The reading lists below are from five courses in the T&T minor and set you on your way to an IPH major. Have you read any of these books? What did Machiavelli say anyway and why was it important? Which books stand out as ones you have wanted to study? Call us or email any of our faculty if you'd like to follow up on some of your questions!

L93 201C Classical to Renaissance Literature

• Homer, The Iliad
• Aeschylus, Oresteia I
• Virgil, Aeneid
• Ovid, The Metamorphoses
• St. Augustine, Confessions
• Petrarch, Canzoniere
• Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Sonnets

L93 203C Early Political Thought

• Plato, Republic
• Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics
• Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War
• Sallust, The Jugurthine War
• Sallust, Conspiracy of Catiline
• Aquinas, On Law, Morality, and Politics
• Cicero, On Duties
• Cicero, Selected Political Speeches
• Dante, Monarchy
• Machiavelli, Selected Political Writings
• Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier

L93 205C Literary Modernities

• Cervantes, Don Quixote
• Pope, The Rape of the Lock
• Diderot, Rameau’s Nephew
• Flaubert, Madame Bovary
• Baudelaire, Paris Spleen
• Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
• Kafka, In the Penal Colony
• Haushofer, The Wall

L93 207C Modern Political Thought

• Locke, The Second Treatise of Government
• Rousseau, Discourse of the Origin of Inequality
• Humboldt, The Limits of State Action
• Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
• Marx, The Communist Manifesto
• Mill, On Liberty
• Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra
• Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
• Beauvoir, The Second Sex
• Foucault, Discipline and Punish

L93 209 Scriptures and Cultural Traditions

• The Hebrew Bible
• The New Testament
• The Qur'an
• Huston-Smith, Why Religion Matters: The Fate of the Human Spirit in an Age of Disbelief