Great Books Roundtable Discussion Schedule

Summer - Fall 2008

Great Books Roundtable Discussions are held Wednesdays, from 7:00 - 9:00 pm, in Special Collections, Fourth Floor, Golda Meir Library (unless otherwise noted).

MONDAY June 30 (please note the change in day)
Pliny the Younger
Letters
Book 3, Letter 14
To his friend Acilius on a murdered magistrate
http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/bl_text_plinyltrs3.htm#XIV

Book 3, Letter 16
To his friend Nepos on a woman's heroism
http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/bl_text_plinyltrs3.htm#XVI

Book 4, Letter 11
To his friend Cornelius Minicianus on the death of a Vestal
http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/bl_text_plinyltrs4.htm#XI

Book 5, Letter 16
To his friend Aefulanus Marcellinus on a father's grief
http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/bl_text_plinyltrs5.htm#XVI

Book 6, Letters 16 and 20
Letters on Vesuvius to his friend Tacitus
http://www.u.arizona.edu/~afutrell/404b/web%20rdgs/pliny%20on%20vesuvius.htm

Book 9, Letter 33
To his friend Caninius on a boy and his dolphin
http://www.bartleby.com/9/4/1107.html

 

July 30

H. G. Wells
"The Star" (1899)
http://www.online-literature.com/wellshg/17/

E. M. Forster
"The Machine Stops" (1909)
http://c-wd.net/machine/

 

August 27 -- In Curtin Hall, Room 839, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
(please note the change in location)

George Bernard Shaw
Arms and the Man (1894/98)
http://www.readbookonline.net/title/64/

 

September 24

TBA

October 29

TBA

November 26

TBA