Great Writers: The Great Books, David Demby, First Semester

FALL SEMESTER LITERATURE HUMANITIES
Homer Iliad (Chicago; Lattimore, trans.)
Odyssey (Harper; Lattimore, trans.)
Hymn to Demeter Homeric Hymns (Johns Hopkins; Athanassakis, trans.)
Sappho Translations by J. V. Cunningham and others Aeschylus Oresteia (Chicago; Lattimore, trans.)
Sophocles Oedipus the King (Chicago; Grene, trans.)
Antigone (Chicago; Grene, trans.)
Thucydides The History of the Peloponnesian War; selections (Penguin; Warner, trans.)
Euripides Electra (Chicago; Vermeule, trans.)
The Bacchae (Chicago; Arrowsmith, trans.)
Aristophanes The Clouds (Meridian; Arrowsmith, trans.)
Plato Symposium (Hackett; Nehemas and Woodruff, trans.)
Apology (Hackett; Grube, trans.) or
The Republic (Hackett; Grube, trans.)
Aristotle The Nicomachean Ethics (Oxford; Ross, trans.) The Poetics (Macmillan; Grube, trans.)
Virgil Aeneid (Random House; Fitzgerald, trans.)
The Bible the Old Testament: Genesis, Job (Meridian; King James or Revised Standard Version)

CONTEMPORARY CIVILIZATION

SECTION I: THE GREEK AND ROMAN WORLD
Thucydides The History of the Peloponnesian War; selections (Penguin; Warner, trans.)
Plato The Republic (Penguin; Lee, trans.)
Aristotle The Politics (Penguin; Sinclair, trans.)
The Nicomachean Ethics (Oxford; Ross, trans.)
Cicero On the Good Life (Penguin; Grant, trans.)

SECTION II: THE SOURCES OF THE JUDEO-CHRISTIAN TRADITION

The Bible the Old Testament: Genesis, Exodus, Isaiah
The New Testament: Matthew, Acts, Romans, James, Revelation (Meridian; Revised Standard Version)

SECTION III: THE MIDDLE AGES

Augustine City of God; selections (Penguin; Bettenson, trans.)
Aquinas Aquinas on Politics and Ethics (Norton; Sigmund, trans.)
Pizan The Book of the City of Ladies (Persea; Richards, trans.)

SECTION IV: RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION

Machiavelli The Prince (Modern Library; Ricci, trans.)
The Discourses; selections (Modern Library; Dettmold, trans.)
Hillerbrand, ed. The Protestant Reformation (Harper)
Calvin The Institutes (Baker; Lane and Osborne, trans.)

SECTION V: THE NEW SCIENCE

Descartes Discourse on Method (Hackett; Cress, trans.)
Galileo Discoveries and Opinions (Anchor; Drake, trans.)

SECTION VI: NEW PHILOSOPHY AND THE POLITY

Hobbes Leviathan; selections (Penguin)
Locke Second Treatise of Government (Hackett)

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