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* [http://classics.mit.edu/Thucydides/pelopwar.html The History of the Peloponnesian War] by Thucydides | * [http://classics.mit.edu/Thucydides/pelopwar.html The History of the Peloponnesian War] by Thucydides | ||
* [http://classics.mit.edu/Sophocles/oedipus.html Oedipus Rex] by Sophocles | * [http://classics.mit.edu/Sophocles/oedipus.html Oedipus Rex] by Sophocles | ||
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:*[http://classics.mit.edu/Aeschylus/agamemnon.html Agamemnon] | :*[http://classics.mit.edu/Aeschylus/agamemnon.html Agamemnon] | ||
Revision as of 11:41, 30 April 2007
This page links to free, online versions of the major texts discussed in the two main Core Curriculum classes, Literature Humanities and Contemporary Civilization.
Contents
Literature Humanities
First semester
- The Iliad by Homer
- Hymn to Demeter by Homer
- The Odyssey by Homer
- The History by Herodotus
- The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
- Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
- Medea by Euripides
- The Oresteia Trilogy by Aeschylus:
Second semester
- The Aeneid by Virgil
- The Inferno by Dante Alighieri
- The Essays by Michel de Montaigne
- Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Contemporary Civilization
First semester
- The Republic by Plato
- Politics by Aristotle
Second semester
- An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume
- Discourse on the Origins of Inequality by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
- The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
