SCHOLA BOOKSTORE
2008-2009
SCHOLA BOOKSTORE
2008-2009
"It is far more seemly to have thy Studie full of Bookes, than thy Purse full of money."
--John Lyly, Euphues, 1578For information about Schola's online classes, visit the Online Tutorials Information page.
Required books for:
Great Books 1
Great Books 2
Great Books 3
Great Books 4
Rhetoric
Greek
History of the Christian Church
Essential Christian Doctrine
Basic Apologetics
Latin IV: Vulgate
2. If you wish to order through another source, click the title of the book you want and visit the Amazon page where you can find the ISBN. Then search another site with that ISBN.
3. "May I substitute other editions
or translations for those listed on the Great Books pages?" For
your child's sake, in general PLEASE DON'T,
except as indicated below in some of the lists.
In the case of those books below which are preceded by an asterisk it is particularly important not to substitute editions. However, in all cases I will assume that the students have the specified edition and will gauge page numbers and reading assignments, etc., to the specified edition. I cannot spend time finding the page numbers for other editions. I recognize that for financial reasons parents will often have their child use editions already available in the home. To help with costs, I try not to change editions from year to year without good reason, but sometimes I must in order to teach the book well.
*HOMER - Odyssey (Cook translation)
*HERODOTUS
- Histories (Landmark edition)
AESCHYLUS- Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, Eumenides (Grene and Lattimore trans.)
SOPHOCLES- Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (Grene and Lattimore trans.)
*THUCYDIDES- History of the Peloponnesian War (Landmark edition)
XENOPHON - The Persian Expedition (Rex Warner translation)
*LIVY-
History of Rome (de Selincourt translation)
SALLUST
- The Jugurthine War / The Conspiracy of Cataline
CAESAR
- The Conquest of Gaul
PLUTARCH-Lives of Noble Grecians and Romans, vol.2 (Dryden translation)
TACITUS- The Annals of Imperial Rome
SUETONIUS - The Twelve Caesars
EARLY CHRISTIAN FATHERS (Library of Christian Classics)
EUSEBIUS- The Church History (Maier translation)
ATHANASIUS- On the Incarnation (with introduction by C. S. Lewis)
GREAT BOOKS 3 required booksBENEDICT - The Rule of St. BenedictEARLY CHRISTIAN LIVES (Penguin Classics)
BEDE - Ecclesiastical History of the English People
EINHARD, NOTKER - Two Lives of Charlemagne
ASSER - Life of King Alfred (Penguin Classics)
ANSELM - Proslogium, Monologium, Cur Deus Homo
*GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH - History of the Kings of Britain
VILLEHARDOUIN; JOINVILLE - Chronicles of the Crusades
*DE VORAGINE - The Golden Legend
*DANTE - Divine Comedy: Inferno; Purgatory; Paradise (Dorothy Sayers translation: 3 separate paperback volumes; be sure you get all three)
GREAT BOOKS 4 required books
CALVIN - Institutes of the Christian Religion (This is the best edition and translation, and in a beautiful hardback. Also available on Amazon but more expensive. The older, but cheaper paperback Beveridge translation is acceptable)
THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER 1559: (The Elizabethan Prayer Book)
*SPENSER - The Faerie Queene
MILTON - Paradise Lost (the edition is not critical, but try to get one with line numbers)LOCKE- Second Treatise on Government
POPE - Essay on Man and Other Poems
DECLARATION OF INDEPENCE AND OTHER GREAT DOCUMENTS OF AMERICAN HISTORY (not required -- we will do all our study in these documents online. This link is simply for your interest, if you wish to have a print copy.)
ENGLISH ROMANTIC POETRY (not required -- we will do all our study in these documents online. This link is simply for your interest, if you wish to have a print copy.)
AUSTEN- Pride and Prejudice (any edition is satisfactory)
DICKENS- David Copperfield (any edition is satisfactory)
DARWIN- Origin of Species (any edition is satisfactory)
ENGLISH VICTORIAN POETRY (not requiredl -- we will do all our study in these documents online. This link is simply for your interest, if you wish to have a print copy.)
MARX- The Communist Manifesto (any edition is satisfactory)
HOW TO READ A BOOK (Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren)
PLATO: SIX GREAT DIALOGUES (Dover Thrift Edition)
THE ORATOR'S EDUCATION, Books I and II (These are together in one volume) (Quintilian)
ON THE SUBLIME (Longinus); ON STYLE (Demetrius) (These are together in one volume)
THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE (Strunk and White)
THE ART OF MEMORY (Frances Yates)
GREEK 1 and 2 required booksHOMERIC GREEK: A BOOK FOR BEGINNERS -- (Pharr; rev. ed. Wright)HOMERIC VOCABULARIES -- (Owen and Goodspeed)
Not required for the course, but highly recommended for your own use in further Homer reading:
HISTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH required books (linked to Christianbook.com. The same set is available on Amazon but at a much higher price.)
HISTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH (8 volumes)-- Philip Schaff
ESSENTIAL CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE required books
CREED OR CHAOS -- Dorothy Sayers (portions are given to students in class; not necessary to order)
BASIC APOLOGETICS required books
MERE CHRISTIANITY -- C. S. LewisKNOW WHY YOU BELIEVE -- Paul Little
ALWAYS READY: DIRECTIONS FOR DEFENDING THE FAITH -- Greg Bahnsen
LATIN IV: VULGATE required books
PRIMER OF ECCLESIASTICAL LATIN -- John Collins
Not required but recommended:
BIBLIA SACRA VULGATA (Vulgate Bible)
ANSWER KEY TO PRIMER OF ECCLESIASTICAL LATIN