Discussions Led by ClassicalU Presenters
New for Fall 2019, join us for a live, online book discussion led by one of our ClassicalU presenters. Free to ClassicalU subscribers!
September 16 to November 18 (8 sessions)
Thucydides’s History of the Peloponnesian War
(Preferred edition is The Landmark Thucydides, ed. Robert B. Strassler.)
with Dr. Christopher Schlect
Mondays, 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. EST
Discussions Led by Graduates and Students of the Master’s Program at St. John’s College
See our full list below of 14 live, online book discussions for Fall 2019. Free to ClassicalU subscribers!
(See bottom of page for additional details and to learn more about the master’s program at St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland.)
September 18 to November 20
Augustine’s Confessions
with Patrick Corry
Wednesdays, 5:45 to 6:45 p.m. EST
September 16 to November 18
(Subject to change depending on how the pacing works for participants)
Euclid’s Elements (Book 1)
with Toni Lambert
Mondays, 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. EST
September 17 to October 8
Aristotle’s Politics
with Jeremy Sheeler
Tuesdays, 7:15 to 8:15 p.m. EST
September 18 to November 20
Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
with Patrick Burley
Wednesdays, 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. EST
September 16 to November 25
Plato’s Republic
with Sean Hutzell
Mondays, 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. EST
October 17 to November 21
Apology of Socrates by Plato and by Xenophon
with Toni Lambert
Thursdays, 8:00 to 9:00 p.m. EST
October 1 to November 5
Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France
(Oxford World’s Classics paperback edition, ed. L.G. Mitchell, as well as any text of Burke’s “Speech on Conciliation with America”)
with Jeremy Sheeler
Tuesdays, 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. EST
September 25 to October 23
Hobbes’s Leviathan
with Nicole Corbo
Wednesdays, 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. EST
October 30 to November 20
Tocqueville’s Democracy in America
with Nicole Corbo
Wednesdays, 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. EST
November 5 to November 26
Bacon’s New Organon and The New Atlantis
with Jeremy Sheeler
Tuesdays, 7:15 to 8:15 p.m. EST
September 17 to October 15
Descartes’s Discourse on Method
with Toni Lambert
Tuesdays, 8:00 to 9:00 p.m. EST
October 22 to November 19
Descartes’s Meditations on First Philosophy
with Toni Lambert
Tuesdays, 8:00 to 9:00 p.m. EST
Additional Details
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Free and limited to subscribers on ClassicalU.com (subscription pricing here)
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Closed at 12 participants per book (with 2 sign-ups required to open any discussion)
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4 to 10 sessions per book (see individual sign-up pages for full schedules)
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Live video-conferencing sessions via Zoom (with video and audio recordings available afterward)
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When signing up, please plan to participate in as many discussion sessions as possible.
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Unless specifically noted, any translation or edition of the selected text is acceptable.
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More specific reading assignment details available from discussion leaders upon sign-up
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Discussion leaders may choose to read excerpts of larger works as well as assign entire works that are short enough to cover and discuss.
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In case of emergencies, discussion leaders will coordinate the rescheduling of any missed sessions with as many participants as feasible.
The Master of Arts in Liberal Arts program at the Graduate Institute of St. John’s College (Maryland and New Mexico) provides a comprehensive, 4-semester, postgraduate education in Great Books (which may be completed in 4 summers). Whether you are right out of college, concluding a successful career, or somewhere in the middle, this program welcomes sustained engagement, reflection, and interaction through rigorous seminar discussion. A 2-summer, fully accredited Liberal Arts Education Certificate is also available. See the reading lists and FAQs for more information.