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OLD TESTAMENT of the Holy Bible
House for My Name: A Survey of the Old Testament by Peter Leithart
HOMER (12th - 9th c. BC) Iliad, Odyssey
Iliad and the Odyssey translated by Richmond Lattimore
Iliad and the Odyssey translated by Robert Fitzgerald
Heroes of the City of Man (Christian Guide to Ancient Literature) by Peter Leithart
AESCHYLUS (525-456 BC) Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, Eumenides
Heroes of the City of Man (Christian Guide to Ancient Literature) by Peter Leithart
SOPHOCLES (497-406 BC) Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
Heroes of the City of Man (Christian Guide to Ancient Literature) by Peter Leithart
HERODOTUS (480’s-420’s BC) The History translated by George Rawlinson
THUCYDIDES (460-400 BC) History of the Peloponnesian War
PLATO (428-348 BC) The Apology, Symposium, The Republic
ARISTOTLE (384-322 BC) Poetics, Metaphysics, Ethics, Politics, Constitution of Athens
Introduction to Aristotle by Richard McKeon
VIRGIL (70-19 BC) The Aeneid
Heroes of the City of Man (Christian Guide to Ancient Literature) by Peter Leithart
CICERO (106-43 BC) Orations
LUCRETIUS (95-55 BC) On the Nature of the Universe
PLUTARCH (46-120 AD) Greek and Roman Lives
Volume One and Volume Two
LIVY (46-120 AD) History of Rome
Early History of Rome (Livy Books I-V)
Rome and Italy (Livy Books VI-X)
War with Hannibal (Livy Books XXI-XXX)
Rome and the Mediterranean (Livy Books XXXI, XXXIV-XLV)
TACITUS (?-117 AD) Annals, Histories
NEW TESTAMENT of the Holy Bible
CLEMENT (Bishop of Rome 88-97 AD) Exhortation to the Greeks
MARCUS AURELIUS (167 AD) Meditations
EUSEBIUS of Caesarea (263-399 AD) Ecclesiastical History
ANTHANASIUS (297-373 AD) On the Incarnation
AUGUSTINE (354-430 AD)
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Beowulf (600-700's AD, epic poem of Germanic life)
BEDE the Venerable (673-735 AD) Ecclesiastical History of the English People
ANSELM of Canterbury (1033-1109) Proslogium, Monologium, Cur Deus Homo
BERNARD of Clairvaux (1090-1153) On Humility & Pride, On the Love of God
Song of Roland (1100’s; epic poem of peer of Charlemagne)
MAGNA CHARTA (1215) encoding the rights of English freemen
AQUINAS, Thomas (1225-1274) Summa Theologica
DANTE, Alighieri (1265-1321) The Divine Comedy
Ascent to Love (A Guide to Dante’s Divine Comedy) by Peter Leithart
CHAUCER, Geoffery (1340-1400) The Canterbury Tales
THOMAS a KEMPIS (1379-1471) On the Imitation of Christ
da VINCI, Leonardo (1452-1519) Notebooks Volume One and Volume Two
MACHIAVELLI, Niccolo (1469-1527) The Prince
ERASMUS, Desiderius (1469-1536) The Praise of Folly
MORE, Thomas (1478-1535) Utopia
LUTHER, Martin (1483-1546) 95 Theses, Answer at Wurms, Commentary on Galatians, Table Talk
Martin Luther: Selections from His Writings and Table Talk
CALVIN, John (1509-1564) Institutes of the Christian Religion
MONTAIGNE, Michel Eyquem (1533-1592) Essays
SPENSER, Edmund (1552-1599) The Faerie Queene
Fierce Wars and Faithful Loves (The Faerie Queene Book I) by Roy Maynard
The Faerie Queene: A Reader's Guide by Elizabeth Heale
BACON, Francis (1561-1626) Novum Organum, New Atlantis
SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616) Plays
Tragedies: Volume One and Tragedies: Volume Two
Comedies: Volume One and Comedies: Volume Two
Histories: Volume One and Histories: Volume Two
Brightest Heaven of Invention (Christian Guide to Six Plays) by Peter Leithart
BRADFORD, William (1590-1657) Of Plymouth Plantation
DESCARTES, Rene (1596-1650) Discourse on Method
HOBBES, Thomas (1588-1679) Leviathan
MILTON, John (1608-1674) Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, Poems
Preface to Paradise Lost by C. S. Lewis
PASCAL, Blaise (1623-1662) Pensees
Christianity for Modern Pagans: Pensees Explained by Peter Kreeft
BUNYAN, John (1628-1688) Pilgrim’s Progress
de SPINOZA, Benedict (1632-1677) Ethics
LOCKE, John (1632-1704) Two Treatises, Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Two Treatises and Concerning Human Understanding
SWIFT, Jonathan (1667-1715) Gulliver’s Travels
POPE, Alexander (1688-1744) Essay on Man
MONTESQUIEU, Charles de Secondat, Baron de (1689-1755) Spirit of Laws
VOLTAIRE, Francois (1694-1778) Candide
WESLEY, John (1703-1791) Journal
HUME, David (1711-1776) An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
ROUSSEAU, Jean (1712-1778) Social Contract
WOOLMAN, John (1720-1772) Journal
SMITH, Adam (1723-1790) Wealth of Nations
BLACKSTONE, William (1723-1780) Commentaries on Law
FRANKLIN, Benjamin (1706-1790) Poor Richard’s Almanack, Autobiography
BURKE, Edmund (1729-1797) On Conciliation with America, On the Revolution in France
PAINE, Thomas (1737-1809) Common Sense, The Crisis, The Rights of Man
AMERICAN FOUNDATIONAL DOCUMENTS:
The Constitution and Bill of Rights
HAMILTON, A.; JAY, J.; MADISON, J. (1788) The Federalist Papers
GIBBON, Edward (1737-1794) Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
BOSWELL, James (1740-1795) Life of Samuel Johnson
AUSTEN, Jane (1775-1817) Pride and Prejudice
NEWMAN, John Henry (1801-1890) Apologia Pro Vita Sua
de TOCQUEVILLE, Alexis (1805-1859) Democracy in America
MILL, John Stuart (1806-1873) On Liberty, The Subjection of Women
BASTIAT, Frederic (1801-1850) The Law
LINCOLN, Abraham (1809-1865) Speeches and Letters
DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882) Origin of Species
KIERKEGAARD, Soren (1813-1855) Fear and Trembling
THOREAU, Henry David (1817-1862) On Civil Disobedience
DOSTOYEVSKY, Fyodor (1821-1881) Brothers Karamazov
NIETZSCHE, Friedrich (1844-1900) Thus Spoke Zarathustra
WASHINGTON, Booker T. (1856-1915) Up From Slavery
CHURCHILL, Winston (1874-1965) History of the English, History of the Second World War
History of the English and History of the Second World War
LEWIS, C. S. (1888-1968) Collected Works and Essays
TOLKIEN, J. R. R. (1892-1973) The Lord of the Rings
ORWELL, George (1903-1950) Animal Farm, 1984
SARTRE, Jean Paul (1905-) No Exit
WEAVER, Henry Grady (1947) The Mainspring of Human Progress
WEAVER, Richard M. (1948) Ideas Have Consequences
SOLZHENITSYN, Alexander (1918-) One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch, Nobel Lecture
KING, Martin Luther, Jr. (1929-1968) “I Have a Dream”, Strength to Love
SCHAEFFER, Francis (1912-1984) Trilogy, How Should We Then Live?