Mary Conner
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Mary Conner
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Dog named Webster, octopus named Merriam. Words matter.

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A student can now complete modern education in the West without reading a single page of Homer, Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, Virgil, Augustine, Aquinas, Dante, Chaucer, or Milton. This is how you erase a culture. If schools and universities won't teach the Great Books of Western Civilization, we must form our own reading circles independently. These are some of the texts we've read together at Athenaeum, or intend to cover soon. We are reading Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics right now. Please join our reading group if you'd like to study the great works in dialogue with others. Consider a paid subscription if you'd like to support — it makes a huge difference to the time and resources we can dedicate to this. You'll get: - Live book club discussions (biweekly) - Access to our incredible community chat - Essays to guide you through the Great Books - All past recordings, essays, and podcasts - Ability to vote on what we read next athenaeumbooks.com/welcome Welcome!



























