Required Reading:

The Early Poets 

       -Hesiod: 1) Theogony (excerpt)

       - Who were the titans?

       -Homer: 1) A page on the Homeric gods

Document File of Introductory Session

A Later Poet
       -Sophocles: 1) Antigone

Plato's Republic

Questions for Plato's Republic Bks 3 and 4 (.doc)

Aristotle: NE Book III Literary Supplement on Dilemmas (.doc)

Aristotle on the Four Causes

St. Thomas Aquinas: Five ways to prove the existence of God
 
 

Help for the final essay:
COMPOSING AN ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY

Grading Guidelines for the argumentative essay
 

Not required, but you may be interested...
Hesiod: Theogony
Homer:  The Iliad