The Great Books

Year 1, Fall Semester: Greek Literature

• Homer’s Iliad & Odyssey
• Sophocles The Oedipus Trilogy
• Herodotus The Histories

Year 1, Spring Semester: Greek Philosophy

• Plato Dialogues & The Republic
• Aristotle Ethics
• Plutarch The Lives

Year 2, Fall Semester: Roman History

• Virgil The Aneid
• Plutarch The Lives (Cont’d)
• Cicero The Republic
• Marcus Aurelius Meditations
• Gibbon Fall of the Roman Empire

Year 2, Spring Semester: Church History

• Clement Letter to the Corinthians
• Justin Martyr Apology
• Augustine Confessions
• Council of Nicaea
• Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologica

Year 3, Fall Semester: Medieval Literature

• Dante Inferno
• Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet, Romeo & Juliet, 12th Night
• Milton Paradise Lost
• Cervantes Don Quixote

Year 3, Spring Semester: Political Theory

• Machiavelli The Prince
• Locke End of Civil Gov’t
• Hume History of England
• Hobbes Leviathan
• Rousseau The Social Contract
• Paine Common Sense
• Federalist Papers
• The Declaration of Independence
• de Tocqueville Democracy in America

Year 4, Fall Semester: Early Modern Literature

• Melville Moby Dick
• Austin Pride & Prejudice
• Dostoyevsky Crime & Punishment
• Tolstoy Anna Karenina
• Dickens A Christmas Carol

Year 4, Spring Semester: Modern Literature

• Faulkner Sound & Fury
• Huxley Brave New World
• Lewis Screwtape Letters
• Orwell Animal Farm
• Lee To Kill a Mockingbird
• Welty A Worn Path