GB Volume 5 - Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes - Reading Plan

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2 pages per day, approx. 14 pages per week. Starting Jan 1, 2024.

AESCHYLUS

  • Week 1 (Jan 1 - Jan 7, 2024): The Suppliant Maidens (Pages 1-14)

  • Week 2 (Jan 8 - Jan 14): The Persians (Pages 15-26)

  • Week 3 (Jan 15 - Jan 21): The Seven Against Thebes (Pages 27-39)

  • Week 4 (Jan 22 - Jan 28): Prometheus Bound (Pages 40-51)

  • Week 5 (Jan 29 - Feb 4): Agamemnon (Pages 52-69)

  • Week 6 (Feb 5 - Feb 11): Choephoroe (Pages 70-80)

  • Week 7 (Feb 12 - Feb 18): Eumenides (Pages 81-91)

SOPHOCLES

  • Week 8 (Feb 19 - Feb 25): Oedipus the King (Pages 99-113)

  • Week 9 (Feb 26 - Mar 3): Oedipus at Colonus (Pages 114-130)

  • Week 10 (Mar 4 - Mar 10): Antigone (Pages 131-142)

  • Week 11 (Mar 11 - Mar 17): Ajax (Pages 143-155)

  • Week 12 (Mar 18 - Mar 24): Electra (Pages 156-169)

  • Week 13 (Mar 25 - Mar 31): Trachiniae (Pages 170-181)

  • Week 14 (Apr 1 - Apr 7): Philoctetes (Pages 182-195)

EURIPIDES

  • Week 15 (Apr 8 - Apr 14): Rhesus (Pages 203-211)

  • Week 16 (Apr 15 - Apr 21): Medea (Pages 212-224)

  • Week 17 (Apr 22 - Apr 28): Hippolytus (Pages 225-236)

  • Week 18 (Apr 29 - May 5): Alcestis (Pages 237-247)

  • Week 19 (May 6 - May 12): Heracleidae (Pages 248-257)

  • Week 20 (May 13 - May 19): The Suppliants (Pages 258-269)

  • Week 21 (May 20 - May 26): The Trojan Women (Pages 270-281)

  • Week 22 (May 27 - Jun 2): Ion (Pages 282-297)

  • Week 23 (Jun 3 - Jun 9): Helen (Pages 298-314)

  • Week 24 (Jun 10 - Jun 16): Andromache (Pages 315-326)

  • Week 25 (Jun 17 - Jun 23): Electra (Pages 327-339)

  • Week 26 (Jun 24 - Jun 30): The Bacchantes (Pages 340-352)

  • Week 27 (Jul 1 - Jul 7): Hecuba (Pages 353-364)

  • Week 28 (Jul 8 - Jul 14): Heracles Mad (Pages 365-377)

  • Week 29 (Jul 15 - Jul 21): The Phoenician Maidens (Pages 378-393)

  • Week 30 (Jul 22 - Jul 28): Orestes (Pages 394-410)

  • Week 31 (Jul 29 - Aug 4): Iphigenia Among the Tauri (Pages 411-424)

  • Week 32 (Aug 5 - Aug 11): Iphigenia at Aulis (Pages 425-439)

  • Week 33 (Aug 12 - Aug 18): The Cyclops (Pages 440-447)

ARISTOPHANES

  • Week 34 (Aug 19 - Aug 25): The Acharnians (Pages 455-469)

  • Week 35 (Aug 26 - Sep 1): The Knights (Pages 470-487)

  • Week 36 (Sep 2 - Sep 8): The Clouds (Pages 488-506)

  • Week 37 (Sep 9 - Sep 15): The Wasps (Pages 507-525)

  • Week 38 (Sep 16 - Sep 22): The Peace (Pages 526-541)

  • Week 39 (Sep 23 - Sep 29): The Birds (Pages 542-563)

  • Week 40 (Sep 30 - Oct 6): The Frogs (Pages 564-582)

  • Week 41 (Oct 7 - Oct 13): The Lysistrata (Pages 583-599)

  • Week 42 (Oct 14 - Oct 20): The Thesmophoriazusae (Pages 600-614)

  • Week 43 (Oct 21 - Oct 27): The Ecclesiazusae (Pages 615-628)

  • Week 44 (Oct 28 - Nov 3): The Plutus (Pages 629-642)