THE GREAT BOOKS by the Access Foundation Section One Hammurabi (18th c. BC)  to John Milton (1608)

Hammurabi (c. 1790 BCE) The Code of Hammurabi Homer (c. 9th Century BCE) Online Works The Homeric Hymns Epigrams of Homer Iliad Odyssey  Epic of Gilgamesh (c. 2000 BCE) [Gilgamesh Summary] The Hebrew Bible New Revised Standard Version Revised Standard Version Multiple Versions - Bible Gateway Hesiod (fl. c. 700 BCE) Online Works  [2] Theogony Works and Days Shield of Heracles The Catalogues of Women and the Eoiae (fragments) The Divination of Birds to Idaean Dactyls The Marriage of Ceyx to Doubtful (fragments) Aesop (c. 520-460? BCE) Online Works Fables   &nb sp;   [Texts] Fables  (Illustrated) Aeschylus (c. 525-456 BCE) Online Works Tragedies Sophocles (c. 495-406 BCE)  [More info] Online Works Tragedies Herodotus (c. 484-425 BCE) Online Works History  Euripides (c. 485-406 BCE) Online Works Tragedies Thucydides (c. 460-400 BCE) Online Works History of the Peloponnesian War Hippocrates (c. 460-377? BCE) Online Works Aphorisms Law Hippocratic Oath On Airs, Waters, and Places Medical Writings Sun-Tzu (c. 450-380 BCE) Online Works The Art of War Aristophanes (c. 448-380 BCE) Online Works Comedies Plato (c. 427-347 BCE) [More info] Online Works The Republic    [tr. Benjamin Jowett] Dialogues Aristotle (384-322 BCE)  [More info] Online Works Works Epicurus (c. 341-270 BCE)  [More info] Letter to Herodotus  Letter to Menoecus Euclid (c. 365-300 BCE)  [More Bio] Online Works Elements    (Interactive version) Archimedes (c. 287-212 BCE)  [More Info] Online Works Apollonius of Perga (fl. c. 240 BCE) Conic Sections  Cicero (106-43 BCE) [Plutarch's 'Cicero'] Online Works Letters De Officiis Old Age Lucretius (c. 95-55 BCE) Online Works On the Nature of Things Virgil (70-19 BCE) Online Works Horace (65-8 BCE)   [More info] Works Livy, Titus Livius (59 BCE-CE 17) Online Works History of Rome Ovid (43 BCE-CE 17)  [More info] Online Works Plutarch (c. 45-125) Online Works Plutarch's Lives  Moralia Tacitus (c. 55-117) Online Works Histories  Annals  Agricola  Germania Nicomachus of Gerasa (fl. c. 100 CE) Online Works Introduction to Arithmetic       [G if of Greek Multiplication Table] Epictetus (c. 60-120)  [More info] Online Works Discourses Golden Sayings Enchiridion  Claudius Ptolemy (fl. 127-145) Almagest Lucian of Samosata (c. 117-c.180) Alexander the Oracle-Monger Zeus Rants Works  Marcus Aurelius (121-180) Online Works Meditations Galen of Pergamum (c. 129-216) Online Works On Hippocrates' On the Nature of Man On the Natural Faculties Exhortation to the Study of the Arts, Especially Medicine On Diagnosis in Dreams The New Testament New Revised Standard Version Revised Standard Version Multiple Versions - Bible Gateway Plotinus (205-270) The Enneads  [2]  St. Augustine (354-430) [More Bio] Online Works On the Teacher Enchiridion Confessions< /font> City of God On Christian Doctrine Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (470?-524) [More Bio] The Consolation of Philosophy The Quran (c. 650) Yusuf Ali Version Standard English Version Three Versions Side-by-Side Beowulf (c. 700-750) Beowulf_1 Beowulf_2 [Resource s for Study] [More Resources] St. Anselm (1033-1109)    [More info] Online Works Proslogion  - Gaunilo's Response to Anselm (In behalf of the Fool)  - Anselm's Response to Gaunilo (Apologetic) Monologion Cur Deus Homo On God's Existence Gottfried von Strassburg (fl. 1210) Tristan and Isolde  [Bibliography]  The Song of Roland (1185-1187)   Online Versions   2nd Copy-HTML   [PDF Version] The Nibelungenlied (c. 1200) Online Versions (Volsunga Saga - The Story of the Volsungs) The Saga of Burnt Njal (c. 13th century) Online Versions Magna Carta (1215)  Online Versions  [2]  St. Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225-1274) [More Bio] [3] Online Works Of God and His Creatures  Commentary on Aristotle's De memoria et reminiscencia On the Eternity of the World Summa Theologica      [Companion]  Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)  [More Bio] [3] Online Works The Divine Comedy Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375 ) [ More Bio] Online Works The Decameron Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340-1400) Online Works Troilus and Criseyde The Canterbury Tales    [In Middle English]  The Parliament of Fowles Complete Works with Commentary Sir Gawayne and the Grene Knight (ca. 1375-1400)   Online Versions   [2]  [PDF Version] Thomas À Kempis (1380-1471) Online Works The Imitation of Christ  Sir Thomas Malory (c. 1446-1471) Online Versions Le Morte d'Arthur v.1 Le Morte d'Arthur v.2 Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Notebooks  Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494) Oration on the Dignity of Man  [2] Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)   [More Bio] [3] Online Works The Prince Discourses on Livy        Machiavelli by Thomas Macaulay Desiderius Erasmus (1469-1536)  [More info] Online Works The Praise of Folly Colloquia - Concerning Men, Manners, and Things Complete Works Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1 543) On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres     [Dedication]  Sir Thomas More (1477-1535)  [More Bio] Online Works The History of King Richard the Third Utopia Last Letter, To Daughter Martin Luther (1483- 1546)   [More info] Online Works On the Freedom of a Christian  95 Theses The Babylonian Captivity of the Church An Open Letter to the Christian Nobility Address to the Nobility Treatise on Good Works Francois Rabelais (c. 1494-1553) Gargantua and Pantagruel   [2] John Calvin (1509-1564)  [More Bio] Online Works Institutes of the Christian Religion The Necessity of Reforming the Church Commentaries Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) Essays    [2] Apology for Raimond Sebond Of Books That We Should Not Judge of Our Happiness    Until After Our Death Of Friendship Of The Institution and Education of Children William Gilbert (1540-1603) On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) Online Works Don Quixote    H-Cervantes Online Edmund Spenser (c. 1552-1599) [More info]  [3] Online Works The Faërie Queene Amoretti and Epithalamion Selected Poetry Francis Bacon (1561-1626)  [More info] Online Works Essays< /a> Advancement of Learning Argument That Bacon Authored Shakespeare Novum Organum New Atlantis Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) Online Works Tamburlaine the Great The Jew of Malta Doctor Faustus Ovid's Elegies William Shakespeare (1564-1616)  [Bio] Online Works Poetry and Plays Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) [More Info] The Starry Messenger   [Lecture]  Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences  Johannes Kepler (157 1-1630) Epitome of Copernican Astronomy Concerning the Harmonies of the World Ben Jonson (1573-1637) Online Works Volpone The Alchemist  Essay on Shakespeare Sejanus Selected Poetry and Prose William Harvey (1578-1657) On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals On the Circulation of the Blood  On the Generation of Animals  Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)  [More info]  [Even more] Online Works The Leviathan  De Cive Dialogue Between a Philosopher and a Student... Rene Descartes (1596-1650)   [More Bio] Online Works Rules for the Direction of the Mind  Discourse on the Method  Geometry  Meditations on First Philosophy John Milton (1608-1674)   [More info] Online Works Shorter Poems Areopagitica Lycidas Of Education Paradise Lost Paradise Regained  Samson Agonistes Poetical Works Online

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