***the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Aeneid,***
Three of my favorite books along with Herodotus’ HISTORIES.
I have Herodotus, too, in a hefty Barnes and Noble bargain paperback. Also Ovid’s “Metamorphoses” and a translation of Xenophon’s “Anabasis” that manages to make it more like an adventure than a quartermaster’s journal.
My school heavily emphasizes literature, history and biography, because that’s what I like. It’s worked out well so far, although we’re usually playing catch-up with math ;-). I figure it’s all good, as long as they can do algebra well in time for the PSAT.