The Honors Institute reading list is at the core of the Honors seminar discussions and features a range of great texts from antiquity to the modern era. The reading list is assembled each semester by the Honors faculty and covers foundational works of theology, philosophy, history, political science, literature, natural science, and psychology. In addition to the study of great texts, Honors faculty incorporate great works of music and visual art as objects of study.
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![The Iliad book cover](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Iliad.png?fit=302%2C466&ssl=1)
![Aeschylus - book cover](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Aeschylus.png?fit=300%2C466&ssl=1)
![Sophocles - book cover](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Sophocles.png?fit=308%2C480&ssl=1)
![Euripides - book cover](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Euripides.png?fit=308%2C480&ssl=1)
![Aristophanes - book cover](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Aristophanes.png?fit=300%2C466&ssl=1)
![Herodotus - book cover](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Herodotus.png?fit=314%2C488&ssl=1)
![Plato - book cover](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Plato.png?fit=296%2C460&ssl=1)
![Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle - book cover](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Aristotle.png?fit=332%2C524&ssl=1)
![Poetics by Aristotle - book cover](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Aristotle-Poetics.png?fit=296%2C460&ssl=1)
![Cover of The Holy Bible ESV](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/9781433521539_p0_v4_s1200x630.jpg?fit=413%2C630&ssl=1)
![Book cover - The Aeneid by Virgil, translated by Robert Fitzgerald](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Virgil.png?fit=282%2C440&ssl=1)
![Book cover - The Metamorphosis by Ovid](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Ovid.jpg?fit=264%2C410&ssl=1)
![Book cover - The Apostolic Fathers in English third edition - Michael W. Holmes](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Apostolic-Fathers.png?fit=264%2C372&ssl=1)
![Book cover - Plutarch's Lives, volume 1](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Plutarch-1.png?fit=264%2C412&ssl=1)
![Book cover - Plutarch's Lives, volume 2](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Plutarch-2.png?fit=264%2C412&ssl=1)
![Book cover - The Handbook by Epictetus](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Epictetus.png?fit=264%2C380&ssl=1)
![Book cover - Agricola and Germania by Tacitus](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Tactius.jpg?fit=264%2C408&ssl=1)
![Book cover - The Metamorphosis by Ovid](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Ovid.jpg?fit=264%2C410&ssl=1)
![Book cover - On the Incarnation by St. Athanasius](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Athanasius.jpg?fit=264%2C382&ssl=1)
![On God and Christ by St. Gregory](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/St-Gregory.png?fit=264%2C412&ssl=1)
![Confessions by St. Augustine](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Augustine-Conf.png?fit=264%2C412&ssl=1)
![Book cover - City of God by St. Augustine](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Augustine-City.jpg?fit=264%2C412&ssl=1)
![Book cover - The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Boethius.png?fit=264%2C424&ssl=1)
![Book cover - The Rule of St. Benedict in English](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/St-Benedict.png?fit=264%2C412&ssl=1)
![Book cover - Three Treatises on the Divine Images by St. John of Damascus](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Three-Treaties.jpg?fit=264%2C382&ssl=1)
![Cover of The Holy Bible ESV](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/9781433521539_p0_v4_s1200x630.jpg?fit=413%2C630&ssl=1)
![Book cover - the Qur'an](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Queran.png?fit=322%2C500&ssl=1)
![Book cover - Beowulf](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Beowulf.png?fit=384%2C602&ssl=1)
![Book cover - Arthurian Romances by Chretien de Troyes](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Arthurian-Romances.jpg?fit=390%2C602&ssl=1)
![Book cover - Averroes's Decisive Treatise & Epistle Dedicatory](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Decisive-Treatise.png?fit=402%2C602&ssl=1)
![Book cover - Aquinas on Nature and Grace](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Aquinas-Grace.png?fit=386%2C602&ssl=1)
![Book cover - Dante's Inferno](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Dante-Inferno.jpg?fit=388%2C602&ssl=1)
![Book cover - Dante's Purgatory](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Dante-Puruatory.jpg?fit=390%2C602&ssl=1)
![Book cover - Dante's Paradise](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Dante-Paradise.jpg?fit=390%2C602&ssl=1)
![Book cover - The Poetry of Petrarch](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Petrarch.jpg?fit=200%2C300&ssl=1)
![Book cover - Canterbury Tales by Chaucer](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Canterbury.jpg?fit=400%2C602&ssl=1)
![Book cover - Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Julian-of-Norwich.png?fit=386%2C602&ssl=1)
![Book cover - The Book of the City of Ladies and Other Writings by Christine de Pizan](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Book-of-the-City-of-Ladies.png?fit=396%2C602&ssl=1)
![Book cover - The Prince by Niccolo Machiavilli](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Machiavelli.jpg?fit=392%2C602&ssl=1)
![The Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Praise-of-Folly.jpg?fit=380%2C588&ssl=1)
![Book cover - on the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres by Nicolaus Copernicus](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Copernicus.png?fit=386%2C602&ssl=1)
![Book cover - Three Treaties by Martin Luther](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Luther.png?fit=386%2C602&ssl=1)
![Book Cover - Institutes of the Christian Religion by John Calvin](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Calvin.png?fit=380%2C602&ssl=1)
![Cover of The Holy Bible ESV](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/9781433521539_p0_v4_s1200x630.jpg?fit=413%2C630&ssl=1)
![Book cover - Sir Philip Sidney, The Major Works](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Philip-Sidney.jpg?fit=180%2C274&ssl=1)
