20 May 2007

Last Semester’s Reading List


  • Sophocles’s Oedipus the Tyrant, or Oedipus the King*
  • Sophocles’s Antigone*
  • Half of Plato’s Parmenides
  • Plato’s Theaetetus
  • Plato’s Sophist
  • Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics*
  • Chunks of Aristotle’s Politics
  • Sophocles’s Philoctetes
  • Sophocles’s Oedipus at Colonus
  • Plato’s Timaeus
  • Most of Euclid’s Elements
  • Lucretius’s On the Nature of Things
  • Aristophane’s Birds
  • Euripides’s Hippolytus
  • Chunks of Levoisier’s Elements of Chemistry
  • Most of Aristotle’s Physics
  • Parts of Aristotle’s Metaphysics
  • Euripides’s Bacchae
  • Aristotle’s Poetics*
  • Bits of Ptolemy’s Almagest
  • Plato’s Phaedrus*
Over the summer I shall, in similar fashion, keep y’all updated on my current and accomplished readings. The titles marked with asterisks (*) are those I highly recommend—that is, those I aim to read many more times in the future.

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