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Reading Assignments for Fall 2009, Spring 2010
WESTERN CIVILIZATION I
HWC 114 & HWC 204

Textbook:  Trulove, Woelfel, Auerbach, and Buller, Patterns in Western Civilization, Volume I, Fourth Edition

  1. Selections from The Hebrew Bible in Patterns : Genesis1-25, Exodus 1-20, Job 1-14, 32, 36-42 pp.39-89    
    “The Story of the Flood” from Epic of Gilgamesh in Patterns, pp. 89-91

  2. Sappho, Sappho: Poems and Fragments, in Patterns, pp. 123-127
    Sophocles, Antigone  (Hackett: Woodruff, editor)

  3. Plato, The Trial and Death of Socrates: Apology   (Hackett), and Plato, Republic   (Hackett),  Selections: Bk. II, entire book, pp. 32-59; Bk. III, sections 411-end, pp. 87-93; Bk. IV, sections 439-444, pp. 114-121; Bk. V, entire book pp. 122-156; Bk. VI, sections 507-511, pp. 180-185; Bk. VII, sections 514-518, pp. 186-190.

  4. Aristotle, The Politics   (Hackett, C. D.C. Reeve Translation), Bk. I, chapters 1-13, pp. 1-25; Bk. III, chapter 1, pp. 65-67; chapters 5-7, pp. 73-78;  Bk. IV, chapter 1, pp.101-103, chapter 4, pp. 106-111; chapters 8-12, pp.114-123; Bk. VII, chapters 14-17, pp. 214-226; Bk. VIII, chapters 1-3, pp. 227-231.

  5. Virgil, Aeneid  (Hackett; Lombardo Translation), Books 1, 2, 4, 6, and 12.

  6. Seneca, Letters from a Stoic (Penguin), Letters V, VII, VIII, IX, XVI, XVIII, XXVI, XXVIII, XLI, XLVII, LXV, LXXXVI, LXXXVIII, XC.

  7. Selections from the New Testament  in Patterns
    The Gospel According to Mark; The First Letter of Paul to the Corinthians

  8. Augustine, Confessions (Penguin), Books 5-9, pp 91-205.

  9. The Koran (Penguin)
    The Cow, Women, The Table, Thunder, Abraham, The Prophets, Man

  10. Thomas Aquinas, On Politics and Ethics (Norton), pp 14-51, 61-80.

  11. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales (Bantam). “The Wife of Bath,” pp 182-239 and “The Pardoner,” pp 338-369 (pp 290-359 and pp 506-543, respectively, for the extended Bantam edition).

  12. Luther, Selections from Address to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation Concerning the Reform of the Christian Estate, in Patterns, pp.  389-390

  13. Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince (Hackett) and Pico Della Mirandola, Oration on the Dignity of Man, in Patterns, pp. 375-377

  14. Galileo Galilei, The Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo (Doubleday Anchor), “The Starry Messenger,” pp 21-58, and “Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina,” pp 173-216