Academic Program
January Freshman Reading List - Spring/Summer 2012
Santa Fe
January
16 Mon
Homer: Iliad, I-VI
19 Thu
Iliad, VII-XII
23 Mon
Iliad, XIII-XVIII
26 Thu
Iliad, XIX-XXIV
30 Mon
Homer: Odyssey, I-VIII
February
2 Thu
Odyssey, IX-XVI
6 Mon
Odyssey, XVII-XXIV
9 Thu
Aeschylus: Agamemnon
13 Mon
Choephoroe (Libation Bearers); Eumenides
16 Thu
Herodotus: Histories, I; III 37-38
20 Mon
Histories, V 62-78; VI 94-140; VII 1-60, 99- end
23 Thu
Histories, VIII-IX
2 Mon
Plato: Gorgias: 447a-481b
March
1 Thu
Gorgias: 481b-527c
5 Mon
Meno
8 Thu
Sophocles: Oedipus Rex
10 - 25
SPRING VACATION
26 Mon
Plato: Republic, I
29 Thur
Republic, II-III
April
2 Mon
Republic, IV-V
5 Thu
Republic, VI-VII
9 Mon
Republic, VIII-IX
12 Thu
Republic, X
16 Mon
Aristophanes: Clouds
First Semester Essays Due by Noon at Switchboard
19 Thu
Thucydides: Peloponnesian War (see reverse side)
23 Mon
Peloponnesian War
26 Thu
Peloponnesian War
30 Mon Peloponnesian War
May
3 Thu
Plato: Symposium: 172a-201c
7 Mon
Symposium: 201d-223d
10 Thu
Apology, Crito
14 Mon
Phaedo: 57a-89c
17 Thu
Phaedo: 89c-118a
THUCYDIDES ASSIGNMENTS
While we recommend reading the entire work, the selections listed should be manageable in the allotted time. Arabic numbers refer to standard paragraph numbers; these appear on the tops of the pages in the Modern Library edition and in the margins in the Penguin edition.
April 19
I; II, 1-46
April 23
II, 47-65; III, 1-86; IV, 1-41
April 26
IV, 42-135; V, 1-24, 84-116; VI, 1-32
April 30
VI, 33-105;
VII;
VIII, 1-2
Second Semester - Summer 2011
May
28 Mon
Sophocles: Antigone
31 Thu
Aristotle: Ethics, I; II
June
4 Mon
Ethics, III: 1109b30-1119a20; IV: 1123A34-1125a35;
V: 1129a3-1131a9,1134a16- 1135a14
7 Thu
Ethics, VIII; IX
11 Mon
Ethics, X
14 Thu
Lucretius: Nature of Things, I; II
18 Mon
Nature of Things, III; IV; V, 1379-end; VI, 1-34, 1090 to 1286
21 Thu
Plato: Timaeus, 17-57d, and “System of the World” (copy)
25 Mon
Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus
28 Thu
Aristotle: Physics, I: 184a9-184b14, 189b30-192b7; II: 192b8-195b30
July
2 Mon
Physics, II: 195b31-200b11
5 Thu
Physics, III: 200b12-202b29;
IV: 217b29-224a16
9 Mon
Physics, III: 202b30-208a25; IV: 208a26-217b29
12 Thu
Physics, VIII: 250b11-260a19, 265a13-
267b27
16 Mon
Euripides: Bacchae
19 Thu
Theaetetus, 142-186
23 Mon
Theaetetus, 186-210
26 Thu
Plato: Phaedrus, 227a-258d
30 Mon
Phaedrus, 258d-end
August
2 Thu
Sophocles: Philoctetes
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