Year 1: Greece and Rome

Semester 1: Greece

[Greece was] the first of civilized nations [which] presented examples of what man should be.

—Thomas Jefferson to A. Coray, 1823. ME 15:481

Year 1, Semester 1: Greece

Week 1: Homer (Poetry)

Homer, The Iliad (549 pp. of verse)

Lingua Latina per se Illustrata: Pars I: Familia Romana Cap. I

Exercitia Latina I: Exercises for Familia Romana (Lingua Latina) (Pt. 1, No. 1) Cap I

Week 2: Homer (Poetry)

Homer, The Odyssey (481 pp. of verse)

Lingua Latina per se Illustrata: Pars I: Familia Romana Cap. II

Exercitia Latina I: Exercises for Familia Romana (Lingua Latina) (Pt. 1, No. 1) Cap II

Week 3: Sophocles (Poetry)

Sophocles, The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone (253 pp. of dialogue)

Lingua Latina per se Illustrata: Pars I: Familia Romana Cap. III

Exercitia Latina I: Exercises for Familia Romana (Lingua Latina) (Pt. 1, No. 1) Cap III

Week 4: Herodotus (History)

Herodotus, The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories (721 pp. of prose, including figures, footnotes, and maps)

Lingua Latina per se Illustrata: Pars I: Familia Romana Cap. IV

Exercitia Latina I: Exercises for Familia Romana (Lingua Latina) (Pt. 1, No. 1) Cap IV

Week 5: Herodotus (History)

Herodotus, The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories (721 pp. of prose, including figures, footnotes, and maps)

Lingua Latina per se Illustrata: Pars I: Familia Romana Cap. V

Exercitia Latina I: Exercises for Familia Romana (Lingua Latina) (Pt. 1, No. 1) Cap V

Week 6: Thucydides (History)

Thucydides, The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War (548 pp. of prose, including figures, footnotes, and maps)

Lingua Latina per se Illustrata: Pars I: Familia Romana Cap. VI

Exercitia Latina I: Exercises for Familia Romana (Lingua Latina) (Pt. 1, No. 1) Cap VI

Week 7: Thucydides (History)

Thucydides, The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War (548 pp. of prose, including figures, footnotes, and maps)

Lingua Latina per se Illustrata: Pars I: Familia Romana Cap. VII

Exercitia Latina I: Exercises for Familia Romana (Lingua Latina) (Pt. 1, No. 1) Cap VII

Week 8: Xenophon (History)

Xenophon, The Landmark Xenophon’s Hellenika (316 pp. of prose, including figures, footnotes, and maps)

Lingua Latina per se Illustrata: Pars I: Familia Romana Cap. VIII

Exercitia Latina I: Exercises for Familia Romana (Lingua Latina) (Pt. 1, No. 1) Cap VIII

Week 9: Plato (Morality)

Plato, Euthyphro in Plato: Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo (Hackett Classics) (pp. 1-20) (20 pp.)

Plato, Apology in Plato: Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo (Hackett Classics) (pp. 21-44) (23 pp.)

Plato, Crito in Plato: Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo (Hackett Classics) (pp. 45-57) (12 pp.)

Plato, Plato: Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo (Hackett Classics) (pp. 93-154) (61 pp.)

Lingua Latina per se Illustrata: Pars I: Familia Romana Cap. IX

Exercitia Latina I: Exercises for Familia Romana (Lingua Latina) (Pt. 1, No. 1) Cap IX

Week 10: Plato (Morality)

Plato, Republic (Hackett Classics) (292 pp. of dialogue)

Lingua Latina per se Illustrata: Pars I: Familia Romana Cap. X

Exercitia Latina I: Exercises for Familia Romana (Lingua Latina) (Pt. 1, No. 1) Cap X

Week 11: Aristotle (Morality)

Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics in The Basic Works of Aristotle (Modern Library Classics) (pp. 935-1126) (191 pp.)

Aristotle, Politics in The Basic Works of Aristotle (Modern Library Classics) (pp. 1127-1324) (197 pp.)

