ST. JOHN’S COLLEGE
PROSPECTIVE STUDENT SEMINAR READING LIST BY VISIT DATE
SUMMER
2017
DATE
AUTHOR
READING SELECTION
Monday, 5/29
Sophocles
Antigone
Thursday, 6/1
Aristotle
Nicomachean Ethics, I; II
Monday, 6/5
Aristotle
Ethics, III: 1109b30 - 1119a20
IV: 1123a34 - 1125a35
V: 1129a3 - 1131a9, 1134a16 - 1135a14
Thursday, 6/8
Aristotle
Ethics, VIII; IX
Monday, 6/12
Aristotle
Ethics, X
Thursday, 6/15
Lucretius
Nature of Things, I; II
Monday, 6/19
Lucretius
Nature of Things, III; IV
V: 1379 - end
VI: 1 - 34, 1090 - 1286
Timaeus, 17-57d, and “System of the World” (photocopy)
Thursday, 6/22
Plato Monday, 6/26
Sophocles
Oedipus at Colonus
Thursday, 6/29
Aristotle
Physics, I: 184a9 - 184b14, 189b30 - 192b7
II: 192b8 - 195b30
Monday, 7/3
Aristotle
Physics, II: 195b31 - 200b11
Thursday, 7/6
Aristotle
Physics, III: 200b12 - 202b29
IV: 217b29 - 224a16
Monday, 7/10
Aristotle
Physics III: 202b30 - 208a25
IV: 208a26 - 217b29
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Thursday, 7/13
Aristotle
Physics, VIII: 250b11 - 260a19, 265a13 - 267b27
Monday, 7/17
Euripides
Bacchae
Thursday, 7/20
Plato
Theaetetus, 142 - 186
Monday, 7/24
Plato
Theaetetus, 186 - 210
Thursday, 7/27
Plato
Phaedrus, 227a - 258d
Monday, 7/31
Plato
Phaedrus, 258d - end
Thursday, 8/3
Sophocles
Philoctetes