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 |