The St. John’s College
Reading List
The program of study is built around the
college’s reading list—a chronological
examination of more than two thousand
Freshman
Year
*
Homer
Iliad, Odyssey
*
Aeschylus
Agamemnon,
Libation Bearers,
Eumenides,
Prometheus
Bound
*
Sophocles
Oedipus Rex,
Oedipus
at Colonus,
Antigone,
Philoctetes
*
Thucydides
Peloponnesian
War
Essays by:
Archimedes,
Fahrenheit,
Avogadro, Dalton,
Cannizzaro,
Virchow,
Mariotte, Driesch,
Gay-Lussac,
Spemann,
J. J. Thomson,
Mendeleyev,
Berthollet,
J. L. Proust
Ptolemy
Almagest
*
Euripides
Hippolytus, Bacchae
*
Herodotus
Histories
*
Aristophanes
Clouds
*
Plato
Meno, Gorgias,
Apology, Crito,
Phaedo, Republic,
Parmenides,
Theaetetus,
Sophist, Timaeus,
Symposium,
Phaedrus
Pascal
Treatise on the
Equilibrium
of Liquids
Aristotle
*
Nicomachean
Ethics, *Poetics,
*
Metaphysics,
On Generation
and Corruption,
*
Physics, *Politics,
Parts of Animals,
Generation
of Animals
Euclid
Elements
*
Lucretius
On the Nature
of Things
*
Plutarch
“
Lycurgus,” “Solon”
Nicomachus
Arithmetic
Lavoisier
Elements of
Chemistry
Harvey
Motion of the Heart
and Blood