Lingua Latina per se Illustrata: Pars I: Familia Romana Cap. XI

Exercitia Latina I: Exercises for Familia Romana (Lingua Latina) (Pt. 1, No. 1) Cap XI

Week 12: Aristotle (Rhetoric and Poetry)

Aristotle, Rhetoric in The Basic Works of Aristotle (Modern Library Classics) (pp. 1325-1454) (129 pp.)

Aristotle, Poetics in The Basic Works of Aristotle (Modern Library Classics) (pp. 1455-1487) (32 pp.)

Lingua Latina per se Illustrata: Pars I: Familia Romana Cap. XII

Exercitia Latina I: Exercises for Familia Romana (Lingua Latina) (Pt. 1, No. 1) Cap XII

Week 13: Plutarch (History)

Plutarch, “Alexander” in Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2 (Modern Library Classics) (pp. 139-199) (60 pp. of prose)

Quintus Curtius, The History of Alexander (Penguin Classics) (240 pp.)

Lingua Latina per se Illustrata: Pars I: Familia Romana Cap. XIII

Exercitia Latina I: Exercises for Familia Romana (Lingua Latina) (Pt. 1, No. 1) Cap XIII

Week 14: Thanksgiving Holidays

Thanksgiving Holidays

Week 15: Arrian (History)

Arrian, The Landmark Arrian: The Campaigns of Alexander (158 pp.)

Lingua Latina per se Illustrata: Pars I: Familia Romana Cap. XIV

Exercitia Latina I: Exercises for Familia Romana (Lingua Latina) (Pt. 1, No. 1) Cap XIV

Week 16: Arrian (History)

Arrian, The Landmark Arrian: The Campaigns of Alexander (158 pp.)

Lingua Latina per se Illustrata: Pars I: Familia Romana Cap. XV

Exercitia Latina I: Exercises for Familia Romana (Lingua Latina) (Pt. 1, No. 1) Cap XV

Week 17: Final Exams

Final Exams

Year 1: Greece and Rome

Semester 2: Rome

Finding myself useless for this age, I throw myself back upon that other, and am so bewitched by it that the state of that ancient Rome, free, just, and flourishing (for I love neither her birth nor her old age), interests me passionately.

—Montaigne, Essays

Year 2: Rome

Year 2, Semester 1: The Roman Republic

Week 1: Virgil (Poetry)

The Aeneid by Vergil (Author), Sarah Ruden (Translator) (pp. 1-295) (295 pp.) 

Lingua Latina per se Illustrata: Pars I: Familia Romana Cap. XVI

Week 2: Livy (History)

The Rise of Rome: Books One to Five (Oxford World's Classics) (Bks. 1-5) by Livy and T. J. Luce (pp. 1-342) (342 pp.)

Exercitia Latina I: Exercises for Familia Romana (Lingua Latina) (Pt. 1, No. 1) Cap XVI

Week 3: Livy (History)

The Rise of Rome: Books One to Five (Oxford World's Classics) (Bks. 1-5) by Livy and T. J. Luce (pp. 1-342) (342 pp.)

Lingua Latina per se Illustrata: Pars I: Familia Romana Cap. XVII

Week 4: Livy (History)

Rome's Italian Wars: Books 6-10 (Oxford World's Classics) by J. C. Yardley and Dexter Hoyos (pp. 3-288) (285 pp.)

Exercitia Latina I: Exercises for Familia Romana (Lingua Latina) (Pt. 1, No. 1) Cap XVII

Week 5: Plutarch (History)

Plutarch's Lives Volume 1 (Modern Library Classics) by Plutarch  (Author), Arthur Hugh Clough (Editor), John Dryden (Translator), 

Romulus (Vol. 1, pp. 25-49) (24 pp.)

Numa (Vol. 1, pp. 81-101) (20 pp.)

Coriolanus (Vol. 1, pp. 291-321) (30 pp.)

Poplicola (Vol. 1, pp. 129-143) (14 pp.)

Camillus (Vol. 1, pp. 170-200) (30 pp.)

Fabius Maximus (Vol. 1, pp. 235-256) (21 pp.)

P. Aemilius (Vol. 1, pp. 356-383) (27 pp.)

Marcellus (Vol. 1, pp. 408-431) (23 pp.)

M. Cato (Vol. 1, pp. 457-479) (22 pp.)

Flaminius (Vol. 1, pp. 499-517) (18 pp.)

