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Loading... Britannica Great Books 54 Volume Setby Robert Maynard Hutchins
None. The Great Books are all you need to give yourself a liberal arts education. I'm so happy to be adding this set of books to my shelf. ( )Just the documents. Good collection, but some of the translation are dated or not up to the latest scholarly standards. Here are the titles of my set: 54 Volumes: Volume 1: The Great Conversation Volume 2: The Great Ideas I Volume 3: The Great Ideas II Volume 4: Homer Volume 5: Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes Volume 6: Herodotus, Thucydides Volume 7: Plato Volume 8: Aristotle I Volume 9: Aristotle II Volume 10: Hippocrates, Galen Volume 11: Euclid, Archimedes, Apollonius, Nicomachus Volume 12: Lucretius, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius Volume 13: Virgil Volume 14: Plutarch Volume 15: Tacitus Volume 16: Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler Volume 17: Plotinus Volume 18: Augustine Volume 19: Thomas Aquinas I Volume 20: Thomas Aquinas II Volume 21: Dante Volume 22: Chaucer Volume 23: Machiavelli, Hobbes Volume 24: Rabelais Volume 25: Montaigne Volume 26: Shakespeare I Volume 27: Shakespeare II Volume 28: Gilbert, Galileo, Harvey Volume 29: Cervantes Volume 30: Francis Bacon Volume 31: Descartes, Spinoza Volume 32: Milton Volume 33: Pascal Volume 34: Newton, Huygens Volume 35: Locke, Berkeley, Hume Volume 36: Swift, Sterne Volume 37: Fielding Volume 38: Montesquieu, Rousseau Volume 39: Adam Smith Volume 40: Gibbon I Volume 41: Gibbon II Volume 42: Kant Volume 43: American State Papers, The Federalist, J. S. Mill Volume 44: Boswell Volume 45: Lavoisier, Fourier, Faraday Volume 46: Hegel Volume 47: Goethe Volume 48: Melville Volume 49: Darwin Volume 50: Marx Volume 51: Tolstoy Volume 52: Dostoevsky Volume 53: William James Volume 54: Freud no reviews | add a review ContainsBritannica Great Books: The Great Conversation by Robert Maynard Hutchins Britannica Great Books: Syntopicon I by Mortimer Jerome Adler Britannica Great Books: Syntopicon II by Mortimer J. Adler The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer The Odyssey by Homer (indirect) The Odyssey, Books 13-24 by Homer (indirect) The Odyssey: Books 1-12 (The Loeb Classical Library, No 104) by Homer (indirect) De dolinge van Ulysse : Homerus' Odysseia I-XVIII in Nederlandse verzen van Dierick Volckertsz. Coornhert by Homer (indirect) The Iliad: Volume II, Books 13-24 (Loeb Classical Library No. 171) by Homer (indirect) Britannica Great Books: Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes by Aeschylus Agamemnon; Choephori; Eumenides; The Persians; Prometheus Bound; Seven Against Thebes; and The Suppliants by Aeschylus (indirect) The Oresteia Trilogy: Agamemnon, Choephoroe, and Eumenides; and Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus (indirect) The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides by Aeschylus (indirect) Agamemnon by Aeschylus (indirect) Eumenides by Aeschylus (indirect) Choephori by Aeschylus (indirect) The Oresteia of Aeschylus. Vol. 1 by Aeschylus (indirect) The Oresteia of Aeschylus. Vol. 2 by Aeschylus (indirect) Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus (indirect) The Persians; Prometheus Bound; Seven Against Thebes; The Suppliants by Aeschylus (indirect) Persians by Aeschylus (indirect) The Seven Against Thebes by Aeschylus (indirect) The Suppliants by Aeschylus (indirect) The Complete Plays of Sophocles by Sophocles (indirect) The Three Theban Plays: Antigone ; Oedipus at Colonus ; Oedipus the King by Sophocles (indirect) Oedipus the King by Sophocles (indirect) Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles (indirect) Antigone by Sophocles (indirect) Electra by Sophocles (indirect) Trachiniae [in Greek] by Sophocles (indirect) Philoctetes by Sophocles (indirect) Euripides by Euripides (indirect) Rhesus by Euripides (indirect) Hippolytus by Euripides (indirect) Alcestis by Euripides (indirect) The Children of Heracles by Euripides (indirect) The Suppliant Women by Euripides (indirect) The Trojan Women by Euripides (indirect) Bacchae by Euripides (indirect) Electra by Euripides (indirect) Heracles by Euripides (indirect) Hecuba by Euripides (indirect) Cyclops by Euripides (indirect) Orestes by Euripides (indirect) Iphigenia in Tauris by Euripides (indirect) Iphigenia in Aulis by Euripides (indirect) Andromache by Euripides (indirect) The Phoenician Women by Euripides (indirect) The Complete Plays of Aristophanes by Aristophanes (indirect) The Acharnians by Aristophanes (indirect) The Knights by Aristophanes (indirect) The Clouds by Aristophanes (indirect) The Wasps by Aristophanes (indirect) Peace by Aristophanes (indirect) The Birds by Aristophanes (indirect) Lysistrata by Aristophanes (indirect) The Women at the Thesmophoria by Aristophanes (indirect) The Frogs by Aristophanes (indirect) The Assembly-Women by Aristophanes (indirect) Wealth by Aristophanes (indirect) Britannica Great Books: Herodotus and Thucydides by Herodotus The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides (indirect) Het Siciliaanse Avontuur : Uit de historie van de Peloponnesische oorlog by Thucydides (indirect) The Histories by Herodotus (indirect) Historiae 1: Clio by Herodotus (indirect) Historiae 2: Euterpe by Herodotus (indirect) Historiae 3: Thalia by Herodotus (indirect) Historiae 4: Melpomene by Herodotus (indirect) L'Enquête. Livres V à IX by Hérodote (indirect) Historiae 6: Erato by Herodotus (indirect) Historiae 7: Polymnia by Herodotus (indirect) Historiae 8: Urania by Herodotus (indirect) Historiae 9: Calliope by Herodotus (indirect) Historiae 5: Terpsichore by Herodotus (indirect) Britannica Great Books: Plato by Plato The Charmides by Plato (indirect) Protagoras by Plato (indirect) Euthydemus by Plato (indirect) Dialogues of Plato, The: Translated into English with Analyses and Introductions. In Five Volumes, Vol. V by Benjamin Jowett
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0852295316, Hardcover)There is no better way to own and appreciate the world's greatest written works. Great Books of the Western World is one of the most acclaimed publishing feats of our time. Authoritative, accurate, and complete, this collection represents the essential core of the Western literary canon, compiling 517 of the most significant achievements in literature, history, philosophy, and science into a color-coded set as handsome as it is affordable. From the ancient classics to the newest masterpieces of the 20th century, Great Books traces the ideas, stories, and discoveries that have shaped modern civilization. Volumes 1 and 2 of this collection is the Syntopicon, a unique two-volume guide (not sold separately) that enables you to investigate a particular idea and compare what different authors have to say about it. The Syntopicon comprises a new kind of reference work -- accomplishing for ideas what the dictionary accomplishes for words and the encyclopaedia accomplishes for facts. Also included is the Great Conversation, featuring fascinating background information, extensive timelines, photos, and quotes from the classic works and their authors. 60 volumes Individual Volume Size: 9 1/2" H x 1"-2" W (Across Spine) x 6 1/2" D Overall Width of Set: 65"(5'5") Special colors on the Great Books' spines guide you quickly to the four subject areas -(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 08 Apr 2011 04:20:07 -0400) No library descriptions found. |
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