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Title: Reading Check Lists for Major Series: Great Books of the Western World
Author: MJ. Smith
Date: 2016 Jun 10 at 02:13

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

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Title: Reading Check Lists for Major Series: Great Books of the Western World
Author: MJ. Smith
Date: 2016 Jun 10 at 02:19

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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