Portable Schoolhouse - Scope and Sequence

SUBJECTS
TTC Great Authors of the Western Literary Tradition Lectures
Additional Materials Used
-- Additional Audio Lectures
* Excerpts from Anthologies

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LOGIC
TTC Tools of Thinking:
-- What Are "Tools of Thinking"?
-- Which Tools of Thinking Are Basic?
-- Platonic Intuition, Memory, and Reason
-- Intuition, Memory, and Reason - Problems
-- Sense Experience - A More Modern Take
-- Observation and Immediate Inferences
-- Further Immediate Inferences
-- Categorical Syllogisms
-- Ancient Logic in Modern Dress
-- Systematic Doubt and Rational Certainty
-- The Limits of Sense Experience
-- Inferences Demand Relevant Evidence
-- Proper Inferences Avoid Equivocation
-- Induction Is Slippery But Unavoidable
-- The Scientific Revolution
-- Hypotheses and Experiments - A First Look
-- How Empirical is Modern Empiricism?
-- Hypotheses and Experiments - A Closer Look
-- "Normal Science" at Mid-Century
-- Modern Logic - Truth Tables
-- Modern Logic - Sentential Arguments
-- Modern Logic - Predicate Arguments
-- Postmodern and New-Age Problems
-- Rational Empiricism in the 21st Century

CREATION
Theogony*

MYTHOLOGY
Bulfinch's Mythology:
Prometheus and Pandora
Apollo and Daphne-Pyramus and Thisbe-Cephalus and Procris
Juno and her Rivals, Io and Callisto-Diana and Actaeon-Latona and the Rustics
Phaeton
Midas-Baucis and Philemon
Proserpine-Glaucus and Scylla
Pygmalion-Dryope-Venus and Adonis-Apollo and Hyacinthus
Ceyx and Halcyone
Vertumnus and Pomona-Iphis and Anaxarete
Cupid and Psyche
Cadmus-The Myrmidons
Nisus and Scylla-Echo and Narcissus-Clytie-Hero and Leander
Minerva and Arachne-Niobe
The Graeae and Gorgons-Perseus and Medusa-Atlas-Andromeda
Pegasus and Chimaera-Centaurs
The Golden Fleece-Medea
Meleager and Atalanta
Hercules-Hebe and Ganymede
Theseus and Daedalus-Castor and Pollux
Bacchus and Ariadne
The Rural Deities-Dryads-Rhoecus-Water Deities-Camenae-Winds
Achelous and Hercules-Admetus and Alcestis-Antigone-Penelope
Orpheus and Eurydice-Aristaeus-Amphion-Linus-Thamyris-Marsyas-Melanpus-Musaeus
Arion-Ibycus-Simonides-Sappho
Endymion-Orion-Aurora and Tithonus-Acis and Galatea
The Trojan War
The Fall of Troy-Return of the Greeks-Orestes and Electra
Adventures of Ulysses-The Lotus Eaters-The Cyclopes-Circe-Sirens-Scylla and Charybdis-Calypso

Iliad
The Iliad (Fagles)
TTC Iliad of Homer:
-- Intro to Homeric Epic
-- The Homeric Question
-- Glory, Honor, and the Wrath of Achilles
-- Within the Walls of Troy
-- The Embassy to Achilles
-- The Paradox of Glory
-- The Role of the Gods
-- The Longest Day
-- The Death of Patroklos
-- Achilles Returns to Battle
-- Achilles and Hektor
-- Enemies' Tears - Achilles and Priam

Odyssey
The Odyssey (Fagles)
TTC Odyssey of Homer:
-- Heroes' Homecomings
-- Guests and Hosts
-- A Goddess and a Princess
-- Odysseus Among the Phaiakians
-- Odysseus Tells His Own Story
-- From Persephone's Land to the Island of Helios
-- The Goddess, the Swineherd, and the Beggar
-- Reunion and Return
-- Odysseus and Penelope
-- Recognitions and Revenge
-- Reunions and Resolution
-- The Trojan War and the Archaeologists

AESOP
Esopus Hodie

Sappho and Pindar*

Aeschylus
Agamemnon*
Libation Bearers*
Eumenides*

Sophocles
Oedipus at Colonus*
Antigone*
Ajax*

Euripides
The Trojan Women*
Hippolytus*
Medea*
The Bacchae*

Herodotus
The Histories

Thucydides
History of the Peloponnesian War*

Aristophanes
Birds
Clouds
Frogs
Lysistrata

Plato
Ion
Symposium
Georgias
Euthyphro
Apology
Crito
Phaedo
The Republic

Menander and Hellenistic Literature

Plutarch (Lecture 21: VI, VII, VIII)
Famous Men of Greece and Plutarch's Lives:
Lycurgus
Solon
Pisistratus
Militades
Leonides
Themistocles
Aristides
Cimon
Pericles
Alcibiades
Lysander
Socrates
The Best Things In Life (Kreeft)
Xenophon
Epaminondas and Pelopidas
Philip of Macedonia
Alexander (The Great)
Demosthenes
Aristotle, Zeno, Diogenes, and Apelles
Ethics*
Metaphysics*
Ptolemy
Pyrrhus
Cleomenes

HIPPOCRATES
Hippocratic Writings
The Oath
On Airs, Waters, Places

EUCLID
Elements of Geometry (Book 1)*

ARCHIMEDES
Archimedes and the Door to Science

ERATOSTHENES
The Librarian Who Measured the Earth

THE FALL OF GREECE