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An expert storyteller and professor shows you how some of Western civilization's greatest literary masterpieces can provide guidance in your life across the gulf of time and culture.

Syllabus

  • 01: Seneca- “On Providence”
  • 02: The Gospel of John
  • 03: Boethius, Martin Luther King-Conscience
  • 04: Dostoevsky-The Brothers Karamazov
  • 05: Elie Wiesel-Night
  • 06: Schweitzer-Out of My Life and Thought
  • 07: Goethe-The Sufferings of Young Werther
  • 08: Shakespeare-Hamlet
  • 09: Sophocles-Ajax
  • 10: Plato-Epistle VII
  • 11: Cicero- “On Old Age”
  • 12: Isaac Bashevis Singer-The Penitent
  • 13: Euripides-Alcestis
  • 14: Euripides-Medea
  • 15: Von Strasburg-Tristan and Isolde
  • 16: Shakespeare-Antony and Cleopatra
  • 17: Shakespeare-Macbeth
  • 18: Aldous Huxley-Brave New World
  • 19: Homer-Odyssey
  • 20: Sophocles-Philoctetes
  • 21: The Song of Roland-Chivalric Adventure
  • 22: Nibelungenlied-Chivalric Romance
  • 23: Lewis and Clark-Journals
  • 24: T. E. Lawrence-Seven Pillars of Wisdom
  • 25: Aristophanes-Comedies
  • 26: Menander-The Grouch
  • 27: Machiavelli-La Mandragola
  • 28: Erasmus-In Praise of Folly
  • 29: Thomas More-Utopia
  • 30: George Orwell-Animal Farm
  • 31: Josephus-History of the Jewish War
  • 32: Joseph Addison-Cato
  • 33: George Washington-Farewell Address
  • 34: Abraham Lincoln, George Patton-War
  • 35: Theodore Roosevelt-An Autobiography
  • 36: The Wisdom of Great Books
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Taught by

J. Rufus Fears

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