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Foundations of Western Culture I: Homer to Dante >> Content Detail



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Readings

The following texts are used in the course and may be downloaded from the following Web sites: Project Gutenberg; Bartleby; and The Internet Classics Archive.

Homer. The Odyssey. (Download from Project Gutenberg)

Aeschylus. Agamemnon. (Download from Bartleby)

Aeschylus. The Libation Bearers. (Download from Bartleby)

Aeschulus. The Eumenides. (Download from The Internet Classics Archive)

Sophocles. Antigone. (Download from Bartleby)

Sophocles. OedipusRex. (Download from Project Gutenberg)

Euripides. Hippolytus. (Download from Project Gutenberg)

Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War: (Download from Project Gutenberg)

Plato. The Republic. (Download from Project Gutenberg)

Aristotle. Nicomachean Ethics. (Download from Project Gutenberg)

Aristotle. Politics. (Download from The Internet Classics Archive)

The Book of Genesis. (Download from Project Gutenberg)

Gospel according to St. Matthew. (Download from Project Gutenberg)

St. Augustine. Confessions. (Download from Project Gutenberg)

Dante. Inferno. (Download from Project Gutenberg)

Readings by Class Session

SES #TOPICSREADINGS
1Introductory Remarks
2Homer. The Odyssey. Books I-VI
3Homer. The Odyssey. Books VII-XII
4Homer. The Odyssey. Books XIII-XVIII
5Homer. The Odyssey. Books XIX-XXIV
6Aeschylus. Agamemnon.Complete work
7Aeschylus. The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides.Complete work
8Sophocles. Antigone.Complete work
9Sophocles. Oedipus Rex.
Euripides. Hippolytus.
Complete work
11Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War (Penguin edition).Pp. 35-49; 72-123
12ThucydidesPp. 124-173; 194-245; 265-290; 303-309; 348-364
13ThucydidesPp. 400-408; 414-429; 442-449
14Plato. The Republic.Pp. 61-128; Last Sentence P. 171-224; 237-252
15Plato. The Republic.Pp. 260-325
16Plato. The Republic.Pp. 356-455
17Aristotle. Nicomachean Ethics.I; II; [III, 10-12; IV, 2-3]
18Aristotle. Nicomachean Ethics.III, 1-5; VI, 1-2, 5, 7, 8, 12, 13; VII, 1-4, 6, 10
19Aristotle. Nicomachean Ethics.IX, 4; X, 7-9; Politics, I, 1-7, 13; III, 9
20The Book of Genesis.Complete work
21Gospel according to St Matthew.Complete work
22St. Augustine. Confessions. Books I-IV
23St. Augustine. Confessions. Books V, VI
24St. Augustine. Confessions. Books VII-X
25Dante. Inferno.Cantos 1-11; 8
26Dante. Inferno.Cantos 12-23
27Dante. Inferno.Cantos 24-34

 








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