Western Canon
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- A list of books, grouped, roughly, chronologically, that follow various lists of the Western Canon. For instance, Harvard's Five Foot Shelf, The Great Books, Bloom and others all made lists of their idealised works. Various translations have been favoured. An attempt shall be made to cite those translations. The various lists include/exclude works. This list will seek to include as many options as possible. I had intended to Begin with Gilgamesh, even though it precedes the Greeks, but opted afterword to include other major works of Eastern cultures to envision the time-frame of literary progress. * I couldn't quite figure out where to put mathematical works, so have opted to put them between Ancient Greece & Ancient Rome. *Have included titles of specific Great Books Volumes, when they could be found; and other similar collections as point of references. * Have started the list broadly, such as - works of "some dead Guy". will attempt to add specific titles of said works, later, after having filled in the skeleton. *Collections have grouped their writings usually by type. I have attempted to go chronologically with exception to the mathematical works * Time-Periods are generalized- not specific. *Great Books lumps Hippocrates and Galen together, I have attempted to put them back in their correct time-lines. *The Great Books omits almost all of the Middle Ages, I will be putting some of those works back. *This list contains major and minor works with no particular preferences. This list is incomplete and continues to be developed, slowly.
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door Dante Alighieri
21,738 leden
188 besprekingen
4.1
Score 5.11
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door Sappho
1,156 leden
18 besprekingen
4
Score 4.74
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- TilleyHowland: 600's BC; Edwin Marion Cox
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door Sir Richard C. Jebb
1 lid
Score 4.45
Toegevoegd 2022-11-26, 02:03 PM
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- TilleyHowland: 400's BC; Clifton W Collins; F Storr;
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door Herodotus
4 leden
Score 4.29
Toegevoegd 2022-11-26, 02:08 PM
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- TilleyHowland: 400's BC; George C Swain
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door Marcus Aurelius
14,508 leden
150 besprekingen
4.1
Score 4.27
Toegevoegd 2022-11-29, 12:12 AM
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- TilleyHowland: 161-180 AD
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door Gilgamesh Poet
9,868 leden
119 besprekingen
3.8
Score 4
Toegevoegd 2022-11-27, 12:26 AM
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door Edmund Spenser
2,551 leden
24 besprekingen
3.8
Score 3.89
Toegevoegd 2022-12-01, 01:02 PM
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- TilleyHowland: 124-170 AD
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door Beowulf Poet
25,345 leden
333 besprekingen
3.8
Score 3.36
Toegevoegd 2022-11-26, 04:00 PM
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6 leden
Score 2.83
Toegevoegd 2022-11-27, 12:27 AM
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- TilleyHowland: 1000-500 BC
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55 leden
3.8
Score 2.68
Toegevoegd 2022-11-27, 12:28 AM
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- TilleyHowland: 800's BC
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- TilleyHowland: 800-600 BC
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- TilleyHowland: 800-600 BC
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- TilleyHowland: 800-500 BC
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- TilleyHowland: 700's BC
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door Homer
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Score 2.25
Toegevoegd 2022-11-26, 01:58 PM
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- TilleyHowland: 700's BC; W Lucas Collins
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- TilleyHowland: 700's BC; W Lucas Collins
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- TilleyHowland: 750 -650 BC; James Davies
21
door Hesiod
385 leden
3 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Score 2.11
Toegevoegd 2022-11-26, 03:33 PM
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- TilleyHowland: 750 -650 BC; H G Evelyn White; James Davies;
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- TilleyHowland: 500's; Ernest Meyers
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- TilleyHowland: 500's BC;
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door Confucius
14 leden
Score 1.97
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- TilleyHowland: 500's-400's BC
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474 leden
2 besprekingen
½ 3.5
Score 1.94
Toegevoegd 2022-11-27, 11:48 AM
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- TilleyHowland: 400's BC
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- TilleyHowland: 400's BC; Reginald Copleston; E D A Morshead; Gilbert Murray;
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door Aristophanes
1,722 leden
11 besprekingen
3.9
Score 1.87
Toegevoegd 2022-11-26, 11:55 PM
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- TilleyHowland: 400's BC Benjamin Bickley Rogers; E D A Morshead; Edward P Coleridge
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1 lid
Score 1.85
Toegevoegd 2022-11-28, 01:51 PM
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- TilleyHowland: 400's BC; Richard Crawley
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- TilleyHowland: 430-350 BC
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door Arrian
448 leden
5 besprekingen
½ 4.6
Score 1.77
Toegevoegd 2022-11-26, 07:09 PM
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- TilleyHowland: Arrian wrote in AD- but this work is about Alexander- so I have stuck it here.
