Dear Students,
During the semester you are exposed to a list of readings and assignments. But while you are trying to figure out the hidden secrets, messages and lessons out of the text, you may face the truth that you have to do a more complex reading in order to analyze the literal work.
The most common insipiratons are definitely driven from Roman and Greek classics.
Here is a list of readings that I recommend (for freshman and sophomores) you to read before the new semester:
1. The Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus
- Oedipus is important for the theory on the Oedipus Complex.
- Antigone is important for civil disobedience, gender and familial ties.
2. The Odyssey, by Homer
- Odysseus’s journey back to Ithaka, all about "human motivation"
3. Metamorphoses by Ovid
- best-known myths and legends of ancient Greece and Rome (including Icarus)
- influenced writers and artists throughout the centuries from Shakespeare and Titian to Picasso and Ted Hughes.
4. Theogony by Hesiod
- first Greek mythical cosmogony
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