OFFERED 2026-2027

• 2026-2027 Time & Tuition:
  • 2026-2027 Academic Year
    • Mondays, 12:30 – 2:00 pm Eastern
    • Seminar with writing tutorial: $95 per month (10 months, August through May)
    • Seminar only: $80 per month (10 months, August through May)
    • THIS COURSE MAY ALSO BE TAKEN IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE WRITING III SUPPLEMENT AND ANCIENT LITERATURE – Please see the Writing III page for further information; combined tuition for all three courses is $245 per month (10 months, August through May)
• Location: Signal Mountain, Tennessee
• Grades: 9-12 AND 8th-grade strong readers
• Prerequisite for tutorial portion: Writing III
• Pairing: You can pair this course with Ancient Literature!
• Description: Students learn about the significance of the cultures of ancient Greece and Rome. In addition to studying the histories, governments, economics, wars, arts, and customs of these two civilizations, the course examines how these cultures influenced Western Civilization – particularly how they shaped the United States and its Constitution.
• Assessment:
  • All: Students must complete all readings and daily-work/commonplacing as well as oral exams.
  • Writing tutorial only: Each term, students compose one essay, one other written piece, and one project – choosing between an academic/artistic portfolio and a history-related handcraft. (Students in both history and literature courses only create one project per term.) In December and May, tutorial students participate in Defense Day by giving a brief presentation on one of their essays and responding to questions from the audience.
• POTENTIAL BOOK LIST – FINAL BOOK LIST WILL BE AVAILABLE MIDSUMMER: (Hard copies are required; recommended editions/translations are listed below)
  • Plutarch – Lives, Volume 1 (Recommended: Dryden translation/Modern Library, ISBN: 9780375756764)
  • Herodotus – Histories (Recommended: Strassler’s Landmark edition, ISBN: 9780375421099)
  • Thucydides – History of the Peloponnesian War (Recommended: Strassler’s Landmark edition, ISBN: 9780684827902)
  • Plato – Republic (Recommended: Bloom translation/Basic Books, ISBN: 9780465094080)
  • Plutarch – Lives, Volume 2 (Recommended: Dryden translation/Modern Library, ISBN: 9780375756771)
  • Livy – The Rise of Rome (Recommended: Luce translation/Oxford, ISBN: 9780199540044)
  • Polybius – The Rise of the Roman Empire (Recommended: Scott-Kilvert translation /Penguin classics, ASIN: B017YC9XCC)
  • Augustine – City of God (Recommended: Dods translation/Barnes and Noble [ISBN: 9780760779026] OR Modern Library [ISBN: 9780679600879])