GBGD SEMINAR PROGRAM YEAR 4:
EMPIRE AND OUTWARD

YEAR 4 READING LIST:

Core Monthly Seminars

  1. Caesar, The Gallic War                             
    found in
    The Landmark Julius Caesar: The Complete Works: Gallic War, Civil War,Alexandrian War, African War, and Spanish War
    edited by Kurt A. Raaflaub, series editor Robert B. Strassler
    Vintage, 2019
    ISBN-13: ‎978-0307455444
    available at Amazon
    available at Barnes and Noble

  2. Aristotle, Physics
    The Complete Works of Aristotle: The Revised Oxford Translation, Vol. 1
    Princeton University Press, 1984
    ISBN-13:‎ 978-0691016504
    available at Amazon

  3. Lucretius, On the Nature of Things
    On the Nature of Things, by Lucretius
    translated by Martin Ferguson Smith
    Hackett Publishing, 2001
    ISBN-13:‎ 978-0872205871
    available at Amazon

  4. Aristotle, Rhetoric
    The Complete Works of Aristotle: The Revised Oxford Translation, Vol. 2
    Princeton University Press, 1984
    ISBN-13:‎ 978-0691016511
    available at Amazon

  5. Tacitus, Annals
    The Annals, by Tacitus
    translated by A.J. Woodman
    Hackett Publishing, 2004
    ISBN-13: 978-0872205581
    available at Amazon

  6. Vergil, Aeneid I
    The Aeneid, by Vergil
    translated by Shadi Bartsch
    Random House/Modern Library, 2021
    ISBN-13: ‎978-1984854124

    available at Amazon

  7. Vergil, Aeneid II
    The Aeneid, by Vergil
    translated by Shadi Bartsch
    Random House/Modern Library, 2021
    ISBN-13: ‎978-1984854124
    available at Amazon

  8. Horace: Odes and Epodes
    Odes: With Carmen Saeculare, by Horace
    translated by Stanley Lombardo
    Hackett Publishing Company, 2018
    ISBN-13: ‎978-1624666889
    available at Amazon

  9. Gospels of Mark and John
    readers can choose whichever translation they prefer

  10. Ovid, Metamorphoses I
    Metamorphoses, by Ovid
    translated by Stephanie McCarter
    Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, 2023
    ISBN-13: 978-0143134237
    available at Amazon

  11. Ovid, Metamorphoses II
    Metamorphoses, by Ovid
    translated by Stephanie McCarter
    Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, 2023
    ISBN-13: 978-0143134237
    available at Amazon

  12. Plotinus, Enneads
    The Essential Plotinus
    translated by Elmer O’Brien, S.J.
    Hackett Publishing, 2nd edition, 1975
    ISBN-13: 978-0915144099
    available at Amazon


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