THE GREAT BOOKS
by the Access Foundation
Section One
Hammurabi (18th c. BC)
to John Milton (1608)
Hammurabi (c. 1790 BCE)
The Code of HammurabiHomer (c. 9th Century BCE)
Online Works
The Homeric Hymns
Epigrams of Homer
Iliad
OdysseyEpic of Gilgamesh (c. 2000 BCE)
[Gilgamesh Summary]The Hebrew Bible
New Revised Standard Version
Revised Standard Version
Multiple Versions - Bible GatewayHesiod (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
TragediesSophocles (c. 495-406 BCE) [More info]
Online Works
TragediesHerodotus (c. 484-425 BCE)
Online Works
HistoryEuripides (c. 485-406 BCE)
Online Works
TragediesThucydides (c. 460-400 BCE)
Online Works
History of the Peloponnesian WarHippocrates (c. 460-377? BCE)
Online Works
Aphorisms
Law
Hippocratic Oath
On Airs, Waters, and Places
Medical WritingsSun-Tzu (c. 450-380 BCE)
Online Works
The Art of WarAristophanes (c. 448-380 BCE)
Online Works
ComediesPlato (c. 427-347 BCE) [More info]
Online Works
The Republic [tr. Benjamin Jowett]
DialoguesAristotle (384-322 BCE) [More info]
Online Works
WorksEpicurus (c. 341-270 BCE) [More info]
Letter to Herodotus
Letter to MenoecusEuclid (c. 365-300 BCE) [More Bio]
Online Works
Elements (Interactive version)Archimedes (c. 287-212 BCE) [More Info]
Online WorksApollonius of Perga (fl. c. 240 BCE)
Conic SectionsCicero (106-43 BCE) [Plutarch's 'Cicero']
Online Works
Letters
De Officiis
Old AgeLucretius (c. 95-55 BCE)
Online Works
On the Nature of ThingsVirgil (70-19 BCE)
Online WorksLivy, Titus Livius (59 BCE-CE 17)
Online Works
History of RomeOvid (43 BCE-CE 17) [More info]
Online WorksPlutarch (c. 45-125)
Online Works
Plutarch's Lives
MoraliaTacitus (c. 55-117)
Online Works
Histories
Annals
Agricola
GermaniaNicomachus 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
EnchiridionClaudius Ptolemy (fl. 127-145)
AlmagestLucian of Samosata (c. 117-c.180)
Alexander the Oracle-Monger
Zeus Rants
WorksMarcus Aurelius (121-180)
Online Works
MeditationsGalen 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 DreamsThe New Testament
New Revised Standard Version
Revised Standard Version
Multiple Versions - Bible GatewayPlotinus (205-270)
The Enneads [2]St. Augustine (354-430) [More Bio]
Online Works
On the Teacher
Enchiridion
Confessions< /font>
City of God
On Christian DoctrineAnicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (470?-524) [More Bio]
The Consolation of PhilosophyThe Quran (c. 650)
Yusuf Ali Version
Standard English Version
Three Versions Side-by-SideBeowulf (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 ExistenceGottfried 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 VersionsMagna 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 ComedyGiovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375 ) [ More Bio]
Online Works
The DecameronGeoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340-1400)
Online Works
Troilus and Criseyde
The Canterbury Tales [In Middle English]
The Parliament of Fowles
Complete Works with CommentarySir Gawayne and the Grene Knight (ca. 1375-1400)
Online Versions
[2] [PDF Version]Thomas À Kempis (1380-1471)
Online Works
The Imitation of ChristSir Thomas Malory (c. 1446-1471)
Online Versions
Le Morte d'Arthur v.1
Le Morte d'Arthur v.2Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
NotebooksGiovanni 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 MacaulayDesiderius Erasmus (1469-1536) [More info]
Online Works
The Praise of Folly
Colloquia - Concerning Men, Manners, and Things
Complete WorksNicolaus 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 DaughterMartin 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 WorksFrancois 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
CommentariesMichel 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 ChildrenWilliam Gilbert (1540-1603)
On the Loadstone and Magnetic BodiesMiguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)
Online Works
Don Quixote
H-Cervantes OnlineEdmund Spenser (c. 1552-1599) [More info] [3]
Online Works
The Faërie Queene
Amoretti and Epithalamion
Selected PoetryFrancis Bacon (1561-1626) [More info]
Online Works
Essays< /a>
Advancement of Learning
Argument That Bacon Authored Shakespeare
Novum Organum
New AtlantisChristopher Marlowe (1564-1593)
Online Works
Tamburlaine the Great
The Jew of Malta
Doctor Faustus
Ovid's ElegiesWilliam Shakespeare (1564-1616)
[Bio]
Online Works
Poetry and PlaysGalileo Galilei (1564-1642) [More Info]
The Starry Messenger [Lecture]
Dialogues Concerning Two New SciencesJohannes Kepler (157 1-1630)
Epitome of Copernican Astronomy
Concerning the Harmonies of the WorldBen Jonson (1573-1637)
Online Works
Volpone
The Alchemist
Essay on Shakespeare
Sejanus
Selected Poetry and ProseWilliam Harvey (1578-1657)
On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
On the Circulation of the Blood
On the Generation of AnimalsThomas 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 PhilosophyJohn 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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