Academic Program

January Freshman Reading List - Spring/Summer 2010
Santa Fe

January

18 Mon 
 Homer: Iliad, I-VI

21 Thu 
Iliad, VII-XII

25 Mon 
Iliad, XIII-XVIII

28 Thu
Iliad, XIX-XXIV

February

1 Mon 
Homer: Odyssey, I-VIII

4 Thu 
Odyssey, IX-XVI

8 Mon   
Odyssey, XVII-XXIV

11 Thu
 Aeschylus:  Agamemnon

15 Mon 
 Choephoroe (Libation Bearers); Eumenides

18 Thu 
Herodotus: Histories, I; III 37-38

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

25 Thu 
Histories, VIII-IX

March

1 Mon 
Plato: Gorgias: 447a-481b

4 Thu  
 Gorgias: 481b-527c

8 Mon 
 Meno 

11 Thu
 Sophocles: Oedipus Rex

13 - 28 
SPRING VACATION

29 Mon 
 Plato: Republic, I

April

1 Thur 
Republic, II-III

5 Mon
Republic, IV-V

8 Thu 
Republic, VI-VII

12 Mon 
Republic, VIII-IX

15 Thu  
 Republic, X

19 Mon 
 Aristophanes: Clouds
 First Semester Essays Due by Noon at Switchboard

22 Thu 
Thucydides: Peloponnesian War  (see reverse side)

26 Mon 
Peloponnesian War

29 Thu  
Peloponnesian War

May

3 Mon Peloponnesian War 

6 Thu 
 Plato: Symposium: 172a-201c                        

10 Mon  
Symposium:  201d-223d

13 Thu
Apology, Crito

17 Mon
Phaedo:  57a-89c

20 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 22
 I; II, 1-46

April 26 
II, 47-65; III, 1-86; IV, 1-41

April 29  
 IV, 42-135; V, 1-24, 84-116; VI, 1-32

May 3  
VI, 33-105; VII;  VIII, 1-2

Second Semester - Summer 2010

May

31 Mon
Sophocles: Antigone

June

3 Thu
 Aristotle:  Ethics, I; II

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

10 Thu   
 Ethics, VIII; IX

14  Mon  
Ethics, X

17 Thu
Lucretius: Nature of Things, I; II

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

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

28  Mon    
Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus

July

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

5  Mon  
 Physics, II: 195b31-200b11

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

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

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

19 Mon
Euripides: Bacchae

22 Thu  
 Theaetetus, 142-186

26 Mon
 Theaetetus, 186-210

29 Thu
Plato: Phaedrus, 227a-258d

August

2 Mon 
 Phaedrus, 258d-end

5 Thu   
Sophocles: Philoctetes