part 1. disc 1. Lecture 1. Seneca, On providence ; Lecture 2. The gospel of John ; Lecture 3. Boethius/Martin Luther King/Conscience ; Lecture 4. Dostoevsky, The brothers Karamazov ; Lecture 5. Elie Wiesel, Night -- Lecture 6. Schweitzer, Out of my life and thought ; disc 2. Lecture 7. Goethe, The sufferings of young Werther ; Lecture 8. Shakespeare, Hamlet ; Lecture 9. Sophocles, Ajax ; Lecture 10. Plato, Epistle VII ; Lecture 11. Cicero, On old age ; Lecture 12. Isaac Bashevis singer, The penitent --

part 2. disc 3. Lecture 13. Euripides, Alcestis ; Lecture 14. Euripides, Medea ; Lecture 15. Von Strasburg, Tristan and Isolde ; Lecture 16. Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra ; Lecture 17. Shakespeare, Macbeth ; Lecture 18. Aldous Huxley, Brave new world ; disc 4. Lecture 19. Homer, Odyssey ; Lecture 20. Sophocles, Philoctetes ; Lecture 21. The song of Roland, chivalric adventure ; Lecture 22. Nibelungenlied, chivalric romance ; Lecture 23. Lewis and Clark, journals ; Lecture 24. T.E. Lawrence, Seven pillars of wisdom --

part 3. disc 5. Lectures 25. Aristophanes, comedies ; Lecture 26. Menaner, The grouch ; Lecture 27. Machiavelli, La mandragola ; Lecture 28. Erasmus, In praise of folly ; Lecture 29. Thomas More, Utopia ; Lecture 30. George Orwell, Animal farm ; disc 6. Lecture 31. Josephus, History of the Jewish War ; Lecture 32. Joseph Addison, Cato ; Lecture 33. George Washington, farewell address ; Lecture 34. Abraham Lincoln, George Patton, war ; Lecture 35. Theodore Roosevelt, an autobiography ; Lecture 36. The wisdom of great books.