The St. John's College Great Books Reading List

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The books of the St. John’s College Bachelor’s of Arts degree in Liberal Arts.

i.e., the Great Books of history which formed Western Civilization.

The list is now located here – http://www.stjohnscollege.edu/academic/readlist.shtml

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  1. 1.
    The Iliad of Homer
    by Homer

  2. 2.
    The Odyssey of Homer
    by Homer

  3. 4.
    Prometheus Bound
    by Aeschylus

  4. 5.
    Oedipus the King (Enriched Classics Series)
    by Sophocles

  5. 7.
    Antigone
    by Sophocles

  6. 8.
    Philoctetes
    by Sophocles

  7. 9.
    The Peloponnesian War
    by Thucydides

  8. 10.
    Euripides' Hippolytus (Focus Classical Library)
    by Euripides

  9. 12.
    The Histories, Revised (Penguin Classics)
    by Herodotus

  10. 15.
    Gorgias (Clarendon Plato Series)
    by Plato

  11. 16.
    Plato: Republic
    by Plato

  12. 17.
    Plato: Apology (Greek Edition)
    by Plato

  13. 18.
    ?
    Crito
    by Plato

  14. 19.

  15. 23.
    Timaeus
    by Plato

  16. 24.
    Phaedrus (Penguin Classics)
    by Plato

  17. 25.
    Poetics (Penguin Classics)
    by Aristotle

  18. 26.
    Physics: Books I and II (Clarendon Aristotle Series)
    by Aristotle

  19. 27.
    Aristotle's Metaphysics
    by Aristotle

  20. 29.
    On Generation And Corruption
    by Aristotle

  21. 30.
    Aristotle's Politics: a Treatise on Government
    by Aristotle

  22. 32.
    On The Generation Of Animals
    by Aristotle

  23. 33.
    Euclid's Elements
    by Euclid

  24. 34.
    On the Nature of Things
    by Lucretius

  25. 35.
    ?
    Lycurgus
    by Plutarch

  26. 36.
    ?
    Solon
    by Plutarch

  27. 37.
    ?
    Arithmetic
    by Nicomachus

  28. 38.
    Elements of Chemistry (Dover Books on Chemistry)
    by Antoine Lavoisier

  29. 39.
    On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
    by William Harvey

  30. 40.

  31. 41.
    ?
    De Anima (Clarendon Aristotle series)
    by Aristotle

  32. 43.
    Treatise on Conic Sections
    by of Perga Apollonius

  33. 44.
    The Aeneid
    by Virgil

  34. 45.
    ?
    Plutarch: the Younger Cato

  35. 47.
    Discourses of Epictetus
    by Epictetus

  36. 48.
    ?
    The Manual of Epictetus
    by Sanford J. Epictetus

  37. 50.
    Ptolemy's Almagest
    by Ptolemy

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Created by RetrogradeSonnet on Jul 23, 2006.
 

Comments

Started the second year... — 4 years ago

I’m about halfway through and having a tough time finding the books :/


added Plato — 4 years ago

but there’s still much more to go! The list is here.

[UPDATE] The whole first year is now on the list.


Untitled — 4 years ago

I started to add books, but still have a long way to go. I will be adding more later.


Untitled — 4 years ago

I’m looking for this list on listofbests!




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