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