Humanities 2: Rome, Christianity, & the Middle Ages
Winter 2025 (updates forthcoming 8/8/24)
Required Texts 2024
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, trans Gregory Hays (Modern Library)
Vergil, The Aeneid, trans Shadi Bartsch (Modern Library)
Augustine, Confessions, trans Maria Boulding (Vintage)
Rumi, The Essential Rumi, trans Coleman Barks (Harper One)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, trans Simon Armitage (Norton)
Dante, Purgatory, trans Anthony Esolen (Modern Library)
Class SchedulE — 2024 —
1/9 Introduction
1/11 Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
1/16 Marcus Aurelius continued
1/18 Vergil, The Aeneid
1/23 Vergil continued
1/25 Vergil continued
1/30 Gospel of Mark
2/1 Gospel of Mark continued
2/6 Augustine, Confessions
2/8 Augustine continued
2/13 Augustine continued
2/15 Rumi, selections from The Essential Rumi
2/20 Rumi continued
2/22 Rumi continued
2/27 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
2/29 Gawain continued
3/5 *Dante, Inferno selections
3/7 Dante, Purgatory
3/12 Dante, Purgatory
3/14 *Dante, Paradise selections