Subject to period revision; please check the current list. THE GREAT BOOKS ACADEMY High School Socratic Seminar Readings Freshman Year Week First Semester Week Second Semester 1 Seminar Method Orientation 1 Poetics - Aristotle 2 The Iliad - Homer 2 Poetics 3 The Iliad 3 Antigone - Sophocles 4 The Iliad 4 Hippolytus - Euripedes 5 The Iliad 5 Peloponnesian War - Thucydides 6 Ion - Plato 6 Peloponnesian War 7 The Odyssey - Homer 7 Peloponnesian War 8 The Odyssey 8 Peloponnesian War 9 The Odyssey 9 Peloponnesian War 10 The Odyssey 10 Alcibiades and Alexander -Plutarch 11 Agamemnon -       Aeschylus 11 On the Predicaments - Porphyry 12 The Libation Bearers - Aeschylus 12 On the Predicaments 13 Eumenides -       Aeschylus 13 The Categories - Aristotle 14 Meno - Plato 14 The Categories 15 Protagoras -       Plato 15 The Categories 16 Apology - Plato 16 On Interpretation* - Aristotle 17 Crito - Plato 17 On Interpretation* 18 Phaedo - Plato 18 The Symposium - Plato 19 Lycurgus, Pericles,  Aristides -   Plutarch 19 Semester Overview Sophomore Year Week First Semester Week Second Semester 1 Aeneid - Virgil 1 Consolation of Philosophy - Boethius 2 Aeneid 2 Consolation of Philosophy 3 Pre-Socratic Philosophers (fragments) 3 The Physics* - Aristotle 4 On the Nature of Things - Lucretius 4 The Physics* 5 On the Nature of Things 5 De Anima* - Aristotle 6 Lives* - Plutarch 6 De Anima* 7 Lives* 7 De Anima* 8 On Duties - Cicero 8 De Anima* 9 On Friendship - Cicero 9 De Anima* 10 Annals - Tacitus 10 The Divine Comedy - Dante 11 Annals