![Book cover - The Norton Shakespeare](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Shakespeare.png?fit=386%2C602&ssl=1)
![Book cover - The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/John-Donne.png?fit=386%2C602&ssl=1)
![Book cover - Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Don-Quixote.jpg?fit=396%2C602&ssl=1)
![Book cover - Meditations on First Philosophy by Descartes](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Descartes.png?fit=386%2C602&ssl=1)
![Book cover - Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems by Galileo Galilei](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Galileo.png?fit=386%2C602&ssl=1)
![Book cover - Pensées by Blaise Pascal](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Pascal.jpg?fit=800%2C1258&ssl=1)
![Book cover - An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/John-Locke.png?fit=386%2C602&ssl=1)
![Book cover - Principia by Sir. Isaac Newton](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Newton.png?fit=386%2C602&ssl=1)
![Book cover - An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding and other works by David Hume](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/David-Hume.png?fit=386%2C602&ssl=1)
![Book cover - Paradise Lost by John Milton](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Milton.png?fit=386%2C602&ssl=1)
![Book cover - The Sermons of Jonathan Edwards](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Jonathan-Edwards.png?fit=386%2C602&ssl=1)
![Book cover - John Wesley's Sermons](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/John-Wesley.png?fit=386%2C602&ssl=1)
![Book cover - Second Treatise of Government by John Locke](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/John-Locke-Second-Treatise.png?fit=356%2C602&ssl=1)
![Book cover - The Spirit of the Laws by Montesquieu](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Montesquieu.png?fit=386%2C602&ssl=1)
![Book cover - the Federalist and Anit-Federalist Papers](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Federalist-Papers.png?fit=386%2C602&ssl=1)
![Cover of The Holy Bible ESV](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/9781433521539_p0_v4_s1200x630.jpg?fit=413%2C630&ssl=1)
![Book cover - Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Immanuel-Kant.png?fit=354%2C552&ssl=1)
![Book cover - Wordsworth and Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Wordsworth-Coleridge.png?fit=386%2C602&ssl=1)
![Book cover - Introduction to The Philosophy of History by G.W.F. Hegel](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Hegel.png?fit=386%2C602&ssl=1)
![Book cover - Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Jane-Austen.png?fit=386%2C602&ssl=1)
![Book cover - Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/de-Tocqueville.png?fit=386%2C602&ssl=1)
![Book cover - Fear and Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Kierkegaard.png?fit=386%2C602&ssl=1)
![Book cover - The Portable Frederick Douglass](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Frederick-Douglass.png?fit=386%2C602&ssl=1)
![Book cover - Karl Marx, Selected Writings](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Karl-Marx.png?fit=374%2C602&ssl=1)
![Book cover - The Major Works of Alfred Tennyson](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Tennyson.png?fit=386%2C602&ssl=1)
![Book cover - Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Lincoln-Douglas.png?fit=386%2C602&ssl=1)
![Book cover - Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Tolstoy.png?fit=386%2C602&ssl=1)
![Book cover - Beyond Good and Evil and On the Genealogy of Morality by Friedrich Nietzsche](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Nietzsche.png?fit=386%2C602&ssl=1)
![Book cover - T.S. Eliot, Collected Poems 1909-1962](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/TS-Eliot.png?fit=386%2C602&ssl=1)
![Book cover - Civilization and its Discontents by Sigmund Freud](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Freud.png?fit=386%2C602&ssl=1)
![Book cover - Winston S. Churchill, The Second World War, vol. 1 - The Gathering Storm](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Churchill-Gathering-Storm.png?fit=386%2C602&ssl=1)
![Book cover - Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Bonhoeffer.png?fit=386%2C602&ssl=1)
![Book cover - Flannery O'Connor, The Complete Stories](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Flannery-OConnor.png?fit=386%2C602&ssl=1)
![Book cover - Strength to Love by Martin Luther King, Jr.](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Martin-Luther-King.png?fit=386%2C602&ssl=1)
![Cover of The Holy Bible ESV](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/9781433521539_p0_v4_s1200x630.jpg?fit=413%2C630&ssl=1)
![Book cover - The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Tolkien.png?fit=386%2C602&ssl=1)
![Book cover - East of Eden by John Steinbeck](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Steinbeck.png?fit=386%2C602&ssl=1)
![Book cover - Gregory of Nyssa, The Life of Moses](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-Life-of-Moses.png?fit=386%2C602&ssl=1)
![Book cover - Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes by John Milton](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Paradise-Regained.png?fit=386%2C602&ssl=1)
![Book cover - Absalom, Absalom by William Faulkner](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Faulkner.png?fit=388%2C602&ssl=1)
![Book cover - The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Chesterton.png?fit=386%2C602&ssl=1)
![Book cover - Theodicy by G.W. Leibniz](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Theodicy.png?fit=386%2C602&ssl=1)
![Book cover - Anselm, Basic Writings](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Anselm.png?fit=386%2C602&ssl=1)
![Book cover - The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Dostoevsky.png?fit=386%2C602&ssl=1)
![Book cover - The Norton Shakespeare](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Shakespeare.png?fit=386%2C602&ssl=1)
![Book cover - Les Miserables by Victor Hugo](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Victor-Hugo.png?fit=386%2C602&ssl=1)
![Book cover - The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis](https://i0.wp.com/www.erskine.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Lewis-Narnia.png?fit=386%2C602&ssl=1)