Required

Optional

Intellectual Heritage 51

The Ancient World

Greek tragedy or epic: One of

Aeschylus, Oresteia translated by Peter Meineck (Hackett, 1998);

Sophocles, Oedipus the King  and/or Antigone  in Sophocles,  Three Theban plays, translated by Peter Meineck (Hackett, 2002)

Homer, The Essential Iliad in The Essential Iliad, translated by Stanley Lombardo (Hackett, 2000)

Plato

The Republic, selections, translated by G. M. A. Grube revised by  C. D. C. Reeve (Hackett, 1992).

            or

Euthyphro, Apology, and / or Crito in The Trial and Death of Socrates, translated by G. M. A. Grube (Hackett, 2001).

Thucydides, Funeral Speech of Pericles* from  The Peloponnesian War

Sappho,  selections*

Homeric Hymn to Demeter*,

Thucydides: The Plague at Athens*

Aristotle, selections from Nicomachean Ethics or Politics*

Religious Traditions

Hebrew Bible: 

Genesis, 1-9; other chapters optional

Exodus 1-24, 31:12-33; other chapters optional

The New Testament, New Revised  Standard Version

Matthew

The Holy Koran, translated by N. J. Dawood, Fifth Edition, Revised (Penguin Classic, 1990).

Sura 1 and selections from Sura 2 and / or  Suras 77-114

The Bhagavad Gita: Krishna's Counsel in Time of War. Translated by Barbara Stoller Miller (Bantam)

Hebrew Bible

Isaiah 1-12

Job

Psalms 19-25

The New Testament, New Revised  Standard Version

John 1-3

I Corinthians 13

Sunjata  Gambian Versions of the Mande Epic or  Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali by D. T. Naine (Longman African Classics)

Augustine, Confessions selections

Dante

The Renaissance

Shakespeare, Othello (Folger Library) or another play chosen in consultation with the program directors.

Christine de Pizane (selections)

Machiavelli, Political Writings, translated by David Wootton (Hackett, 1995) (Optional)

The Prince, especially chapters 1-9, 12-19, 25-26.

The Discourses on Livy, selections.