Great Books 2:
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First semester: Thucydides, ed. Robert B.
Strassler, trans. Richard Crawley, The Landmark
Thucydides (Touchstone Books, 1998; ISBN-10: 0684827905; ISBN-13: 978-0684827902);
Plato: The
Republic, trans. Benjamin Jowett, (Vintage Classics, 1991; ISBN-10: 0679733876;
ISBN-13: 978-0679733874); Virgil, The Aeneid,
trans. Robert Fitzgerald (Vintage Books, Reissue ed., 1990: ISBN-10: 0679729526;
ISBN-13: 978-0679729525); Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics trans. W.D. Ross (free E-text posted
on the Oxford website); also available in the compendium: Introduction to
Aristotle, ed. Richard McKeon (Modern Library, Rep. ed., 1992: ISBN-10:
0679600272; ISBN-13: 978-0679600275): "used and new" through Amazon.com
associates and in a new edition through the U. Chicago Press at http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/1618.ctl
These books may be examined and/or purchased now online. Simply click on the blue
title above.
Second semester: Aristotle: Physics, Metaphysics, & De Anima (free E-texts posted on the Oxford website);
also available abridged in Introduction to
Aristotle, ed. Richard McKeon (Modern Library, Rep. ed., 1992: ISBN-10:
0679600272; ISBN-13: 978-0679600275) "used and new" through Amazon.com
associates and in a new edition through the U. Chicago Press at http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/1618.ctl;
Plutarch, Lives of Caesar
and Cato the Younger
(free E-texts posted on the Oxford website); Tacitus, The Annals of
Imperial Rome, trans. Michael Grant (Penguin Classics/Viking Press, Rev. ed., 1956:
ISBN-10: 0140440607; ISBN-13: 978-0140440607); Theaetetus, trans. Benjamin Jowett (free E-text posted
on the Oxford website); also available for purchase through Amazon.com: trans. R. A.
Waterfield (Viking Press, 1987); Phaedrus,
trans. Benjamin Jowett (free E-text posted on the Oxford website); also available for
purchase through Amazon.com: Phaedrus
trans. James Nichols (Cornell U. Press, 1998: ISBN-10: 0801485320; ISBN-13:
978-0801485329); Lucretius, On the Nature
of Things, trans. W.E. Leonard (free E-text posted on the Oxford website); also
available for purchase through Amazon.com: On the Nature of
theUniverse trans. R.E. Latham (Penguin Classics, rev. ed., 1994; ISBN-10:
0140446109; ISBN-13: 0140446104). For those families who prefer purchasing their
own 'hard copies' of the books (as opposed to using the free E-texts), Amazon.com lists
numerous copies of most of these both books currently available from associated
booksellers. The listed prices are very cheap, and they include many
"new" and "like new" copies available.
Highly recommended reference texts for this course include: (1)
the Concise
Oxford Companion to Classic Literature, ed. M.C. Howatson & Ian Chilvers (Oxford
U. Press, 1993; ISBN-10: 0192827081; ISBN-13: 978-0192827081); and
(2) the Penguin
Historical Atlas of Ancient Greece, by Robert Morkot (Penguin, 1997: ISBN-10:
0140513353; ISBN-13: 978-0140513356 ). These books may be examined and/or purchased online for an average discount of
20% off of the list price. Click on the blue titles above for a direct link to
Amazon.com. For those who may have qualms about using amazon.com
or other online booksellers, please allow me to reassure you. I
have purchased literally hundreds of books through amazon (new & used) and other
online booksellers over the past eight years, and I am 100% pleased with their
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