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Anthony O'Hear, Great Books: From the Iliad and the Odyssey to Goethe's Faust: A Journey through 2,500 Years of the West's Classic Literature [2007]

22 entries: 21 monographical, one otherwise

Unranked—arranged chronologically

One of our book-as-lists, this book offers a short selection in the form of a series of essays.

    Homer
  1. Iliad

  2. ca. Ninth-Eighth centuries B C—Greek

  3. Odýsseia
    The Odyssey
    ca. Ninth-Eighth centuries B C—Greek


    • Aeschylus

  4. Agamemnon
    part of The Oresteia; 458 B C—Greek

  5. Sophocles

  6. Antigone
    ca. 441 B C—Greek

  7. Euripides

  8. Bakchai
    The Bacchae
    405 B C—Greek


    Plato
  9. Euthyphro

  10. early Fourth Century B C—Greek

  11. Apologia Socratis

  12. The Apology
    early Fourth Century B C—Greek


  13. Crito

  14. early Fourth Century B C—Greek

  15. Phaedo

  16. early Fourth Century B C—Greek

  17. Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro)

  18. Aeneid
    First Century B C—Latin

  19. Ovid

  20. Metamorphoseon
    Metamorphoses
    8—Latin


  21. Augustine of Hippo

  22. Confessionum Libri Tredecim
    The Confessions of St. Augustine
    written 397-98—Latin


  23. Dante

  24. La Divina Commedia
    The Divine Comedy
    originally entitled La Commedia; written ca. 1308-21—Italian


  25. Geoffrey Chaucer

  26. Canterbury Tales
    1478—English

    William Shakespeare
  27. Henry V

  28. 1599—English

  29. Hamlet

  30. 1602—English

  31. The Tempest

  32. 1611—English

  33. Miguel de Cervantes

  34. El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha
    Don Quixote
    originally published in two volumes, 1605 and 1615—Spanish


  35. John Milton

  36. Paradise Lost
    1667; revised 1674—English

  37. Blaise Pascal

  38. Pensées
    Thoughts
    1669—French


  39. Jean Racine

  40. Phèdre
    1677—French

  41. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  42. Faust
    originally published in two volumes: first, Faust. Der Tragödie Erster Teil, published in part, 1790; in its entirey, 1808; revised 1829; second, Faust. Der Tragödie Zweiter Teil, 1832—German