Great Books Bracket Sweet 16
After the drama of round 1, round 2 featured 16 blowouts
Welcome to the Sweet 16 of the 2014 Great Books bracket. In round two Aristotle took a beating, Shakespeare was eliminated altogether, and Homer won handily. None of the matchups were very close at all and there were no significant upsets at all.
TO VOTE IN THE SWEET 16 CLICK HERE
And here’s the more detailed breakdown of the round 2 matchups.
REGION A
1 Iliad (92%) vs 9 Phaedrus (8%)
5 Nicomachean Ethics (79%) vs 4 Hesiod’s Theogany (21%)
6 Antigone (66%) vs 14 Euripedes’ Plays (34%)
7 Plutarch’s Lives (28%) vs 2 The Aeneid (72%)
REGION B
1 The Odyssey (75%) vs 9 Aesop’s Fables (25%)
5 Aristotle’s Rhetoric (40%) vs 4 Canterbury Tales (60%)
6 Shakespeare’s Tragedies (46%) vs 3 Augustine’s Confessions (54%)
10 Shakespeare’s Comedies (46%) vs 2 On the Incarnation (54%)
REGION C
1 Metaphysics (48%) vs 8 Imitation of Christ (62%)
5 Rule of St Benedict (59%) vs 4 Consolation of Philosophy (41%)
11 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (45%) vs 3 Summa Theologica (55%)
7 Agammemnon (9%) vs 2 Divine Comedy (91%)
REGION D
16 Bondage of the Will (40%) vs 8 Herodotus History (60%)
5 Homilies of Chrysostom (28%) vs 4 Paradise Lost (72%)
11 Beowulf (70%) vs 14 Euclid’s Works (30%)
7 Aristotle’s Politics (8%) vs 2 The Republic (92%)
David Kern
