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Online Texts for Program Readings: January Freshman (1st 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 Johnathan Longo, Public Services Librarian, at 410-295-6927 or johnathan.longo@sjc.edu, or Catherine Dixon, Library Director at 410-626-2550 or catherine.dixon@sjc.edu.

Digital Loeb Classical Library Early Modern Texts Naxos Music Library Naxos Spoken Word Library Open Library Project Gutenberg

Spring Semester Reading List

Date Reading Online Resources
February 1

Homer: Iliad
I–VI

February 4 Homer: Iliad 
VII–XII
February 8 Homer: Iliad
XIII–XVIII
February 11 Homer: Iliad
XIX–XXIV
February 15 Homer: Odyssey
I–VIII
February 18 Homer: Odyssey
IX–XVI
February 22 Homer: Odyssey
XVII–XXIV
February 25 Aeschylus: Agamemnon
March 1 Aeschylus: Libation BearersEumenides
March 4 Herodotus: History
I, II 50–53, 112–120, III 37–38, 66–87
March 11 Herodotus: History
VIII, IX
March 15 Plato: Gorgias
447A–481B
March 18 Plato: Gorgias
481B–end
March 22 Plato: Meno
March 25 Sophocles: Oedipus Rex
March 29 Plutarch: Lycurgus and Solon
April 1 Plato: Republic
I–II
April 5 Plato: Republic
III–IV
April 8 Plato: Republic
V–VI
April 12 Plato: Republic
VII–VIII
April 15 Plato: Republic
IX–X
April 19 Thucydides: Peloponnesian War
I, II, 1–54
April 22 Thucydides: Peloponnesian War
II, 55–78, III 1–87, IV, 1–74
April 26 Thucydides: Peloponnesian War
IV, 75–end, V 1–26, 84–116, VI (complete)
April 29 Thucydides: Peloponnesian War
VII, VIII 1–6, 45–end
May 3 Aristophanes: Clouds
May 6 Plato: Symposium
Beginning–198A
May 10 Plato: Symposium
198–end
May 13 Plato: ApologyCrito
May 17 Plato: Phaedo
57A–84B
May 20 Plato: Phaedo
84B–118B​​​​​​​