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K McQuage's "New Lifetime Reading Plan"

My version of the list, with the editions I personally want to use and selections from the further reading.

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1. The Epic of Gilgamesh: An English Verison with an Introduction (Penguin Classics)
by Anonymous
  
2. Gods, Graves & Scholars: The Story of Archaeology
by C.W. Ceram
  
3. Ancient Mesopotamia: Portrait of a Dead Civilization
by Erica Reiner
  
4. The Iliad (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
by Homer
  
5. The Odyssey
by Homer
  
6. The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature
by M. C. Howatson
  
7. Mythology
by Edith Hamilton
  
8. Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture Volume I: Archaic Greece: The Mind of Athens
by Werner Jaeger
  
9.
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 Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture: Vol II: In Search of the Divine Centre
by Werner; Highet, Gilbert Jaeger
  
10. The Analects (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Confucius
  
11. A Short History of Chinese Philosophy
by Yu-lan Fung
  
12.
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 The World of Thought in Ancient China (Belknap Press)
by Benjamin I. Schwartz
  
13. Confucius: The Secular As Sacred (Religious Traditions of the World)
by Herbert Fingarette
  
14. The Complete Greek Tragedies : A Centennial Edition
by David Grene
  
15. Greek Tragedy
by H. D. F. Kitto
  
16.
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 Sophoclean tragedy
by C. M Bowra
  
17. Oedipus: The Ancient Legend and Its Later Analogues
by Lowell Edmunds
  
18.
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 Euripides and His Age
by Gilbert Murray
  
19. Euripides and the Tragic Tradition (Wisconsin Studies in Classics)
by Anne Norris Michelini
  
20. The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories
by Robert B. Strassler
  
21. The Ancient Greek Historians
by J. B. Bury
  
22.
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 Herodotus: Father of History.
by J.L. Myres
  
23.
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 The Landmark Thucydides  
24.
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 Historical Commentary on Thucydides. 5 Vols.
by A.W. Gomme
  
25. A Commentary on Thucydides Volume I: Books I - III (Commentary on Thucydides)
by Simon Hornblower
  
26. A Commentary on Thucydides: Volume II: Books IV-V. 24
by Simon Hornblower
  
27.
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 A Commentary on Thucydides
by Simon Hornblower
  
28. Sun-Tzu: The Art of War (Classics of Ancient China)  
29. The Seven Military Classics of Ancient China (History and Warfare)  
30. Four Comedies (Ann Arbor Paperbacks)
by Aristophanes
  
31.
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 Three Comedies (Ann Arbor Paperbacks)
by Aristophanes
  
32.
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 The Dialogues of Plato [Box Set] Translated Into English by B. Jowett, M.A. (unabridged in two volumes)  
33.
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 Greek Philosophers
by Rex Warner
  
34. The Trial of Socrates
by I.F. Stone
  
35. The Basic Works of Aristotle (Modern Library Classics)
by Aristotle
  
36. Aristotle and His Philosophy
by Abraham Edel
  
37. Mencius (Penguin Classics)
by Anonymous
  
38. Tao Te Ching (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature)
by Lao-Tzu
  
39. The Ramayana of Valmiki: An Epic of Ancient India, Volume 1: Balakanda  
40.
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 The Ramayana of Valmiki: An Epic of Ancient India, Volume 2: Ayodhyakanda
by Shri Valmiki
  
41. A History Of Indian Literature: From Vedic Times To The Present Day
by Herbert H. Gowen
  
42. The Wonder that was India: A Survey of the Culture of the Indian Sub-Continent Before the Coming of the Muslims
by A. L. Basham
  
43.
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 "Mahabharata" of Vyasa
by P. Lal
  
44. The Bhagavad-Gita : Krishna's Counsel in Time of War
by Barbara Miller
  
45. Records of the Grand Historian: Qin Dynasty
by Qian Sima
  
46. Records of the Grand Historian
by Sima Qian
  
47.
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 Ssu-ma Ch'ien: Grand Historian of China.
by Burton. WATSON
  
48.
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 Chinese Traditional Historiography
by Charles S. Gardner
  
49.
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 Historians of China and Japan
by W.G.; Pulleyblank, E.G. (eds) Beasley
  
50. The Way Things Are: The De Rerum Natura
by Lucretius
  
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Created by K McQuage on Jun 30, 2009.