Lingua Latina per se Illustrata: Pars I: Familia Romana Cap. XVIII

Week 6: Polybius (History)

The Histories (Oxford World's Classics) by Polybius  (Author), Robin Waterfield  (Author), Brian McGing (Author) (pp. 3-447) (444 pp.)

Exercitia Latina I: Exercises for Familia Romana (Lingua Latina) (Pt. 1, No. 1) Cap XVIII

Week 7: Polybius (History)

The Histories (Oxford World's Classics) by Polybius (Author), Robin Waterfield  (Author), Brian McGing (Author) (pp. 3-447) (444 pp.)

Lingua Latina per se Illustrata: Pars I: Familia Romana Cap. XIX

Week 8: Sallust (History)

Catiline's Conspiracy, The Jugurthine War, Histories (Oxford World's Classics) by Sallust  (Author), William W. Batstone (Author) (pp. 3-155) (152 pp.)

Exercitia Latina I: Exercises for Familia Romana (Lingua Latina) (Pt. 1, No. 1) Cap XIX

Week 9: Plutarch (History)

Plutarch's Lives Volume 1 (Modern Library Classics) by Plutarch (Author), Arthur Hugh Clough (Editor), John Dryden (Translator),

Marius (pp. 549-584) (35 pp.)

Sulla (607-638) (31 pp.)

Lucullus (600-695) (95 pp.)

Crassus (pp. 724-751) (27 pp.)

Lingua Latina per se Illustrata: Pars I: Familia Romana Cap. XX

Week 10: Plutarch (History)

Plutarch's Lives Volume 1 (Modern Library Classics) by Plutarch  (Author), Arthur Hugh Clough (Editor), John Dryden (Translator),

Sertorius (Vol. 2, pp. 1-22) (22 pp.)

Cato (Vol. 2, pp. 270-317) (47 pp.)

Cicero (Vol. 2, pp. 408-441) (33 pp.)

Brutus (Vol. 2, pp. 572-609) (37 pp.)

Antonius (Vol. 2, pp. 481-534) (53 pp.)

Exercitia Latina I: Exercises for Familia Romana (Lingua Latina) (Pt. 1, No. 1) Cap XX

Week 11: Spring Break

Spring Break

Week 12 (Mar 25-Mar 29): Caesar (History)

The Gallic War: Seven Commentaries on The Gallic War with an Eighth Commentary by Aulus Hirtius (Oxford World's Classics) (pp. 1-245) (245 pp.) 

Lingua Latina per se Illustrata: Pars I: Familia Romana Cap. XXI

Week 13: Cicero (Rhetoric)

How to Win an Argument: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Persuasion (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers) by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Author), James M. May (Translator) (pp. 1-288) (144 pp.)

How to Win an Election: An Ancient Guide for Modern Politicians by Quintus Tullius Cicero (Author), Philip Freeman (Translator) (pp. 1-128) (64 pp.)

Week 14: Cicero (Morality)

How to Run a Country: An Ancient Guide for Modern Leaders (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers) by Marcus Tullius Cicero  (Author), Philip Freeman  (Translator) (pp. 1-152) (76 pp.)

How to Be a Friend: An Ancient Guide to True Friendship (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers) by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Author), Philip Freeman  (Translator, Introduction) (pp.1-208) (104 pp.)

How to Grow Old: Ancient Wisdom for the Second Half of Life (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers) by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Author), Philip Freeman  (Translator, Introduction) (pp. 1-216) (108 pp.)

Week 15: Caesar (History)

The Civil War (Oxford World's Classics) by Julius Caesar (Author), J. M. Carter (Translator) (pp. 1-270) ( 270 pp.)

Exercitia Latina I: Exercises for Familia Romana (Lingua Latina) (Pt. 1, No. 1) Cap XXI

Week 16: Lucretius (Morality)

On the Nature of the Universe (Oxford World's Classics) by Lucretius (Author), Ronald Melville (Translator), Don Fowler (Introduction), Peta Fowler (Introduction) (pp. 1-217) (217 pp.)

