St. Johns College Seminar Reading List Part II - Sophomore Year
Explore the St. John's College Sophomore Year reading list, featuring Machiavelli's *The Prince*, Shakespeare's *King Lear*, and Virgil's *The Aeneid*—essential texts in philosophy, drama, and poetry for the Great Books curriculum.
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The Aeneid
by Virgil
"Fitzgerald's [translation] is so decisively the best modern Aeneid that it is unthinkable that anyone will want to use any other version for a long time to come." —New York Review of Books Virgil's great epic transforms the Homeric tradition into a triumphal statement of the Roman civilizing mission—translated by Robert Fitzgerald.
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The Prince
by Niccolò Machiavelli
Special Student Edition has a special margin on each page to allow students to make notations. Complete translated text with an introduction on the life of Machiavelli.
