I cannot°hard word endorse°hard word the St°hard word. John's°hard word College°hard word approach°hard word (all college°hard word students°hard word, for all 4 years, in the same curriculum°hard word, largely based°hard word around reading of >100 year old works). But it is interesting enough (and for some students°hard word, effective°hard word enough) that I also have no interest in arguing°hard word against it.
I am also not°hard word sure if the work selection is better or worse than similar lists, such as°hard word the 1952 Great Books of the Western°hard word World°hard word series°hard word.
But, as°hard word a reference°hard word, here is the first-year°hard word curriculum°hard word.
https://www.sjc.edu/application/files/4115/4810/0934/St_Johns_College_Great_Books_Reading_List.pdf
Homer°hard word: Iliad°hard word, Odyssey°hard word
Aeschylus°hard word: Agamemnon°hard word, Libation°hard word Bearers°hard word, Eumenides°hard word, Prometheus°hard word Bound°hard word
Sophocles°hard word: Oedipus°hard word Rex°hard word, Oedipus°hard word at Colonus°hard word, Antigone°hard word, Philoctetes°hard word, Ajax°hard word
Thucydides°hard word: Peloponnesian°hard word War
Euripides°hard word: Hippolytus°hard word, Bacchae°hard word
Herodotus°hard word: Histories
Aristophanes°hard word: Clouds
Plato°hard word: Meno°hard word, Gorgias°hard word, Republic°hard word, Apology°hard word, Crito°hard word, Phaedo°hard word, Sym°hard wordposium°hard word, Parmenides°hard word, Theaetetus°hard word, Sophist°hard word, Timaeus°hard word, Phaedrus°hard word
Aristotle°hard word: Poetics°hard word, Physics, Metaphysics°hard word, Nicomachean°hard word Ethics°hard word, On Generation°hard word and Corruption°hard word, Politics°hard word, Parts of Animals, Generation°hard word of Animals
Euclid°hard word: Elements°hard word
Lucretius°hard word: On the Nature of Things
Plutarch°hard word: “Lycurgus°hard word,” “Solon°hard word”
Ptolemy°hard word: Almagest°hard word
Pascal°hard word: Treatise°hard word on the Equilibrium°hard word of Liquids
Nicomachus°hard word: Arithmetic°hard word
Lavoisier°hard word: Elements°hard word of Chemistry
Harvey°hard word: Motion of the Heart and Blood
Essays°hard word by: Archimedes°hard word, Fahrenheit, Avogadro°hard word, Dalton°hard word, Cannizzaro°hard word, Virchow°hard word, Mariotte°hard word, Driesch°hard word, Gay-Lussac°hard word, Spemann°hard word, Stears°hard word, J.J. Thomson°hard word, Mendeleyev°hard word, Berthollet°hard word, J.L. Proust°hard word