If your student used Susan's Ancient World book

[Quiver0f10]

would you happen to have a list of the lit books you read that year? :D

[Michelle in MO]

I've read parts of The History of the Ancient World but we didn't use it for homeschooling. We did Omnibus I instead.

However, to answer your question, there are 5 parts and 85 chapters!

Part 1: The Edge of History

Part 2: Firsts

Part 3: Struggle

Part 4: Empires

Part 5: Identity

The chapters don't look excessively long: on the average, they seem to be about 10-12 pages per chapter. There are a total of 777 pages in the book.

I hope this helps to get you started, Jean!

[Faithr]

Here is the list of lit books we are contemplating using next year for a teen co-op using Ancient History of the World as the history spine:

Book of Job
Epic of Gilgamesh
The Iliad
The Odyssey
A Greek Tragedy
A Greek Comedy
Excerpts from The Republic by Plato
Excerpts from Poetics by Aristotle
Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars by Olivia Coolidge
Virgil's Aeneid
Acts of the Apostles
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (excerpts)
Confessions by Augustine

This is still in the planning stages so things could shift. If we don't get to Confessions this year we'll begin next year with them.

[Quiver0f10]

Thank you, both.

[Liza Q]

We used it with the Smarr Ancient Lit program, plus several chapters from Spielvogel.

[Cindy in Indy]

We read HAW to go with Omnibus I. Here are the literature selections from Omnibus I that we read:
Genesis
Gilgamesh
Code of Hammurabi
Odyssey
*Herodotus (book 1)
Oresteia (Agamemnon only)
*Plutarch (several lives)
Oedipus the King
*Livy (books 1&2)
Isaiah
Aeneid
Screwtape Letters (doesn't fit with "ancients")
*12 Caesars (selections)
Romans
Julius Caesar (Shakespeare play)
Holiness of God (doesn't fit with "ancients")

*these works are more "history" than "literature", but sometimes the line is blurry with the ancients.

One book I would definitely add is Homer's Iliad. The Aeneid (and many more books down the road) is so much richer if you know the Iliad. And boys love the battles!

Cindy in Indy

[Quiver0f10]

Thanks again!