Harold Bloom - The Western Canon: A. The Theocratic Age

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The Holy Bible: King James Version
by King James Version
16,206 members
211 reviews
4
6 Members
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2
Beowulf
by Beowulf Poet
29,302 members
362 reviews
3.8
7 Members
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3
The Iliad
by Homer
47,623 members
447 reviews
4
7 Members
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4
Fables of Aesop
by Aesop
4,275 members
58 reviews
3.9
6 Members
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5
Oedipus Rex
by Sophocles
7,602 members
81 reviews
½ 3.7
6 Members
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6
The Bhagavad Gita
by Vyasa
10,639 members
101 reviews
4
4 Members
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7
The Histories
by Herodotus
11,524 members
97 reviews
4.1
5 Members
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8
The Golden Ass
by Apuleius
5,540 members
83 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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9
The Epic of Gilgamesh
by Gilgamesh Poet
10,439 members
133 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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10
The Odyssey (Norton Critical Edition)
by Homer
368 members
4.1
4 Members
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11
Oedipus at Colonus (translation)
by Sophocles
662 members
22 reviews
½ 3.5
4 Members
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12
Antigone
by Sophocles
6,545 members
83 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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13
Plato: Complete Works
by Plato
3,172 members
11 reviews
½ 4.4
3 Members
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14
The Aeneid (translations)
by Virgil
26,808 members
229 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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15
The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights [Modern Library]
by Richard Burton
1,931 members
24 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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16
Confessions (Oxford World's Classics)
by Saint Augustine
2,761 members
24 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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17
The History of the Peloponnesian War
by Thucydides
8,957 members
69 reviews
4
3 Members
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18
Medea [in Translation]
by Euripides
3,425 members
67 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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19
The Koran (Penguin Classics)
by N. J. Dawood
971 members
3 reviews
½ 2.7
2 Members
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20
The Apocrypha [KJV]
by King James Version
1,167 members
4 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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21
The Clouds
by Aristophanes
907 members
17 reviews
½ 3.3
2 Members
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22
Lysistrata
by Aristophanes
3,221 members
48 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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23
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, Women at the Graveside, Orestes in Athens
by Aeschylus
11,737 members
87 reviews
4
2 Members
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24
The Nicomachean Ethics
by Aristotle
11,832 members
66 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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25
Poetics
by Aristotle
5,884 members
58 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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26
The Frogs by Aristophanes
3 members
2 Members
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27
Mahābhārata {retold by William Buck}
by Vyasa
554 members
3 reviews
3.8
Member
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28
City of God
by Saint Augustine
7,126 members
39 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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29
Plutarch's Lives
by Plutarch
3,005 members
32 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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30
The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic
by R. K. Narayan
1,414 members
7 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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31
The Poems of Catullus
by Catullus
3,251 members
37 reviews
4
Member
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32
The Birds [in translation]
by Aristophanes
662 members
13 reviews
3.2
Member
