Great Texts: The Intellectual Tradition of the Ancient World
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Introduction
Historical, mythological, and biblical timeline
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Reading Selection
Homer, Iliad OR Homer, Odyssey
Aeschylus, Oresteia OR Euripides, Bacchae
Plato, Republic
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics (selections) AND/OR Lucretius, De Rerum Natura
Virgil, Aeneid
Bible (selections)
Augustine, Confessions (Books 1-9) OR Augustine, City of God (selections)
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Homer, Iliad
Homer, The Iliad, trans. Robert Fagles (Penguin). ISBN: 978-0140275360
Excerpt from the Odyssey, Book 11
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Homer, Odyssey
Homer, The Odyssey, trans. Robert Fagles (Penguin, 1996). ISBN: 0140268863
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Aeschylus, Oresteia
Aeschylus, Oresteia, trans. Peter Meineck (Hackett Publishing Company, 1998). ISBN: 978-0872203907
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Euripides, Bacchae
Euripides, Medea, Hippolytus, Heracles, Bacchae, ed. Stephen Esposito (Focus). ISBN: 978-1585100484
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Plato, Republic
Plato, The Republic, trans. C.D.C. Reeve (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 2004). ISBN: 978-0872207363
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Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, trans. Martin Ostwald (Prentice Hall, 1999). ISBN: 978-0023895302
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Lucretius, De Rerum Natura
(About the Nature of Things or The Way Things Are)
Lucretius, The Way Things Are: the De Rerum Natura of Titus Lucretius Carus, trans. Rolfe Humphries (Indiana University Press). ISBN: 978-0253201256
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Virgil, Aeneid
Virgil, The Aeneid, trans. Robert Fagles (Penguin, 2010). ISBN: 978-0143106296
Opening lines of the Aeneid, Iliad, and Odyssey
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Bible
English Standard Version
Approximate biblical chronology
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Augustine, Confessions
Augustine, Confessions, trans. Henry Chadwick (Oxford University Press, 1992). ISBN: 978-0199537822
Manichaeism compared to Christianity
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Augustine, City of God
Augustine, City of God, trans. Henry Bettenson (Penguin Classics, 2004). ISBN: 978-0140448948