Reading Lists Courtesy of the
St. John's College   Annapolis | Santa Fe
Great Books Curriculum I : II : III : IV
    Eastern Classics : [Postmodern Classics]

Bust of Herodotus (~3rd c. BCE)
Museum of the Ancient Agora
Athens, Greece

Year I

Homer, Illiad*
Homer, Odyssey*
Aeschylus, Agamemnon*
Aeschylus, Libation Bearers*
Aeschylus, Eumenides*
Herodotus, Histories*
Plato, Meno*
Plato, Gorgias*
Sophocles, Antigone*
Plato, Republic*
Aristophanes, Clouds*
Plato, Apology*
Plato, Crito*
Plato, Phaedo* 57a-89a; 89b-118a
Sophocles, Oedipus Rex*
Plato, Theaetetus* 142a-187a; 187a-210c
Plato, Sophist* 216a-249d; 249d-268d
Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound*
Thucydides, Peloponnesian War*
Plato, Phaedrus*
Plato, Symposium*
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics*
Sophocles, Ajax*
Aristotle, Politics*
Lucretius, On the Nature of Things* I-VI
Plato, Timmaeus* 17a-53e
Aristotle, Physics*
Aristotle, Metaphysics*
Euripides, Hippolytus*
Euripides, Bacchae*
Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus*
Sophocles, Philocletes*
Plato, Parmenides* 1-148D, 166C
Aristophanes, Birds*