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Year One scheduling suggestions.
| High Level Texts: | |
| Starr | Ancient History, Chapters 1-21 |
| Gombrich | The Story of Art(Intro.; ch. 1-4) |
| Or | |
| Janson | History of Art (Intro.; Part I, Ch. 1-5) |
| Primary Sources and Subject Texts | |
| ----- | Good subject text on neolithic, beginnings of cities/agriculture, prehistory? Items we used long out of print, and not so stellar as to search out. |
| Kramer | History Begins at Sumer (ch. 1, 2, 6, 7, 13, 16, 17, 25, 37, 39) |
| ----- | Epic of Gilgamesh |
| Mayer & Prideaux | Never to Die (pp. 15-57, 63-96,101-166) |
| Old Testament | Genesis, Exodus chapters 1-20, 1st & 2nd Samuel, 1st Kings ch 1-11, Job, Psalms (selected) |
| Homer | Iliad |
| Homer | Odyssey |
| --- | The Homeric Hymns (selections) |
| Herodotus | History (Persian War parts) |
| Hamilton | Greek Way (ch. 11, 15) |
| Aeschylus | Agamemnon |
| Sophocles | Antigone and/or Oedipus Rex |
| Euripedes | The Bacchae and/or Medaea |
| Aristophanes | Lysistrata or The Birds or The Frogs |
| Plato | Symposium (selections) |
| Euthyphro | |
| Apology | |
| Crito | |
| Phaedo | |
| Republic (allegory of the cave) | |
| Thucydides | The Peloponnesian War |
| Xenophon | The March Up Country |
| Menander | Dyskolos |
| Plutarch | Life of Alexander |
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