Old Books, New Semester, More Old Books

I think it’s appropriate to post last semester’s reading list, now that I’ve begun my second with Sophocles’s Oedipus Tyrannus (or Oedipus Rex). Here’s the list in the rough order of when I finished each work:

• Theophrastus’s “Inquiry Concerning Plants”
• de Montaigne’s essay “Of Friendship”
• Homer’s Iliad
• Goethe’s “Attempt to Interpret the Metamorphosis of Plants”
• Homer’s Odyssey
• Plato’s Meno
• Excerpts from Aristotle’s Parts of Animals and books On the Soul
• Aeschylus’s Agamemnon
• Aeschylus’s The Libation-Bearers
• Aeschylus’s The Eumenides
• Wendell Berry’s “Poetry and Marriage: The Use of Old Forms”
• Plato’s Gorgias
• Plutarch’s Lives: Lycurgus
• Select books and excerpts from Herodotus’s Histories
• Harvey’s essay “On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals”
• Plato’s Republic
• Feynman’s “Probability and Uncertainty - the Quantum Mechanical View of Nature”
• Select lectures by Rudolf Virchow
• Aristophanes’s Clouds
• Excerpts from Driesch’s Science & Philosophy of the Organism
• Plato’s Apology
• Plato’s Crito
• Excerpts from Spemann’s Embryonic Development and Induction
• Plato’s Phaedo
• Erwin Straus’s “Upright Posture” from Phenomenological Psychology
• Excerpt from Aristotle’s On the Heavens
• Thucydides’s Peloponnesian War
• Plato’s Symposium

That was fun!