The History, Herodotus
What kind of government do the Persians actually want?
Pericles' Funeral Oration, Thucydides
Why being an Athenian is really awesome
Crito, Socrates
I should just be executed now because it furthers the good
Republic, Plato
How government all degenerate and why we should have a philosopher king
Politics, Aristotle
How government naturally formed, and the virtues rulers need
Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle
Everyone should seek the good in contemplation
I Maccabees
Antiochus overruns Jerusalem and the Jews need to do something about his bogus multicultualism
Letter to Menoeceus, Epicurus
Let's all hang out in a garden and not be scared about death
Discourses, Epictetus
Stoicism, align one's self with natural law
Histories, Polybius
How does the Roman Republic work exactly?
Marcus Cato, Plutach
Cato showed virtue
On Duties, Cicero
You really need to show virtue to truly be a Roman
Res Gestae Divi Augusti, Augustus
Why I should be emperor
Neo, Seutonius
Why he shouldn't be emperor
Meditations, Aurelius
Finding Roman virtues again
Institues, Justinian I
Explaining what Roman law actually is
Prescriptions Against Heetics, Tertullian
What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?
Life of Constantine, Eusebius
I'm trying to suck up to the emperor by making it sound like he's Jesus
CIty of God, Augustine
Rome will fall, but God won't
Benedictine Rule, Benedict
Obey the abbot
Ecclesiastical History of the English People, Bede
England became the poster child for people who weren't very good at their jobs
Life of Charlemagne, Einhard
Not sucking up, Charlemagne actually was a good guy
Laws, Alfred
Codifying customs
Investiture Controversy, Henry IV, Gregory VII
You can't un-pope the Pope and expect him not to have a response
Magna Carta, John I
a document limiting tyranny
On Kingship, Aquinas
Theology of the body
On His Own Ignorance, Petrarch
I'm not a scholastic and that's really okay
Political Theory, Machiavelli
The prince can do whatever he wants
Address to the Christian Nobility, Luther
Christians must depend on God, the Church is not infallible
On Christian Liberty, Luther
Freedom through faith alone
The Twelve Articles
What it means for our community to be Lutheran
Institutes, Calvin
Not righteous by the law, righteous by faith
Ecclesiastical ordinances, Calvin
running the new, reformed Geneva
The Thirty-Nine Articles
Constitution of the Church of England
Canons and Decrees
Talking past the protestants
Aphorisms, Bacon
We can never learn anything new unless we throw out everything old
Leviathan, Hobbs
Bad government is better than no government
Second Treatise on Civil Government, Locke
Bad government is still bad government