Uploaded May 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
This readathon is all about reading literature from before the year 1700 AD. We will be hosting it throughout the month of June and we are so excited! A live discussion will be hosted on the 1st on Jennifer Brooks' channel at 8:00 Eastern Time. A second live show will be held on my channel on the 30th at the same time (I said the 31st in the video because I'm an idiot, but it's the 30th.) Let me know down below if you intend to join us!!
Prompts:
1. Read a Book by a Female Author
2. Read a Play
3. Read a Nonfiction
4. Read Something Myth or Legend Based
5. Read Something that is Referenced in One of Your Favorite Books
Group Read: The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
Goodreads Group: goodreads.com/group/show/1162495-ancientsathon-2021
Jennifer Brooks' Announcement Video: youtu.be/W9KdHTK_s3w
Options Mentioned:
The Lais of Marie d'France
Poems by Sappho
The Sumerian Temple Hymns of Enheduanna
The Book of the City of Ladies by Christine de Pizan
The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
Medea by Euripides
Richard II; Macbeth; Much Ado About Nothing; and Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Volpone by Ben Jonson
The Last Letters of Thomas More
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
History of the Kings of Britain by Geoffrey of Monmouth
The Agricola and the Germania by Tacitus
Metamorphoses by Ovid
The Iliad by Homer
The Odyssey by Homer
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Anonymous
Le Morte d'Arthur by Sir Thomas Mallory
Percy Jackson's Greek Gods (or Greek Heroes) by Rick Riordan
Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
The Books of Esther, Job, and Genesis from The Bible
Paradise Lost by John Milton
The Divine Comedy by Dante
This readathon is all about reading literature from before the year 1700 AD. We will be hosting it throughout the month of June and we are so excited! A live discussion will be hosted on the 1st on Jennifer Brooks' channel at 8:00 Eastern Time. A second live show will be held on my channel on the 30th at the same time (I said the 31st in the video because I'm an idiot, but it's the 30th.) Let me know down below if you intend to join us!!
Prompts:
1. Read a Book by a Female Author
2. Read a Play
3. Read a Nonfiction
4. Read Something Myth or Legend Based
5. Read Something that is Referenced in One of Your Favorite Books
Group Read: The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
Goodreads Group: goodreads.com/group/show/1162495-ancientsathon-2021
Jennifer Brooks' Announcement Video: youtu.be/W9KdHTK_s3w
Options Mentioned:
The Lais of Marie d'France
Poems by Sappho
The Sumerian Temple Hymns of Enheduanna
The Book of the City of Ladies by Christine de Pizan
The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
Medea by Euripides
Richard II; Macbeth; Much Ado About Nothing; and Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Volpone by Ben Jonson
The Last Letters of Thomas More
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
History of the Kings of Britain by Geoffrey of Monmouth
The Agricola and the Germania by Tacitus
Metamorphoses by Ovid
The Iliad by Homer
The Odyssey by Homer
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Anonymous
Le Morte d'Arthur by Sir Thomas Mallory
Percy Jackson's Greek Gods (or Greek Heroes) by Rick Riordan
Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
The Books of Esther, Job, and Genesis from The Bible
Paradise Lost by John Milton
The Divine Comedy by Dante
