GBGD SEMINAR PROGRAM YEAR 3:
FROM GREECE TO ROME

YEAR 3 READING LIST:

Core Monthly Seminars

  1. Euripides, Medea, The Bacchae
    found in
    The Greek Plays: 16 Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides
    edited by Mary Lefkowitz and James Room
    Modern Library, 2017
    ISBN-13: ‎978-0812983098
    available at Amazon


  2. Plato, Republic I
    found in
    Plato: Complete Works
    Edited by John M. Cooper
    Hackett Publishing, 1997
    ISBN-13: 978-0872203495
    available on Amazon


  1. Plato, Republic II  
    found in
    Plato: Complete Works
    Edited by John M. Cooper
    Hackett Publishing, 1997
    ISBN-13: 978-0872203495
    available on Amazon


  2. Old Testament: Ecclesiastes and Job
    The Wisdom Books: Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes
    translated by Robert Alter
    W.W. Norton, 2011
    ISBN-13: ‎978-0393340532
    available at Amazon


  3. Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics I
    found in
    The Complete Works of Aristotle: The Revised OxfordTranslation, Vol. 2
    Princeton University Press, 1984
    ISBN-13:‎978-0691016511
    available at Amazon


  4. Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics II
    found in
    The Complete Works of Aristotle: The Revised OxfordTranslation, Vol. 2
    Princeton University Press, 1984
    ISBN-13:‎978-0691016511
    available at Amazon


  5. The Bhagavad Gita
    The Bhagavad Gita
    translated by Laurie Patton
    Penguin Classics, 2008
    ISBN-13: ‎978-0140447903
    available at Amazon


  6. Aristotle, Politics I
    found in
    The Complete Works of Aristotle: The Revised OxfordTranslation, Vol. 2
    Princeton University Press, 1984
    ISBN-13:‎978-0691016511
    available at Amazon


  7. Aristotle, Politics II
    found in
    The Complete Works of Aristotle: The Revised OxfordTranslation, Vol. 2
    Princeton University Press, 1984
    ISBN-13:‎978-0691016511
    available at Amazon


  8. Livy, Early History of Rome 
    Livy: The Early History of Rome, Books I-V
    tr. Aubrey de Sélincourt, intro. R. M. Ogilvie
    Penguin Classics, revised edition (2002)
    ISBN-13: 978-0140448092
    available at Amazon


  9. Plutarch, Lives of Greeks and Romans (selection)
    Plutarch’s Lives, Volume I (Modern Library Classics)
    edited by Arthur Hugh Clough, translated by John Dryden
    Modern Library, 2001
    ISBN-13: ‎978-0375756764
    available at Amazon


  10. The Stoics: Seneca, Epictetus, Aurelius
    The Handbook (The Encheiridion), by Epictetus
    translated by Nicholas P. White
    Hackett Publishing Company, 1983
    ISBN-13: 978-0915145690
    available at Amazon

    The Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius
    translated by G.M.A. Grube
    Hackett Publishing Company, 1983
    ISBN-13: 978-0915145799
    available at Amazon

    Seneca: Selected Dialogues and Consolations
    translated by Peter J. Anderson
    Hackett Publishing Company, 2015
    ISBN-13: ‎978-1624663680
    available at Amazon



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YEAR 3 READING LIST:

Core Monthly Seminars

  1. Old Testament: Exodus, Leviticus 

  2. Plato, Theaetetus 

  3. Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics I

  4. Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics II

  5. Cicero, On the Republic, On Friendship, On Old Age

  6. Old Testament: Ecclesiastes, Job 

  7. Aristotle, Metaphysics (selections) 

  8. Aristotle, Parts of Animals 

  9. Livy, Early History of Rome 

  10. Plutarch, Lives of Greeks and Romans

  11. The Stoics: Seneca, Epictetus, Aurelius

  12. Julius Caesar, The Gallic War 

Supplemental Seminars

  1. Plato’s Timaeus

  2. The Bhagavad Gita

  3. Euclid’s Elements, Book 1

  4. Lucan's Pharsalia  

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