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.

Ancient Greece

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)

Ancient Rome

Lucretius

  • The Way Things Are (Rolfe Humphries)

Epictetus

  • Discourses (George Long)

Marcus Aurelius

  • Meditations (George Long)

Plotinus

  • The Six Enneads (Stephen MacKenna and B.S. Page)

Virgil

  • Eclogues (C. Day Lewis)
  • Georgics (C. Day Lewis)
  • The Aeneid (C. Day Lewis)

Plutarch

  • The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans (John Dryden)

Cornelius Tacitus

  • The Annals (Alfred John Church, and William Jackson Brodribb)
  • The Histories (Alfred John Church, and William Jackson Brodribb)
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