Summary: Chapter three of Walden is titled ‘Reading’ and it is about...yup, you guessed it, reading. All throughout this chapter Henry Thoreau encourages reading, seeing as how it relaxes you and allows the mind to explore previously unfathomed ideas. During farming season Thoreau reads the Greek novel The Iliad by Homer. According to Thoreau, reading Greek literature by men such as Homer and Aeschylus(EHS-kuh-lus) in Greek, is a fantastic way to broaden your mind. So, just take a couple of years of beginner's Greek, read the Iliad, and live alone in the woods for two years. Then you’ll be on the fast track to becoming Thoreau! Books that take a lot of concentration, such as ones written in a foreign language are much more superior than easy
