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 (Richmond Lattimore)
- The Odyssey (Richmond Lattimore)
Aeschylus
- The Suppliant Maidens (Seth G. Benardete)
- The Persians (Seth G. Benardete)
- Seven Against Thebes (David Grene)
- Prometheus Bound (David Grene)
The Oresteia
- Agamemnon (Richmond Lattimore)
- The Libation Bearers (Richmond Lattimore)
- The Eumenides (Richmond Lattimore)
Sophocles
The Oedipus Cycle
- Oedipus the King (David Grene)
- Oedipus at Colonus (Robert Fitzgerald)
- Antigone (Elizabeth Wyckoff)
- Ajax (John Moore
- Electra (David Grene)
- The Women of Trachis (Michael Jameson)
- Philoctetes (David Grene)
Euripides
- Rhesus (Richmond Lattimore)
- The Medea (Rex Warner)
- Hippolytus (David Grene)
- Alcestis (Richmond Lattimore)
- The Heracleiadae (Ralph Gladstone)
- The Suppliant Women (Frank William Jones)
- The Trojan Women (Richmond Lattimore)
- Ion (Ronald Frederick Willetts)
- Helen (Richmond Lattimore
- Andromache (John Frederick Nims)
- Electra ( Emily Townsend Vermeule)
- The Bacchae (William Arrowsmith)
- Hecuba (William Arrowsmith)
- Heracles (William Arrowsmith)
- The Phoenician Women (Elizabeth Wyckoff)
- Orestes (William Arrowsmith)
- Iphigenia in Tauris (Witter Bynner)
- Iphigenia in Aulis (Charles R. Walker)
- The Cyclops (William Arrowsmith)
Aristophanes
- The Acharnians (Alan H. Sommerstein)
- The Knights (Alan H. Sommerstein)
- The Clouds (Alan H. Sommerstein)
- The Wasps (David Barrett)
- Peace (Alan H. Sommerstein)
- The Birds (David Barrett)
- The Frogs (David Barrett)
- Lysistrata (Alan H. Sommerstein)
- The Poet and the Women (David Barrett)
- The Assemblywomen (David Barrett)
- Wealth (Alan H. Sommerstein)
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