Stagebunny's "Harold Bloom's Western Canon: The Theocratic Age"

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"Since the literary canon is at issue here, I include only those religious, philosophical, historical, and scientific writings that are themselves of great aesthetic interest." (p.531) Bloom’s <i>The Western Canon</i>

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  1. 1.
    The Epic of Gilgamesh

  2. 2.
    The Egyptian Book of the Dead
    by E. A. Wallis Budge
  3. 3.
    Holy Bible: King James Version: Standard Text Edition
    by Baker Publishing Group
  4. 4.
    The Apocrypha

  5. 5.
    ?
    Sayings of the Fathers (Pirke Aboth)
    by Joseph H. Hertz (translation and commentary)
  6. 6.
    Mahabharata
    by William Buck
  7. 7.
    The Bhagavad Gita

  8. 8.
    Ramayana
    by William Buck
  9. 9.
    ?
    Illiad
    by Homer
  10. 10.
    The Odyssey: The Fitzgerald Translation
    by Homer
  11. 11.
    ?
    Works and Days
    by Hesiod
  12. 12.
    ?
    Theogony
    by Hesiod
  13. 13.
    ?
    Archilochos

  14. 14.
    ?
    Sappho

  15. 15.
    ?
    The Odes of Pindar
    by Pindar
  16. 16.
    The Oresteia
    by Aeschylus
  17. 17.
    The Seven Against Thebes (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Aeschylus
  19. 19.
    The Persians
    by Aeschylus
  20. 20.
    Suppliant Women (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)
    by Euripides
  23. 23.
    Cyclops (The Greek Tragedy in New Translations)
    by Euripides
  24. 24.
    Heracles of Euripides (Focus Classical Library)
    by Euripides
  25. 25.
    Iphigenia at Aulis (Classical Dramatists)
    by Euripides
  26. 26.
  27. 27.
    Hecuba (Drama Classics)
    by Euripides
  28. 28.
    Orestes (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)
    by Euripides
  29. 29.
    Andromache (Plays of Euripides)
    by Euripides
  30. 30.
    ?
    Ion of Euripides
    by H. D. [Hilda Doolittle]
  31. 31.
    Euripides' Hippolytus
    by Euripides
  32. 32.
    ?
    Helen
    by Euripides
  34. 34.
    ?
    The Knights
    by Aristophanes
  35. 35.
    ?
    The Wasps
    by Aristophanes
  36. 36.
    ?
    The Assemblywomen
    by Aristophanes
  37. 37.
    Herodotus The Histories
    by Herodotus
  38. 38.
    The Peloponnesian War
    by Thucydides
  39. 39.
  41. 41.
    The Dialogues of Plato (Bantam Classic)
    by Plato
  42. 42.
    Poetics (Penguin Classics)
    by Aristotle
  43. 43.
    The Nicomachean Ethics (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Aristotle
  44. 44.
    ?
    The Girl from Samos
    by Menander
  45. 45.
    On Great Writing (On the Sublime)
    by Longinus
  46. 46.
    ?
    Hymns and epigrams (Loeb classical library)
    by Callimachus
  47. 47.
    ?
    THE IDYLLS OF THEOCRITUS.
    by James Henry. (Translator). Hallard
  48. 48.
    ?
    Plutarch's Lives: The Dryden Translation
    by Plutarch
  49. 49.
    Aesop's Fables (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Aesop
  50. 50.
    Moralia
    by Plutarch

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Created by stagebunny on Oct 26, 2006.
 

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dblk

correction — 1 year ago

I deleted Urmson’s analysis on Nicomachean Ethics and added the original text in its place.

Jul 29, 09:46AM | 0 comments | Reply to this



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