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R classroom imageeed requires all first-year students to take Humanities 110, an intensive year-long interdisciplinary study of classical culture. This is no mere survey of literature or litany of dates; this is a journey toward a deep understanding of the ways in which Western societies constructed themselves and a mature appreciation of the humanistic foundations of our own contemporary cultures. You will read fundamental texts in philosophy, literature, history, religion, and the arts. The list is one of the most challenging you can imagine: Aeschylus is read in conjunction with Herodotus, Plato in the light of Euripides, St. Augustine against the background of Christian monasticism.

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Some two dozen members of the faculty, usually encompassing seven or eight different disciplines and always including many of Reed’s most senior and distinguished professors, teach the course. Humanities 110 won’t be the only class you take in your first year, but it will be one you may never forget. This study of the past will swiftly become a study of yourself and your world.
 

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HUMANITIES 110 READING LIST
All first-year Reed students attend a year-long core course in Greek and Roman humanities. The following was the reading list for the course in 2003-04.
FALL
Aeschylus, The Oresteia,
trans. Lloyd-Jones (California)

Aristophanes, Lysistrata, trans. Henderson (Focus)

Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics,
trans. Irwin (Hackett)

Curd, ed., A Presocratics Reader (Hackett)

Essays on Ancient Greece
(pamphlet in bookstore)

Euripides, Euripides V: Electra, The Phoenician Women, The Bacchae, ed. Grene and Lattimore (Chicago)

Herodotus, The History, trans. de Selincourt (Penguin)

Hesiod, Theogony, Works and Days, and Shield, trans. Lombardo (Hackett)

Homer, The Iliad, trans. Lattimore (Chicago)

Miller, Greek Lyric: An Anthology in Translation (Hackett)

Murray, Early Greece, 2nd ed. (Harvard)

Plato, Plato’s Republic, 2nd ed., trans. Grube and Reeve (Hackett)

Plato, The Trial and Death of Socrates, trans. Grube (Hackett)
Pollitt, Art and Experience in Classical Greece (Yale)

Sophocles, Sophocles I: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone, ed. Grene and Lattimore (Chicago)

Thucydides, The Landmark Thucydides, trans. Strassler (Simon and Schuster)

SPRING
Apuleius, The Golden Ass, trans. Lindsay
(Indiana University Press)

Athanasius, Life of St. Anthony the Great (Eastern)

Augustine, Confessions
(Oxford University Press)

Beard and Crawford, Rome in the Late Republic (in bookstore and on reserve)

Brown, World of Late Antiquity (W. W. Norton)

Garnsey and Saller, Roman Empire: Economy, Society and Culture
(University of California Press)

Josephus, The Jewish War (Penguin USA)

Livy, Early History of Rome (Penguin USA)

Lucretius, The Way Things Are (De Rerum Natura) (Indiana University Press)
The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha, New Revised Standard Version: College Edition (Oxford University Press)

Ovid, Metamorphoses (Oxford
World Classics)

Readings on the Roman World
(pamphlet in bookstore)

Seneca, The Stoic Philosophy of Seneca (W. W. Norton)

Tacitus, The Agricola and the Germania (Penguin USA)

Tacitus, The Annals of Imperial Rome (Penguin USA)

Virgil, The Aeneid (Bantam Doubleday Dell Publications)

RECOMMENDED TEXTS
Hacker, A Writer’s Reference, 3rd ed. (Bedford)

Homer, The Odyssey, trans. Fitzgerald (Doubleday)

J.A.C.T., The World of Athens (Cambridge)

Marius, A Writer’s Companion, 3rd ed. (McGraw)

Osborne, Archaic and Classical Greek Art (Oxford)

Williams, Style: Toward Style and Grace (Chicago)
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