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33
Bacchae [Greek text]
by Euripides
367 members
3 reviews
3.8
Member
amanda4242
34
The Satyricon
by Petronius
4,064 members
42 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
tomdoniphon
35
The Poem of the Cid
by Anonymous
2,873 members
47 reviews
3.8
Member
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36
Metamorphoses [in translation]
by Ovid
15,282 members
113 reviews
4.1
Member
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37
On the Nature of Things
by Titus Lucretius Carus
5,971 members
52 reviews
3.8
Member
EGBERTINA
38
The Prose Edda
by Snorri Sturluson
3,729 members
33 reviews
4
Member
EGBERTINA
39
Nibelungenlied
by Anonymous
3,338 members
32 reviews
3.8
Member
EGBERTINA
40
The Poetic Edda
by Anonymous
3,068 members
28 reviews
4.1
Member
EGBERTINA
41
Theogony / Works and Days
by Hesiod
2,368 members
20 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
EGBERTINA
42
Prometheus Bound
by Aeschylus
1,635 members
28 reviews
3.9
Member
EGBERTINA
43
The Seven Against Thebes
by Aeschylus
406 members
11 reviews
½ 3.3
Member
EGBERTINA
44
The Assembly of Women [in translation]
by Aristophanes
195 members
2 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
EGBERTINA
45
The Suppliants
by Aeschylus
193 members
6 reviews
3.1
Member
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46
Andromache [in translation]
by Euripides
104 members
1 review
3.2
Member
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47
The Satires of Juvenal
by Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis
1,974 members
15 reviews
3.8
48
Parzival
by Wolfram von Eschenbach
1,872 members
12 reviews
3.9
49
Ars amatoria [Art of Love | in translation]
by Ovid
1,849 members
37 reviews
3.8
50
The Book of the City of Ladies
by Christine de Pizan
1,696 members
15 reviews
3.8
51
Yvain, the Knight of the Lion
by Chrétien de Troyes
1,108 members
16 reviews
3.8
52
The Odes of Horace
by Horace
967 members
7 reviews
4
53
Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead
by Raymond O. Faulkner
880 members
6 reviews
4.1
54
Alcestis
by Euripides
858 members
19 reviews
½ 3.6
55
The Odes
by Pindar
857 members
8 reviews
½ 3.5
56
Civil War
by Lucan
855 members
13 reviews
3.9
57
The Nature of the Gods
by Marcus Tullius Cicero
830 members
10 reviews
½ 3.4
58
Epigrams
by Martial
668 members
8 reviews
3.8
59
Heroides [in translation]
by Ovid
665 members
5 reviews
3.9
60
The Eclogues / The Georgics [translated text]
by Virgil
635 members
5 reviews
3.9
61
The Persians
by Aeschylus
582 members
9 reviews
½ 3.5
62
Hippolytus
by Euripides
504 members
20 reviews
½ 3.5
63
Philoctetes (translation)
by Sophokles
476 members
7 reviews
½ 3.6
64
Ajax [in translation]
by Sophocles
447 members
26 reviews
3.8
65
Iphigenia in Aulis
by Euripides
431 members
11 reviews
½ 3.7
66
Idylls
by Theocritus
425 members
7 reviews
½ 3.6
67
Moralia
by Plutarch
415 members
4.2
68
On the Sublime
by Longinus
401 members
4 reviews
½ 3.7
69
Miles Gloriosus
by Titus Maccius Plautus
271 members
6 reviews
½ 3.6
70
Women of Trachis [in translation]
by Sophocles
270 members
5 reviews
½ 3.5
71
Helen
by Euripides
245 members
4 reviews
½ 3.7
72
The Satires
by Quintus Horatius Flaccus
242 members
4 reviews
4.2
73
Herakles (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)
by Euripides
222 members
3 reviews
½ 3.6
74
Orestes
by Euripides
206 members
4 reviews
½ 3.6
76
The Epistles of Horace: Bilingual Edition
by David Ferry
196 members
2 reviews
4.2
77
Selected Satires of Lucian (The Norton Library)
by Lucian of Samosata
194 members
½ 4.4
78
Hecuba [in translation]
by Euripides
192 members
2 reviews
½ 3.3
79
Seneca: The Tragedies (Complete Roman Drama in Translation)
by Seneca
180 members
3
80
Andria
by Terenz
176 members
9 reviews
3.1
81
Cyclops
by Euripides
171 members
½ 3.3
82
Ion
by Euripides
156 members
3 reviews
3.2
83
Electra (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Sophocles
151 members
½ 3.5
84
Amphitryon [in translation]
by Titus Maccius Plautus
150 members
1 review
2.8
85
The Satires of Persius
by Aulus Persius Flaccus
143 members
1 review
3.2
86
The Knights [translations]
by Aristophanes
123 members
5 reviews
3.2
87
Pseudolus
by Titus Maccius Plautus
120 members
2 reviews
½ 3.4
88
Aristophanis Coemediae [Greek text]
by Aristophanes
114 members
2.8
89
Eunuchus
by Terence
106 members
3.8
90
Callimachus: Hymns, Epigrams, Select Fragments
by Callimachus
103 members
1 review
½ 3.6
91
Cárcel de amor
by Diego de San Pedro
90 members
3 reviews
3.2
93
The Girl from Samos
by Menander
40 members
3.2
94
The Rope
by Titus Maccius Plautus
16 members
2.8
95
Hecyra: The Mother-In-Law (English)
6 members
96
Attis
by Catullus
5 members
97
Fragments
by Empedocles) The Pre-Socratics (Heraclitus
1 member