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* [http://classics.mit.edu/Homer/iliad.html The Iliad] by Homer | * [http://classics.mit.edu/Homer/iliad.html The Iliad] by Homer | ||
| + | * [http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/demeter.htm Hymn to Demeter] by Homer | ||
* [http://classics.mit.edu/Homer/odyssey.html The Odyssey] by Homer | * [http://classics.mit.edu/Homer/odyssey.html The Odyssey] by Homer | ||
* [http://classics.mit.edu/Herodotus/history.html The History] by Herodotus | * [http://classics.mit.edu/Herodotus/history.html The History] by Herodotus | ||
* [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 | ||
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=== Second semester === | === Second semester === | ||
* [http://classics.mit.edu/Virgil/aeneid.html The Aeneid] by Virgil | * [http://classics.mit.edu/Virgil/aeneid.html The Aeneid] by Virgil | ||
Revision as of 10:59, 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
Second semester
- The Aeneid by Virgil
- The Inferno by Dante
- The Essays by Montaigne
Contemporary Civilization
First semester
- The Republic by Plato
- Politics by Aristotle
Second semester
- An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume
