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<p>Well, it isn't exactly all classics, but it definitely integrates them thoroughly in the Great Books curriculum. It's a great place, and really intense. It's not for everyone but for those who it is for, they love it and wouldn't want to be elsewhere.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.stjohnscollege.edu/asp/home.aspx%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.stjohnscollege.edu/asp/home.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p><a href="http://www.stjohnscollege.edu/asp/main.aspx?page=1003%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.stjohnscollege.edu/asp/main.aspx?page=1003&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Here's some of the reading list</p>

<p>FRESHMAN YEAR</p>

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HOMER: Iliad, Odyssey
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AESCHYLUS: Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, Eumenides, Prometheus Bound
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SOPHOCLES: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone, Philoctetes
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THUCYDIDES: Peloponnesian War
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EURIPIDES: Hippolytus, Bacchae
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HERODOTUS: Histories
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ARISTOPHANES: Clouds
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PLATO: Meno, Gorgias, Republic, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Symposium, Parmenides, Theatetus, Sophist, Timaeus, Phaedrus
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ARISTOTLE: Poetics, Physics, Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, On Generation and Corruption, Politics, Parts of Animals, Generation of Animals
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EUCLID: Elements
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LUCRETIUS: On the Nature of Things
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PLUTARCH: Lycurgus, Solon
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NICOMACHUS: Arithmetic
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LAVOISIER: Elements of Chemistry
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HARVEY: Motion of the Heart and Blood
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Essays by: Archimedes, Fahrenheit, Avogadro, Dalton, Cannizzaro, Virchow, Mariotte, Driesch, Gay-Lussac, Spemann, Stears, J.J. Thompson, Mendeleyev, Berthollet, J.L. Proust
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<p>You also take four years of language. (I think you choose between Greek or Latin)</p>

<p><a href="http://www.stjohnscollege.edu/asp/main.aspx?page=1302%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.stjohnscollege.edu/asp/main.aspx?page=1302&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p><a href="http://historyweb.ucsd.edu///ClassicalStud.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://historyweb.ucsd.edu///ClassicalStud.html&lt;/a> is the link to UCSD classics.</p>