Lingua Latina per se Illustrata: Pars I: Familia Romana Cap. XXII

Week 17: Final Exams

Final Exams

Year 2, Semester 2: The Roman Empire

Week 1: Course Introduction

Course Introduction

Week 2: Ovid (Poetry)

Metamorphoses (Oxford World’s Classics) by Ovid (Author), A. D. Melville (Translator), E. J. Kenney (Introduction) (pp. 1-381) (381 pp.)

Week 3: Suetonius (History)

Lives of the Caesars (Oxford World’s Classics) by Suetonius (Author), Catharine Edwards (Translator) (pp. 1-295) (295 pp.)

Week 4: Tacitus (History)

The Annals: The Reigns of Tiberius, Claudius, and Nero (Oxford World’s Classics) 1st Edition by Cornelius Tacitus  (Author), Anthony A. Barrett (Author), J. C. Yardley (Translator) (pp. 1-394) (394 pp.)

Week 5: Tacitus (History)

The Annals: The Reigns of Tiberius, Claudius, and Nero (Oxford World’s Classics) 1st Edition by Cornelius Tacitus  (Author), Anthony A. Barrett (Author), J. C. Yardley (Translator) (pp. 1-394) (394 pp.)

Week 6: Seneca (Morality)

How to Keep Your Cool: An Ancient Guide to Anger Management (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers) by Seneca (Author), James S. Romm (Translator, Introduction) (pp. 1-240) (120 pp.)

On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It (Penguin Great Ideas) by Seneca (Author), C. D. N. Costa (Translator) (pp. 1-105) (105 pp.)

How to Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers) by Seneca (Author), James S. Romm (Editor, Introduction) (pp. 1-256) (128 pp.)

Week 7: Tacitus (History)

The Histories (Oxford World’s Classics) by Tacitus (Author), W. H. Fyfe (Author), D. S. Levene (Editor) (pp. 1-250) (250 pp.)

Week 8: Quintilian (Rhetoric)

Ancient Rhetoric: From Aristotle to Philostratus (Penguin Classics) by Thomas Habinek (Editor) (305 pp.)

Week 9: Epictetus (Morality)

How to Be Free: An Ancient Guide to the Stoic Life (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers) by Epictetus (Author), Anthony Long (Translator, Introduction) (pp. 1-232) (116 pp.)

Week 10: Marcus Aurelius (Morality)

Meditations: with selected correspondence (Oxford World’s Classics) by Marcus Aurelius (Author), Robin Hard (Author), Christopher Gill (Author) (pp. 1-122) (122 pp.)

Week 11: Plotinus (Morality)

The Essential Plotinus (Hackett Classics) by Plotinus (Author), Elmer O’Brien S.J. (Translator) (pp. 33-175/215) (142/182 pp.)

Week 12: Eusebius (History/Morality)

The Life of the Blessed Emperor Constantine by Eusebius Pamphilus (Author), Aeterna Press (Producer) (pp. 1-270) (270 pp.)

Week 13: Eusebius (History)

An Ecclesiastical History to the 20th Year of the Reign of Constantine by Eusebius (pp. 1-384) (384 pp.)

Week 14: Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving

Week 15: Eusebius (History)

An Ecclesiastical History to the 20th Year of the Reign of Constantine (Illustrated) by Eusebius (pp. 1-384) (384 pp.)

Week 16: Augustine (Morality)

The Essential Augustine by Saint Augustine of Hippo (Author), Vernon J. Bourke (Editor) (268 pp.)

Week 17: Final Exams

Final Exams

Year 3: The Middle Ages

Semester 1: The Early Middle Ages

“Our use of phrase ‘The Dark Ages’ to cover the period from 699 to 1,000 marks our undue concentration on Western Europe. . . .  From India to Spain, the brilliant civilization of Islam flourished. What was lost to Christendom at this time was not lost to civilization, but quite the contrary. . . .  To us it seems that West-European civilization is civilization, but this is a narrow view.”

—Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy

Year 3: The Middle Ages

Year 3, Semester 1: The Early Middle Ages

Week 1: Al-Tabari (839-923) or (570-622) (History)

Al-Tabari, The History of al-Tabari Vol. 6: Muhammad at Mecca (SUNY series in Near Eastern Studies) by W. Montgomery Watt (Translator), M. V. McDonald (Translator) (228 pp.)

