Description: This course will focus on readings in literature, philosophy, history, and religion that have been instrumental in shaping Western thought throughout the centuries. Students will study and discuss Homer's Iliad, Euripides' Medea, selections from Thucydides, Plato's Republic, selections from the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, Virgil's The Aeneid, Augustine's Confessions, and Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.