Santa Fe Freshman Seminar Readings

Below is the schedule of freshmen seminar readings for the Fall 2023 and Spring 2024 semesters. Also see

Freshman Seminar Readings Fall 2023

This list may be subject to change. Please always check with tutors or cross-reference with the paper reading list distributed by the dean’s office.

Freshman Seminar Readings for Fall 2023
Date Reading
August 24 Homer: Iliad, Books 1–6
August 28 Homer: Iliad, Books 7–12
August 31 Homer: Iliad, Books 13–18
September 4 Homer: Iliad, Books 19–24
September 7 Homer: Odyssey, Books 1–8
September 11 Homer: Odyssey, Books 9–16
September 14 Homer: Odyssey, Books 17–24
September 18 Aeschylus: Agamemnon
September 21 Aeschylus: Libation Bearers, Eumenides
September 25 Herodotus: Histories, I; III, 37–38
September 28 Herodotus: Histories, V, 62–78; VI, 94–140; VII, 1–60, 99–end
October 2 Herodotus: Histories, VIII, IX
October 5 Plato: Gorgias, 447a–481b
October 9 Plato: Gorgias, 481b–527c
October 12 Plato: Protagoras, 309–338e
October 16 Plato: Protagoras, 339–362
October 19 Plato: Meno
October 23 Sophocles: Antigone
October 26 Plato: Republic, Book I (327a)
October 30 Plato: Republic, Book II (357a)–III (417b)
November 2 Plato: Republic, Book IV (419a)–V (480a)
November 6 Plato: Republic, Book VI (484a)–VII (541b)
November 9 Plato: Republic, Book VIII (543a)–IX (592b)
November 13 Plato: Republic, Book X (595a)
November 16 Aristophanes: Clouds
November 20 Plato: Apology, Crito
November 27 Plato: Phaedo, 57a–89a
November 30 Plato: Phaedo, 89b–118a
December 4 Plato: Theaetetus, 142a–187a
December 7 Plato: Theaetetus, 187a–210c
December 11 Sophocles: Oedipus Rex
December 14 Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound

Freshman Seminar Readings Spring 2024

This list may be subject to change. Please always check with tutors or cross-reference with the paper reading list distributed by the dean’s office.

Freshman Seminar Readings for Spring 2024
Date Reading
January 15 Thucydides: Peloponnesian War, I; II, 1–46
January 18 Thucydides: Peloponnesian War, II, 47–65; III, 1–86; IV, 1–41
January 22 Thucydides: Peloponnesian War, IV, 42–135; V, 1–26, 43–46, 84–116; VI, 1–32
January 25 Thucydides: Peloponnesian War, VI, 32–105; VII; VIII, 1–18
January 29 Plato: Phaedrus, 227a–257c
February 1 Plato: Phaedrus, 257c–end
February 5 Plato: Symposium, 172a–201c
February 8 Plato: Symposium, 201d–223d
February 12 Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics, I
February 15 Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics, II, III
February 19 Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics, IV, V
February 22 Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics, VI, VII
February 26 Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics, VIII, IX
February 29 Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics, X
March 4 Aristotle: Politics
I; II, 1260 b27–1264 b26, 1266 a30–1269 a25
March 7 Aristotle: Politics
III; VII, 1323 a14–1326 b27
March 25 Aristophanes: Birds
March 28 Lucretius: On the Nature of Things, I–II
April 1 Lucretius: On the Nature of Things, III; IV; V, 1379–end; VI, 1–34, 1090–1286
April 4 Plato: Timaeus, 17a–53e
April 8 Aristotle: Physics
I, 184 a9–184 b14 and 189 b30–192 b7; II, 192 b8–195 b30
April 11 Aristotle: Physics
II, 195b31–200 b11
April 15 Aristotle: Physics
III, 200b12–202b29; IV, 217b29–224a16
April 18 Aristotle: Physics
III, 202b30–208a25; IV, 208a26–217b28
April 22 Aristotle: Physics
VIII, 250 b11–260 a19 and 265 a13–267 b27
April 25 Aristotle: Metaphysics, Book I (Α), Chapters 1–2; Book XII (Λ), Chapters 6–10
April 29 Euripides: Bacchae
May 2 Euripides: Medea
May 6 Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus
May 9 Sophocles: Ajax
May 13 Aristotle: Poetics
May 16 Sophocles: Philoctetes