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.
Overview
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 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
Taught by
J. Rufus Fears
