Columbia Lit Hum Fall Semester Books

Every book listed in the Literature Humanities (Lit Hum) fall semester syllabus.


Homer, Iliad (U. of Chicago, tr. Lattimore)
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Homer, Odyssey (Harper, tr. Lattimore)
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Aeschylus, Oresteia (Aeschylus I, U. of Chicago, tr. Lattimore)
Listen to free video summaries of Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, and Eumenides.

Sophocles, Oedipus the King (Sophocles I, U. of Chicago, tr. Grene & Lattimore)
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Euripides, Medea (U. of Chicago, tr. Warner)
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Herodotus, The Histories (Oxford, tr. Robin Waterfield)
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Thucydides, History of Peloponnesian War (Penguin, tr. Warner)
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Aristophanes, Lysistrata (Penguin, tr. Sommerstein)
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Plato, Symposium (Hackett, trs. Nehamas, Woodruff)
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Bible: Revised Standard Version (Meridian)

Listen to free video summaries of Genesis, Job, Luke, and John.

Columbia Lit Hum Spring Semester Books

Below is every spring semester book listed in the Literature Humanities (Lit Hum) syllabus on the Core's home page (here).

Virgil, AENEID (Bantam, tr. Mandelbaum)
On Wikipedia.

Ovid, METAMORPHOSES (Penguin, tr. Raeburn)
On Wikipedia.

Augustine, CONFESSIONS (Oxford, tr. Chadwick)
On Wikipedia.

Dante, INFERNO (Bantam, tr. Mandelbaum)
On Wikipedia.

Montaigne, ESSAYS (Penguin, tr. Cohen)
On Wikipedia.

Shakespeare, KING LEAR (Pelican)
On Wikipedia.

Cervantes, DON QUIXOTE (Harper Collins, tr. Grossman)
On Wikipedia.

Goethe, Faust (Bantam Classics, tr. Salm)
On Wikipedia.

Austen, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (Oxford)
On Wikipedia.

Dostoevsky, CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (Vintage, trs. Pevear & Volokhonsky);
On Wikipedia.

Woolf, TO THE LIGHTHOUSE (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich)
On Wikipedia.

Columbia University Books About Core Curriculum

Great Books by David Denby
Author on Wikipedia.

A Great Idea at the Time by Alex Beam
Author on Wikipedia.

Changing the Subject: How the Women of Columbia Shaped the Way We Think About Sex and Politics by Rosalind Rosenberg
Author's paper.

Books About History of Columbia University

The Strawberry Statement: Notes of a College Revolutionary by James Simon Kunen
On Wikipedia.

My Columbia: Reminiscences of University Life by Ashbel Green

Stand, Columbia: A History of Columbia University by Michele Aaron

Universities in the Marketplace: The Commercialization of Higher Education by Derek Bok
Author on Wikipedia.

Columbia University and Morningside Heights by Michael Susi

Morningside Heights by Andrew Dolkart
Author on Wikipedia.