Reading List, 1980-99

1980

• Machiavelli: The Prince
• Plato: Republic, Apology, Euthyphro, Symposium, Crito
• Marx: Communist Manifesto
• Augustine: Confessions, City of God
• Bible: Matthew
• Homer: Odyssey

• Shakespeare: Othello
• Aiskhylos: Agamemnon, Choephoroe, Eumenides
• Bacon: New Atlantis, Novum Organum (Book I)
• Aristophanes: Birds
• Mill: On Liberty
• Locke: Second Treastise of Government
• Homer: Iliad
• Sophokles: Antigone, Oidopous Tyrannos
• Plato: Apology
• Euripides: The Bacchae
• Virgil: Aeneid

• Dante: Inferno
• Bible: Genesis, Mark, Luke, Romans
• Shakespeare: King Lear, The Tempest
• Swift: Gulliver's Travels
• Descartes: Discourse on Method, Meditations

• Kant: Intro to the Metaphysics of Morals
• Freud: Civilizations and its Discontents
• Aristophanes: The Acharnians

• Bible: Job
• Shakespeare: King Lear, Coriolanus

• Hobbes: Leviathan
• Shakespeare: Julius Caesar

• Descartes: Discourse on Method
• Aristotle: Poetics, Categories. On Interpretation, Posterior Analytics, Metaphysics, Physics, On Generation and Corruption, De Anima, Nicomachean Ethics, Politics, Athenian Constitution
• Aiskhylos: Complete Plays
• Sophokles: Complete Plays
• Euripides: Trojan Women
• Shakespeare: Romeo & Juliet, Henry V
• Bible: Genesis
• Plato: Crito, Phaedo

• Herodotos: History
• Euripides: Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus, Electra, Ion, Iphigeneia at Aulis
• Aristophanes: Clouds, Birds, Lysistrata, Frogs, Plutus
• Plato: Ion, Meno, Gorgias, Republic, Apology, Symposium, Parmenides, Theaitetos, Sophist, Timaios, Phaidros
• Britannica: History of Western Philosophy

• Bible: Genesis
• Britannica: Biochemical Components of Organisms, Metabolism, Cells, Tissues and Fluids, Organs, Blood, Circulation, Immunity, Respiration, Excretion, Reproduction, Photosynthesis
• Thucydides: Peloponnesian War
• Aristotle: History of Animals
• Euripides: Complete Plays
• Aristophanes: Complete Plays
• Hippokrates: Works

• Plato: Charmides, Lysis, Laches, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Cratylus, Euthyphro, Critias, Statesman, Philebus, Seventh Letter, Laws
• Aristotle: Categories, On Interpretation, Prior Analytics, Posterior Analytics, Topics, Sophistical Refutations, Rhetoric, On the Heavens, Meteorology, De Anima, Parva Naturalia, Motion of Animals, Gait of Animals, Generation of Animals
• Euclid: Elements

• Archimedes: The Sphere and the Cylinder, Measurement of a Circle, Quadrature of the Parabola, On the Equilibrium of Planes, Mechanical Problems, On Spirals, On Conoids and Spheroids, On Floating Bodies, Book of Lemmas, The Sand-Reckoner
• Apollonius: Conics (Books I-III)
• Lucretius: On the Nature of Things
• Virgil: Aeneid, Eclogues, Georgics
• Bible: Old Testament, New Testament

• Plutarch: Lives
• Tacitus: Annals, Histories
• Epictetus: Discourses
• Nicomachus: Arithmetic
• Ptolemy: Almagest
• Marcus Aurelius: Meditations
• Galen: On the Natural Faculties
• Plotinus: The Enneads
• Bible: Romans, I Corinthians
• Augustine: Confessions, City of God, On Christian Doctrine

• Britannica: Roman Catholicism
• Aquinas: Summa Theologica I, II-I, II-II 1-46, 179-189; III 1-26, 60-65; Sup 69-99; II-II 47-122

• Bible: New Testament, Isaiah, Hosea, Joel, Jonah, Micah, Zechariah, Malachi
• Hume: Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
• Mohammed: Koran
• Aquinas: Summa Theologica (remaining sections: II-II 123-178; III 27-90; Sup 1-68)

1997

• Dante: The Divine Comedy
• Chaucer: Troilus & Cressida, Canterbury Tales
• Britannica: Protestantism
• à Kempis: Imitation of Christ
• Machiavelli: The Prince
• Sophokles: Antigone
• Bible: New Testament

• Britannica: Christianity
• Bible: Romans, Galatians, James, Ephesians, I & II Corinthians

• Calvin: Institutes

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