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)

Herodotus

The History (George Rawlinson)

Thucydides

The History of the Peloponnesian War (Richard Rawley)

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)

Aristotle

Categories (E.M. Edghill)
On Interpretation (E.M. Edghill)
Prior Analytics (A.J. Jenkinson)
Posterior Analytics (G.R.G. Mure)
Topics (W.A. Pickard-Cambridge)
On Sophistical Refutations (W.A. Pickard-Cambridge)
Physics (R.P. Hardie, and R.K. Gaye)
On the Heavens (J.L. Stocks)
On Generation and Corruption (H.H. Joachim)
Meteorology (E.W. Webster)
Metaphysiscs (W.D. Ross)
On the Soul (J.A. Smith)
On Sense and the Sensible (J.I. Beare)
On Memory and Reminiscence (J.I. Beare)
On Sleep and Sleeplessness (J.I. Beare)
On Dreams, (J.I. Beare)
On Prophesying by Dreams (J.I. Beare)
On Longevity and Shortness of Life (G.R.T. Ross)
On Youth and Old Age, On Life and Death, On Breathing (G.R.T. Ross)
History of Animals (D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson)
On the Parts of Animals (William Ogle)
On the Motion of Animals (A.S.L. Farquharson)
On the Gait of Animals (A.S.L. Farquharson)
On the Generation of Animals (Arthur Platt)
Nicomachean Ethics (W.D. Ross)
Politics (Benjamin Jowett)
The Athenian Constitution (Sir Frederic G. Kenyon)
Rhetoric (W. Rhys Roberts)
On Poetics (Ingram Bywater)

Hippocrates

Hippocratic Writings (Francis Adams)

On Airs, Waters, And Places
Aphorisms
On The Articulations
Of The Epidemics
On Fistulae
On Fractures
On Injuries Of The Head
On Hemorrhoids
The Law
On Ancient Medicine
The Oath
The Book Of Prognostics
Instruments Of Reduction
On Regimen In Acute Diseases
On The Sacred Disease
On The Surgery
On Ulcers

Galen

On the Natural Faculties (Arthur John Brock)

Euclid

Euclid’s Elements (Sir Thomas L. Heath)

Archimedes

The Works of Archimedes, Including The Method (Sir Thomas L. Heath)

On the Sphere and Cylinder
Measurement of a Circle
On Conoids and Spheroids
On Spirals
On the Equilibrium of Planes
The Sand-Reckoner
The Quadrature of the Parabola
On Floating Bodies
Book of Lemmas
The Method Treating of Mechanical Problems

Apollonius of Perga

Treatise on Conic Sections

Nicomachus of Gerasa

The Introduction to Arithmetic of Nicomachus (Martin L. D’Ooge)

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