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Odyssey of the West II - A Classic Education through the Great Books: From Athens to Rome and the Gospels by Timothy B. Shutt

Odyssey of the West II - A Classic Education through the Great Books: From Athens to Rome and the Gospels

by Timothy B. Shutt


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This course is an interdisciplinary series of connected lectures delivered by eminent scholars from several colleges and universities. Each professor addresses an area of personal expertise and focuses not only on the matter at hand, but on the larger story-on the links between the works and the figures discussed. The lectures address-in chronological sequence-a series of major works that have shaped the ongoing development of Western thought both in their own right and in cultural dialogue with other traditions. In the process, the course engages many of the most perennial and far-reaching questions that we face in our daily lives.

The lectures draw upon the resources of history, philosophy, literary study, art history, religious studies, political science, and the history of science and technology, in hopes of engaging the rich and profoundly interactive discussions that, over the course of forty centuries, have made Western culture what it is.

Lecture 1 Thucydides's The Peloponnesian War

Lecture 2 The Rise and Fall of Athens, Early Greek Philosophy, Xenophon

Lecture 3 Plato's Euthyphro

Lecture 4 Plato's Theaetetus

Lecture 5 Plato's Theory of Forms

Lecture 6 Aristotle's Philosophic System

Lecture 7 Aristotle's Ethics

Lecture 8 Alexander of Macedon and the Graeco-Roman World

Lecture 9 Virgil's Aeneid

Lecture 10 Ovid's Metamorphoses

Lecture 11 Roman Art and Engineering

Lecture 12 Plotinus and Neoplatonism

Lecture 13 The Christian Bible: The Gospels

Lecture 14 The Christian Bible: Acts and Epistles of St. Paul


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