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

"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. The Epic of Gilgamesh
by Maureen Gallery Kovacs
  
2. The Egyptian Book of the Dead
by E. A. Wallis Budge
  
3. Holy Bible: King James Version: Standard Text Edition
by Baker Publishing Group
  
4. Apocrypha
by Edgar J. Goodspeed
  
5.
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 Sayings of the Fathers (Pirke Aboth)
by Joseph H. Hertz (translation and commentary)
  
6. Mahabharata
by William Buck
  
7. The Bhagavad Gita  
8. Ramayana
by William Buck
  
9.
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 Illiad
by Homer
  
10. The Odyssey
by Homer
  
11.
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 Works and Days
by Hesiod
  
12.
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 Theogony
by Hesiod
  
13.
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 Archilochos  
14.
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 Sappho
by
 
15.
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 The Odes of Pindar
by Pindar
  
16. The Oresteia
by Aeschylus
  
17. The Seven Against Thebes (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Aeschylus
  
18. Prometheus Bound  
19. The Persians
by Aeschylus
  
20. Suppliant Women (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)
by Euripides
  
21. The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone
by Sophocles
  
22. Sophocles, 1 : Ajax, Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes (Penn Greek Drama Series)
by Sophocles
  
23. Cyclops (The Greek Tragedy in New Translations)
by Euripides
  
24. Heracles of Euripides (Focus Classical Library) (Focus Classical Library)
by Euripides
  
25. Iphigenia at Aulis
by Euripides
  
26. Three Plays of Euripides: Alcestis, Medea : The Bachae
by Paul Roche
  
27. Hecuba (Drama Classics)
by Euripides
  
28. Orestes (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)
by Euripides
  
29. Andromache (Plays of Euripides)
by Euripides
  
30.
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 Ion of Euripides
by Euripides
  
31. Euripides' Hippolytus (Focus Classical Library)
by Michael Halleran
  
32.
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 Helen
by Euripides
  
33. Four Plays by Aristophanes: The Birds; The Clouds; The Frogs; Lysistrata (Meridian Classics)
by Aristophanes
  
34.
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 The Knights
by Aristophanes
  
35.
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 The Wasps
by Aristophanes
  
36.
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 The Assemblywomen
by Aristophanes
  
37. Herodotus The Histories
by Herodotus
  
38. The Peloponnesian War
by Thucydides
  
39. Fragments (Penguin Classics)
by Heraclitus
  
40. Empedocles: The Extant Fragments (Classic Latin & Greek Texts in Paperback)  
41. The Dialogues of Plato (Bantam Classic)
by Plato
  
42. Poetics (Penguin Classics)
by Aristotle
  
43. Aristotle's Ethics
by J. O. Urmson
  
44.
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 The Girl from Samos
by Menander
  
45. On Great Writing (On the Sublime)
by Longinus
  
46.
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 Hymns and epigrams (Loeb classical library)
by Callimachus
  
47.
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 THE IDYLLS OF THEOCRITUS.
by James Henry. (Translator). Hallard
  
48.
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 Plutarch's Lives: The Dryden Translation
by Plutarch
  
49. Aesop's Fables (Oxford World's Classics)
by Aesop
  
50. Moralia
by Plutarch
  
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Created by stagebunny on Oct 26, 2006.