Academic Program

January Freshman Reading List - Spring/Summer 2013
Santa Fe

January
14  
Homer: Iliad, I-VI

17  
Iliad,   VII-XII

21
Iliad, XIII-XVIII

24
Iliad, XIX-XXIV

28
Homer: Odyssey, I-VIII

31
Odyssey, IX-XVI

February 

4
Odyssey, XVII-XXIV

7
Aeschylus:  Agamemnon

11
Choephoroe (Libation Bearers); Eumenides

14
Herodotus: Histories, I; III 37-38

18
Histories, V 62-78; VI 94-140; VII 1-60, 99- end

21
Histories, VIII-IX

25
Plato: Gorgias: 447a-481b

28
Gorgias: 481b-527c

March 
4
Meno

7
Sophocles:  Oedipus Rex

9-24 
SPRING VACATION

25
Plato:  Republic, I

28  
Republic, II-III

April
1  
Republic, IV-V

4  
Republic, VI-VII

8 
Republic, VIII-IX

11  
Republic, X

15  
Aristophanes:  Clouds

15
First Semester Essays Due by Noon at Switchboard

18
Thucydides:  Peloponnesian War

22  
Peloponnesian War

25  
Peloponnesian War

29   
Peloponnesian War 

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 18  
I
II, 1-46

April 22
II, 47-65
III, 1-86
 IV, 1-41

April 25
IV, 42-135
V, 1-24, 84-116
VI, 1-32

April 29
VI, 33-105
VII
VIII, 1-2

May
2  
Plato:  Symposium: 172a-201c

6  
Symposium:  201d-223d

9 
Apology, Crito

13  
Phaedo:  57a-89c

16  
Phaedo:  89c-118a

27 
Sophocles:  Antigone

30 
Aristotle:  Ethics, I;II

June
3  
Ethics, III:  1109b30-1119a20; IV:  1123A34-1125a35; V:   1129a3-1131a9,1134a16- 1135a14

6  
Ethics, VIII; IX

10 
Ethics, X

13 
Lucretius:  Nature of Things, I; II

17  
Nature of Things, III; IV; V, 1379-end; VI, 1-34, 1090 to 1286

20 
Plato:  Timaeus, 17-57d, and “System of the World” (copy)

24  
Sophocles:  Oedipus at Colonus

27  
Aristotle:  Physics, I: 184a9-184b14, 189b30-192b7; II: 192b8-195b30

July
1  
Physics, II: 195b31-200b11

4   
Physics, III: 200b12-202b29; IV: 217b29-224a16

8   
Physics, III: 202b30-208a25; IV: 208a26-217b29

11
Physics, VIII: 250b11-260a19, 265a13-267b27

15 
Euripides: Bacchae

18 
Theaetetus, 142-186

22 
Theaetetus, 186-210

25 
Plato:  Phaedrus, 227a-258d

29 
Phaedrus, 258d-end

August
1  
Sophocles:        Philoctetes