THE GREAT BOOKS LIST
A Progressive Exploration of the Great Books
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The List Era of Reformation and Rennaisance "We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are" Harold Bloom
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Other Great Books Lists
- Gilgamesh
- Egyptian Book of the Dead
- Holy Bible (King James Version)
- The Apocrypha
- Sayings of the Fathers (Pirke Aboth)
- Mahabharata
- Bhagavad-Gita
- Ramayana
- Homer Iliad ,Odyssey
- Hesiod Works and Days , Theogony
- Archilochos, Sappho, Alkman
- Pindar Odes
- Aeschylus Oresteia, Seven Against Thebes, Prometheus Bound ,Persians, Suppliant Women
- Sophocles, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone, Electra, Ajax, Women of Trachis, Philoctetes
- Euripides Cyclops, Heracles, Alcestis, Hecub, Bacchae, Orestes, Andromache, Medea, Ion, Hippolytus, Helen, Iphigenia at Aulis
- Aristophanes, The Birds, The Clouds, The Frogs, Lysistrata, The Knights, The Wasps, The Assemblywomen
- Herodotus The Histories
- Thucydides The Peloponnesian Wars
- The Pre-Socratics (Heraclitus, Empedocles)
- Plato, Dialogues
- Aristotle Poetics, Ethics
- Menander The Girl from Samos
- "Longinus" On the Sublime
- Callimachus Hymns and Epigrams
- Theocritus Idylls
- Plutarch Lives, Moralia
- "Aesop" Fables
- Lucian Satires
- Plautus Pseudolus, The Braggart Soldier, The Rope, Amphitryon
- Terence The Girl from Andros, The Eunuch, The Mother-in-Law
- Lucretius The Way Things Are
- Cicero On the Gods
- Horace Odes, Epistles, Satires
- Persius Satires
- Catullus Attis and Other Poems
- Virgil Aeneid, Eclogues, Georgics
- Lucan Pharsalia
- Ovid Metamorphoses, The Art of Love, Heroides
- Juvenal Satires
- Martial Epigrams
- Seneca Tragedies, particularly Medea and Hercules Furens
- Petronius Satyricon
- Apuleius The Golden Ass
- Saint Augustine City of God ,Confessions
- The Koran (Al-Qur'an)
- The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night
- The Poetic Edda
- Snorri Sturluson The Prose Edda
- The Nibelungen Lied
- Wolfram von Eschenbach Parzival
- Chrétien de Troyes Yvain: The Knight of the Lion
- Beowulf
- The Poem of the Cid
- Christine de Pisan The Book of the City of Ladies
- Diego de San Pedro Prison of Love
The Western Canon: The Theocratic Age. Harold Bloom
The Ancient Near East
Ancient India (Sanskrit)
The Ancient Greeks
Hellenistic Greeks
The Romans
The Middle Ages: Latin, Arabic, and the Vernacular Before Dante