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Course Objective: The course objective is to familiarize students with the great ideas contained in the original works by the greatest ancient Greeks, chronologically, beginning with the works of Homer, which are seminal to classical and Western civilization (see course syllabus for specific titles studied). Authors of the works studied this year include: Homer, Hesiod, Aeschylus, Euripedes, Sophocles, Aesop, Herodotus, Plutarch, Thucydides, the Pre-Socratics [Thales, Anaximenes, Anamimander, Pythagoras, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Melissus, Zeno, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, Leucippus, Democritus, Plato, Aristotle, Plutarch, Hippocrates and Euclid.
Great Books of the Ancient Greeks I
First Semester | | Great Books of the Ancient Greeks II
Second Semester | |
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| Weekly Readings | | Weekly Readings | | | Before the first class read the article The Great Conversation, Theogony by Hesiod and Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus (we will send you links to these). | Week 1
Hour 1: Intro to the Great Books
& Socratic Discussion, and
The Great Conversation article by Robert Hutchins and/or Mortimer AdlerHour 2: Theogony – Hesiod;
Prometheus Bound – Aeschylus | | Week 18
Peloponnesian War* -Thucydides | | Week 2
The Iliad – Homer | | Week 19
Peloponnesian War* -Thucydides | | Week 3
The Iliad – Homer | | Week 20
Fragments* – Presocratic Philosophers | | Week 4
The Odyssey – Homer | | Week 21
Ion, Meno – Plato | | Week 5
The Odyssey – Homer | | Week 22
Gorgias – Plato | | Week 6
Agamemnon, Libation Bearers,
Eumenides – Aeschylus | | Week 23
Republic* – Plato | | Week 7
Trojan Women, Alcestis – Euripedes | | Week 24
Republic* – Plato | | Week 8
Aesop’s Fables* –Aesop | | Week 25
Symposium – Plato | | Week 9
Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus –Sophocles | | Week 26
Apology, Euthyphro – Plato | | Week 10
Antigone – Sophocles, Hippolytus – Euripides | | Week 27
Crito, Phaedo – Plato | | Week 11
Histories* – Herodotus | | Week 28
Poetics, On the Heavens*, On the Soul* – Aristotle | | Week 12
Histories* – Herodotus | | Week 29
Ethics*, Metaphysics* -Aristotle | | Week 13
Thanksgiving week – No classes on Thurs. and Friday | | Week 30
Spring Break | | Week 14
Histories* – Herodotus | | Week 31
Aristides, Alexander -Plutarch | | Week 15
Lycurgus, Solon, Pericles, Alcibiades -Plutarch | | Week 32
The Oath, On Ancient Medicine,
On Airs, Waters, Places – Hippocrates | | Week 16
Medea, Bacchae – Euripedes | | Week 33
Elements*, Euclid | | Week 17
Oral Exams | | Week 34
Oral Exams *Selections Only |
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