This one year course will prepare students ages 13 and up for the Great Books tutorials. Students will learn the historical and cultural context in which the ancient Greeks and Romans wrote, including the important people, places, authors, battles, and stories which influenced the authors and content of the Great Books course. The course also emphasizes how these cultures have shaped western civilization and how we should approach them as Christians.

 This course will provide weekly study questions to guide the students in their reading, as well as two required papers and two optional papers. The students will also memorize the prologues to the Iliad, Odyssey, and Aeneid (the epic poetry shaping the Greek and Roman cultures), and they will compose their own timelines at the end of each semester as well. 

The course will require about 30-45 minutes of study time per day (apart from class time) for most students.

Prerequisite: This course is for students 13 years old and older, as the minimum age for Great Books I is 14 years.

This is a two-hour class which meets once a week (the tutors are always available throughout the week via email, phone, and online message boards set up to give the students an opportunity to discuss the work together and with the tutors): 

Thursdays 8-9:50 am PST 

To register for the class, please email Emily Wells (registrar) at emily at artesian-wells.com