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Western Canon
A. The Theocratic Age (İnanışlar Çağı)
B. The Aristocratic Age (Krallıklar Çağı)
C. The Democratic Age (Cumhurun Çağı)
D. The Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy
A. The Theocratic Age
THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST
Gilgamesh, translated by David Ferry
The Egyptian Book of the Dead
The Holy Bible, Authorized King James Version
The Apocrypha
Sayings of the Fathers (Pirke Aboth), translated by R. Travers Herford
ANCIENT INDIA (SANSKRIT)
The Mahabharata There is an abridged translation by William Buck, and a dramatic version by Jean Claude Carriere, translated by Peter Brook
The Bhagavad-Gita The crucial religious section of Mahabharata, Book 6, translated by Barbara Stoler Miller
The Ramayana There is an abridged prose version by William Buck, and a retelling by R. K. Narayan
THE ANCIENT GREEKS
Homer
The Iliad, translated by Richmond Lattimore
The Odyssey, translated by Robert Fitzgerald
Hesiod
The Works and Days; Theogony, translated by Richmond Lattimore
Archilochos , Sappho, Aikman translated by Guy Davenport
Pindar
The Odes, translated by Richmond Lattimore
Aeschylus
The Oresteia, translated by Robert Fagles
Seven against Thebes, translated by Anthony Hecht and Helen H. Bacon
Prometheus Bound
The Persians
The Suppliant Women
Sophocles
Oedipus the King, translated by Stephen Berg and Diskin Clay
Oedipus at Colonus, translated by Robert Fitzgerald
Antigone, translated by Robert Fagles
Electra
Ajax
Women of Trachis
Philoctetes
Euripides (translated by William Arrowsmith)
Cyclops
Heracles
Alcestis
Hecuba
The Bacchae
Orestes
Andromache
Medea, translated by Rex Warner
Ion, translated by H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)
Hippolytus, translated by Robert Bagg
Helen, translated by Richmond Lattimore
Iphigeneia at Aulis, translated by W. S. Merwin and George Dimock
Aristophanes
The Birds, translated by William Arrowsmith
The Clouds, translated by William Arrowsmith
The Frogs
Lysistrata
The Knights
The Wasps
The Assemblywomen (also called The Parliament of Women)
Herodotus
The Histories
Thucydides
The Peloponnesian War
The Pre-Socratics (Heraclitus, Empedodes)
Plato
Dialogues
Aristotle
Poetics
Ethics
HELLENISTIC GREEKS
Menander
The Girl from Samos, translated by Eric G. Turner
"Longinus"
On the Sublime
Callimachus
Hymns and Epigrams
Theocritus
Idylls, translated by Daryl Hine
Plutarch
Lives, translated by John Dryden 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, translated by Rolfe Humphries
Cicero
On the Gods
Horace
Odes, translated by James Michie
Epistles
Satires
Persius
Satires, translated by W. S. Merwin
Catullus
Attis, translated by Horace Gregory
Other poems translated by Richard Crashaw, Abraham Cowley, Walter Savage Landor, and a host of English poets
Virgil
The Aeneid, translated by Robert Fitzgerald
Eclogues and Georgics, translated by john Dryden
Lucan
Pharsalia
Ovid
Metamorphoses, translated by George Sandys
The Art of Love
Epistulae heroidum or Heroides, translated by Daryl Hine
Juvenal
Satires
Martial
Epigrams, translated by James Michie
Seneca
Tragedies, particularly Medea; and Hercules furens, as translated by Thomas Heywood
Petronius
Satyricon, translated by William Arrowsmith
Apuleius
The Golden Ass, translated by Robert Graves
THE MIDDLE AGES: LATIN, ARABIC, AND THE VERNACULAR BEFORE DANTE
Saint Augustine
The City of God
The Confessions
The Koran
Al-Qur'an: A Contemporary Translation by Ahmad Ali
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night
The Poetic Edda, translated by Lee Hollander
Snorri Sturluson
The Prose Edda
The Nibelungen Lied
Wolfram von Eschenbach
Parzival
Chretien de Troyes
Yvain: The Knight of the Lion, translated by Burton Raffel
Beowult translated by Charles W. Kennedy
The Poem of the Cid, translated by W. S. Merwin
Christine de Pisan
The Book of the City of Ladies, translated by Earl Richards
Diego de San Pedro
Prison of Love