Week 2: Einhard (770-840) and Notker the Stammerer (840-912)  and Theophanes (925-945) (History) 

Theophanes, The Chronicle of Theophanes: Anni mundi 6095-6305 (A.D. 602-813) (The Middle Ages Series) by Harry Turtledove (Translator) (181 pp.)

Einhard and Notker the Stammerer, Two Lives of Charlemagne (Penguin Classics) by Einhard  (Author) and Notker the Stammerer (116 pp.)

Week 3: Anonymous (c. 1040) (Poetry)

Anonymous, The Song of Roland (Hackett Classics) by John DuVal (Author), David Staines (Introduction) (pp. 1-112) (112  pp.)

Week 4: Alkindus (801-873) and Avenassar (870-950) (Morality)

Alkindus, “On Dispelling Sorrows” (pp. 245-248) (3 pp.), “Letter on the Method of How to Dispel Sorrows” (pp. 249-266) (17 pp.), “The Sayings of Socrates” (pp. 267-272) (5 pp.) in The Philosophical Works of al-Kindi (Studies in Islamic Philosophy) by Peter E. Pormann (Editor), Peter Adamson (Editor) (25 pp.)

Avenassar, “The Attainment of Happiness,” (pp. 13-50) (38 pp.) in Philosophy of Plato and Aristotle (Agora Editions) by Alfarabi (Author), Muhsin Mahdi  (Translator), Charles E. Butterworth (Foreword), Thomas L. Pangle (Foreword) (38 pp.)

Week 5: Avenassar (870-950) (Morality)

Avenassar, On the Perfect State by Abu Nasr  al-Farabi (Author), Richard Walzer (Translator) (pp. 39-329) (145 pp.)

Week 6: Yahya Ibn Adi (893-974) and Avicenna (980-1037) (Morality)

Yahya Ibn Adi, Reformation of Morals: A Parallel English-Arabic Text by Sidney H. Griffith, Translator, (50 pp.)

Avicenna, “Essay on the Secret of Destiny” in Reason and Tradition in Islamic Ethics  by George F. Hourani (Author) (pp. 229-231) (3 pp.)

Week 7:  Brethren of Purity (10th century) (Morality)

Brethren of Purity, The Case of the Animals versus Man Before the King of the Jinn: An English Translation of Epistle 22 by Lenn E.Goodman (Editor), Richard McGregor  (Editor) (256 pp.)

Week 8: Anonymous  (975-1010) (Poetry)

Anonymous, Beowulf by Stephen Mitchell (Translator), (208 pp.)

Week 9:  Avicebron (1021-1058) (Poetry)

Avicebron, Vulture in a Cage: Poems by Solomon Ibn Gabirol by Solomon Ibn Gabirol and Raymond P. Scheindlin (pp.) ( pp.)

Week 10: Algazel (1058-1111) (Morality)

Algazel, The Alchemy of Happiness (Sources and Studies in World History) by Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazzali (Author), Elton D. Daniel (Author), Claud Field (Author)

Week 11: Peter Abelard (1079-1142) and Heloise (1090-1164) (History)

Abelard and Heloise, The Letters of Abelard and Heloise (Penguin Classics) by Peter Abelard  (Author), Heloise (Author), Michael Clanchy (Editor, Introduction), Betty Radice (Translator) (pp. 3-245) (242 pp.)

Week 12: Anna Komnene (1083-1153) (History)

Anna Komnene, The Alexiad (Penguin Classics) by Anna Komnene (Author), Peter Frankopan (Editor, Introduction), E. R. A. Sewter (Translator) (3-236 pp.) (233 pp.)

Week 13: Spring Break

Spring Break

Week 14: Anna Komnene  (1083-1153) (History)

Anna Komnene, The Alexiad (Penguin Classics) by Anna Komnene (Author), Peter Frankopan (Editor, Introduction), E. R. A. Sewter (Translator) (237-473 pp.) (236 pp.)

Week 15: John of Salisbury (1110-1180) (Morality)

John of Salisbury, John of Salisbury: Policraticus (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) by Cary J. Nederman (231 pp.)

Week 16: Averroes (1123-1198) (Morality)

Averroes, Averroes on Plato’s “Republic” (Agora Editions) by Averroes (Author), Ralph Lerner (Translator) (pp. 3-149) (146 pp.)

