GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD - CHECKLIST
1. Synopticon (guide to The Great Books) (3 vols.)
2. Homer - The Odyssey and The Iliad
3. Aeschylus - Complete Plays
4. Sophocles - Plays
5. Euripides - Plays (2 vols.)
6. Aristophanes - Plays (2 vols.)
7. Herodotus - The History of Herodotus
8. Thucydides - The History of the Peloponnesian War
9. Plato - The Works of Plato (3 vols.)
10. Aristotle (4 vols.)
11. Hippocrates and Galen
12. Euclid, Archimedes, Apollonius and Nicomachus
13. Lucretius, Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius
14. Virgil - The Aeneid
15. Virgil - The Eclogues and The Georgics
16. Plutarch - The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans (4 vols.)
17. Tacitus - The Annals and The Histories
19. Ptolemy, Copernicus and Kepler
19. Plotinus - The Enneads
20. Saint Augustine - The Confessions of Saint Augustine
21. Saint Augustine - The City of God and On Christian Doctrine
22. Saint Thomas Aquinas - Summa Theologica (2 vols.)
23. Dante - The Divine Comedy
24. Geoffrey Chaucer - Troilus and Cressida
25. Geoffrey Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales (2 vols.)
26. Machiavelli and Hobbes - Political Writings
27. François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel (2 vols.)
28. Montaigne (3 vols.)
29. William Shakespeare - Plays and Sonnets (7 vols.)
30. Gilbert, Galileo and Harvey
31. Cervantes - Don Quixote de la Mancha (2 vols.)
32. Sir Fancis Bacon - Selected Writings
33. Descartes and Spinoza
34. John Milton - Poetry and Prose
35. Pascal - Provincial Letters, Pensées and Scientific Treatises
36. Newton and Huygens
37. Locke, Berkeley and Hume
38. Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels
39. Laurence Sterne - Tristram Shandy
40. Henry Fielding - Tom Jones (2 vols.)
41. Charles de Montesquieu - The Spirit of Laws
42. Jean Jacques Rousseau - Selected Writings
43. Adam Smith - The Wealth of Nations
44. Edward Gibbon - The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (6 vols.)
45. Kant and Hegel
46. Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay - The Federalist
71. John Stuart Mill - Political Writings
72. James Boswell - The Life of Samuel Johnson (3 vols.)
47. Lavoisier, Fourier and Faraday
48. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust
49. Herman Melville - Moby-Dick (2 vols.)
50. Charles Darwin - The Origin of Species
51. Charles Darwin - The Descent of Man
52. Marx and Engels - Capital and The Manifesto of the Communist Party
53. Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace (3 vols.)
54. Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky - The Brothers Karamazov
55. William James - The Principles of Psychology
56. Sigmund Freud - The Major Works (3 vols.)
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