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Sept. 4 |
Introduction
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Sept. 11 |
Early Poets
Homer
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Homer. Excerpts from The Iliad.
Hesiod. Excerpts from Theogeny.
———. Excerpts from Works and Days.
Tyrtaeus of Sparta. Fragments.
Solon of Athens. Fragments.
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Sept. 18 |
Presocratics, Sophists, and Historians
Thucydides
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Heraclitus of Ephasus. Fragments.
Protagoras. Fragments.
Plato. Excerpt from Protagoras.
Gorgias. Excerpt from In Praise of Helen.
Antiphon. Fragments.
The Anonymous Iamblichi. Fragments.
Herodotus. Excerpts from Histories.
Thucydides. Excerpts from History of the
Peloponnesian War.
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Sept. 25 |
Tragedians and Comedians
Sophocles
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Aeschylus. The Furies.
Aristophanes. The Clouds.
Sophocles. Antigone.
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Oct. 2 |
Socrates and Plato
Socrates
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Plato. Euthyphro.
———. Apology.
———. Crito.
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Oct. 9 |
Plato’s Republic
Plato
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Plato. Republic, books I-IV.
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Oct. 16 |
Plato’s Republic
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Plato. Republic, books V-X..
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Oct. 23 |
Plato’s Laws
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Plato. Excerpts from The Laws.
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Oct. 30 |
Aristotle’s Ethics and Politics
Aristotle
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Aristotle. Excerpts from Nicomachean Ethics.
———. Excerpts from Politics, books I-III.
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Nov. 6 |
Aristotle’s Politics
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Aristotle. Excerpts from Politics, books
IV-VIII.
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Nov. 13 |
Cicero
Cicero
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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Excerpts from The Republic.
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Nov. 20 |
Augustine
Augustine
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Augustine, Excerpts from City of God.
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Nov. 27
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Thanksgiving Recess
Turkey
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Dec. 4 |
Aquinas and Pizan
Pizan
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Aquinas, Thomas. Excerpts from Summa Theologica.
———. Excerpts from Statesmanship.
Pizan, Christine de. Excerpts from City of Ladies.
———. Excerpts from Book of the Body Politic.
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Dec. 11 |
Machiavelli
Machiavelli
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Machiavelli, Niccolo. Letter to Franceso Vettori.
———. The Prince.
———. Excerpts from The Discourses.
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