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 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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Plutarch's lives / the Dryden translation, edited with preface by Arthur Hugh Clough ; introduction by James Atlas.
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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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The Decameron
by Giovanni Boccaccio
Translated with an Introduction and Notes by G. H. McWilliam
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Le morte Darthur, or, The hoole book of Kyng Arthur and of his noble knyghtes of the Rounde Table
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