Anthony O'Hear, Great Books: From the Iliad and the Odyssey to Goethe's Faust: A Journey through 2,500 Years of the West's Classic Literature [2007]
22 entries: 21 monographical, one otherwise
Unranked—arranged chronologically
One of our book-as-lists, this book offers a short selection in the form of a series of essays.
Homer
- Iliad
ca. Ninth-Eighth centuries B C—Greek
- Odýsseia
The Odyssey
ca. Ninth-Eighth centuries B C—Greek
Agamemnon
part of The Oresteia; 458 B C—Greek
- Sophocles
Antigone
ca. 441 B C—Greek
- Euripides
Bakchai
The Bacchae
405 B C—Greek
Plato
- Euthyphro
early Fourth Century B C—Greek
- Apologia Socratis
The Apology
early Fourth Century B C—Greek
- Crito
early Fourth Century B C—Greek
- Phaedo
early Fourth Century B C—Greek
- Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro)
Aeneid
First Century B C—Latin
- Ovid
Metamorphoseon
Metamorphoses
8—Latin
- Augustine of Hippo
Confessionum Libri Tredecim
The Confessions of St. Augustine
written 397-98—Latin
- Dante
La Divina Commedia
The Divine Comedy
originally entitled La Commedia; written ca. 1308-21—Italian
- Geoffrey Chaucer
Canterbury Tales
1478—English
William Shakespeare
- Henry V
1599—English
- Hamlet
1602—English
- The Tempest
1611—English
- Miguel de Cervantes
El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha
Don Quixote
originally published in two volumes, 1605 and 1615—Spanish
- John Milton
Paradise Lost
1667; revised 1674—English
- Blaise Pascal
Pensées
Thoughts
1669—French
- Jean Racine
Phèdre
1677—French
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Faust
originally published in two volumes: first, Faust. Der Tragödie Erster Teil, published in part, 1790; in its entirey, 1808; revised 1829; second, Faust. Der Tragödie Zweiter Teil, 1832—German