Great Books

We've read the first half of the Iliad, and I recently posed three questions about Achilles to explore the text's power. The first question was to imagine yourself as Achilles. How are you similar? What experience in your life is very similar to that of Achilles?

What is a great book? What I want to show you is that a great book is something that makes you fully human by revealing to you the secrets of the universe and the secrets of what it means to be human. In school, you've been taught that