Revision as of 2016 June
by MJ. Smith
Reading Check Lists for Major Series: Great Books of the Western World
Reading List
Great Books of the Western World
- These books are listed in the sequence they appear in the series; links will be added when available. The idea is simply for one to be able to check off a book as read rather than to supply dates or sequence. In some cases the original language addition or alternative translations may also be given.
Homer
- The Iliad
- The Odyssey
Aeschylus (translated into English verse by G.M. Cookson)
- The Suppliant Maidens
- The Persians
- Seven Against Thebes
- Prometheus Bound
The Oresteia
- Agamemnon
- Choephoroe
- The Eumenides
Sophocles (translated into English prose by Sir Richard C. Jebb)
The Oedipus Cycle
- Oedipus the King
- Oedipus at Colonus
- Antigone
- Ajax
- Electra
- The Trachiniae
- Philoctetes
Euripides (translated into English prose by Edward P. Coleridge)
- Rhesus
- Medea
- Hippolytus
- Alcestis
- Heracleidae
- The Suppliants
- Trojan Women
- Ion
- Helen
- Andromache
- Electra
- Bacchantes
- Hecuba
- Heracles Mad
- Phoenician Women
- Orestes
- Iphigeneia in Tauris
- Iphigeneia at Aulis
- Cyclops
Aristophanes (translated into English verse by Benjamin Bickley Rogers)
- The Acharnians
- The Knights
- The Clouds
- The Wasps
- Peace
- The Birds
- The Frogs
- Lysistrata
- Thesmophoriazusae
- Ecclesiazousae
- Plutus
Herodotus
- The History (translated by George Rawlinson)
Thucydides
- History of the Peloponnesian War (translated by Richard Crawley and revised by R. Feetham)
Plato
The Dialogues (translated by Benjamin Jowett)
- Charmides
- Lysis
- Laches
- Protagoras
- Euthydemus
- Cratylus
- Phaedrus
- Ion
- Symposium
- Meno
- Euthyphro
- Apology
- Crito
- Phaedo
- Gorgias
- The Republic
- Timaeus
- Critias
- Parmenides
- Theaetetus
- Sophist
- Statesman
- Philebus
- Laws
- The Seventh Letter (translated by J. Harward)
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