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HON 101 (1st semester): Ancient Greece
The Epic of Gilgamesh
the Iliad, Homer
the Odyssey, Homer
Complete Plays of Sophocles: Trojan Women, Ajax, Oedipus Rex (King), Electra, Antigone
The Oresteia, Aeschylus
The Bacchae, Euripides
Medea, Euripides
The Complete Plays of Aristophanes: Frogs, Birds, Clouds, Lysistrata
The Dialogues of Plato, Plato
The Republic: Plato
The Nicomachean Ethic: Aristotle
Poetics, Aristotle

HON 102 (2nd semester): Ancient Rome & Medieval World
On the Nature of Things, Lucretius
The Aeneid, Virgil
The Metamorphoses, Ovid
Meditations, Marcus Aurelius
The Consolation of Philosophy, Boethius
Confessions, Augustine
City of God, Augustine
Beowulf
The Song of Roland
The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer
The Divine Comedy: The Inferno, Dante
readings in Norse mythology
readings in the Qu’ran
readings in medieval theology (Anselm, Aquinas)

HON 201 (3rd semester): Renaissance & Enlightenment
Christian Liberty, Martin Luther
Praise of Folly, Erasmus
The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus, Marlowe
King Lear, Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare
Tartuffe, Moliere
The Misanthrope, Moliere
Meditations, Descartes
Essays, Montaigne
Leviathan, Hobbes
Paradise Lost, Milton
Don Quixote, Cervantes
Gulliver’s Travels, Swift
Candide, Voltaire
selections from science
selected poetry, Donne

HON 202 (4th semester): 19th Century
Prolegomena to Any Future System, Kant
selected poems, Keats
selected poems, P. Shelley
selected poems, Whitman
Frankenstein, M. Shelley
Faust, Goethe
The Communist Manifesto, Marx & Engles
Moby Dick, Melville
The Origin of Species, Darwin
Madame Bovary, Flaubert
On Liberty, Mill
Utilitarianism, Mill
Walden, Thoreau
Civil Disobedience, Thoreau
Life on the Mississippi, Twain
Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky
Hard Times, Dickens
Up From Slavery, Booker T. Washington
The Souls of Black Folks, Du Bois
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Harriet Jacobs

HON 301 (5th semester): 20th Century
Civilization and Its Discontents, Freud
The Metamorphosis, Kafka
Heart of Darkness, Conrad
Philosophical Investigations, Wittgenstein
The Wasteland, Eliot
Myth of Sisyphus, Camus
Absalom, Absalom!, Faulkner
The Second Sex, de Beauvoir
The History of Sexuality, Foucault
Six Characters in Search of an Author, Pirandello
To the Lighthouse, A Room of One’s Own, Woolf
Things Fall Apart, Achebe
The Crying of Lot 49, Pynchon
Orientalism, Said
The Wretched of the Earth, Fanon
The Gay Science, Nietzsche
Ficcones, Borges
Beloved, Morrison
Living in Truth, Havel
Death of a Salesman, Miller

(tentative reading list revised Spring 2005)