[Updated 08.25.2022]

Although it is not necessary (we hope) to read along with us to enjoy Key to All Mythologies, this is certainly the best way to experience the podcast. We began our Western Epics sequence with Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey. We then read the Roman epics: Virgil’s Aeneid, and Ovid’s Metamorphoses. We are currently reading Dante’s Divine Comedy, at a 3-canto-per-week clip. (See home page for current episode). After Dante, we plan to move on to Milton’s Paradise Lost – which will complete the sequence.

After that we will begin a new sequence of thematically linked books: Long and Difficult Modern Novels. Although it is a bit early to predict the exact dates, this sequence will continue the tradition of painstakingly slow and careful readings, probably at around the pace of 30-pages-per-week. The Long and Difficult Modern Novels sequences will begin with Melville’s Moby-Dick, followed by Joyce’s Ulysses. Then Proust’s In Search of Lost Time. Then Musil’s The Man Without Qualities. Finally, we will read Lessing’s The Golden Notebook.

Many, perhaps most, of you reading these words will be dead by the end of the Long and Difficult sequence. If we ourselves are not dead, and if you’re still with us, check back for details on further sequences.

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