January 13, 2017

Dear Honors Curriculum Students:

We hope youve enjoyed a relaxing holiday and are now preparing for the
challenging semester in Honors this spring semester. We are sending you the
academic agenda for the first week. Of course we are all very excited about the
beginning of a new semester and are writing you now to provide a few details
about the first day.
On Tuesday, January 17th, 2017, the faculty will be prepared to welcome
all full time Honors students at 9:30AM in Room S2-03 (Winnet Student
Life Building, second floor, room 3).
I have included a list of books for the entire semester that should cost no more
than $300. Before that lengthy list of books has you reaching for some anxietyreducing pills, please remember that youre registered for five courses and that
dollar amount is well within the parameters for five courses. Some careful poking
around in used bookstores or online may produce quite a saving as many of the
books are standard editions. My recommendation is that you try to purchase used
editions wherever possible. You may also use digital versions which, as you may
know, are less expensive. We have tried to keep the total cost manageable and,
in fact it approximates the cost of only three or four ordinary textbooks. Please
note that a book or two may be added to this list after the semester begins. The
others should be purchased before the end of the sixth week or sooner if
needed for reading assignments before then. That is when our bookstore
will ship the books back to the publishers.
If you havent paid for your spring courses, and have subsequently been
dropped from Honors, please call me and Ill reregister you right away to
insure your spot in Honors and to avoid any registration problems. If you
have any difficulties about registration or have any interesting problems or
questions please feel free to call me and I'll try to help.
Office: (215) 751-8283, Cell Phone: (856) 981-5742.
Cordially,
Ralph M. Faris, Co-Coordinator
Honors Curriculum
Professor of Sociology
rfaris@ccp.edu

Honors Curriculum Book List

Spring, 2017
* Alexander, Caroline. The Iliad: A New Translation. Ecco, Reprint Edition.
ISBN-10: 0062046284
ISBN-13: 978-0062046284
Alexander, Caroline. The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer's
Iliad and the Trojan War. Penguin Books, Reprint Edition.
ISBN-10: 0143118269
ISBN-13: 978-0143118268
Annas, Julia. Ancient Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction. Publisher: Oxford
University Press, 2001.
ISBN-13: 978-0192853578
ISBN-10: 0192853570
Aristophanes. Lysistrata. Trans. Sarah Ruden. Hackett Classics.
ISBN:0-87220-603-3
ISBN-13: 978-0872206038
Armstrong, Karen. A Short History of Myth. Canongate, 2006.
ISBN-10: 184195800X
Aslan, Reza. No god But God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam.
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2011.
ISBN-10: 0812982444
Cave Stephen. Immortality: The Quest to Live Forever and How It Drives
Civilization. Crown, 2012.
ISBN-10: 184954493X
ISBN-13: 978184954493
Coates, Victoria Gardner. Davids Sling: A History of Democracy in Ten Works of
Art.
Encounter Books, Ist Edition.
ISBN-10: 1594037213
ISBN-13: 978-1594037214
Fantham, Elaine ed. Seneca, Selected Letters. (Oxford World Classics).

Oxford University Press, 2010.

ISBN-13: 978-0199533213
ISBN-10: 0199533210

Finley, M. I. The Portable Greek Historians: The Essence of Herodotus,

Thucydides, Xenophon, Polybius (Viking Portable Library).
Penguin Classics, 1977.
ISBN-10: 014015065X
ISBN-13: 978-014015065

Gombrich, E. H. The Story of Art. Phaidon, Pocket Editon.

ISBN-10: 0714847038
ISBN-13: 978-0714847030
Greenblatt, Stephen. The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
W. W. Norton & Company, 2012.
ISBN-10: 0393343405
ISBN-13: 978-0393343403
Harris, Sam and Nawaz, Maajid. Islam and the Future of Tolerance: A Dialogue.
Harvard University Press, 1st edition.
ISBN-10: 0674088700
ISBN-13: 978-0674088702
Lane, Melissa. The Birth if Politics: Eight Greek and Roman Political Ideas and
Why They Matter. Princeton University Press. Reprint Edition.
ISBN-10: 0691173095
ISBN-13: 978-0691173092
Lefkowitz, Mary and James S. Romm. The Greek Plays: Sixteen Plays by
Aeschylus,
Sophocles, and Euripides (Modern Library Classics). ISBN-10: 0812993004
ISBN-13: 978-0812993004
Logue, Christopher. War Music: An Account of Books 1-4 and 16-19 of Homer's
Iliad. University of Chicago Press; First edition (2003).
ISBN-10: 0226491900
Lucretius. The Nature of Things. Trans: Alicia Stallings. Penguin Classics.
ISBN-10: 0140447962
MacMillan, Margaret. Dangerous Games: The Uses and Abuses of History
(Modern Library Chronicles, Reprint edition),
ISBN-10: 0812979966
ISBN-13: 978-0812979961

Mitchell, Stephen. The Book of Job. Harper Perennial, 1992.

ISBN-10: 0060969598
Murray, Gilbert. Five Stages of Greek Religion. ReadaClassic.com, 2010.
ISBN-10: 1611040396
ISBN-13: 978-1611040395
Nussbaum, Martha. The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic
Ethics. Princeton University Press, 2009. 3rd Edition.
ISBN-10: 0691141312
ISBN-13: 978-0691141312
Pelling, Christopher and Wyke, Maria. Twelve Voices from Greece and Rome:
Ancient
Ideas for Modern Times, 2014. Oxford University Press, Reprint edition.
ISBN-10: 0198768036
ISBN-13: 9780198768036
Plato. The Republic. Desmond Lee (Trans). Melissa Lane, (Introduction)
Penguin Classics, 2nd Edition, 2007.
ISBN-10: 0140455116
ISBN-13: 978-0140455113
Ruiz, Teofilo F. The Terror of History: On the Uncertainties of Life in Western
Civilization. Princeton University Press, 2011
ISBN-10: 0691124132
ISBN-13: 978-0691124131
The Epic of Gilgamesh. Trans. Danny P. Jackson. Bochazy-Carducci Publishers,
1997.
ISBN-10: 0865163529
ISBN-13: 978-0865163522
Weil, Simone and Bespaloff, Rachel. War and the Iliad. Mary McCarthy
(Trans.). NYRB Classics, 2005.
ISBN-10: 1590171454
ISBN-13: 978-1590171455