Graduate Institute
Curriculum - Literature
- "We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality."
Albert Einstein
Literature Seminar
- Homer: Iliad, Odyssey
- Aeschylus: Agamemnon, Choephoroe, Eumenides
- Sophocles: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
- Euripides: Hippolytus, Bacchae, Electra vAristophanes: Frogs
Literature Tutorial
- Chaucer: Canterbury Tales in Middle English*
- Shakespeare: King Lear
- Aristotle: Poetics
- Selected English lyric poetry
Literature Preceptorial (samples)
- Cervantes: Don Quixote
- Joyce: Ulysses
- Virgil: Aeneid
- Eliot: Middlemarch
- Dostoevski: The Brothers Karamazov
* Readings differ slightly between the two campuses. The lists provided are samples or selections of the full readings.