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William O. Douglas Honors : Reading Assignments

Fall Quarter

Week Author Book
1 Homer The Illiad: Books 1 - 12
2 Homer The Illiad: Books 13 - 24
3 Homer The Odyssey: Books 1 - 12
4 Homer The Odyssey: Books 13 - 24
5 Aeschylus Prometheus Bound
Agamemnon
6 Aeschylus Choephoroe (The Libation Bearers)
Eumenides (The Furies)
7 Sophocles Oedipus Rex
8 Sophocles Antigone
9 Euripides Hippolytus
10 Euripides Medea

Winter Quarter

Week Author Book
1 Thucydides The Peloponnesian War: Book I, Book II (1-55), Book V (84-116)
2 Aristophanes Clouds
The Frogs
3 Plato Apology
Crito
Phaedo
4 Plato Symposium
5 Plato Republic: Books 1-3
6 Plato Republic: Books 4-7 (through section 518B)
7 Plato Republic: Remainder of Book 7 through Book 10
8 Aristotle Posterior Analytics: Book 1 (4, 5, 8, 24, 31)
Physics: Book 2 (1, 3, 7, 8)
Metaphysics: Book 1 (9), Book 4 (1, 4, 7)
9 Aristotle Metaphysics: Book 12
Psychology: Book 2, Book 3 (3-7, 9, 10)
10 Aristotle Nichomachean Ethics: Books 1-2, Book 3 (1-5), Book 4 (3), Book 10 (6-8)

Spring Quarter

Week Author Book
1 Aristotle Politics: Books 1,2 (1-5), 3
Poetics
2 Epicurus Letter to Herodotus, Letter to Menoeceus, Principal Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings
3 Cicero The Second Philippic
On Duties, III
4 Virgil Aeneid: Books 1-6
5 Virgil Aeneid: Books 7-12
6 Marcus Aurelius
Epictetus
Meditations: Books 1-5, 11
Enchiridion
7 Upanishads
8 Dhammapada
9 Ramayana
10 Bhagavad Gita
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