Ideals of Citizenship

Thucydides: “Pericles’s Funeral Oration”

Tacitus Agricola

 Consitutional Forms and their virtues

Aristotle Politics Book I, 1-2; Book II, 1-2; Book III, 6-13; Book IV, 11-13

Polybius Histories of Polybius

Problems of Founding

Livy The Early History of Rome, Book I, chapter 1-22–

What is Justice? 

Plato Euthyphro, Crito, Apology 

What is Justice?

Plato Republic

Themes in Plato’s Republic 

Persuasion versus Knowledge

Thucydides  The Plague, Nicias’s Letter

Plato Gorgias

Realism vs. Idealism

Thucydides  The Melian Dialogue

Plato Gorgias

Republics in Constitutional Crisis

Cicero In Catilinium

Sallust  Conspiracy of Catiline