From the Grecian matrix:
Statue of Zeus (or Poseidon)—great bronze statue
Nike of Samothrace (a “headless” woman statue also known as the “Winged Victory”—great!)
Laocoon and his sons (in the Vatican Museum)
Pericles’ funeral oration for dead Athenian heroes
Sophocles: Oedipus Rex (Oedipus the King)
Plato: “Allegory of the Cave” from The Republic (an amazing work on politics)
Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics, Books I and VIII
From the Roman matrix:
Augustus of Primaporta (statue)
Pont du Gard (a phenomenal Roman aqueduct [water carrier] in southern France
Colosseum (Rome)
House of the Vetti in Pompeii (the city destroyed by Vesuvius in AD/CD 79)
Cicero: “On Duty”
Vitruvius: “Principles of Symmetry”
Livy: “The Rape of Lucretia”
St. Paul: selections from Romans
Pliny the Younger: correspondence with the Emperor Trajan
The Suffering (or “Passion”) of Saints Perpetua and Felicity
The Nicene Creed
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