WELL- EDUCATED MIND A L S O B Y S U S A N W I S E B A U E R The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child (PEACE HILL PRESS) Volume I: Ancient Times (2002) Volume II:The Middle Ages (2003) Volume III: Early Modern Times (2003) Volume IV: The Modern World (2004) Though the Darkness Hide Thee (MULTNOMAH, 1998) The Revolt (WORD, 1996) W I T H J E S S I E W I S E The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home (W. W. NORTON, 1999) é£ WELL- EDUCATED MIND SUSAN WISE BAUER W. W. N O R T O N & C O M P A N Y N E W Y O R K / L O N D O N Copyright © 2003 by Susan Wise Bauer All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America First Edition Since this page cannot legibly accommodate all the copyright notices, pages 405-406 constitute an extension of the copyright page. For information about permission to reproduce selections from this book, write to Permissions,WW. Norton & Company, Inc., 500 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10110. Manufacturing by Phoenix Book Technology Park Book design by JAM Design Production manager: Julia Druskin Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Bauer, S.Wise The well-educated mind : a guide to the classical education you never had / Susan Wise Bauer.— 1st ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-393-05094-7 1. Books and reading. 2. Best books. 3. Reading. 4. Literature—History and criticism. 5. Self-culture. 6. Education, Humanistic. I. Title. Z1003.B324 2003 028' .9—dc2i 2003005090 W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 500 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10110 www.wwnorton.com W.W. Norton & Company Ltd., Castle House, 75/76 Wells Street, London WiT 3QT 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 For my mother who taught me to read, and my father who gave me all of his favorite books.