12:30 pm Although there are no entries for the previous two days, I have been spending at least an hour each day reading Alexander the Great. I finished the book this morning. As with the Greek/Macedonian empire, this provides an important juncture: first to assess what I have learned in the last couple of weeks, and then to determine a direction for the next week or two.

I have completed reading both Ancient Greece and Alexander the Great. First, I would like to review my notes for this month. Done.

From the perspective of what have I done, I place the various books that I have accessed around me. One pile contains those I have read completely, another those I have used - but only as a reference, and a third pile contains those I have yet to read - but want to.

The pile of read books is impressive, given that I began this enterprise on February 4. It consists of:

• The Odyssey by Homer
• History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
• Alexander the Great by Fox
• Ancient Greece by Martin.

There is one book that is only half-read; The Life of Greece by Will Durant. I plan to leave this for a bit, but do plan to return to it when I return to the theme of ancient Greece. However I now realize that I want to shift to a different theme.

The two books that I have not read, but recently purchased are:

• Oedipus the King by Sophocles
• The Complete Plays of Aristophanes.

My return to this theme will focus on these and on some of the writings of the philosophers Socrates, Plato and Aristotle.

Before embarking on a new theme (the Internet & Technology) [yellow], I want to make a few summary comments about what I have learned so far about ancient Greece. The basic question is: how does one organize (i.e. structure) such knowledge? My first such effort - March 9 , involved creating a table with 3 columns: people, places and events. This is a form of "chunking", where I attempt to create a few categories (about 7, plus or minus 2).

This time I want to organize my chunks within a timeline:

• Minoan & Mycenaeans [3000 - 1000 BC]
• Dark Age [1000 - 750 BC]
• Archaic Age [750 - 500 BC]
• Persian Wars [500 - 430 BC
• Peloponnesian War [431 - 404 BC]
• Philip & Alexander [360 - 323 BC]
• Hellenistic Age [323 - 30 BC]

Each of these bullets can contain another set of categories of important events or people. I will attend to this as a valuable way of reviewing when I return to this theme. Tomorrow I will begin looking at the internet and computer technology.