The Great Books I: Antiquity through the Middle Ages

Explore essential works from antiquity through the Middle Ages with this curated list, featuring Beowulf, The Aeneid, The Decameron, and the ESV Bible. Discover classic books, poetry, and fiction by Virgil, Boccaccio, and Heaney that define medieval and ancient literature.

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ESV

by Crossway Bibles

Combining the best and most recent evangelical Christian scholarship with the highly regarded ESV text, the ESV Study Bible is the most comprehensive study Bible ever published.
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The complete fables

 

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The Oresteia

 

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The Histories

 

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Four plays

 

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The Peloponnesian War

by Thucydides

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Four plays

 

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The Republic

 

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Nicomachean ethics

 

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The Aeneid

by Virgil

"Fitzgerald's [translation] is so decisively the best modern Aeneid that it is unthinkable that anyone will want to use any other version for a long time to come." —New York Review of Books Virgil's great epic transforms the Homeric tradition into a triumphal statement of the Roman civilizing mission—translated by Robert Fitzgerald.
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Metamorphoses (Oxford World's Classics)

by Ovid

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The Annals

 

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Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2 (Modern Library Classics)

 

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Meditations

 

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Confessions (Penguin Classics)

by Augustine of Hippo

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The city of God against the pagans

 

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Beowulf

by Seamus Heaney

Presents a new translation of the Anglo-Saxon epic chronicling the heroic adventures of Beowulf, the Scandinavian warrior who saves his people from the ravages of the monster Grendel and Grendel's mother.
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Proslogion

 

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The song of Roland

 

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Aquinas's Shorter Summa

 

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The Divine Comedy

 

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The Decameron

by Giovanni Boccaccio

Translated with an Introduction and Notes by G. H. McWilliam
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The Canterbury tales

 

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