Western Canon
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- A list of books, grouped, roughly, chronologically, that follow various lists of the Western Canon. For instance, Harvard's Five Foot Shelf, The Great Books, Bloom and others all made lists of their idealised works. Various translations have been favoured. An attempt shall be made to cite those translations. The various lists include/exclude works. This list will seek to include as many options as possible. I had intended to Begin with Gilgamesh, even though it precedes the Greeks, but opted afterword to include other major works of Eastern cultures to envision the time-frame of literary progress. * I couldn't quite figure out where to put mathematical works, so have opted to put them between Ancient Greece & Ancient Rome. *Have included titles of specific Great Books Volumes, when they could be found; and other similar collections as point of references. * Have started the list broadly, such as - works of "some dead Guy". will attempt to add specific titles of said works, later, after having filled in the skeleton. *Collections have grouped their writings usually by type. I have attempted to go chronologically with exception to the mathematical works * Time-Periods are generalized- not specific. *Great Books lumps Hippocrates and Galen together, I have attempted to put them back in their correct time-lines. *The Great Books omits almost all of the Middle Ages, I will be putting some of those works back. *This list contains major and minor works with no particular preferences. This list is incomplete and continues to be developed, slowly.
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- TilleyHowland: 1265-1321 AD
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- TilleyHowland: 600's BC; Edwin Marion Cox
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by Sophocles
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19 reviews
4.2
Score 4.45
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- TilleyHowland: 400's BC; Clifton W Collins; F Storr;
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by Herodotus
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1 review
Score 4.29
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- TilleyHowland: 400's BC; George C Swain
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- TilleyHowland: 161-180 AD
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- TilleyHowland: 1590
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- TilleyHowland: 124-170 AD
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Score 2.83
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- TilleyHowland: 1000-500 BC
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69 members
1 review
3.8
Score 2.68
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- TilleyHowland: 800's BC
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- TilleyHowland: 800-600 BC
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by Anonymous
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- TilleyHowland: 800-600 BC
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- TilleyHowland: 800-500 BC
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- TilleyHowland: 700's BC
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- TilleyHowland: 700's BC; W Lucas Collins
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- TilleyHowland: 700's BC; W Lucas Collins
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- TilleyHowland: 750 -650 BC; James Davies
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- TilleyHowland: 750 -650 BC; H G Evelyn White; James Davies;
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- TilleyHowland: 500's; Ernest Meyers
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- TilleyHowland: 500's BC;
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by Confucius
21 members
Score 1.97
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- TilleyHowland: 500's-400's BC
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547 members
2 reviews
½ 3.5
Score 1.94
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- TilleyHowland: 400's BC
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- TilleyHowland: 400's BC; Reginald Copleston; E D A Morshead; Gilbert Murray;
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- TilleyHowland: 400's BC Benjamin Bickley Rogers; E D A Morshead; Edward P Coleridge
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by Herodotus
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3.8
Score 1.85
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- TilleyHowland: 400's BC:
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- TilleyHowland: 400's BC; Richard Crawley
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- TilleyHowland: 430-350 BC
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by Arrian
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5 reviews
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Score 1.77
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- TilleyHowland: Arrian wrote in AD- but this work is about Alexander- so I have stuck it here.
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Score 1.74
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- TilleyHowland: 460's- 370's BC
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461 members
1 review
½ 3.6
Score 1.71
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- TilleyHowland: 300's BC
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by Plato
177 members
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Score 1.7
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- TilleyHowland: 300's BC; Clifton W Collins
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by Aristotle
395 members
1 review
½ 2.5
Score 1.68
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- TilleyHowland: 300's BC
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by Aristotle
396 members
½ 3.6
Score 1.67
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- TilleyHowland: 300's BC;
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by Aristotle
788 members
4 reviews
½ 4.4
Score 1.66
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- TilleyHowland: 300's BC; Sir Alexander Grant
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- TilleyHowland: 300's BC
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by Manetho
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Score 1.62
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- TilleyHowland: 300's BC
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- TilleyHowland: 300's BC
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- TilleyHowland: 300's-200's BC; The only work of Menander to be mostly complete
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- TilleyHowland: 300's - 200's BC; Harold Bloom cites this on his list; I don't know why.
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- TilleyHowland: 200's BC: A S Way
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2,432 members
25 reviews
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Score 1.56
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- TilleyHowland: 200's BC; This work/author influenced Catullus, Ovid, and Virgil;
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- TilleyHowland: 200's BC
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by Callimachus
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- TilleyHowland: 200's BC
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- TilleyHowland: 200's-100's BC
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by Plautus
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- TilleyHowland: 254-184 BC W Lucas Collins
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- TilleyHowland: 200's BC;
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by Peter Brown
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- TilleyHowland: 100's BC
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- TilleyHowland: 100's BC
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- TilleyHowland: 100's BC; W Lucas Collins
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1,536 members
5 reviews
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Score 1.48
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- TilleyHowland: 106 -7 BC
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7 reviews
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Score 1.47
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- TilleyHowland: 100 BC 44 AD
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- TilleyHowland: 100-44 BC
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by Lucretius
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Score 1.46
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- TilleyHowland: Lucretius is BC- Aurelius is AD
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- TilleyHowland: 99-55 BC
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- TilleyHowland: 84-54 BC
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by Sallust
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Score 1.44
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- TilleyHowland: 86-35 BC
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- TilleyHowland: 70-21 BC
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- TilleyHowland: 65 -8 BC; Theodore Martin
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- TilleyHowland: 64 BC - 24 AD
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- TilleyHowland: 60- 7 BC
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- TilleyHowland: 60-30 BC
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- TilleyHowland: 59 BC
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- TilleyHowland: 59 BC- 17 AD
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by Ovid
15,267 members
112 reviews
4.1
Score 1.38
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- TilleyHowland: 41 BC- 18 AD; Rev. Alfred John Church
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by Ovid
1,846 members
37 reviews
3.8
Score 1.37
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- TilleyHowland: 41 BC-18 AD; Rev. Alfred John Church
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- TilleyHowland: 41 BC- 18 AD; Rev. Alfred John Church
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Score 1.36
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- TilleyHowland: 4 BC - 65 AD
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by Anonymous
1,049 members
4 reviews
3.8
Score 1.33
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- TilleyHowland: 400's BC - 200's AD. decided to throw in after mathematicians
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by Seneca
180 members
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Score 1.33
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- TilleyHowland: 4-65 AD
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- TilleyHowland: 23-79 AD
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- TilleyHowland: Harold Bloom; 27-66 AD;
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Score 1.31
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- TilleyHowland: 34-62 AD
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- TilleyHowland: 35-59 AD
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Score 1.31
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- TilleyHowland: 35-99 AD
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29 reviews
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Score 1.3
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- TilleyHowland: 37-100 AD
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- TilleyHowland: 38-104 AD
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- TilleyHowland: 39-65 AD
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- TilleyHowland: First Century AD; some question as to authorship; one potential proposal was that it might have been Plutarch himself.
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- TilleyHowland: 46-119 AD
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15 reviews
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Score 1.28
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- TilleyHowland: 55- 127 AD
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8 reviews
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