Literary critic Harold Bloom’s controversial list of the books that shaped Western culture, from his The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages. I have tried to list inexpensive English-language editions whenever possible. Occasionally the edition or translator will not precisely match that specified by Bloom; this seems unavoidable. (found at: http://www.literarycritic.com/bloom.htm)
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The Epic of Gilgamesh (Penguin Classics)
by Anonymous
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The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Book of Going Forth by Day
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The Holy Bible King James Version: 1611 Edition
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Apocrypha
by Edgar J. Goodspeed
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Pirke Aboth, The Ethics of the Talmud: Sayings of the Fathers
by R. Travers Herford
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The Iliad (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
by Homer
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The Odyssey
by Homer
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Hesiod : Theogony, Works and Days, Shield
by Hesiod
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Archilochos, Sappho, Alkman: Three Lyric Poets of the Late Greek Bronze Age
by Guy Davenport
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The Odes (Penguin Classics L209)
by Pindar
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The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides (Penguin Classics)
by Aeschylus
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Seven Against Thebes (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)
by Aeschylus
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Prometheus Bound (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)
by Aeschylus
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Persians (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)
by Aeschylus
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The Suppliant women
by Aeschylus
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The Theban Plays: King Oedipus; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone (Penguin Classics)
by Sophocles
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Sophocles, 1 : Ajax, Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes (Penn Greek Drama Series)
by Sophocles
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Euripides, Volume I. Cyclops. Alcestis. Medea (Loeb Classical Library No. 12)
by Euripides
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Children of Heracles. Hippolytus. Andromache. Hecuba (Loeb Classical Library)
by Euripides
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Euripides, Volume IV. Trojan Women. Iphigenia among the Taurians. Ion (Loeb Classical Library No. 10)
by Euripides
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Euripides, 1: Medea, Hecuba, Andromache, the Bacchae (Penn Greek Drama Series) (Penn Greek Drama Series)
by Euripides
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Euripides, 2 : Hippolytus, Suppliant Women, Helen, Electra, Cyclops (Penn Greek Drama Series)
by Euripides
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Four Plays by Aristophanes: The Birds; The Clouds; The Frogs; Lysistrata (Meridian Classics)
by Aristophanes
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The Knights of Aristophanes
by Aristophanes
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Clouds. Wasps. Peace (Loeb Classical Library)
by Aristophanes
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Aristophanes: Frogs. Assemblywomen. Wealth. (Loeb Classical Library No. 180)
by Aristophanes
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Herodotus The Histories
by Herodotus
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The History of the Peloponnesian War: Revised Edition (Penguin Classics)
by Thucydides
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The Collected Dialogues of Plato: Including the Letters (Bollingen Series LXXI)
by Plato
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Poetics (Penguin Classics)
by Aristotle
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The Ethics of Aristotle: The Nicomachean Ethics (Penguin Classics)
by Aristotle
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Menander : The Grouch, Desperately Seeking Justice, Closely Cropped Locks, the Girl from Samos, the Shield (Penn Greek Drama Series)
by Athens Menander
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Aristotle:Poetics.; Longinus: On the Sublime; Demetrius: On Style (Loeb Classical Library No. 199)
by Aristotle
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Callimachus: Hymns and Epigrams, Lycophron and Aratus (Loeb Classical Library No. 129)
by Callimachus
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Greek Bucolic Poets: Theocritus. Bion. Moschus (Loeb Classical Library No. 28)
by Theocritus
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Plutarch Lives, IX, Demetrius and Antony. Pyrrhus and Gaius Marius (Loeb Classical Library)
by Plutarch
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Plutarch: Moralia, Volume I (The Education of Children. How the Young Man Should Study Poetry. On Listening to Lectures. How to Tell a Flatterer from a ... in Virtue) (Loeb Classical Library No. 197)
by Plutarch
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The Complete Fables (Penguin Classics)
by Aesop
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Selected Satires of Lucian (The Norton Library)
by Lucian
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Plautus: The Little Carthaginian.Pseudolus. The Rope. (Loeb Classical Library No. 260)
by Plautus
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Amphitryon, and Two Other Plays (The Norton Library, N601)
by Titus Maccius Plautus
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The Comedies (Penguin Classics)
by Terence
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The Way Things Are: The De Rerum Natura
by Lucretius
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The Nature of the Gods (Penguin Classics)
by Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Odes and Epodes (Loeb Classical Library)
by Horace
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Horace: Satires, Epistles and Ars Poetica (Loeb Classical Library No. 194)
by Horace
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Juvenal and Persius (Loeb Classical Library #91)
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Catullus, Tibullus, Pervigilium Veneris (Loeb Classical Library No. 6)
by Gaius Valerius Catullus
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The Aeneid (Penguin Classics)
by Virgil
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The Eclogues: Dual Language Edition (Penguin Classics)
by Virgil
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