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
Unrankedarranged chronologically
One of our book-as-lists, this book offers a short selection in the form of a series of essays.
Homer
- Iliad
ca. Ninth-Eighth centuries B CGreek
- Odýsseia
The Odyssey
ca. Ninth-Eighth centuries B CGreek
Agamemnon
part of The Oresteia; 458 B CGreek
- Sophocles
Antigone
ca. 441 B CGreek
- Euripides
Bakchai
The Bacchae
405 B CGreek
Plato
- Euthyphro
early Fourth Century B CGreek
- Apologia Socratis
The Apology
early Fourth Century B CGreek
- Crito
early Fourth Century B CGreek
- Phaedo
early Fourth Century B CGreek
- Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro)
Aeneid
First Century B CLatin
- Ovid
Metamorphoseon
Metamorphoses
8Latin
- Augustine of Hippo
Confessionum Libri Tredecim
The Confessions of St. Augustine
written 397-98Latin
- Dante
La Divina Commedia
The Divine Comedy
originally entitled La Commedia; written ca. 1308-21Italian
- Geoffrey Chaucer
Canterbury Tales
1478English
William Shakespeare
- Henry V
1599English
- Hamlet
1602English
- The Tempest
1611English
- Miguel de Cervantes
El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha
Don Quixote
originally published in two volumes, 1605 and 1615Spanish
- John Milton
Paradise Lost
1667; revised 1674English
- Blaise Pascal
Pensées
Thoughts
1669French
- Jean Racine
Phèdre
1677French
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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, 1832German