[travel] Tell me more about the dead white people

[mattbell]

My college humanities courses tended to avoid the canon of dead white people at all costs, instead focusing on alternative voices, indigenous cultures, oppressed peoples and the like. Some of it was very interesting, some of it wasn't. However, after a visit to the stunning Athens Archaeological museum, which showed me firsthand the achievement's of Athens' Golden Age, I want to learn more about the intellectual culture that spawned the world's first democracy, a rich theatrical tradition, and numerous other achievements. To those of you who sought out the traditional classics, I ask what you would recommend, keeping in mind that I'm on the road so online material is preferred. I assume it's all well out of copyright, even the translations.

Comments

[jacquesk.livejournal.com]

I would suggest starting with Plato's Republic (http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/republic.html) and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/nicomachaen.html).
Your blog is cool!

[jacquesk.livejournal.com]

+ Thucydides (http://classics.mit.edu/Thucydides/pelopwar.html).