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HIGH SCHOOL GREAT BOOKS READINGS

This list has been revised as of 8-28-02
for the 2002-2003 School Year

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Freshman Year - Ninth Grade Great Books Level 1 - The Ancient Greeks (34 weeks - September-May) Week First Semester Week Second Semester 15 Weeks (September 5 - December 23, 2002) 19 Weeks January 2 - May 30 NOTA BENE: Required reading before first class: Theogony - Hesiod; Prometheus Bound - Aeschylus 16 Lycurgus, Solon, Pericles, Alcibiades - Plutarch (Jan. 2) 1 Orientation: (September 5, 2002), Mic tests, introduction to Socratic inquiry 17 Medea, Bacchae - Euripedes (Jan. 9) 2 Theogony - Hesiod Prometheus Bound - Aeschylus (Sept. 12) 18 Peloponnesian War (Books 1-3) - Thucydides (Jan. 16) 3 The Iliad - Homer (Sept. 19) 19 Peloponnesian War (Books 4-6) - Thucydides (Jan. 23) 4 The Iliad - Homer (Sept. 26) 20 Fragments* - Presocratic Philosophers (Jan. 30 ) 5 The Odyssey - Homer (Oct. 3) 21 Ion, Meno - Plato (Feb. 6) 6 The Odyssey - Homer (Oct. 10) 22 Symposium - Plato (Feb. 13) 7 Agamemnon, Libation Bearers - Aeschylus Eumenides -       Aeschylus (Oct. 17) 23 Georgia - Plato (Feb. 20) 8 Trojan Women, Alcestis - Euripedes (Oct. 24) 24 The Clouds, The Birds - Aristophanes (Feb. 27) 9 Aesop's Fables - Aesop (Oct. 31) 25 Euthyphro, Apology,Crito - Plato (Mar. 6) 10 Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus - Sophocles (Nov. 7) 26 The Republic* - Plato (Mar. 13) 11 Antigone - Sophocles, Hippolytus - Euripides (Nov. 14) 27 Alexander - Plutarch (Mar. 20) 12 Histories (Books 1-3) - Herodotus (Nov. 21) Thanksgiving Holidays (Nov. 28,29) 28 Poetics - Aristotle (Mar. 27) 13 Histories (Books 4-6) - Herodotus (Dec. 5) 29 Phaedo - Plato (Apr. 3) 14 Histories (Books 7-9) - Herodotus (Dec. 12) 30 On the Heavens*, On the Soul*, Ethics*, Metaphysics* - Aristotle (Apr. 10) - - - Spring Break April 14-18 15 Oral Exams (December 16-20, 23) 31 The Oath, On Ancient Medicine, On Airs, Waters, Places - Hippocrates (Apr. 24) 32 Elements - Euclid (May 1)     33 Sand Reckoner, Floating Bodies, Equilibrium of Planes - Archimedes (May 8)     34 Introduction to Arithmetic - Nichomachus of Gerasa (May 15) * selections only (the Aristotle sections are very brief) 35 Oral Exams (May 20-22, 26-30) Sophomore Year - Tenth Grade SECOND YEAR (Roman) READINGS Week First Semester Week Second Semester 15 Weeks September 3 - December 23, 2002 20 Weeks 19 Weeks (January 7 - May 30) 1 Orientation Week (September 3, 2002) 17 Enneads* - Plotinus (Jan. 7) 2 Aeneid - Virgil (Sept. 10) 18 Old Testament - Genesis (Jan. 14) 3 Aeneid - Virgil (Sept. 17) 19 New Testament* (Jan. 21) 4 Livy* (Sept. 24) 20 Apocalypse - John (Jan. 28) 5 Livy* (Oct. 1) 21 Confessions - Augustine (Feb. 4) 6 Plutarch's Lives: Romulus, Numa Pomulus, Coriolanus, Caesar (Oct. 8) 22 Confessions - Augustine (Feb. 11) 7 Conquest of Gaul - Caesar (Oct. 15) 23 Consolation of Philosophy - Boethius (Feb. 18) 8 Plutarch's Lives: Cato the Younger, Antony, Brutus, Cicero (Oct. 22) 24 Qu'ran* (Feb. 25) 9 On Friendship - Cicero (Oct. 29) 25 History of the English People - Bede (Mar. 4) 10 On Duties - Cicero (Nov. 5) 26 Two Lives of Charlemagne (Mar. 11) 11 Annals* - Tacitus (Nov. 12) 27 Song of Roland (Mar 18) 12 On the Nature of Things* - Lucretius (Nov. 19) 28 Memoirs of the Crusades (Mar. 25) 13 Discourses* - Epictitus; Meditations* - Marcus Aurelius (Nov. 26) 29 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Apr. 1) 14 Almagest - Ptolemy (Dec. 3) 30 Guide for the Perplexed - Maimonides (Apr. 8) - Spring Break (April 14-18) 15 On the Natural Faculties - Galen (Dec. 11)