Classics Book Group
Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Beaverton, OR, United StatesThis month our group meets to discuss Hecuba by Euripides. Join us!
Free
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Delve Fall 2019: The Pre-Socratic Thinkers: The Greeks on Gods, Humanity, and Nature Before Socrates
Literary Arts 925 SW Washington Street, Portland, OR, United StatesThe Pre-Socratic thinkers lived from about 650 to about 450 B.C.E. in the towns along the Mediterranean coast of Turkey, and many of the Greek islands, throughout Thrace and Pelopenesos on the Greek mainland, and in the Greek colonies of Sicily and southern Italy. Their world included the heroes of Homer and the hard virtues of the archaic life of farming, warfare, and trade, as well the arts and music of the Greek peoples. A precious group of fragmented passages from the first thinkers in what became the Western tradition of philosophy and science have survived as an inspired and marvelously varied set of views on human life and ethics, on nature, on the gods, and on the question of what reality itself is. Their…
$220
Classics Book Group
Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Beaverton, OR, United StatesThis month our group meets to discuss Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih. Join us!
Free
Classics Book Group
Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Beaverton, OR, United StatesThis month our group meets to discuss American Pastoral by Philip Roth. Join us!
Free
Classics Book Group
Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Beaverton, OR, United StatesThis month our group meets to discuss Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig. Join us!
Free
Classics Book Group
Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Beaverton, OR, United StatesThis month our group meets to discuss La Princesse de Clèves by Madame de La Fayette. Join us!
Free
Classic Poetry Open Mic
Rose City Book Pub 1329 NE Fremont, Portland, OR, United StatesKeats and Rilke and Donne and Wordsworth and Angelou and Plath and Yeats and Browning and Dickinson, oh my! Bring your favorite old poems to Classic Poetry Open Mic, co-hosted with Rose City Book Pub. This is a time to gather together to enjoy classic poetry from around the world. Memorization/recitation is highly encouraged, but you can also read from a digital/hard copy. This is not a time to share your own writing--there are lots of open mics for that! This is a time for poetry lovers to share and discuss favorite old poems that inspire and delight. Need some ideas? Check out this article about great poems that work well for recitation: https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/lesson/committed-memory
Free
Delve Readers Seminars Online: Free 90 minute Discussion on Daisy Miller
Online N/A, Portland, OR, United StatesA free 90-minute Delve discussion on Daisy Miller, led by Christopher Lord. The discussion is limited to 16 people and pre-registration is required. Registered participants will receive information on how to sign on to the Zoom meeting. Is the young American heiress Daisy Miller innocent–or reckless? A flirtatious girl from Schenectady or a dangerous woman who “is going too far” to suit the tastes of other Americans in Rome? Young Frederick Winterbourne, American-born but long living abroad, can’t decide; he wants to know Daisy better. But can Daisy ever stop long enough for him to observe her carefully? This long “short” story that begins seemingly as a comedy and ends in tragedy, was Henry James’s biggest-selling work of fiction during his lifetime, and demonstrated at…
Free
Delve Readers Seminar: Homer, The Odyssey
Online N/A, Portland, OR, United StatesThe Odyssey is one of the world’s oldest and most enduring works of literature. Homer’s ancient Greek epic has inspired many modern artists and has introduced generations of readers to the the world of Greek myth, poetry, and storytelling. In this seminar, we will explore the intricacies of Homer’s epic and its central story— Odysseus’s effort to return home from the Trojan War and reunite with his wife and son. We will use the much heralded new translation by Emily Wilson. The Odyssey was also the principal inspiration for James Joyce’s Ulysses, the modernist epic of everyday life, that will be the focus of a Delve seminar next Spring, the 100th anniversary of its publication on February 2, 1922. Participants in the Ulysses seminar are encouraged, though not required…
$240
Delve Readers Seminar: Plato On Love
Literary Arts 925 SW Washington Street, Portland, OR, United StatesThe Symposium by Plato asks: what is love? It is the story of a banquet in classical Athens, attended by Socrates and his friends, at which each person tells a story about the origin of Love. These stories are full of deep psychological insight, powerful mythic imagination, and profound philosophical reflection that have made The Symposium one of the masterpieces of world literature and a crowning work of philosophy. Bawdy and sentimental, drunk and wise by turns, with a surprising turn of events near the end, each story illuminates a striking part of the human condition. The event is crowned by Socrates’ own story, telling us the origin of his gift and portraying the nature of the world in terms of Love. Throughout the night,…
$245
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