Food for the mind.

Homo Edax has been asked to offer some food for the mind and spirit as well as the body, so here is the first of a series of his book and movie recommendations.

Ancient Classics:

Greek Essentials: All of Homer, Plato, Thucydides, Pindar and Sophocles; Plutarch's Lives; Euripides' Bacchae, Trojan Women, Hippolytus, and Medea. You will be off to a good start if you read these Greek Classics. I've no particular preference for translations, but I do like the Fagles for Homer, and Nisetich for Pindar.

Roman Essentials: Virgil (all), Caesar's Gallic War, Tacitus, Horace's and Juvenal's Satires.

Need a movie? Try:

Manufacturing Consent
Swimming to Cambodia
Hearts and Minds
The Fog of War
The Girl with the Pearl Earring

More recommendations to come!

H.E.