[Selections from the following works] -- The Iliad / Homer -- The Odyssey / Homer -- Oedipus rex / Sophocles -- History / Herodotus -- History of the Peloponnesian war / Thucydides -- The constituion of the Lacedaemonians / Xenophon -- Lysistrata / Aristophanes -- Phaedo / Plato -- The republic / Plato -- Nicomachean ethics / Aristotle -- Politics / Aristotle -- The history of Rome / Livy -- Lives : Marcus Cato / Plutarch -- De Legibus / Cicero -- The lives of the twelve Caesars : Augustus / Suetonius -- Odes / Horace -- The art of love / Ovid -- De rerum natura / Lucretius -- Satires : the third satire / Juvenal -- Thoughts / Marcus Aurelius -- Old testament / Marcus Aurelius -- New testament / Marcus Aurelius -- Letter CXXV / St. Jerome -- The city of God / St. Augustine.
