Program Information

Class begins in spring quarter on Tuesday March 29 at 9:00 in Lecture Hall 2.


Spring Quarter Book List

Spring Quarter book list:

The Last Days of Socrates by Plato

The Inferno by Dante Alighieri (Robert Pinsky translation)

Averno by Louise Glück

On Beauty and Being Just by Elaine Scarry

Ancestor Worship in Contemporary Japan by Robert Smith (out of print; Moodle)

The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima

The Death Rituals of Rural Greece by Loring Danforth

Blindness by Jose Saramago

Upheavals of Thought by Martha Nussbaum