Great Books Seminar I

(4 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

The first in a series of six Great Book seminars, and the first in the sophomore sequence, this course focuses on ancient Greek literature and is designed to introduce students to the great books seminar method, which emphasizes discussion, close reading, and the communication of complex ideas. The texts include Homer's <i>Iliad</i> and <i>Odyssey</i>, Herodotus's <i>Histories</i>, Aeschylus's <i>Oresteia</i>, Sophocles's <i>Theban Plays</i>, Aristotle's <i>Poetics</i>, Euripides's <i>Medea</i> and <i>The Bacchae</i>, Thucydides's <i>Peloponnesian War</i>, Aristophanes's <i>The Clouds</i>, and three early dialogues by Plato: the <i>Apology</i>, <i>Crito</i>, and <i>Symposium</i>.