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Classics Past Readings
2021–2022
- Plutarch, selections from Essays
- Plutarch, selected Parallel Lives
- Suetonius, The Lives of the Caesars—Augustus, Nero
- Pseudo-Callisthenes, The Greek Alexander Romance
- Tacitus, Agricola
- Tacitus, Germania
- Martial, Epigrams
- Apuleius, The Golden Ass
- Plutarch, “Whether Military or Intellectual Exploits Have Brought Athens More Fame” in Plutarch’s Essays, translated by Robin Waterfield (Penguin Books)
- Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
2020–2021
- Herodotus, Histories books I–IX
- Lucan, De Bello Civili, I–X
- Guest speaker Robert Strassler discusses the history of the Landmark Historians series, the creation of the Landmark Herodotus text we are using, and Herodotus more generally
2019–2020
- Sophocles, Oedipus the King
- Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus
- Sophocles, Antigone
- Aristotle, Poetics
- Euripides, Medea
- Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica
- Seneca, Medea
2018–2019
- Augustine, Confessions
- Euripides, Hippolytus
- Seneca, Phaedra
- Aristophanes, Clouds
- Horace, Odes
- Virgil, Æneid
- Mary Norris, Greek to Me
2017–2018
- James Davidson, Courtesans & Fishcakes: The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens
- Homer, The Iliad
- Homer, The Odyssey
- Vergil, The Aeneid, (Virgil, The Æneid, translated by David Ferry (University of Chicago Press, 2017; ISBN: 9780226450186))
2016–2017
- Martha Nussbaum, The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics
- Quintus Cicero, Commentariolum Petitionis / Electioneering Handbook, and How to Win an Election: An Ancient Guide for Modern Politicians trans. Philip Freeman
- Aristophanes, Assemblywomen & Wealth (Henderson’s translation)
- Hippocratic Corpus: “The Oath,” “The Canon,” “Airs, Waters, Places,” “Aphorisms,” “Dreams (Regimen IV),” “A Regimen for Health,” & “The Seed & The Nature of the Child” in Hippocratic Writings, trans. G. E. R. Lloyd
- Plato, Cratylus
- Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, and Lucretius, On the Nature of the Universe, trans. Ronald Melville with notes by Don & Peta Fowler
- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, and The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, trans. A. S. L. Farquharson, ed. R. B. Rutherford
- Correspondence with Fronto
2015–2016
- E.R. Dodds, The Greeks and the Irrational
- Euripides, The Bacchae
- Diane J. Rayor, The Homeric Hymns
- Robin Waterfield, The First Philosophers
- Charles H. Kahn, The Art and Thought of Heraclitus
- Ann Carson, If Not, Winter
- Diane Rayor, Sappho: A New Translation of the Complete Works
- Callimachus, Callimachus: Hymns, Epigrams, Select Fragments (trans. Lombardo & Rayor)
- Catullus, The Poems of Catullus (trans. Guy Lee)
- Ovid, Amores I.1
- Ovid, Metamorphoses (trans. A. D. Melville)
- Peter Green, trans., The Poems of Exile: Tristia and the Black Sea Letters
- Martha Nussbaum, The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics
2014–2015
- Euripides, The Bacchae
- W. Robert Connor, Greek Orations Gorgias, Encomium of Helen
- Aristophanes, Frogs
- Plato, “Apology of Socrates,” “Symposium,” and “Phaedrus” Aristophanes, “Clouds”
- Longus, Daphnis and Chloe
- Lucian, a selection of his satires and satiric dialogues
- Seneca, Thyestes, Phaedra, Octavia
2013–2014
- Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
- Aeschylus, Agamemnon
- Aeschylus, Libation Bearers
- Aeschylus, Eumenidies
- Sophocles, Antigone
- Sophocles, The Electras
- Euripides, The Electras
2012–2013
- Herodotus, Books 1-9
- Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes and Prometheus Bound
- Sophocles, Philoctetes
- Aristophanes, Acharnians and The Knights
- Euripides, Hippolytus and The Suppliants
- Gore Vidal, Creation
- Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War
2011–2012
- Greek lyric poets, including Sappho, Archilochus, and Alcaeus
- Aeschylus, Persians
- Sophocles, Electra
- Euripides, Medea
- Aristotle, Poetics
- Homer, The Odyssey
- Mason, The Lost Books of the Odyssey
- Atwood, The Penelopiad
2009–2011
- Hesiod, Theogony and Homeric Hymns
- Homer, The Iliad andThe Odyssey
- Atwood, The Penelopiad