A List of the Books Used in the Great Books Program

GBK 30l--Classical Culture:  From Homer to Socrates

Aeschylus (c 525-456 BC)
	Oresteia Trilogy (458 BC)
	Agamemnon
	The Eumenides
	The Libation Bearers

Aristophanes (c 445-385 BC)
	The Birds (414 BC)

Euclid (c 300 BC)
	The Elements

Euripides (c 485-406 BC)
	The Bacchae (c 409-406 BC)
	Iphigenia In Tauris (c 414-412 BC)

Herodotus (c 480s-420s BC)
	Histories

Homer (12th Century BC)
	The Iliad
	The Odyssey

Plato (c 428-348 or 347 BC)
	Apology
	Crito
	Euthyphro
	Meno
	Phaedo

Sophocles (c 497-406 BC)
	Antigone (442-441 BC)
	Oedipus at Colonus
	Oedipus the King (c 429-425 BC)

Thucydides (c 460-400 BC)
	Peloponnesian War (431 BC)


GBK 331--Classical Culture:  From Plato to Rome

Aristotle (384-322 BC)
	The Nicomachean Ethics

Plato (c 428-348 or 347 BC)
	The Republic

Plutarch (c 46-120 AD)
	Lives (c 100 AD)
		Lycurgus
		Solon

Vergil (70-19 BC)
	The Aeneid (26-19 BC)


GBK 351--Our Judaeo-Christian Heritage:  From Genesis to Augustine

St Augustine (354-430 AD)
	The Confessions of Saint Augustine (397-401 AD)

The Holy Bible


GBK 371--Our Judaeo-Christian Heritage:  From Scholasticism to Skepticism

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
	Divine Comedy (c 1307-1321)

St Thomas Aquinas (1224-1274)
	Summa Theologica (1267-1273)

Geoffry Chaucer (c 1340-1400)
	The Canterbury Tales (1386-1400)

John Milton (1608-1674)
	Paradise Lost (1607)

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)
	Essays (1580-1588)


GBK 401--Origins of the Modern World View in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Aristotle (384-322 BC)
	Physics (350 BC)

Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
	Essays (1597-1625)
	The New Organon (1620)

Rene Descartes (1596-1650) 
	Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason, and Seeking Truth in the Sciences (c 	1637-1644)

John Donne (1572-1631)
	Sonnets

Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
	Mathmatical Demonstrations Concerning Two New Sciences (1638)

George Herbert (1593-1633)
	Selected Poetry

Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)
	The Leviathan (1651)

Nicolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)
	The Prince (c 1515)

Blaise Pascal(1623-1662)
	Pensees (1670)

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
	The Tragedy of King Lear (1605-1606)
	Sonnets (1609)
	The Tempest


GBK 431--The Rise of the Individual:  From the Renaissance to the Enlightenment

Pedro Calderon de la Barca (1600-1681)
	Life is a Dream (1635)

Miquel de Cervantes Saaverda (1547-1616)
	Don Quixote (Pt 1:  1605, Pt 2:  1615)

Alexander Hamilton (c 1755-1804), John Jay (1745-1829), and James Madison (1751-1836)
	The Federalist Papers (1788)

David Hume (1711-1776)
	Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748)

Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
	Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals (1785)

John Locke (1632-1704)
	Second Treatise on Government (1690)

Moliere (aka Jean Baptiste Poquelin) (1622-1673)
	Tartuffe (1664)

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
	Hamlet (1603)
	Henry IV, Part One (1597)
	Henry V (1599)

Johnathan Swift (1667-1745)
	Gulliver's Travels (1726)

Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)
	Democracy in America (Vol 1:  1835, Vol 2:  1840)


GBK 451--Romanticism and Revolution in the Nineteenth Century

Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
	Hard Times (1854)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
	Faust 1808-1832)

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831)
	Reason in History

Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
	"What is Enlightenment?"

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794)
	Elements of Chemistry (1789)

Karl Marx (1818-1883)
	The Communist Manifesto (1848)

Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
	Discourse on the Sciences and Arts (1750)
	Discourse on Equality (1755)
	The Social Contract (1762)
 
Romantic Poets

	William Blake (1757-1827)
		Selected Poetry

	Lord George Gordon Byron (1788-1824)
		Selected Poetry

	Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
		Selected Poetry

	John Keats (1795-1821) 
		Selected Poetry

	Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) 
		Selected Poetry 

	William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
		Selected  Poetry 

Adam Smith (1723-1790)
	An  Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations 
	(1776)

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)
	Vindication of the Rights of Women (1790)


GBK 471--From Naturalism to Nihilism in the Nineteenth Century

Henry Adams (1838-1918)
	The Education of Henry Adams(1918)

Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)
	Heart of Darkness (1902) 

Charles Darwin (1809-1882) 
	The Origin of Species (1858)

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) 
	Selected Poetry 

Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)
	Madame Bovary (1857)

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) 
	Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
	The Outline of Psychoanalysis
	Beyond the Pleasure Principle

Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) 
	A Doll House (1879)
	Hedda Gabler (1890)
	Little Kyolf

Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
	Fear and Trembling (1843)

Herman Melville (1819-1891) 
	Billy Budd (1888-1891) 

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900)
	Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883-1885)

Count Leo Tolstoi (1828-1910) 
	The Death of Ivan Ilych (1886) 

Mark Twain (aka Samuel Longhorn Clemens) (1835-1910) 
	Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)

Walt Whitman (1819-1892) 
	Leaves of Grass (1855) 


GBK 491--The Modern Temper:  Visions and Revisions    

Karl Barth (1886-1968)
	The Epistle to the Romans (1919)

Albert Camus (1913-1960)
	The Myth of Sisyphus (1942)
	The Stranger (1942)

T[homas] S[tearns] Eliot (1888-1965)
	"The Waste Land" (1922)

William Faulkner (1897-1962) 
	Go Down, Moses (1942)

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
	The Future of an Illusion

James Joyce (1882-1941)
	Ulysses (1922)

Franz Kafka (1883-1924) 
	"The Metamorphosis" (1915)
	"In the Penal Colony" (1919)
	"The Hunger Artist" (1924)

Gregor Mendel (1822-1884)
	"Experiments in Plant-Hybridization" (1865) 

B[urrhus] F[redric] Skinner (1904-1990)
	Beyond Freedom and Dignity (1971)

Max Weber (1864-1920)
	The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1904-1905)

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
	Selected Poetry

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