St. John’s List

Freshman Year:

Homer: Iliad, Odyssey

Aeschylus: Agamemnon, Choephoroe, Eumenides, Prometheus Bound

Sophocles: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone, Philoctetes

Thucydides: Peloponnesian War

Euripides: Hippolytus, Bacchae

Herodotus: Histories

Aristophanes: Clouds

Plato: Meno, Gorgias, Republic Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Symposium, Parmenides, Theaetetus, Sophist, Timaeus, Phaedrus

Aristotle: Poetics, Physics, Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, On Generation and Corruption, The Politics, Parts of Animals, Generation of Animals

Euclid: Elements

Lucretius: On the Nature of Things

Plutarch: Pericles, Alcibiades, Lycurgus, Solon

Nicomachus: Arithmetic

Lavoisier: Elements of Chemistry

Essays by: Archimedes, Torricelli, Pascal, Fahrenheit, Black, Avogadro, Cannizzaro

Harvey: Motion of the Heart and Blood

Sophomore Year:

The Bible

Aristotle: De Anima, On Interpretation, Prior Analytics, Categories

Apollonius: Conics

Virgil: Aeneid

Plutarch: Lives

Epictetus: Discourses, Manuel

Tacitus: Annals

Ptolemy: Almagest

Plotinus: The Enneads

Augustine: Confessions

Anselm: Proslogium

Aquinas: Summa Theologica

Dante: Divine Comedy

Chaucer: Canterbury Tales

Des Prez: Mass

Machiavelli: The Prince, Discourses

Copernicus: On the Revolutions of the Spheres

Luther: The Freedom of a Christian, Secular Authority, Commentary on Galatians, Sincere Admonition

Rabelais: Gargantua

Palestrina: Missa Papae Marcelli

Montaigne: Essays

Viete: Introduction to the Analytical Art

Bacon: Novum Organum

Shakespeare: Richard II, Henry IV, The Tempest, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, King Lear, Sonnets

Poems by: Marvell, Donne, and other 16th and 17th century poets

Descartes: Rules for the Direction of the Mind, Geometry

Pascal: Generation of Conic Sections

Bach: St. Matthew Passion, Inventions

Haydn: Selected works

Mozart: Selected operas

Beethoven: Selected sonatas

Schubert: Selected songs

Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms

Webern: Selected works

Junior Year:

Cervantes: Don Quixote

Galileo: Two New Sciences

Hobbes: Leviathan

Descartes: Doscourse on Method, Mediations, Rules for the Direction of the Mind, The World

Milton: Paradise Lost

La Rochefoucauld: Maximes

La Fontaine: Fables

Pascal: Pensees

Huygens: Treatise on Light, On the Movement of Bodies by Impact

Spinoza: Theologico-Political Treatise

Locke: Second Treatise of Government

Racine: Phedre

Newton: Principia Mathematica

Kepler: Epitome IV

Leibnitz: Monadology, Discourse on Metaphysics, What is Nature?, Essay on Dynamics

Swift: Gulliver’s Travels

Berkeley: Principles of Himan Knowledge

Hume: Treatise of Human Nature

Rousseau: Social Contract, The Origin of Inequality

Adam Smith: Wealth of Nations

Kant: Critique of Pure Reason, Fundmental Principles of Metaphysics of Morals, Critique of Judgement

Mozart: Don Giovanni

Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice, Emma

Hamilton, Jay and Madison: The Federalist

Melville: Billy Budd, Benito Cereno

Fielding: Tom Jones

Tocqueville: Democracy in America

Essays by: Young, Maxwell, S. Carnot, L. Carnot, Mayer, Kelvin, Taylor, Euler, D. Bernoulli

Senior Year:

Moliere: The Misanthrope, Tartuffe

Goethe: Faust

Mendel: Experiments in Plant Hybridization

Darwin: Origin of Species

Hegel: Phenomenology, Logic ( from the Encyclopedia), Philosophy of History

Tocqueville: Democracy in America

Lincoln: Selected Speeches

Kiekegaard: Philosophical Fragments, Fear and Trembling

Wagner: Tristan and Isolde

Marx: Communist Manifesto, Capital, Political and Economic Manuscripts of 1844

Dostoevski: Brothers Karamazov

Tolstoy: War and Peace

Mark Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

William James: Psychology, Briefer Course

Nietzsche: Birth of Tragedy, Thus Spake Zarathustra, Beyone Good and Evil

Freud: General Introduction to Psychoanalysis

Valery: Selected Poems

Kafka: The Metamorphosis, The Penal Colony

Einstein: Selected Papers

Millikan: The Electron

Conrad: Heart of Darkness

Joyce: The Dead

Poems by: Yeats, T. S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, and others