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The Theocratic Age
"Since the literary canon is at issue here, I include only those religious, philosophical, historical, and scientific writings that are themselves of great aesthetic interest. I would think that, of all the books that are in this first list, once the reader is conversant with the Bible, Homer, Plato, the Athenian dramatists, and Virgil, the crucial work is the Koran...
"I have included some Sanskrit works, scriptures and fundamental literary texts, because of their influence on the Western canon. The immense wealth of ancient Chinese literature is mostly a sphere apart from Western literary tradition and is rarely conveyed adequately in the translations available to us."
(Bloom, p. 531)
The Ancient Near East
Gilgamesh
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Holy Bible (King James Version)
The Apocrypha
Sayings of the Fathers (Pirke Aboth)
Ancient India (Sanskrit)
Mahabharata
Bhagavad-Gita
Ramayana
The Ancient Greeks
Homer
Iliad
Odyssey
Hesiod
Works and Days
Theogony
Archilochos, Sappho, Alkman
Pindar
Odes
Aeschylus
Oresteia
Seven Against Thebes
Prometheus Bound
Persians
Suppliant Women
Sophocles
Oedipus the King
Oedipus at Colonus
Antigone
Electra
Ajax
Women of Trachis
Philoctetes
Euripides
Cyclops
Heracles
Alcestis
Hecuba
Bacchae
Orestes
Andromache
Medea
Ion
Hippolytus
Helen
Iphigenia at Aulis
Aristophanes
The Birds
The Clouds
The Frogs
Lysistrata
The Knights
The Wasps
The Assemblywomen
Herodotus
The Histories
Thucydides
The Peloponnesian Wars
The Pre-Socratics (Heraclitus, Empedocles)
Plato
Dialogues
Aristotle
Poetics
Ethics
Hellenistic Greeks
Menander
The Girl from Samos
"Longinus"
On the Sublime
Callimachus
Hymns and Epigrams
Theocritus
Idylls
Plutarch
Lives
Moralia
"Aesop"
Fables
Lucian
Satires
The Romans
Plautus
Pseudolus
The Braggart Soldier
The Rope
Amphitryon
Terence
The Girl from Andros
The Eunuch
The Mother-in-Law
Lucretius
The Way Things Are
Cicero
On the Gods
Horace
Odes
Epistles
Satires
Persius
Satires
Catullus
Attis and Other Poems
Virgil
Aeneid
Eclogues
Georgics
Lucan
Pharsalia
Ovid
Metamorphoses
The Art of Love
Heroides
Juvenal
Satires
Martial
Epigrams
Seneca
Tragedies, particularly Medea and Hercules Furens
Petronius
Satyricon
Apuleius
The Golden Ass
The Middle Ages: Latin, Arabic, and the Vernacular Before Dante
Saint Augustine
City of God
Confessions
The Koran (Al-Qur'an)
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night
The Poetic Edda
Snorri Sturluson
The Prose Edda
The Nibelungen Lied
Wolfram von Eschenbach
Parzival
Chrétien de Troyes
Yvain: The Knight of the Lion
Beowulf
The Poem of the Cid
Christine de Pisan
The Book of the City of Ladies
Diego de San Pedro
Prison of Love
Western Canon
To lay some groundwork, here is the Western Canon.The Theocratic Age
"Since the literary canon is at issue here, I include only those religious, philosophical, historical, and scientific writings that are themselves of great aesthetic interest. I would think that, of all the books that are in this first list, once the reader is conversant with the Bible, Homer, Plato, the Athenian dramatists, and Virgil, the crucial work is the Koran...
"I have included some Sanskrit works, scriptures and fundamental literary texts, because of their influence on the Western canon. The immense wealth of ancient Chinese literature is mostly a sphere apart from Western literary tradition and is rarely conveyed adequately in the translations available to us."
(Bloom, p. 531)
The Ancient Near East
Gilgamesh
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Holy Bible (King James Version)
The Apocrypha
Sayings of the Fathers (Pirke Aboth)
Ancient India (Sanskrit)
Mahabharata
Bhagavad-Gita
Ramayana
The Ancient Greeks
Homer
Iliad
Odyssey
Hesiod
Works and Days
Theogony
Archilochos, Sappho, Alkman
Pindar
Odes
Aeschylus
Oresteia
Seven Against Thebes
Prometheus Bound
Persians
Suppliant Women
Sophocles
Oedipus the King
Oedipus at Colonus
Antigone
Electra
Ajax
Women of Trachis
Philoctetes
Euripides
Cyclops
Heracles
Alcestis
Hecuba
Bacchae
Orestes
Andromache
Medea
Ion
Hippolytus
Helen
Iphigenia at Aulis
Aristophanes
The Birds
The Clouds
The Frogs
Lysistrata
The Knights
The Wasps
The Assemblywomen
Herodotus
The Histories
Thucydides
The Peloponnesian Wars
The Pre-Socratics (Heraclitus, Empedocles)
Plato
Dialogues
Aristotle
Poetics
Ethics
Hellenistic Greeks
Menander
The Girl from Samos
"Longinus"
On the Sublime
Callimachus
Hymns and Epigrams
Theocritus
Idylls
Plutarch
Lives
Moralia
"Aesop"
Fables
Lucian
Satires
The Romans
Plautus
Pseudolus
The Braggart Soldier
The Rope
Amphitryon
Terence
The Girl from Andros
The Eunuch
The Mother-in-Law
Lucretius
The Way Things Are
Cicero
On the Gods
Horace
Odes
Epistles
Satires
Persius
Satires
Catullus
Attis and Other Poems
Virgil
Aeneid
Eclogues
Georgics
Lucan
Pharsalia
Ovid
Metamorphoses
The Art of Love
Heroides
Juvenal
Satires
Martial
Epigrams
Seneca
Tragedies, particularly Medea and Hercules Furens
Petronius
Satyricon
Apuleius
The Golden Ass
The Middle Ages: Latin, Arabic, and the Vernacular Before Dante
Saint Augustine
City of God
Confessions
The Koran (Al-Qur'an)
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night
The Poetic Edda
Snorri Sturluson
The Prose Edda
The Nibelungen Lied
Wolfram von Eschenbach
Parzival
Chrétien de Troyes
Yvain: The Knight of the Lion
Beowulf
The Poem of the Cid
Christine de Pisan
The Book of the City of Ladies
Diego de San Pedro
Prison of Love
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Work of H. P. Lovecraft
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national folklores and anecdotes
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