Averroes, Decisive Treatise and Epistle Dedicatory (Brigham Young University - Islamic Translation Series) by Averroës  (Author), Charles E. Butterworth (Translator) (pp. 1-46) (23 pp.)

Week 17: Final Exams

Final Exams

Year 3: The Middle Ages

Semester 2: The High and Late Middle Ages

 

Year 3: The Middle Ages

Year 3, Semester 2: The High and Late Middle Ages

Week 1: Avenassar (870-950), Avicenna (980-1037), Averroes (1123-1198) (Rhetoric)

Avenassar, Avicenna, and Averroes, Three Arabic Treatises on Aristotle’s Rhetoric: The Commentaries of Al-Farabi, Avicenna, and Averroes, (175 pp.)

Week 2: Maimonides (1138–1204) (Morality)

Maimonides, Ethical Writings of Maimonides by Maimonides (Author) (208 pp.)

Week 3: Farid Ud-Din Attar (1145-1221) (Poetry)

Farid Ud-Din Attar, The Conference of the Birds (Penguin Classics) by Farid ud-Din Attar, Afkham Darbandi, et al. (262 pp)

Week 4: Marco Polo (1154-1224) (History)

Marco Polo, The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo and Ronald Latham  (pp. 33-193) (160 pp.)

Week 5: Marco Polo (1154-1224) (History)

Marco Polo, The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo and Ronald Latham (pp. 194-345) (151 pp.)

Week 6: Ibn Arabi (1165-1240) and Rumi (1207-1273) (Poetry)

Ibn Arabi, Bewildered: Love Poems from Translation of Desires by Muhyiddin Ibn Al-'Arabi (Author), Michael Sells (Translator) (80 pp.)

Rumi, The Love Poems of Rumi by Nader Khalili (Translator) (123 pp.)

Week 7: Anonymous (c. 1200) (Poetry)

Anonymous, The Song of the Cid (Penguin Classics) A Dual-Language Edition with Parallel Text (Spanish) Bilingual Edition by Anonymous (Author), Maria Rosa Menocal  (Editor, Introduction), Burton Raffel (Translator) (124 pp.)

Week 8: Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) (Morality)

Thomas Aquinas, On Kingship to the King of Cyprus by Thomas Aquinas (Author) (119 pp.)

Week 9: Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) (Morality)

Thomas Aquinas, Treatise on Law (Hackett Classics) UK ed. Edition by Thomas Aquinas (Author), Richard J. Regan S. J. (Translator) (128 pp.)

Week 10: Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) (Rhetoric)

Dante, Vita Nuova (Oxford World's Classics) by Dante Alighieri  (Author), Mark Musa (Translator) (84 pp.)

Dante, Dante: De Vulgari Eloquentia (Cambridge Medieval Classics) by Botterill (Author) (136 pp.)

Week 11: Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) (Poetry)

Dante, The Divine Comedy: Volume 1: Inferno (Pt. 1) (English and Italian Edition) by Dante Alighieri  (Author), Robin Kirkpatrick (Editor, Translator, Introduction, Commentary), Giorgio Petrocchi (Editor) (pp. 3-313) (155 pp.)

Week 12: Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) (Poetry)

Dante, Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri (Author), Robin Kirkpatrick (Editor, Translator, Introduction, Commentary) (592 pp.)

Week 13: Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) (Poetry)

Dante, The Divine Comedy: Volume 3: Paradiso (v. 3) by Dante Alighieri (Author), Robin Kirkpatrick (Editor, Translator, Introduction, Commentary) (496 pp.)

Week 14: Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving

Week 15: Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) (Morality)

Dante, Dante: Monarchy (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) by Prue Shaw (Editor) List Price: $27.99 ISBN-10: 0521567815

Week 16: Ibn Battuta (1304-1369) (History)

Ibn Battuta, The Travels of Ibn Battutah New Ed Edition by Ibn Battutah (Author), Tim Mackintosh-Smith (Editor) (243 pp.)

