Old Western Culture Year 2 - Reader Set

Old Western Culture Year 2 - Reader Set

The Romans

by Wesley Callihan
Publisher: Roman Roads Media
Item: 95046
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The Old Western Culture Great Books List

Old Western Culture is a great books curriculum with a distinctly Christian “great books” reading list. It includes all the famous favorites you’ll recognize from series like the Britannica Great Books of the Western World, but also includes books that are often left out of modern editions for various reasons, most often because they are from the “Age of Faith.” We include more works from the early Church Fathers, Medieval period, and the Reformation. These are deeply influential and formative books on Western civilization, and worthy of inclusion in great books series. These books are part of our Christian and cultural inheritance, and Old Western Culture exists to help you and your children receive that inheritance!

The Old Western Culture Reader Series is a sixteen-volume set. Below are the works included in the series that students using the Old Western Culture curriculum read over four years in high school. In some cases, students do not read the full work, especially for works of philosophy. But even in those cases, it is larger swaths of the original text, not small excerpts.

We also have an Essentials List for Old Western Culture for parents or students who want a different pace through the curriculum.

Year Two: The Romans

Unit One: The Aeneid
  • The Aeneid by Vergil
  • Metamorphoses (selections) by Ovid
  • De Rerum Natura by Lucretius
  • Pharsalia by Lucanus
  • Thebaid by Publius Papinius Statius
Unit Two: The Historians
  • History of Rome, by Livy
  • The War of the Jugurtha, by Sallust
  • The War with Catiline, by Sallust
  • The Gallic Wars, by Julius Caesar
  • The Annals, by Tacitus
  • Lives, by Plutarch
  • Verres, Antony, and On Duties, by Cicero
  • The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, by Suetonius
  • Correspondence, by Pliny & Trajan
  • Institutes of Oratory, by Quintillian
Unit Three: Early Christianity
  • The Didache by Unknown
  • First Epistle of Clement by Clement of Rome
  • The Letters of Ignatius by Ignatius
  • Letter to the Philipians by Polycarp
  • A Plea to the Philipians byAthenagoras
  • Epistle to Diognetus by Unkown
  • The First Apology by Justin Martyr
  • Against Heresies by Irenaeus
  • Exhortation to the Greeks by Clement of Alexandria
  • History of the Church by Eusebius
Unit Four: Nicene Christianity
  • On the Incarnation by Athanasius
  • The Life of St. Anthony by Athanasius
  • Paschal Homily by John Chrysostom
  • Baptismal Instructions by John Chrysostom
  • On the Holy Spirit by Basil the Great
  • Funeral Oration by Gregory Nazienzen
  • Confessions by Augustine
  • The City of God by Augustine
  • The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius
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