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The St. John's College Great Books Reading List

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. The Iliad of Homer (Phoenix Books)
by Homer
  
2. The Odyssey of Homer (Perennial Classics)
by Richmond Lattimore
  
3. The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides (Penguin Classics)
by Aeschylus
  
4. Prometheus Bound
by Aeschylus
  
5. Oedipus the King (Enriched Classics)
by Sophocles
  
6. Oedipus at Colonus: Sophocles (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)
by Sophocles
  
7. Antigone
by Sophocles
  
8. Philoctetes
by Sophocles
  
9. The Peloponnesian War
by Thucydides
  
10. Euripides' Hippolytus (Focus Classical Library)
by Michael Halleran
  
11. Euripides: Bacchae (Cambridge Translations from Greek Drama)
by Euripides
  
12. The Histories (Penguin Classics)
by Herodotus
  
13. Aristophanes' Clouds Translated With Notes and Introduction (Focus Classical Library)
by Jeffery Henderson
  
14. Plato's Meno (Cambridge Studies in the Dialogues of Plato)
by Plato
  
15. Gorgias (Clarendon Plato Series)
by Plato
  
16. Plato: Republic
by Plato
  
17. Plato: Apology
by Plato
  
18.
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 Crito
by Plato
  
19. Plato: Phaedo (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)
by Plato
  
20. Plato: Symposium (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)
by Plato
  
21. The Dialogues of Plato, Volume 4 : Plato's Parmenides, Revised Edition (The Dialogues of Plato)  
22. Plato's Theory of Knowledge: The Theatetus and The Sophist (Philosophical Classics)
by Plato
  
23. Timaeus
by Plato
  
24.
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 Phaedrus (Penguin Classics)
by Plato
  
25. Poetics (Penguin Classics)
by Aristotle
  
26. Physics: Books I and II (Clarendon Aristotle Series)
by Aristotle
  
27. Aristotle's Metaphysics
by Aristotle
  
28. The Ethics of Aristotle: The Nicomachean Ethics (Penguin Classics)
by Aristotle
  
29. On Generation And Corruption
by Aristotle
  
30. Aristotle's Politics: a Treatise on Government
by Aristotle
  
31. Aristotle: On the Parts of Animals I-IV (Clarendon Aristotle Series)
by James G. Lennox
  
32. On The Generation Of Animals
by Aristotle
  
33. Euclid's Elements
by Euclid
  
34. On the Nature of Things
by Lucretius
  
35.
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 Lycurgus
by Plutarch
  
36.
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 Solon
by Plutarch
  
37.
?
 Arithmetic
by Nicomachus
  
38. Elements of Chemistry
by Antoine Lavoisier
  
39. On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
by William Harvey
  
40. Holy Bible: King James Version Economy  
41.
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 De Anima (Clarendon Aristotle series)
by Aristotle
  
42. Categories. On Interpretation. Prior Analytics (Loeb Classical Library)
by Aristotle
  
43. Treatise on Conic Sections
by of Perga Apollonius
  
44. The Aeneid
by Virgil
  
45.
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 Plutarch: the Younger Cato  
46.
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 Plutarch's Lives of Caesar, Brutus, and Antony  
47. Discourses of Epictetus
by Epictetus
  
48.
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 The Manual of Epictetus
by Sanford J. Epictetus
  
49. The Annals of Tacitus (Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries)
by Tacitus
  
50. Ptolemy's "Almagest"
by Ptolemy
  
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