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History Tutorial Reading List
Revised 12/18/07

NOTES:
Whenever possible, buy editions with line numbers.

You may wish to refer to a notebook in the college bookstore with tutors' commentary about different translations of the various texts.

1. Augustine, City of God (Penguin Ed.)Preface; I, 1-7; III, 2-7; XI, 1-9, 18-21, 33-34
2. Augustine, City of God, (Penguin Ed.)XII, 1, 10-22, 28 or (Modern Library Ed.) XII, 1, 10-21, 27
3. Augustine, City of God, XIII, 1-3; XIV, 1, 27-28; XV, 1-8; XVI, 1-2, 4- 5, 16-18, 43
4. Augustine, City of God, XVII, 1-3; XVIII, 1-2, 19-22, 46-53; XIX, 14- 15; XXII, 1, 6-7, 30
5. Vico, The New Science,* pp. 60-79 (para. 119-247) "Elements"
6. Vico, The New Science, pp. 79-99 (para. 248-337) "Elements" and "Principles"
7. Vico, The New Science, pp. 100-115 (para. 338-373) "Method" and "Prolegomena"
8. Vico, The New Science, pp. 116-153 (para. 374-455) "Poetic Metaphysics" and "Poetic Logic"
9. Vico, The New Science, pp. 170-205 (para. 502-569) "Poetic Morals" and "Poetic Economy"
10. Vico, The New Science, (para. 582-618; 624-33; 670-8; "Poetic Politics" )
11. Vico, The New Science, pp. 397-426 (para. 1046-1112) "The Recourse of Human Institutions and the Conclusion of the Work."
12. Vico, The New Science, pp. 2-26 (para. 1-42) Frontispiece and "Idea of Work"
13. Kant, Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Point of View in Kant's Political Writings (Reiss Ed.) pp. 41-53
14. Kant, The Contest of Faculties in Kant's Political Writings (Reiss Ed.) pp.177-190
15. Hegel, Philosophy of History, Introduction pp. 1-27
16. Hegel, Philosophy of History, Introduction pp. 27-53
17. Hegel, Philosophy of History, Introduction; Classification of Historic Data, pp. 53-79
18. Hegel, Philosophy of History, Introduction pp. 79-102, The Oriental World pp. 111-115
19. Hegel, Philosophy of History, The Greek World pp. 223-249
20. Hegel, Philosophy of History, The Greek World pp. 250-277
21. Hegel, Philosophy of History, The Roman World pp. 278-305
22. Hegel, Philosophy of History, The Roman World pp. 306-340, The German World pp. 341-346
23. Hegel, Philosophy of History, The German World pp. 341-377 (top)
24. Hegel, Philosophy of History, The German World pp. 377-411
25. Hegel, Philosophy of History, The Modern World pp. 412-438
26. Hegel, Philosophy of History, The Modern World pp. 438-457
27. Marx, Theses on Feuerbach; The German Ideology I, A Idealism and Materialism
28. Marx, The German Ideology, I, B Illusion of the Epoch
29. Marx, The German Ideology, I, C The Real Basis of Ideology
30. Marx, The German Ideology, I, D Proletarians and Communism
31. Nietzsche, The Use and Abuse of History, Preface; sections 1-5
32.Nietzsche, The Use and Abuse of History, sections 6-10

*Page numbers are for the revised Bergin and Fisch translation, which is sold in the Bookstore. They differ slightly from those in the original edition, which is available as class copies in the Library. Paragraph numbers are identical in the original and the revised translations.

History Seminar Reading List
Revised 12/06/04

NOTES:
Whenever possible, buy editions with line numbers.
You may wish to refer to a notebook in the college bookstore with tutors' commentary about different translations of the various texts.

1. I-II Samuel; I Kings, 1-2
2. Herodotus, Histories, I
3. Herodotus, Histories, II, 1-3, 50-53, 112-120; III, 27-38, 61-88, 150-160; IV, 1, 121- 142; V, 35-38, 49-51, 55, 91-93, 97-105; VI, 46-72, 94-120
4. Herodotus, Histories, VII, 1-60, 99-152, 172-239
5. Herodotus, Histories, VIII, 1-117; IX, 1-19, 58-122
6. Thucydides, Peloponnesian War, I, 1-88, 118-125, 139-146; II, 1-24, 34-46
7. Thucydides, Peloponnesian War, II, 47-78; III, 1-85; IV, 1-41
8. Thucydides, Peloponnesian War, IV, 78-116; V, 1-26, 40-74, 84-116; VI, 1, 8-32
9. Thucydides, Peloponnesian War, VI, 33-61, 89-105; VII
10. Plutarch, Lives, Alexander
11. Plutarch, Lives, Caesar, Cato the Younger
12. Tacitus, Annals, I-II
13. Tacitus, Annals, IV-VI
14. Tacitus, Annals, XIII-XV
15. Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Ch. I-III
16. Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, XV