Week 17: Finals

Finals

Year 4: The Renaissance

Semester 1: The Proto and Early Renaissance

A revolution was necessary to bring men back to common sense, and it finally came from a quarter where one would least expect it. It was the stupid Muslim, the eternal blight on learning, who brought about its rebirth among us. The collapse of the throne of Constantine carried into Italy the debris of ancient Greece.

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Arts and Science

Year 4: The Renaissance

Year 4, Semester 1: The Proto and Early Renaissance

Week 1: Petrarch (1304-1374) (History, Morality, and Poetry) 

The Essential Petrarch (Hackett Classics) UK ed. Edition by Petrarch (Author), Peter Hainsworth (Translator) (286 pp.) 

Week 2: Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) (Poetry)

The Decameron: Selected Tales (Dover Thrift Editions) by Giovanni Boccaccio (Author), Bob Blaisdell (Editor) (192 pages)

Week 3: Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) (History)

On Famous Women by Giovanni Boccaccio (310 pp.) 

Week 4: Spring Break

Spring Break

Week 5: Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) (History)

The Downfall of the Famous: New Annotated Edition of the Fates of Illustrious Men (Italica Press Medieval & Renaissance Texts) by Giovanni Boccaccio (276 pp.)

Week 6: Geoffrey Chaucer (1340’s - 1400) (Poetry)

Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (Selected): An Interlinear Translation by Geoffrey Chaucer  (Author), Vincent F. Hopper (Author) (608 pp. of interlinear verse)

Troilus and Crisedye: A New Translation (Oxford World’s Classics) by Geoffrey Chaucer (256 pp. of verse)

Week 7: Sir Thomas Malory (1415-1471)

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; Pearl; [and] Sir Orfeo by J. R. R. Tolkien (Editor, Translator) (214 pp. of verse) 

Le Morte D'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table (Signet Classics) by Keith Baines (Adapter), Thomas Malory  (Author), Robert Graves (Introduction), Christopher Cannon (Afterword) (549 pp.) (pp. 1-281) (281 pp.)

Week 8: Sir Thomas Malory (1415-1471)

Le Morte D'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table (Signet Classics) by Keith Baines (Adapter), Thomas Malory  (Author), Robert Graves (Introduction), Christopher Cannon (Afterword) (549 pp.) (pp. 282-549) (267 pp.)

Week 9: Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494) (Morality)

Pico della Mirandola: Oration on the Dignity of Man: A New Translation and Commentary Translation Edition by Pico della Mirandola (Author), Francesco Borghesi (Editor), Michael Papio (Editor), Massimo Riva (Editor) (317 pp.) 

Week 10: Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536) (Morality)

Erasmus: The Education of a Christian Prince with the Panegyric for Archduke Philip of Austria (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) by Erasmus (Author), Lisa Jardine (Editor) (181 pp.) 

Week 11: Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536) (Morality and Rhetoric)

The Praise of Folly: Updated Edition (Princeton Classics) by Desiderius Erasmus (Author), Anthony Grafton (Foreword) (224 pp.)

Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam: On Copia of Words and Ideas by Donald King (Author), David Rix (Author) (111 pp.) 

Week 12: Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) (History and Morality)

The Essential Writings of Machiavelli (Modern Library Classics) by Niccolo Machiavelli (Author), Peter Constantine  (Translator), Albert Russell Ascoli (Introduction) (544 pp.) (pp. 3-288) (285 pp.) 

Week 13: Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) (History and Morality)

The Essential Writings of Machiavelli (Modern Library Classics) by Niccolo Machiavelli (Author), Peter Constantine  (Translator), Albert Russell Ascoli (Introduction) (544 pp.) (pp. 289-483) (255 pp.)

Week 14: Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) (History)

Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari (Author) (616pp.) (3 - 250 pp.)

Week 15: Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) (History)

Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari (Author) (616pp.) (251 -511 pp.)  

Week 16:  Sir Thomas More (1478-1535), Francis Bacon (1561-1626), and Henry Neville (1564-1615) (Morality)

Three Early Modern Utopias: Thomas More: Utopia / Francis Bacon: New Atlantis / Henry Neville: The Isle of Pines (Oxford World's Classics) by Thomas More  (Author), Francis Bacon  (Author), Henry Neville  (Author), Susan Bruce  (Editor) (320 pp.) 

