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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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Title: Reading Check Lists for Major Series: Great Books of the Western World
Author: MJ. Smith
Date: 2016 Jun 10 at 02:43

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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