![]() In this and in the remaining lists, I sometimes do not Through Goethe's Faust, Part Two, an era that gives usĪ huge body of reading in five major literatures: Italian, Spanish, English,įrench, and German. "It is a span of five hundred years from Dante's Divine Comedy The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night.The Golden Ass The Middle Ages: Latin, Arabic, and the Vernacular Before Dante Tragedies, particularly Medea and Hercules Furens The Girl from Andros The Eunuch The Mother-in-Law Pseudolus The Braggart Soldier The Rope Amphitryon The Pre-Socratics (Heraclitus, Empedocles).The Birds The Clouds The Frogs Lysistrata The Knights The Wasps The Assemblywomen Oedipus the King Oedipus at Colonus Antigone Electra Ajax Women of Trachis PhiloctetesĬyclops Heracles Alcestis Hecuba Bacchae Orestes Andromache Medea Ion Hippolytus Helen Iphigenia at Aulis Oresteia Seven Against Thebes Prometheus Bound Persians Suppliant Women ![]() Western literary tradition and is rarely conveyed adequately in the Wealth of ancient Chinese literature is mostly a sphere apart from Texts, because of their influence on the Western canon. "I have included some Sanskrit works, scriptures and fundamental literary Homer, Plato, the Athenian dramatists, and Virgil, the crucial work is I would think that, of all the books thatĪre in this first list, once the reader is conversant with the Bible, Philosophical, historical, and scientific writings that are themselves "Since the literary canon is at issue here, I include only those religious,
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