Great Books of the Western World

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Great Books of the Western World is a series of books originally published in the United States in 1952 by Encyclopædia Britannica Inc. to present the western canon in a single package of 54 volumes. The series is now in its second edition and contains 60 volumes. The list of Great Books is maintained by the Great Books Foundation, and is part of the Great Books curriculum.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Books_of_the_Western_World

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  1. 1.
    The Iliad (Penguin Classics)
    by Homer

  2. 2.
    The Odyssey (Penguin Classics)
    by Homer

  3. 3.
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    The Suppliants
    by Aeschylus

  4. 4.
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    The Persians
    by Aeschylus

  5. 5.
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    The Seven Against Thebes
    by Aeschylus

  6. 6.
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    Prometheus Bound
    by Aeschylus

  7. 8.
    The Oedipus Trilogy
    by Sophocles

  8. 9.
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    Ajax
    by Sophocles

  9. 10.
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    Electra
    by Sophocles

  10. 11.
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    The Trachinaie
    by Sophocles

  11. 12.
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    Philoctetes
    by Sophocles

  12. 13.
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    Rhesus
    by Euripides

  13. 14.

  14. 15.
    Euripides' Hippolytus
    by Euripides

  15. 16.
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    Alcestis
    by Euripides

  16. 17.
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    The Heracleidae
    by Euripides

  17. 18.
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    Euripides - The Suppliant Women

  18. 19.
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    Euripides-Trojan Women

  19. 20.
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    Ion
    by Euripides

  20. 21.
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    Helen
    by Euripides

  21. 22.
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    Andromache
    by Euripides

  22. 23.
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    Electra
    by Euripides

  23. 24.
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    The Bacchantes
    by Euripides

  24. 25.
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    Hecuba
    by Euripides

  25. 26.
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    Heracles
    by Euripides

  26. 27.
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    The Phoenician Women (Phoenissae)
    by Euripides

  27. 28.
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    Orestes
    by Euripides

  28. 29.
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    Iphigenia in Tauris
    by Euripides

  29. 30.
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    Iphigenia at Aulis
    by Euripides

  30. 31.
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    The Cyclops
    by Euripides

  31. 32.
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    Acharnians
    by Aristophanes

  32. 33.
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    Knights (Aristophanes)

  33. 34.
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    The Clouds
    by Aristophanes

  34. 35.
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    The Wasps
    by Aristophanes

  35. 36.
    Aristophanes: Peace

  36. 37.
    Aristophanes : The Birds
    by Aristophanes

  37. 38.
    Aristophanes Frogs (Focus Classical Library)
    by Aristophanes

  38. 39.
    Lysistrata
    by Aristophanes

  39. 40.
    Aristophanes Thesmophoriazusae

  40. 42.
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    Plutus (Aristophanes)

  41. 43.
    The Histories, Revised (Penguin Classics)
    by Herodotus

  42. 44.
    The History of the Peloponnesian War
    by Thucydides

  43. 45.
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    Plato's Charmides (Cambridge classical studies)
    by T. Godfrey Tuckey

  44. 46.
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    Plato's Lysis (Greek Commentaries)
    by William H. Race

  45. 47.
    The Laches of Plato, with introduction and notes
    by Plato.

  46. 49.
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    Euthydemus (Plato)

  47. 50.

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