Currently reading...

William Morris's The House of the Wolfings and The Roots of the Mountains

Almost done with House of the Wolfings, but I want to make one post after I finish both of them.

Walter Scott's The Monastery and The Abbot

I finished The Monastery last night. Overall, I liked it significantly less than The Antiquary, but I did enjoy it. It is about the Protestant Reformation in Scotland, and... it has its points, but... anyway. I didn't quite realize that The Abbot is basically volume 2, though. So I will read it before making a post.

I just finished the Oresteia of Aeschylus (trans. Sarah Ruden), Electra of Sophocles (trans. Mary Lefkowitz), and Euripides' Iphigenia among the Taurians (trans. Anne Carson) and Electra (trans. Emily Wilson).

These are all about the same saga, though: Agamemnon's murder of his daughter Iphigenia, his wife Clytemnestra's revenge-murder of him, and his son Orestes and daughter Electra's revenge-revenge murder of her. I have a lot to say, but I intend to read Anne Carson's An Oresteia (Carson's translations of Agamemnon by Aiskhylos and Elektra by Sophokles - which I just read translated by those other people - and Orestes by Euripides, which I haven't read yet). I bought The Greek Plays, ed. Lefkowitz & Romm, which contains 16 plays, to get the Wilson translations of Euripides, but when I opened it I got curious and started reading the others and completely forgot that I had bought Carson's An Oresteia the day before.