEIA by Aeschylus

1/14 Into to Aeschylus

1/21 Agamemnon Part I

1/28 Agamemnon Part II

2/4 Libation Bearers Part I

2/11 Libation Bearers Part II

2/18 Eumenides Part I

2/25 Eumenides Part II

READ DANTE’S INFERNO WITH ASCEND

We are reading Dante’s Inferno over LENT 2025.

3/4 Introduction & Canto I

3/11 Cantos II-V

3/18 Cantos VI-XI

3/25 Cantos XII-XVII

4/1 Cantos XVIII-XXV

4/8 Cantos XXVI-XXX

4/15 Cantos XXXII-XXXIV

BACK TO THE GREEK PLAYS

4/22 Prometheus Bound with Dr. Jared Zimmerer

THE THEBAN PLAYS by Sophocles

4/29 Antigone Part I

5/6 Antigone Part II

5/13 Oedipus Rex

5/20 Oedipus at Colonus Part I

5/27 Oedipus at Colonus Part II

6/3 The Bacchae Part I with Dr. Frank Grabowski

6/10 The Bacchae Part II with Dr. Frank Grabowski

6/17 Roundtable on the Tragic Plays

Aristophanes

6/24 The Clouds by Aristophanes with Dr. Zena Hitz

6/1 The Frogs by Aristophanes with Tsh Oxenreider

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