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door Hippocrates of Kos
8 leden
Score 1.74
Toegevoegd 2022-11-26, 02:15 PM
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- TilleyHowland: 460's- 370's BC
34
1 lid
Score 1.71
Toegevoegd 2022-11-28, 01:52 PM
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35
door Plato
141 leden
3 besprekingen
4
Score 1.7
Toegevoegd 2022-11-26, 02:12 PM
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- TilleyHowland: 300's BC; Clifton W Collins
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door Aristotle
331 leden
1 bespreking
½ 2.5
Score 1.68
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- TilleyHowland: 300's BC
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337 leden
3.2
Score 1.67
Toegevoegd 2022-11-28, 02:26 PM
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door Aristotle
721 leden
5 besprekingen
½ 4.4
Score 1.66
Toegevoegd 2022-11-26, 02:14 PM
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- TilleyHowland: 300's BC; Sir Alexander Grant
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door Manetho
1 lid
Score 1.62
Toegevoegd 2022-11-26, 07:12 PM
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- TilleyHowland: 300's BC
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- TilleyHowland: 300's-200's BC; The only work of Menander to be mostly complete
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- TilleyHowland: 300's - 200's BC; Harold Bloom cites this on his list; I don't know why.
46
door Quintus Smyrnaeus
91 leden
1 bespreking
½ 2.5
Score 1.57
Toegevoegd 2022-11-26, 07:01 PM
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- TilleyHowland: 200's BC: A S Way
47
door Apollonius of Rhodes
2,112 leden
21 besprekingen
3.8
Score 1.56
Toegevoegd 2022-11-26, 07:00 PM
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- TilleyHowland: 200's BC; This work/author influenced Catullus, Ovid, and Virgil;
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door Theocritus
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2 besprekingen
4
Score 1.55
Toegevoegd 2022-11-26, 06:59 PM
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50
door Callimachus
94 leden
1 bespreking
½ 3.6
Score 1.54
Toegevoegd 2022-11-28, 04:28 PM
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51
door Polybius
1,545 leden
15 besprekingen
3.9
Score 1.53
Toegevoegd 2022-11-26, 07:12 PM
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- TilleyHowland: 200's-100's BC
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- TilleyHowland: 254-184 BC W Lucas Collins
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2 leden
Score 1.51
Toegevoegd 2022-11-27, 01:32 PM
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door Peter Brown
2 leden
Score 1.5
Toegevoegd 2022-11-26, 03:41 PM
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- TilleyHowland: 100's BC
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- TilleyHowland: 100's BC
56
door Terence
17 leden
3
Score 1.49
Toegevoegd 2022-11-26, 03:43 PM
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- TilleyHowland: 100's BC; W Lucas Collins
58
1,300 leden
4 besprekingen
3.8
Score 1.48
Toegevoegd 2022-11-26, 07:23 PM
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- TilleyHowland: 106 -7 BC
59
door Julius Caesar
484 leden
7 besprekingen
4.2
Score 1.47
Toegevoegd 2022-11-26, 07:31 PM
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- TilleyHowland: 100 BC 44 AD
60
door Anthony Trollope
16 leden
1 bespreking
4
Score 1.46
Toegevoegd 2022-11-26, 04:04 PM
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- TilleyHowland: 100-44 BC
61
332 leden
½ 4.5
Score 1.46
Toegevoegd 2022-11-28, 01:53 PM
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- TilleyHowland: Lucretius is BC- Aurelius is AD
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- TilleyHowland: 99-55 BC
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- TilleyHowland: 84-54 BC
64
door Sallust
145 leden
1 bespreking
½ 3.4
