Reading List

The Classical Origins of Western Culture

Homer
Iliad (minimum of seven of the following nine books 1, 3, 6, 9, 11, 16, 18, 22, 24).
Odyssey (minimum of nine of the following fourteen books: 1, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24).

Thucydides
History of the Peloponnesian War (instructor to select sections).

Sophocles
Oedipus the King, Antigone.

Euripides
Medea, Bacchae.

Aristophanes
Clouds, Lysistrata

Plato
The Apology
The Republic

Aristotle
Poetics (selections choosen by the Instructor).

Vergil
Aeneid (minimum of four of the following six books 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 12).

A Roman work illustrating Roman society to be chosen by the Instructor.