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Ancient Greeks
For the 1st Set of Readings
MONTH READINGS AND DISCUSSION
PREP How to Read a Book (Adler)
1st The Great Conversation,Theogony (Hesiod), and Prometheus Bound (Aeschylus)
2nd The "Illiad"; and the"Odyssey" (Homer)
3rd Agamemnon, Libation Bearers,Eumenides (Aeschylus)
4th Trojan Women, Alcestis (Euripedes)
5th Aesop's Fables (Aesop)
6th Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus (Sophocles)
7th Antigone – Sophocles, Hippolytus (Euripides)
8th The History (Herodotus)
9th The History of Peloponnesian War (Thucydides)
10th Lycurgus, Solon, Pericles, Alcibiades (Plutarch)
11th Medea, Bacchae (Euripedes)
12th Ion, Meno, Gorgias (Plato)
13th Republic (Plato)
14th Symposium, Apology, Euthyphro (Plato)
15th Crito, Phaedo (Plato)
16th On Poetics, On the Heavens, On the Soul (Aristotle)
17th Ethics, Metaphysics (Aristotle)
18th Aristides, Alexander (Plutarch)
19th "The Oath," "On Ancient Medicine," "On Airs, Waters, Places" (Hippocrates)
20th Elements (Euclid)
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Ancient Romans-Middle Age
For the 2nd Set of Readings
MONTH
1st Aeinid (Virgil)
2nd History of Rome (Livy)
3rd Romulus, Numa Pomulus, Coriolanus, Caesar (Plutarch)
4th Conquest of Gaul (Caesar)
5th Cato the Younger, Antony, Brutus, Cicero (Plutarch)
6th On Friendship, On Duties (Cicero)
7th Annals (Tacitus)
8th Histories (Tacitus)
9th On the Nature of Things(Lucretius)
10th Discourses (Epictitus), Meditations (Marcus Aurelius)
11th Almagest (Ptolemy)
12th On the Natural Faculties (Galen)
13th Enneads (Plotinus)
14th Confessions ([Link])
15th Consolation of Philosophy (Boethius)
16th City of God ([Link])
17th History of the English People ([Link])
18th Divine Comedy- Inferno ( Dante)
19th Divine Comedy-Purgatorio (Dante)
20th Divine Comedy-Paradiso (Dante)
21st Odes and Epodes, The Art of Poetry (Horace)
22nd Metamorphoses (Ovid)
23rd Christian Doctrine ([Link])
24th On the Teacher ([Link])
25th Volsunga Saga
26th The Saga of Burn Najal
27th The way to write History (Lucian)
28th The True History (Lucian)
29th The sale of creeds (Lucian)
For the 3rd Set of Readings
MONTH READINGS AND DISCUSSION
1st Troilus and Cressida (Chaucer)
2nd The Canterburry Tales (Chaucer)
3rd The Prince (Machiavelli)
4th Utopia ([Link] More)
5th On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Sphere (Copernicus)
6th Don Quixote (Cervantes)
7th A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream (Shakespeare)
8th The Taming of the Shrew (William Shakespeare)
9th Coriolanus (Shakespeare)
10th Autobiography of St. Teresa of Avila
11th Julius Caesar (Shakespeare)
12th Othello (Shakespeare)
13th The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare)
14th Henry V (Shakespeare)
15th Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare)
16th Hamlet (Shakespeare)
17th Macbeth (Shakespeare)
18th King Lear (Shakespeare)
19th Tartuffe (Moliere)
20th Phaedra (Racine)
21st The Tempest ( Shakespeare)
22nd Gulliver’s Travels (Jonathan Swift)
23rd Life of Samuel Johnson –(Boswell)
24th Emma (Jane Austen)
25th Faust (Goethe)
26th War and Peace (Tolstoy)
27th The Brothers Karamazov ( Dostoevsky)
28th The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
29th Nineteen Eighty Four (George Orwell)
30th Relativity: The Special and General Theory (Einstein)
31st My Antonia (Willa Cather)
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Additional Readings/ Novelty
For the 4th Set of Readings
MONTH
1st Pride and Prejudice (Austen)
2nd Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky)
3rd The Idiot (Dostoevsky)
4th Theory of the Moral Sentiments, and Wealth of Nations (Adam Smith)
5th Pickwick Paper (Dickens)
6th The Count of Monte Cristo (Dumas)
7th Red Badge of Courage (Crane)
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9th Ibong Adarna
10th Florante at Laura
11th Noli me Tangere
12th El Filibusterismo
13th Rosales Saga (FS Jose)
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