Resources
free online primary sources from The Classical Historian: https://www.classicalhistorian.com/free-primary-sources.html
book list level two from Pandia Press History Odyssey:
Other Required Books:
Tales of Ancient Egypt by Roger Lancelyn Green
The Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
The Children’s Homer by Padraic Colum
Greek Myths by Olivia Coolidge
Theras and His Town by Caroline Dale Snedeker
Caesar’s Gallic War by Olivia Coolidge
and H. W. Van Loon The Story of Mankind free: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/754
book list level three Pandia Press History Odyssey:
☐ The New History of the World by J.M. Roberts
☐ The World’s Great Speeches edited by Copeland, Lamm, & McKenna
☐ A Rulebook for Arguments by Anthony Weston
☐ How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler & Charles Van Doren
☐ The Epic of Gilgamesh translated by N.K. Sandars
☐ The Tale of Sinuhe and Other Ancient Egyptian Poems translated by R.B. Parkinson
☐ The Iliad by Homer, translated by Robert Fagles
☐ The Odyssey by Homer, translated by Robert Fagels
☐ The Boys’ and Girls’ Herodotus by John S. While, LL.D.
☐ The Life of Alexander the Great by Plutarch, translated by John Dryden
☐ Callias: The Fall of Athens, A Story of the Peloponnesian War by Alfred J. Church
☐ The Last Days of Socrates by Plato, translated by Tredennick & Tarrant
☐ Lives of Famous Romans by Olivia Coolidge
☐ Classical Ingenuity by Charles F. Baker & Rosalie F. Baker
☐ The Classical Companion by Charles F. Baker III & Rosalie F. Baker
Then and now near east:
https://www.rainbowresource.com/product/sku/023227
Map Trek sampler:
http://knowledgequestmaps.com/thank-you-map-trek-sampler/
primary source readings used in Rolling Acres School:
Great Books Excerpts and Themes (approximate)
Genesis—Creation
Genesis—Covenant
Exodus—The Chosen People
Exodus & Leviticus—Law, Sin, and Offering
Deuteronomy—Blessing & Curse
Job—The Problem of Evil
Sirach—Filial Fear & Wisdom
Jonah—The Breadth of Compassion
Hesiod, Theogony—The Muses
Homer, Iliad—Excellence, the Hero & the Wife
Homer, Odyssey—Quest: Rights of Passage
Homer, Odyssey—Quest: The Return
Aesop's Fables—Folk Wisdom, Lying
Lives of the Eminent Philosophers—Enquiry, Thales of Miletus
Herodotus & Thucydides—From Story to Enquiry
Sophocles, Antigone—The Power of the State
Plato, Courage—Socrates on Courage
Aristophanes, The Clouds—What is the Goal of Education?
Plato, Phaedo—What is the Best Way to Live and Die?
Aristotle, Ethics—Virtue
Aristotle, Politics—True Government
Euripides, Alcestis—Love
Virgil, Aeneid—Roman Piety & Patriarchy
Cato, De Agri Cultura—Men of the Land
Cicero, De Officiis—Natural Law
Cicero, Against Cataline—Oratory & Civic Law
Virgil, Aeneid—Republic & Empire
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations—Roman Stoicism
St. Augustine, City of God—The Failure of Rome
Genesis—Creation
Genesis—Covenant
Exodus—The Chosen People
Exodus & Leviticus—Law, Sin, and Offering
Deuteronomy—Blessing & Curse
Job—The Problem of Evil
Sirach—Filial Fear & Wisdom
Jonah—The Breadth of Compassion
Hesiod, Theogony—The Muses
Homer, Iliad—Excellence, the Hero & the Wife
Homer, Odyssey—Quest: Rights of Passage
Homer, Odyssey—Quest: The Return
Aesop's Fables—Folk Wisdom, Lying
Lives of the Eminent Philosophers—Enquiry, Thales of Miletus
Herodotus & Thucydides—From Story to Enquiry
Sophocles, Antigone—The Power of the State
Plato, Courage—Socrates on Courage
Aristophanes, The Clouds—What is the Goal of Education?
Plato, Phaedo—What is the Best Way to Live and Die?
Aristotle, Ethics—Virtue
Aristotle, Politics—True Government
Euripides, Alcestis—Love
Virgil, Aeneid—Roman Piety & Patriarchy
Cato, De Agri Cultura—Men of the Land
Cicero, De Officiis—Natural Law
Cicero, Against Cataline—Oratory & Civic Law
Virgil, Aeneid—Republic & Empire
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations—Roman Stoicism
St. Augustine, City of God—The Failure of Rome
Complete Works
The Jews: Wisdom Literature: The Psalms
The Greeks: Myth: The Iliad
The Romans: Biography: Lives of Eminent Romans
The Jews: Wisdom Literature: The Psalms
The Greeks: Myth: The Iliad
The Romans: Biography: Lives of Eminent Romans
