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Online Texts for Program Readings: Fall Semester

This guide provides links to full-text resources and audio resources available for program readings.

Online Texts

This is a guide with links to full-text/audio resources of program works. Below is a list of databases with full-text sources and audio recordings. For help accessing these resources, please contact Catherine Hines, Library Director at 410-626-2550 or catherine.hines@sjc.edu.

Digital Loeb Classical Library Early Modern Texts Naxos Spoken Word Library Open Library (Internet Archive) Project Gutenberg

2024 Fall Semester Reading List

Date Reading Online Resources
August 22

Homer: Iliad

I-VI

Trans. A. T. Murray (with Greek; Digital Loeb Classical Library)

Trans. Alexander Pope (Project Gutenberg)

Read by Anthony Heald; Trans. W. H. D. Rouse (Naxos Spoken Word Library–includes Odyssey)

Read by Anton Lesser; Trans. Ian Johnston (Naxos Spoken Word Library)

August 26

Homer: Iliad

VII-XII

(see August 22 links)

August 29

Homer: Iliad

XIII-XVIII

(see August 22 links)
September 2

Homer: Iliad

XIX-XXIV

(see August 22 links)
September 5

Homer: Odyssey

I-VIII

Trans. A. T. Murray (with Greek; Digital Loeb Classical Library)

Trans. Alexander Pope (Project Gutenberg)

Read by Anthony Heald; Trans. W. H. D. Rouse (Naxos Spoken Word Libraryincludes Iliad)

Read by Anton Lesser; Trans. by Ian Johnston (Naxos Spoken Word Library)

September 9

Homer: Odyssey

IX-XVI

(see September 5 links)
September 12

Homer: Odyssey

XVII-XXIV

(see September 5 links)
September 16 Plato: Meno

Trans. G. M. A. Grube (Internet Archive–hourly borrowing)

Trans. Benjamin Jowett (Project Gutenberg)

Trans. W. R. M. Lamb (with Greek; Digital Loeb Classical Library)

September 19

Aeschylus: Agamemnon

Complete Oresteia Texts (AgamemnonLibation Bearers, and Eumenides)

Agamemnon-Only Texts

September 27 Aeschylus: Libation BearersEumenides

(see September 19 links)

September 26

Plato: Gorgias

447A-481B

Trans. Walter Hamilton (Internet Archivehourly borrowing)

Trans. Benjamin Jowett (Project Gutenberg)

Trans. W. R. M. Lamb (with Greek; Digital Loeb Classical Library)

September 30

Plato: Gorgias

481B-end

(see September 26 links)
October 3

Plutarch: Lives

'Lycurgus';

'Solon'

Trans. John Dryden (Project Gutenberg)

Trans. Bernadotte Perin (with Greek; Digital Loeb Classical Library)

Read Bernard Mayes; Trans. John Dryden (Naxos Spoken Word Library)

  • Lycurgus (tracks 6-7)
  • Solon (track 10)
October 7

Herodotus: History

I;

II: 50-53, 112-120;

III: 37-38, 66-87

Trans. A. D. Godley (with Greek; Digital Loeb Classical Library)

Trans. G. C. Macaulay (Project Gutenberg)

Read by Bernard Hayes; Translator Unknown (Naxos Spoken Word Library)

Read by David Timson; Translator Unknown (Naxos Spoken Word Library)

October 10

Herodotus: History

V: 105;

VI: 48-120;

VII (entire)

(see October 7 links)

October 14

Herodotus: History

VIII;

IX

(see October 7 links)

October 17

Plato: Republic

I-II 367E

Trans. Chris Emlyn-Jones (with Greek; Digital Loeb Classical Library)

Trans. Benjamin Jowett (Project Gutenberg)

Read by Pat Bottino; Trans. Benjamin Jowett (Naxos Spoken Word Library)

October 21

Plato: Republic

II 367E-IV 427C

(see October 17 links)
October 24

Plato: Republic

IV 427D-VI 502C

(see October 17 links)
October 28

Plato: Republic

VI 502D-VII

(see October 17 links)
October 31

Plato: Republic

VIII-IX

(see October 17 links)
November 4

Plato: Republic

X

(see October 17 links)
November 7 Aristophanes: Clouds

Trans. Jeffrey Henderson (with Greek; Digital Loeb Classical Library)

Trans. William J. Hickie (Project Gutenberg)

Internet Archive (Greek; Ed. Lewis L. Forman)

November 11 Plato: Apology; Crito

Trans. Henry Cary (Project Gutenberg)

Trans. Chris Emlyn-Jones and William Preddy (with Greek; Digital Loeb Classical Library)

Read by Pat Bottino; Trans. Benjamin Jowett (Naxos Spoken Word Library)

  • Apology (track 2)
  • Crito (track 3)
November 14

Plato: Phaedo

57A-84B

Trans. Henry Cary (Project Gutenberg)

Trans. Chris Emlyn-Jones and William Preddy (with Greek; Digital Loeb Classical Library)

Read by Pat Bottino; Trans. Benjamin Jowett (Naxos Spoken Word Library)

  • Phaedo (tracks 4-6)
November 18

Plato: Phaedo

84B-118B

(see November 14 links)
November 21

Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus

Trans. Francis Storr (Project Gutenberg)

Trans. Lewis Campbell (Project Gutenberg)

Trans. Hugh Lloyd-Jones (with Greek; Digital Loeb Classical Library)

  • Oedipus Tyrannus 

Trans. Hugh Lloyd-Jones (with GreekDigital Loeb Classical Library)

  • Antigone 
  • Oedipus at Colonus 

Read by John F.C. Richards Translator Unknown Read in Greek; (Naxos Spoken Word Library

  • Oedipus Tyrannus (Track 2)
  • Antigone (Track 3)
November 25

Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus

(see November 21 links)
December 2

Sophocles: Antigone

(see November 21 links)
December 5

Euripides: Medea

Trans. Gilbert Murray (Project Gutenberg)

Trans. David Kovacs (Digital Loeb Classical Library)

December 9

Plato: Symposium

beginning-198A

Trans. Chris Emlyn-Jones and William Preddy (with Greek; Digital Loeb Classical Library)

Trans. Benjamin Jowett (Project Gutenberg)

Read by David Shaw-Parker et al.; Trans. Tom Griffith (Naxos Spoken Word Library)

December 12

Plato: Symposium

198-end

(see December 9 links)