greek civilisation and the classical liberal arts

• homer
  • iliad
  • odyssey
• aeschylus
  • oresteia
  • prometheus bound
• sophocles
  • oedipus rex
  • oedipus at colonus
  • antigone
  • philoctetes
  • ajax
• thucyides - history of the pelopennesian war
• euripides
  • hippolytus
  • bacchae
• herodotus - histories
• aristophanes - clouds
• plato (socrates)
  • meno
  • gorgias
  • republic
  • apology
  • crito
  • phaedo
  • symposium
  • parmenides
  • theaetetus
  • sophist
  • timaeus
  • phaedrus
• aristotle
  • poetics
  • physics
  • metaphysics
  • nicomachean ethics
  • on generation and corruption
  • politics
  • parts of animals
  • generation of animals
  • de anima
  • on interpretation
  • prior analytics
  • categories
• euclid - elements
• lucretius - de rerum natura
• plutarch
  • lycurgus, solon, caesar, cato the younger, antony and brutus (parallel lives)
• nicomachus - arithmetic

roman, medieval and renaissance periods

• the hebrew bible
• the new testament
• apollonius - conics
• virgil - aeneid
• epictetus
  • discourses
  • enchiridion
• tacitus - annals
• ptolemy - almagest
• plotinus - enneads
• st augustine - confessions
• maimonides - guide for the perplexed
• st anselm - proslogium
• aquinas - summa theologica
• dante - divine comedy
• chaucer - the canterbury tales
• machiavelli
  • the prince
  • discourses
• kepler - epitomy iv
• rabelais - gargantua and pantagruel
• palestrina - missa papae marcelli
• montaigne - essays
• bacon - novum organum
• shakespeare
  • richard iii
  • henry iv, part 1
  • henry iv, part 2
  • the tempest
  • as you like it
  • hamlet
  • othello
  • macbeth
  • king lear
  • sonnets
• descartes
  • geometry
  • discourse on method
• pascal
  • generation of conic sections
• bach
  • st matthew passion
  • inventions
• haydn - quartets
• mozart - operas
• beethoven - third symphony
• schubert - songs
• monteverdi - l'orfeo
• stravinsky - symphony of psalms

the enlightenment in the 17th and 18th centuries

• cervantes - don quixote
• galileo - two new sciences
• hobbes - leviathan
• descartes
  • meditations
  • rules for the direction of the mind
• milton - paradise lost
• la rochefoucauld - maximes
• la fontaine - fables
• pascal- pensees
• huygens
  • treatise on light
  • on the movement of bodies by impact
• eliot - middlemarch
• spinoza - theological-political treatise
• locke - second treatise of government
• racine - phaedre
• newton - principia mathematica
• leibniz
  • monadology
  • discourse on metaphysics
  • essay on dynamics
  • philosophical essays
  • principles of nature and grace
• swift - gulliver's travels
• hume - treatise of human nature
• rousseau
  • social contract
  • the origin of inequality
• moliere - le misanthrope
• adam smith - wealth of nations
• kant
  • critique of pure reason
  • foundations of the metaphysics of morals
• mozart - don giovanni
• jane austen - pride and prejudice
• dedekind - essay on the theory of numbers
• articles of confederaion
• declaration of independence
• constitution of the united states of america
• hamilton, jay and madison - the federalist
• twain - the adventures of huckleberry finn
• wordsworth - the two part prelude of 1799

the modern world in the 19th and 20th centuries

• goethe - faust
• darwin - origin of species
• hegel - phenomenology of mind
• lobachevsky - theory of parallels
• tocqueville - democracy in america
• lincoln - selected speeches
• frederick douglass - selected species
• kierkegaard
  • philosophical fragments
  • fear and trembling
• wagner - tristan und isolde
• marx
  • capital, political and economic manuscripts of 1844
  • the german ideology
• dostoevsky - the brothers karamazov
• tolstoy - war and peace
• melville - benito cereno
• o'connor - selected stories
• william james:
  • psychology
  • briefer course
• nietzche - beyond good and evil
• freud - introductory lectures on psychoanalysis
• booker t. washington - selected writings
• dubois - the souls of black folk
• husserl - crisis of the european sciences
• heidegger - basic writings
• conrad - heart of darkness
• faulkner - go down moses
• flaubert - un coeur simple
• woolf - mrs dalloway