Integrated Humanities II

THE ANCIENT WORLD

Days: Monday - Thursday 

Times (Pacific Time):

7:00am - 7:50am - James Goode FULL

8:00am - 8:50am - James Goode FULL

9:00am - 9:50am - Molly (Sumpter) Goode  

11:00am - 11:50am - Molly (Sumpter) Goode 

Class Description: Students taking this course will benefit from the integration of History, Literature, and Theology in true liberal arts fashion. The facts and events of ancient history are illuminated by literature and primary sources of the time period, along with thought-provoking essays written by a wide range of contemporary scholars and educators. Class discussions encourage students to understand these events and their repercussions in light of ultimate things, always with the goal of becoming more like our Savior, Jesus Christ.

For more information, please see this article: What do you mean by "Integrated Humanities"? 

Credits: 3 (1 History, 1 Theology, 1 Literature)

Semester 1: Primary Books and Secondary Books

• Omnibus IV textbook
• The Iliad
• Landmark Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War
• The Bacchae and Other Plays (Euripides)
• Lysistra and Other Plays (Aristophanes)
• The Republic (Plato)
• Introduction to Aristotle
• Aesop's Fables
• Death on the Nile
• Troilus and Cressida
• Augustus Caesar's World
• Art and the Bible

Semester 2: Primary Books and Secondary Books

• The New Oxford Annotated Apocrypha
• Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements, Vol. 1
• The War with Hannibal (Livy)
• On the Nature of Things (Lucretius)
• Cicero: Selected Works
• Annals of Imperial Rome (Tacitus)
• Eclogues and Georgics (Virgil)
• Metamorphoses (Ovid)
• Josephus
• Meditations (Marcus Aurelius)
• The Apostolic Fathers
• The Lost World
• Knowing God
• Antony and Cleopatra
• Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
• Phantastes
• Mythology
• Plutarch's Lives Vol. 2
• Desiring God