Great Books at Noble Road Library
2003-2004
Sept 16
*		 Gibbon
1737-1794 		The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Vol 1)
Oct 7
 Aristophanes
447-380 BCE		 Lysistrata
Oct 21
 Plato
427-347 BCE		 Charmides (Temperance)
Laches (Courage)
Nov 4
 Sun Tzu
~400-320 BCE		 The Art of War
Nov 18 Dante
1265-1321		 Inferno
 
Dec 2
 Copernicus
1473-1543		 On the Revolution of Heavenly Spheres Intro; Book I chs 1-11
Jan 20 Rabelais
1495-1553 		Gargantua & Pantagruel
Feb 3 Shakespeare
1564-1616		 Twelfth Night
Feb 17
 Smith
1723-1790		 Wealth of Nations (Vol 1)
Chs 1-4, 8, conclusion of Ch 11
Mar 2
 Grimm
1785-1859 		Fairy Tales
Mar 16
*		 Benet
1898-1943 		John Brown's Body
Apr 6
 US Supreme
Court Cases 		Plessy v Ferguson (1896)
Brown v Bd of Education (1954)
Brown v Bd of Education (1955)
(98KB plain text download here)
Apr 20 Shaw
1856-1950 		Major Barbara

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