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Classics Past Readings
2025–2026
- Sallust, History of the Catiline Conspiracy & Cicero, Ad Catalinam 1
- Demosthenes, Philippics 1 & 3
- Cicero, Philippics 2, 4, & 7
- Selections from Ovid, Metamorphoses (Tiresias, Iphis, Actaeon, Narcissus, & Ianthe)
- Sep. 9: Aristotle, Poetics and Tractatus Coislianus (reconstruction of the lost Book Two on comedy)
- Sophocles, Trachiniae & Euripides, Heracles
- Sophocles, Ichneutae; Euripides, Cyclops. Optional: Tony Harrison, The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus.
- Aristophanes, The Birds
2024–2025
- Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, play 1)
- Aeschylus, Libation Bearers (Oresteia, play 2)
- Aeschylus, Eumenides (Oresteia, play 3)
- Euripides, Iphigeneia at Aulis
- Euripides, Iphigeneia among the Taurians
- Euripides, Helen
- Euripides, Orestes
2023–2024
- Gilgamesh (translations by Stephen Mitchell, Sophus Helle, etc.)
- Enuma Elish (translations by Timothy Stephany, L. W. King, Stephanie Dalley, etc.)
- Hesiod, Theogony
- Hesiod, Works & Days
2022–2023
- Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
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”
- Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
2020–2021
- Herodotus, Histories (Books I–IX)
- Lucan, De Bello Civili (Books I–X)
- Guest speaker Robert Strassler on Herodotus and the Landmark Historians series
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, Aeneid
- Mary Norris, Greek to Me