Tuesday, February 15, 2005

Tenative Reading List

Ancient Period (to 240 B.C.)

Unknown: The Epic of Gilgamesh, Code of Hammurabi
Homer: Iliad, Odyssey
Aeschylus: Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, Eumenides
Sophocles: Oedipus Rex, Antigone, Oedipus at Colonus
Euripides: The Trojan Women, Medea Electra
Aristophanes: Clouds
Thuycidies: Peloponnesian War
Herodotus: Histories
Plato: Apology, Crito and Phaedo
Aristotle: Poetics; Ethics

Late Roman to Early Middle Ages (240 B.C. to 1000 A.D.)

VirgilL: Aeneid
Caesar: Gallic and Civil Wars
Livy: History of Rome, Books I-V
Suetonius: The Twelve Caesars
Horace: Odes, Epodes, Satires and Poetry
Ovid: Metamorphoses, Book I
Josephus: Antiquities of the Jews
Plutarch: Lives (various)
Epictetus: The Discourses
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus: Meditations
Tertullian: Writings
Eusebius: Ecclesiastical History
Anthanasius: On the Incarnation
Augustine: Confessions
St. Benedict: Rule of St. Benedict
Bede: Ecclesiastical History of the Church
Beowulf
Tales from 1001 Arabian Knights

Middle to High Medieval Period (1000 to 1400 A.D.)

St. Anselm of Canterbury
The Mabinogion
Peter Abelard
The Song of Roland
The Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs
St. Francis of Assisi
(Magna Carta)
St. Thomas Aquinas
Dante Alighieri
Francesco Petrarch
Geoffrey Chaucer
Thomas à Kempis
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Renaissance to Reformation (1400 to 1600)

Sir Thomas Malory
Nicolò Machiavelli
Desiderius Erasmus
Baldassare Castiglione
Sir Thomas More
Martin Luther
St. Ignatius of Loyola
François Rabelais
John Calvin
Michel de Montaigne
Miguel de Cervantes
The Book of Common Prayer
Edmund Spenser
Francis Bacon
Christopher Marlowe
William Shakespeare
John Donne
Thomas Hobbes
Izaak Walton
Rene Descartes

Age of Revolution and Enlightenment Book List (1600 to 1800 A.D.)

Brother Lawrence
John Milton
The Mayflower Compact
Moliere (1622-1673)
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
John Bunyan (1628-1688)
John Locke (1632-1704)
Jean Baptiste Racine (1639-1699)
Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (1646-1716)
Daniel Defoe (1660-1731)
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755)
Voltaire (1694-1778)
Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)
John Wesley (1703-1791)
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Henry Fielding (1707-1754)
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
David Hume (1711-1776)
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
Denis Diderot (1713-1784)
Adam Smith (1723-1790)
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
James Boswell (1740-1795)
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
John Jay (1745-1829)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
James Madison (1751-1836)
Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804)
William Blake (1757-1827)
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830)
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831)
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
Jane Austen (1775-1817)
Articles of Confederation (1777)
Washington Irving (1783-1859)
Constitutional Convention Debates (1787)
Constitution of the United States (1787; effect. 1789)
Anti-Federalist Papers (1787-88)
Federalist Papers (1787-88)
George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824)
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)
Michael Faraday (1791-1867)
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
John Keats (1795-1821)
Mary Shelley (1797-1851)
Auguste Comte (1798-1857)
Honore de Balzac (1799-1850)

Industrialization to the Modern Era (1800 to Present)

Alexandre Dumas (père) (1802-1870)
Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)
Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1859)
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863)
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855)
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Emily Brontë (1818-1848)
Karl Marx (1818-1883)
George Eliot (1819-1880)
Herman Melville (1819-1891)
Friedrich Engels (1820-1895)
Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881)
Jules Verne (1828-1905)
Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
Mary Mapes Dodge (1830-1905)
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
Lewis Carrol (1832-1898)
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935)
William James (1842-1910)
Henry James (1843-1916)
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900)
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
L. Frank Baum (1856-1919)
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
William Butler Yeats (1856-1939)
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)
Max Planck (1858-1947)
John Dewey (1859-1952)
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
H. G. Wells (1866-1946)
Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
Marcel Proust (1871-1922)
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
Jack London (1876-1916)
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
James Joyce (1882-1941)
Franz Kafka (1883-1924)
Arnold Toynbee (1889-1975)
J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973)
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
William Faulkner (1897-1962)
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
Mortimer J. Adler (1902-2001)
John Steinbeck (1902-1968)
George Orwell (1903-1950)
Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991)
Jean Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
Aleksander I. Solzhenitsyn (1918- )
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)