Score 1.44
Toegevoegd 2022-11-26, 07:29 PM
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- TilleyHowland: 86-35 BC
65
door Virgil
292 leden
1 bespreking
½ 4.3
Score 1.43
Toegevoegd 2022-11-28, 01:53 PM
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- TilleyHowland: 70-21 BC
66
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67
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- TilleyHowland: 65 -8 BC; Theodore Martin
70
door Strabo Strabo
1 lid
Score 1.4
Toegevoegd 2022-11-26, 07:22 PM
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- TilleyHowland: 64 BC - 24 AD
71
24 leden
Score 1.4
Toegevoegd 2022-11-26, 07:21 PM
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- TilleyHowland: 60- 7 BC
72
door Diodoro Sículo
17 leden
2
Score 1.39
Toegevoegd 2022-11-26, 07:10 PM
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- TilleyHowland: 60-30 BC
73
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- TilleyHowland: 59 BC
74
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- TilleyHowland: 59 BC- 17 AD
75
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- TilleyHowland: 41 BC- 18 AD; Rev. Alfred John Church
76
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- TilleyHowland: 41 BC-18 AD; Rev. Alfred John Church
77
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- TilleyHowland: 41 BC- 18 AD; Rev. Alfred John Church
78
25 leden
½ 4.3
Score 1.36
Toegevoegd 2022-11-26, 07:23 PM
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- TilleyHowland: 4 BC - 65 AD
80
door Euclid
1,096 leden
6 besprekingen
½ 4.4
Score 1.36
Toegevoegd 2022-11-26, 02:22 PM
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84
door Ivor Bulmer-Thomas
122 leden
2 besprekingen
½ 4.5
Score 1.34
Toegevoegd 2022-11-26, 07:07 PM
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86
door Anonymous
875 leden
4 besprekingen
3.8
Score 1.33
Toegevoegd 2022-11-27, 03:45 PM
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- TilleyHowland: 400's BC - 200's AD. decided to throw in after mathematicians
87
door Seneca
166 leden
3
Score 1.33
Toegevoegd 2022-11-26, 03:54 PM
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- TilleyHowland: 4-65 AD
88
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- TilleyHowland: 23-79 AD
89
door Petronius Arbiter
3,474 leden
34 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Score 1.32
Toegevoegd 2022-11-26, 03:55 PM
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- TilleyHowland: Harold Bloom; 27-66 AD;
90
116 leden
3.1
Score 1.31
Toegevoegd 2022-11-28, 07:05 PM
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- TilleyHowland: 34-62 AD
91
1 lid
Score 1.31
Toegevoegd 2022-11-26, 07:25 PM
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- TilleyHowland: 35-59 AD
92
door Clement of Rome
19 leden
4.2
Score 1.31
Toegevoegd 2022-11-26, 07:32 PM
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- TilleyHowland: 35-99 AD
93
door Flavius Josephus
5,733 leden
23 besprekingen
3.9
Score 1.3
Toegevoegd 2022-11-26, 07:11 PM
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- TilleyHowland: 37-100 AD
94
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- TilleyHowland: 38-104 AD
95
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- TilleyHowland: 39-65 AD
96
door Longinus
356 leden
3 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Score 1.29
Toegevoegd 2022-11-28, 04:17 PM
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- TilleyHowland: First Century AD; some question as to authorship; one potential proposal was that it might have been Plutarch himself.
97
door Plutarch
2,432 leden
27 besprekingen
4.1
Score 1.29
Toegevoegd 2022-11-28, 01:53 PM
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- TilleyHowland: 46-119 AD
98
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- TilleyHowland: 46-119 AD
100
1,778 leden
14 besprekingen
3.8
Score 1.28
Toegevoegd 2022-11-28, 07:26 PM
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- TilleyHowland: 55- 127 AD