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2009 Reading List

Winter / Spring:

Homer - The Iliad
Euripides - The Trojan Women; Hippolytus
Racine - Phaedre
Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil

Summer:

Plutarch - The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
Plato - The Crito
Dewey - The Virtues
Euripides - Iphigeneia at Aulis
Aristotle - Politics
Dostoevsky - Notes from the Underground
Bible - Exodus
Hobbes - Origin of Government
Melville - Billy Budd, Sailor

Fall Schedule:

Adam Smith - The Wealth of Nations
Shakespeare - Antony and Cleopatra
Kierkegaard - The Knight of Faith
Herodotus - The Persian Wars
Locke - Of Civil Government
Swift - Gulliver's Travels
Thoreau - On Civil Disobedience
Dewey - Habits and Will
J.S. Mill - On Liberty
Shakespeare - Hamlet
Bible - The Gospel of Mark
Thucydides - History of the Peloponnesian War
Clausewitz - What is War?

Late Fall Schedule:

Chekov - Uncle Vanya
Maimonides - On Evil
Homer - The Iliad
Montesquieu - The Principles of Government
Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales
Aeschylus - Agamemnon
William James - The Beast in the Jungle
Machiavelli - The Prince
Tolstoy - The Death of Ivan Ilych