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Contents

Introduction
Reading Lists

FIRST SEMESTER

1. Homer I
2. Sappho
Interlude One
3. Plato I
4. Homer II
Interlude Two
5. Plato II
6. Sophocles
7. Aristotle
Interlude Three
8. Aeschylus and EuripidesInterlude Four
9. Virgil
10. The Old Testament
11. The New Testament
12. Augustine
13. Machiavelli
Interlude Five
14. Hobbes and Locke
15. Examination
Winter Break

SECOND SEMESTER

16. Dante
17. Boccaccio
18. Hume and Kant
Interlude Six
19. Montaigne
20. Rousseau
21. Shakespeare
22. Hegel
23. Austen
24. Marx and Mill
25. Nietzsche
Interlude Seven
26. Beauvoir
27. Conrad
28. Woolf
Epilogue

Appendix: Earlier Reading Lists
Selected Bibliography
Index