Humanitas: Ancient Greece Program

About this curriculum

Unlike most contemporary approaches to history, which reflect the fashions and biases of the fleeting present, Humanitas offers students something more substantial. Following C.S. Lewis’ stout defense of reading primary sources in “On the Reading of Old Books,” Humanitas will help “persuade the young that firsthand knowledge is not only more worth acquiring than secondhand knowledge, but it is usually much easier and more delightful to acquire.” Geared towards history, humanities, and humane letters courses, the Humanitas series offers a continuous, unfolding narrative of Western Civilization through a collection of carefully curated primary source documents. Please note: some or all texts in this program are currently available for pre-order only. Full program includes: Humanitas: Ancient Greece Beginning with the mythic past and moving into the concrete particulars of history, Humanitas Ancient Greece Book 1 will take the reader to the origins of the ancient Greeks. Homer and Hesiod help shape the Greek consciousness, offering later generations of Greeks distinct notions of what it means to be Greek…