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Student on campus bench reading.The Reading List

The Honors College reading list is composed of a number of great works from the history of Western civilization and is decided on by consensus of the Honors College faculty. In addition to the study of the written word, Honors College students study a number of great works of music and visual art.

  • Walking to Piraeus: The Ancient Greek World
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    Odyssey
    Aeschylus II
    Sophocles
    Euripides V
    Aristophanes
    Herodotus
    Thucydides
    Plato
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    Poetics
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    Proverbs
    Gospel of Mark
  • All Roads Lead to Rome: The Ancient Roman & Early Christian Worlds
    Leviticus
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    Horace
    Cicero Cornell 2014
    Aeneid
    Ovid Hackett
    The Gospel of Luke
    The Acts of the Apostles
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    Plutarch I
    Plutarch II
    Ptolemy The Almagest Green Lion Press
    Epictetus
    Tacitus
    Eusebius
    Athanasius
    On God and Christ
    St. Augustine
    City of God
    Consolation of Philosophy 2
    St. Benedict
    ST John of Damascus
    Proverbs (8)
    Creeds of the Churches
  • Faith, Reason, & Romance: The Medieval & Renaissance Worlds
    Song of Solomon
    The Qur'an
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    Chretien
    Averroes
    Aquinas
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    Paradiso
    Grefory
    Petrarch
    Canterbury tales
    Julian of Norwhich
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    Machiavelli
    Erasmus praise of folly
    Copernicus
    Martin Luther
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    Gospel of John
  • Enlightenment & Modernity: 1600–1800
    Ecclesiastes
    Sir phillip sydney
    Shakespeare
    John Donne
    Dq
    Descartes
    Gallileo
    Blaise pascal
    John Locke
    Newton
    Hume
    Milton
    John Edwards
    Wesley
    Locke
    Montesquieu
    Edmond Burke
    Phillis Wheatley
    Federalist
    Romans
  • The Last Two Hundred Years: 1800 to the Present
    Esther
    Kant
    Coleridge
    Hegel
    Austen
    Democracy in america
    Kierkegaard
    Douglass
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    Tennyson
    Lincoln douglas
    Anna Karenina
    Nietzsche
    Eliot
    Husserl
    Freud
    Churchill
    Bonhoeffer
    C.S. Lewis
    Oconnor
    Mlk jr
    Solzhenitsyn
    Barth
    The epistles to the colossians and philemon
  • Honors Laboratory
    Kuhn
    Einstein-Relativity
    Darwin
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  • The Story of Scripture: The Biblical Narrative from Genesis to Revelation
    Genesis
    Tolkein
    Steinbeck
    Exodus
    Numbers
    Nyssa
    Joshua
    Judges
    Ruth
    Agonistes
    Samuel
    Kings
    Faulkner
    Ezra
    Nehemiah
    Zechariah
    Haggai
    Job
    Matthew
    Leibniz
    Proverbs (21)
    Anselm
    Karamazov
    Proverbs (23)
    Proverbs (24)
    Shakespeare
    Hebrews
    Les miserables
    Revelation
    Last battle
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