Week 17: Baltasar Castiglione (1478-1529) (Morality)

The Book of the Courtier (Classics S) by Baldesar Castiglione (Author), George Bull (Translator, Introduction) (368 pp.)

Week 18: Final Exams

Final Exams

Year 4: The Renaissance

Semester 2: The High and Late Renaissance

 

Year 4: The Renaissance

Year 4, Semester 2: The High and Late Renaissance

Week 1: Juan Luis Vives (1492-1540) (Rhetoric)

J.L. Vives: de Ratione Dicendi (Selected Works of J. L. Vives) by Juan Luis Vives (Author), David J Walker (Editor) (500 pp.) 

Week 2: Juan Luis Vives (1492-1540) (Rhetoric)

J.L. Vives: de Ratione Dicendi (Selected Works of J. L. Vives) by Juan Luis Vives (Author), David J Walker (Editor) (500 pp.) 

Week 3:  Juan Luis Vives (1492-1540) (Morality)

The Education of a Christian Woman: A Sixteenth-Century Manual (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe) by Juan Luis Vives, Charles Fantazzi (Translator) (374 pp.) 

Week 4: St. Teresa of Avila (1515-1582) (History)

The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila by Herself (Penguin Classics) by Teresa of Avila (Author), J. M. Cohen (Translator) (320 pp.) 

Week 5: Luís Vaz de Camões (1524-1580) (Poetry)

The Lusiads (Oxford World's Classics) by Luïs Vaz de Camoes (Author), Landeg White (Translator) (288 pp.) 

Week 6: Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) (Morality)

Montaigne: Selected Essays: with La Boétie's Discourse on Voluntary Servitude (Hackett Classics) by Michel de Montaigne (Author), James B. Atkinson (Translator), David Sices (Translator) (308 pp.) 

Week 7: Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) (Morality)

Selections from Don Quixote: A Dual-Language Book (Dover Dual Language Spanish) by Miguel de Cervantes [Saavedra] (Author) (288 pp.)

Week 8: Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) and Sir Henry Neville (1562-1615) (Morality)

Francis Bacon: The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics) by Francis Bacon  (Author), Brian Vickers (Editor) (864 pp.)

Week 9: Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) and Sir Henry Neville (1562-1615) (Morality)

Francis Bacon: The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics) by Francis Bacon  (Author), Brian Vickers (Editor) (864 pp.)

Week 10: William Shakespeare (1564-1616) (History, Morality, Poetry)

King Lear (Dover Thrift Editions) by Willam Shakespeare (144 pp.)

Week 11: William Shakespeare (1564-1616) (Morality, Poetry)

A Midsummer Night's Dream (Dover Thrift Editions) by William Shakespeare  (Author) (80 pp.) 

Troilus and Cressida (Dover Thrift Editions) by William Shakespeare (128 pp.)

Week 12: Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving

Week 13: Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639) (Morality, Poetry)

The City of the Sun: A Poetical Dialogue (La Città del Sole: Dialogo Poetico) (Biblioteca Italiana) by Tommaso Campanella (Author) (152 pp.) 

Week 14: Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) (Morality)

The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition by Thomas Hobbes (Author), Nancy A. Stanlick Ph.D (Editor), Daniel P. Collette (Editor) (278 pp.) 

Week 15: Johannes Althusius (1557-1638) (Morality)

Politica by Johannes Althusius (Author) (302 pp.) 

Week 16: John Milton (1608-1674) (Poetry)

The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics) Reissue Edition by John Milton  (Author), Stephen Orgel  (Editor), Jonathan Goldberg (Editor) (1008 pp.)

Week 17: Baltasar Gracián (1601-1658) (Morality)

The Pocket Oracle and Art of Prudence (Penguin Classics) by Balthasar Gracian (Author), Jeremy Robbins (Translator, Introduction) (176 pp.)  

Week 18: Final Exams

Finals Exams

 

Year 5: The Enlightenment and the American Founding

Semester 1: The Enlightenment

Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one's own mind without another's guidance. Dare to know! (Sapere aude.) "Have the courage to use your own understanding," is therefore the motto of the enlightenment.

—Immanuel Kant, “What Is Enlightenment?”

Year 5: The Enlightenment and the American Founding

Semester 2: The American Founding

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

—Thomas Jefferson