St. John's College Reading List - Freshman

1. 1. The Iliad of Homer by Homer Drag me to re-order

2. 2. The Odyssey by Robert Fagles Drag me to re-order

3. 3. The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides by Aeschylus Drag me to re-order

4. 4. Sophocles, The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone by Sophocles Drag me to re-order

5. 5. Philoctetes by Sophocles Drag me to re-order

6. 6. The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Drag me to re-order

7. 7. Euripides: Bacchae (Cambridge Translations from Greek Drama) by Euripides Drag me to re-order

8. 8. The Histories, Revised (Penguin Classics) by Herodotus Drag me to re-order

9. 9. Aristophanes : Clouds (Translated With Notes and Introduction) (Focus Classical Library) by Aristophanes Drag me to re-order

10. 10. Plato Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo by Plato Drag me to re-order

11. 11. Plato: Republic by Plato Drag me to re-order

12. 12. Plato's Symposium: A Translation by Seth Benardete with Commentaries by Allan Bloom and Seth Benardete by Plato Drag me to re-order

13. 13. ? Phaedrus by Plato Drag me to re-order

14. 14. Gorgias (Penguin Classics) by Plato Drag me to re-order

15. 15. Plato : Parmenides (Focus Philosophical Library) by Plato Drag me to re-order

16. 16. Plato's Theatetus by Plato Drag me to re-order

17. 17. Sophist by Plato Drag me to re-order

18. 18. Plato: Timaeus (Focus Philosophical Library) by Plato Drag me to re-order

19. 19. Aristotle's Poetics by Aristotle Drag me to re-order

20. 20. Nicomachean Ethics (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) by Aristotle Drag me to re-order

21. 21. Physics - ARISTOTLE by Aristotle Drag me to re-order

22. 22. ? Metaphysics by Aristotel Drag me to re-order

23. 23. ? ARISTOTLE: On Generation and Corruption, Politics, Parts of Animals, Generation of Animals Drag me to re-order

24. 24. Euclid's Elements by Euclid Drag me to re-order

25. 25. Lucretius: On the Nature of Things (Loeb Classical Library No. 181) by Titus Lucretius Carus Drag me to re-order

26. 26. Plutarch Lives, I, Theseus and Romulus. Lycurgus and Numa. Solon and Publicola (Loeb Classical Library®) (Vol 1) by Plutarch Drag me to re-order

27. 27. ? Introduction to arithmetic by Nicomachus Drag me to re-order

28. 28. ? Lavoisier Elements of Chemistry by Lavoisier Drag me to re-order

29. 29. ? Anatomical Studies on the Motion of the Heart and Blood : Exercitatio Anatomica De Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus by William : Leake, Chauncey D. (translator, annotations) Harvey Drag me to re-order