Readings (scroll →) * = selections of work Order Title Author Period Year Arc 1 Meditations Marcus Aurelius Roman imperial period 2022 Theogony 1 2 The Tempest Shakespeare Jacobean Era 2023 Theogony 1 3 Antigone Sophocles 5th c. BCE 2023 Theogony 1 4 Arabian Nights* Anonymous Islamic Golden Age 2023 Theogony 2 5 The Federalist Papers* Publius et al. 18th c. CE 2023 Theogony 2 6 Zhuangzi* Zhuangzi 2nd c. BCE 2023 Theogony 2 7 History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 5th c. BCE 2023 Anabasis 1 8 Hellenica* Xenophon 4th c. BCE 2023 Anabasis 1 9 Republic Plato 4th c. BCE 2024 Anabasis 2 10 Herakles Euripides 5th c. BCE 2024 Anabasis 2 12 Odyssey Homer heroic age 2024 Nostoi 1 12 Seventh Letter Plato 4th c. BCE 2024 Anabasis 2 13 Laws Plato Classical Greece 2025 Memorabilia 1 14 The Persians Aeschylus Classical Greece 2025 Anabasis 3 16 Second Tetralogy Antiphon Classical Greece 2025 Anabasis 3 17 Against Simon Lysias Classical Greece 2025 Anabasis 3 18 Against Conon Demosthenes Classical Greece 2025 Anabasis 3 19 Philoctetes Sophocles Classical Greece 2025 Anabasis 3 19 Categories* Aristotle Classical Greece 2025 Anabasis 3 20 De Interpretatione* Aristotle Classical Greece 2025 Anabasis 3 21 Prior Analytics* Aristotle Classical Greece 2025 Anabasis 3 22 The Bacchae Euripides Classical Greece 2025 Anabasis 3 23 The Frogs Aristophanes Classical Greece 2025 Anabasis 3 24 Posterior Analytics* Aristotle Classical Greece 2025 Anabasis 3 25 Topics* Aristotle Classical Greece 2025 Anabasis 3 26 Euthyphro Plato Classical Greece 2025 Memorabilia 2 27 Dyskolos Menander Classical Greece 2025 Anabasis 3 28 Characters* Theophrastus Classical Greece 2025 Anabasis 3 29 First Philippic Demosthenes Classical Greece 2025 Anabasis 3 30 Apology Plato 4th c. BCE 2025 Memorabilia 2 31 On the Crown Demosthenes Classical Greece 2025 Anabasis 3 32 Crito Plato Classical Greece 2025 Memorabilia 2 33 Life of Alexander Plutarch Pax Romana 2025 Metamorphoses 1 34 Phaedo Plato Classical Greece 2025 Memorabilia 2 35 Poetics Aristotle Classical Greece 2026 Elementa 1