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Title: Reading Check Lists for Major Series: Great Books of the Western World
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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)

Ptolemy

  • The Almagest (R. Catesby Taliaferro)

Nicolaus Copernicus

  • On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres (Charles Glenn Wallis)

Johannes Kepler

  • Epitome of Copernican Astronomy: IV-V (Charles Glenn Wallis)
  • The Harmonies of the World: V (Charles Glenn Wallis)

Augustine of Hippo

  • The Confessions (R.S. Pine-Coffin)
  • The City of God (Marcus Dods)
  • On Christian Doctrine (J.F. Shaw)

Late Medieval Period (to 1450)

Thomas Aquinas

  • Summa Theologica (Father Laurence Shapcote)

Dante

  • The Divine Comedy (Charles S. Singleton)

The Renaissance

Geoffrey Chaucer

  • Troilus and Criseyde (Nevill Coghill)
  • The Canterbury Tales (Nevill Coghill)

John Calvin

  • Institutes of the Christian Religion (Henry Beveridge)

Nicolò Machiavelli

  • The Prince (W.K. Marriott)

Thomas Hobbes

  • Leviathan (Nelle Fuller)

François Rabelais

  • Gargantua and Pantagruel (Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Motteux)

Desiderius Erasmus

  • Praise of Folly (Betty Radice)

Michel de Montaigne

  • Essays (Donald M. Frame)

William Shakespeare

  • The First Part of King Henry the Sixth
  • The Second Part of King Henry the Sixth
  • The third part of King Henry the Sixth
  • The Life and Death of Richard the Third
  • The Comedy of errors
  • Titus Andronicus
  • The Taming of the Shrew
  • The Two Gentlemen of Verona
  • Love’s Labour ‘s Lost
  • Romeo and Juliet
  • The Life and Death of Richard the Second
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream
  • The Life and Death of King John
  • The Merchant of Venice
  • The first part of King Henry the Fourth
  • The second part of King Henry the Fourth
  • Much Ado About Nothing
  • The Life of King Henry the Fifth
  • The Life and Death of Julius Ceasar
  • As you like it
  • Twelfth Night; or, what you will
  • The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
  • The Merry Wives of Windsor
  • The History of Troilus and Cressida
  • All’s Well that Ends Well
  • Measure for Measure
  • Othello, the Moore of Venice
  • King Lear
  • Macbeth
  • Antony and Cleopatra
  • The Tragedy of Coriolanus
  • The Life of Timon of Athens
  • Pericles, Prince of Tyre
  • Cymbeline
  • The Winter’s Tale
  • The Tempest
  • The Life of King Henry the Eighth
  • The Sonnets

William Gilbert

  • On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies (P. Fleury Mottelay)

Galileo Galilei

  • Concerning the Two New Sciences (Henry Crew and Alfonso de Salvio)

William Harvey

  • On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals (Robert Willis)
  • On the Circulation of the Blood (Robert Willis)
  • On the Generation of Animals (Robert Willis)

Miguel de Cervantes

  • The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha (Samuel Putnam)

Seventeenth Century

Francis Bacon

  • Advancement of Learning
  • Novum Organum
  • New Atlantis

René Descartes

  • Rules for the Direction of the Mind (Elizabeth S. Haldane, and G.R.T. Ross)
  • Discourse on the Method (Elizabeth S. Haldane, and G.R.T. Ross)
  • Meditations on First Philosophy (Elizabeth S. Haldane, and G.R.T. Ross)
  • Objections Against the Meditations and Replies (Elizabeth S. Haldane, and G.R.T. Ross)
  • The Geometry (David Eugene Smith, and Marcia L. Latham)

Benedict de Spinoza

  • Ethics (W.H. White)

Eighteenth Century

Nineteenth Century

Twentieth Century

Revision: 12
Title: Reading Check Lists for Major Series: Great Books of the Western World
Author: MJ. Smith
Date: 2016 Jun 10 at 06:30

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)

Ptolemy

  • The Almagest (R. Catesby Taliaferro)

Nicolaus Copernicus

  • On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres (Charles Glenn Wallis)

Johannes Kepler

  • Epitome of Copernican Astronomy: IV-V (Charles Glenn Wallis)
  • The Harmonies of the World: V (Charles Glenn Wallis)

Augustine of Hippo

  • The Confessions (R.S. Pine-Coffin)
  • The City of God (Marcus Dods)
  • On Christian Doctrine (J.F. Shaw)

Late Medieval Period (to 1450)

Thomas Aquinas

  • Summa Theologica (Father Laurence Shapcote)

Dante

  • The Divine Comedy (Charles S. Singleton)

The Renaissance

Geoffrey Chaucer

  • Troilus and Criseyde (Nevill Coghill)
  • The Canterbury Tales (Nevill Coghill)

John Calvin

  • Institutes of the Christian Religion (Henry Beveridge)

Nicolò Machiavelli

  • The Prince (W.K. Marriott)

Thomas Hobbes

  • Leviathan (Nelle Fuller)

François Rabelais

  • Gargantua and Pantagruel (Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Motteux)

Desiderius Erasmus

  • Praise of Folly (Betty Radice)

Michel de Montaigne

  • Essays (Donald M. Frame)

William Shakespeare

  • The First Part of King Henry the Sixth
  • The Second Part of King Henry the Sixth
  • The Third part of King Henry the Sixth
  • The Life and Death of Richard the Third
  • The Comedy of errors
  • Titus Andronicus
  • The Taming of the Shrew
  • The Two Gentlemen of Verona
  • Love’s Labour ‘s Lost
  • Romeo and Juliet
  • The Life and Death of Richard the Second
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream
  • The Life and Death of King John
  • The Merchant of Venice
  • The first part of King Henry the Fourth
  • The second part of King Henry the Fourth
  • Much Ado About Nothing
  • The Life of King Henry the Fifth
  • The Life and Death of Julius Ceasar
  • As you like it
  • Twelfth Night; or, what you will
  • The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
  • The Merry Wives of Windsor
  • The History of Troilus and Cressida
  • All’s Well that Ends Well
  • Measure for Measure
  • Othello, the Moore of Venice
  • King Lear
  • Macbeth
  • Antony and Cleopatra
  • The Tragedy of Coriolanus
  • The Life of Timon of Athens
  • Pericles, Prince of Tyre
  • Cymbeline
  • The Winter’s Tale
  • The Tempest
  • The Life of King Henry the Eighth
  • The Sonnets

William Gilbert

  • On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies (P. Fleury Mottelay)

Galileo Galilei

  • Concerning the Two New Sciences (Henry Crew and Alfonso de Salvio)

William Harvey

  • On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals (Robert Willis)
  • On the Circulation of the Blood (Robert Willis)
  • On the Generation of Animals (Robert Willis)

Miguel de Cervantes

  • The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha (Samuel Putnam)

Seventeenth Century

Francis Bacon

  • Advancement of Learning
  • Novum Organum
  • New Atlantis

René Descartes

  • Rules for the Direction of the Mind (Elizabeth S. Haldane, and G.R.T. Ross)
  • Discourse on the Method (Elizabeth S. Haldane, and G.R.T. Ross)
  • Meditations on First Philosophy (Elizabeth S. Haldane, and G.R.T. Ross)
  • Objections Against the Meditations and Replies (Elizabeth S. Haldane, and G.R.T. Ross)
  • The Geometry (David Eugene Smith, and Marcia L. Latham)

Benedict de Spinoza

  • Ethics (W.H. White)

Eighteenth Century

Nineteenth Century

Twentieth Century

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