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Annapolis — Undergraduate Reading List 2010-2011 — Fall Semester
The following reading list may be subect to change. Please always check with tutors or cross-reference with the paper reading list distributed by the dean's office. Asterisks (*) indicate selections detailed in the supplement sheets. To view the supplement sheets, click on the class header.
| Date | Freshman | Sophomore | Junior | Senior |
| Aug. 26 | Homer: Iliad I-VI | Bible: Genesis 1-11 | Cervantes: Don Quixote Part I | Tolstoi: War and Peace |
| Aug. 30 | Homer: Iliad VII-XII | Bible: Genesis 12-25 | Cervantes: Don Quixote | Tolstoi: War and Peace |
| Sep. 02 | Homer: Iliad XIII-XVIII | Bible: Genesis 26-50 | Descartes: Meditations Letter of Dedication, Preface, I-III | Hegel: Logic (Part One of the Encyclopedia), sections 79-89 |
| Sep. 06 | Homer: Iliad XIX-XXIV | Bible: Exodus; Numbers 20 | Descartes: Meditations IV-VI | Hegel: Phenomenology of Spirit Introduction, sections 73-89 |
| Sep. 09 | Homer: Odyssey I-VIII | Bible: Leviticus 11, 18-20; Deuteronomy | Pascal: Pensées (selections)* | Hegel: Phenomenology of Spirit Sense Certainty, Perception, sections 90-116 |
| Sep. 13 | Homer: Odyssey IX-XVI | Bible: Samuel I, II; Kings I, 1-4 | Pascal: Pensées (selections)* | Hegel: Phenomenologyof Spirit Lordship and Bondage, sections 178-196 |
| Sep. 16 | Homer: Odyssey XVII-XXIV | Bible: Psalms (selections)* | Milton: Paradise Lost I-III | Hegel: Phenomenology of Spirit Stoicism and Skepticism, sections 197-206 |
| Sep. 20 | Plato: Meno | Bible: Amos; Jonah; Isaiah 40-55 | Milton: Paradise Lost IV; V; VI Argument only; VII Argument, 1-39; VIII | Hegel: Phenomenology of Spirit Unhappy Consciousness, sections 207-230 |
| Sep. 23 | Aeschylus: Agamemnon | Bible: Job | Milton: Paradise Lost IX-X, XI to 428, XII 446 to end | Hegel: Phenomenology of Spirit Conscience and The Beautiful Soul, sections 632-658 |
| Sep. 27 | Aeschylus: Libation Bearers; Eumenides | Lucretius: De Rerum Natura I-III | Hobbes: Leviathan Letter of Dedication, Author's Preface, Chapters 1-11 | Hegel: Phenomenology of Spirit The Beautiful Soul and Forgiveness, sections 659-671; AbsoluteKnowing, sections 806-808 |
| Sep. 30 | Plato: Gorgias 447A-481B | Lucretius: De Rerum Natura IV-VI | Hobbes: Leviathan Chapters 12-18 | Marx: Communist Manifesto; The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 (selections)* |
| Oct. 04 | Plato: Gorgias 481B-527E | Virgil: Aeneid I-IV | Hobbes: Leviathan (selections)* | Marx: Capital Vol. I Part I (selections)* |
| Oct. 07 | Plutarch: Lives Lycurgus; Solon | Virgil: Aeneid V-VIII | Hobbes: Leviathan (selections)* | Marx: Capital Vol. I Part II (selections)* |
| Oct. 11 | Herodotus: History I; II, 50-53, 112-120; III, 37, 38, 66-87 | Virgil: Aeneid IX-XII | Spinoza: Theologico-Political Treatise (selections)* | Marx: The German Ideology (selections)* |
| Oct. 14 | Herodotus: History V, 76-78, 91-93, 105; VI, 48, 56-72, 94-120; VII (entire) | Plutarch: Lives Caesar; Cato the Younger | Spinoza: Theologico-Political Treatise (selections)* | Kierkegaard: Fear and Trembling beginning - Problema I |
| Oct. 18 | Herodotus: History VIII; IX | Tacitus: Annals I-II | Leibniz: Discourse on Metaphysics | Kierkegaard: Philosophical Fragments Chapters I - III (incl. Appendix) |
| Oct. 21 | Plato: Republic I-II 367E | Tacitus: Annals III-VI | Leibniz: Philosophical Essays (selections)* | Kierkegaard: Philosophical Fragments Chapter IV - end (Moral) |
| Oct. 25 | Plato: Republic II 367E-IV 427C | Epictetus: Discourses and Handbook (selections)* | Leibniz: Principles of Nature and Grace; Monadology; Philosophical Essays (selections)* | Melville: Benito Cereno |
| Oct. 28 | Plato: Republic IV 427D-VI 502C | Bible: Matthew | Preceptorial | Preceptorial |
| Nov. 01 | Plato: Republic VI 502D-VII | Bible: Luke | Preceptorial | Preceptorial |
| Nov. 04 | Plato: Republic VIII-IX | Bible: Acts | Preceptorial | Preceptorial |
| Nov. 08 | Plato: Republic X | Bible: Gospel of John; First Letter of John | Preceptorial | Preceptorial |
| Nov. 11 | Aristophanes: Clouds | Bible: I Corinthians | Preceptorial | Preceptorial |
| Nov. 15 | Plato: Apology and Crito | Bible: Romans | Preceptorial | Preceptorial |
| Nov. 18 | Plato: Phaedo 57A-84B | Plotinus: (selections)* | Preceptorial | Preceptorial |
| Nov. 22 | Plato: Phaedo 84B-118B | Augustine: Confessions I-V | Preceptorial | Preceptorial |
| Nov. 29 | Thucydides: Peloponnesian War I; II, 1-46 | Augustine: Confessions VI-IX | Preceptorial | Preceptorial |
| Dec. 02 | Thucydides: Peloponnesian War II, 47-end; III; IV, 1-41 | Augustine: Confessions X-XI | Preceptorial | Preceptorial |
| Dec. 06 | Thucydides: Peloponnesian War IV, 42-end; V; VI, 1-32 | Anselm: Proslogium | Preceptorial | Preceptorial |
| Dec. 09 | Thucydides: Peloponnesian War VI, 33-end; VII | Christian Creeds: (selections)* | Preceptorial | Preceptorial |
| Dec. 13 | Plato: Symposium beginning-198A | Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologiae, Prima Pars (selections)* | Preceptorial | Preceptorial |
| Dec. 16 | Plato: Symposium 198-end | Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologiae, Prima Pars (selections)* | Preceptorial | Preceptorial |
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