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Book Lists

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Alpha Booklist Fall 2024

Faculty: Barnes, Cooper, Cremins, Garner, Lyke, Morrison, Rayneard, Vollrath, Werner

Team Leader: Iain Morrison

Gilgamesh, Penguin, trans. Andrew George ISBN 978 0140449198

Homer, Iliad Norton, trans. Wilson ISBN 978 1324076148

Aeschylus, The Oresteia (Agamemnon) Penguin, trans. Fagles ISBN 978 0140443332

Euripides, Electra, Phoenician Women, Bacchae, Iphigenia at Aulus (Electra) Hackett, trans. Luschnig and Woodruff ISBN 978 1603844604

Plato, Plato on Love (Lysis) Hackett, trans. Reeve ISBN 978 0872207882

Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics Hackett, trans. Irwin ISBN 978 1624668159

Bhagavad Gita Oxford World Classics, trans. Johnson ISBN 978 0199538126

Cicero, On the Good Life (On Friendship) Penguin, trans. Grant ISBN 978 0140442441

 

Omega Booklist Fall 2024

Faculty: Bland, Charara, Ferguson, Gish, Hallmark, Rainbow, Sisman, Trninic, Ford

Team Leader: Jesse Rainbow

The Tale of Sinuhe and Other Ancient Egyptian Poems 1940–1640 BC. Tr. R. B. Parkinson. Oxford World’s Classics. ISBN 978-1099555628

Homer, The Iliad. Tr. Robert Fagles. Penguin (deckled edge). ISBN 978-0140275360

Sophocles, Antigone. Tr. Richard Emil Braun. Oxford. ISBN 978-0195061673

Plato, The Republic. Tr. Allan Bloom. Basic Books. ISBN 978-0465094080

NRSV Bible, Zondervan. ISBN 978-0061946516

Liu Xiang, Exemplary Women of Early China. Tr. Anne Behnke Kinney. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0231163095

Cicero, On the Good Life. Tr. Michael Grant. Penguin Classics. ISBN 978-0140442441

The Qur’ān. Tr. M. A. S. Abdel Haleem. Oxford World’s Classics. ISBN 978-0199535958