Humanities 2: Rome, Christianity, & the Middle Ages

Winter 2024

Required Texts

• Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, trans Gregory Hays (Modern Library)

• Vergil, The Aeneid, trans Shadi Bartsch (Modern Library)

• Augustine, Confessions, trans Maria Boulding (Vintage)

• Rumi, The Essential Rumi, trans Coleman Barks (Harper One)

• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, trans Simon Armitage (Norton)

• Dante, Purgatory, trans Anthony Esolen (Modern Library)

Class SchedulE

1/9        Introduction

1/11 Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

1/16        Marcus Aurelius continued

1/18        Vergil, The Aeneid

1/23       Vergil continued

1/25 Vergil continued

1/30       Gospel of Mark

2/1 Gospel of Mark continued

2/6       Augustine, Confessions

2/8 Augustine continued

2/13       Augustine continued

2/15 Rumi, selections from The Essential Rumi

2/20        Rumi continued

2/22 Rumi continued

2/27        Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

2/29        Gawain continued

3/5 *Dante, Inferno selections

3/7       Dante, Purgatory

3/12        Dante, Purgatory

3/14 *Dante, Paradise selections