If you are a member of the Great Conversation Yahoo group,
here are your assignments, should you choose to accept them.
SECOND
YEAR
(approx. 1,063 pages)
January:
1.
HOMER: The Iliad
Vol. 4, pp. 3-179 (177 pages)
February:
2.
AESCHYLUS: Agamemnon, Choephoroe, Eumenides
Vol. 5, pp. 52-91 (40 pages)
3.
SOPHOCLES: Oedipus the King, Antigone
Vol. 5, pp. 99-113, 131-142 (15 + 13 = 28 pages)
March:
4.
HERODOTUS: The History [Book I-II]
Vol. 6, pp. 1-88 (88 pages)
April:
5.
PLATO: Meno
Vol. 7, pp. 174-190 (17 pages)
6.
ARISTOTLE: Poetics
Vol. 9, pp. 681-699 (19 pages)
7.
ARISTOTLE: Ethics [Book II; Book III, Ch. 5-12;
Book VI, Ch. 8-13]
Vol. 9, pp. 348-355, 359-366, 390-394 (8 + 7 + 5 = 20 pages)
8.
NICOMACHUS: Introduction to Arithmetic
Vol. 11, pp. 811-848 (38 pages)
May:
9.
LUCRETIUS: On the Nature of Things [Book I-IV]
Vol. 12, pp. 1-61 (61 pages)
10. MARCUS AURELIUS: Meditations
Vol. 12, pp. 253-310 (58 pages)
June:
11. HOBBES: Leviathan [Part I]
Vol. 23, pp. 45-98 (54 pages)
12. MILTON: Areopagitica
Vol. 32, pp. 381-412 (32 pages)
July:
13. PASCAL: Pensées [Numbers 72, 82-83, 100, 128,
131, 139, 142-143, 171, 194-195, 219, 229, 233-234, 242, 273, 277, 282, 289,
298, 303, 320, 323, 325, 330-331, 374, 385, 392, 395-397, 409, 412-413, 416,
418, 425, 430, 434-435, 463, 491, 525-531, 538, 543, 547, 553, 556, 564, 571,
586, 598, 607-610, 613, 619-620, 631, 640, 644, 673, 675, 684, 692-693, 737,
760, 768, 792-793]
Vol. 33, pp. 181-184, 186-189, 191-192, 195-200, 203, 205-210, 212-218,
222-225, 227, 229-232, 237-251, 255, 259, 264, 275, 277-287, 290-291, 296-302,
318, 321-322, 326-327 (less than 83 pages)
August-September:
14. PASCAL: Treatise on the Arithmetical Triangle
Vol. 33, pp. 447-473 (27 pages)
15. SWIFT: Gulliver’s Travels
Vol. 36, pp. xv-184 (185? pages)
October:
16. ROUSSEAU: A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
Vol. 38, pp. 323-366 (44 pages)
17. KANT: Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic
of Morals
Vol. 42, pp. 253-287 (35 pages)
November:
18. MILL: On Liberty
Vol. 43, pp. 267-323 (57 pages)
December:
Month
off! Consider rereading Vol. 1, The
Great Conversation, and reflect back on the first two years. Write to the
group about it. Catch up on anything
you missed or didn’t finish.
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