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Ancient Greek History

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  • Symposium by Plato, translated by Alexander Nehamas and Paul Woodruff
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    This text, a classic of ancient philosophy, contains a series of speeches on the subject of love.

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  • History Survey: The World to 1500
    by J. Patrick Mullins
    COURSE OVERVIEW: With today’s triumph of “globalization,” people all over the world are coming to embrace—or at least aspire to—many of the institutions that developed gradually over the last three thousands years in the West: a liberal…
  • Survey of Western Civilization I
    by Preston Jones
    What is at stake is far from insignificant: it is how one should live one’s life. --Plato, The Republic All our dignity consists…of thought…. So let us work on thinking well. --Pascal, Pensées   Required Texts: Aristotle, The Nichomachean Ethics…

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