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Classics in George Drakulic's Library
Adler, Mortimer J. The Great Ideas. A Lexicon of Western Thought.
New York: Macmillan, 1992.
Aeschylus. Prometheus Bound. Trans. George Thomson. New York: Dover, 1995.
---. The Oresteia Trilogy. Agamemnon, The Libation-Bearers and the Furies.
Trans. E.D.A. Morshead. Mineola, New York: Dover, 1996.
---. The Suppliant Maidens, The Persians, Seven Against Thebes, Prometheus Bound, Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides. Ed. Mortimer J. Adler.
Chicago: EB, 1992.
Apuleius. The Golden Ass. Trans. P.G. Walsh. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1995.
Archimedes. The Works, including The Method. Ed. Mortimer J. Adler.
Chicago: EB, 1992.
Aristophanes. Lysistrata. New York: Dover, 1994.
---. The Acharnians, The Knights, The Clouds, The Wasps, Peace, The Birds, The Frogs, Lysistrata, The Poet and the Women, The Assemblywomen, Wealth.
Ed. Mortimer J. Adler. Chicago: EB, 1992.
Aristotle. Poetics. Mineola, New York: Dover, 1997.
---. The Works of Aristotle. Volume I: Logic (Organon), Physical Treatises, Metaphysics (Metaphysica), On the Soul (De anima), Short Physical Treatises (Parva naturalia). Ed. Mortimer J. Adler.
Chicago: EB, 1992.
---. The Works. Volume II: Biological Treatises, Nicomachean Ethics (Ethica Nicomachea), The Athenian Constitution (Atheniensium respublica), Rhetoric (Rhetorica), On Poetics (De poetica). Ed. Mortimer J. Adler. Chicago: EB, 1992.
Ashley, Mike, ed. The Giant Book of Myths and Legends.
Celtic, Indian, Ancient Greek, Native American, Persian, Japanese, African, Scandinavian. New York: Barnes, 1995.
Aurelius, Marcus. The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius. Ed. Mortimer J. Adler.
Chicago: EB, 1992.
Bahn, Paul G., ed. Cambridge Illustrated History of Archaeology.
New York: Cambridge UP, 1996.
Bloom, Harold. The Western Canon. The Books and School of the Ages.
New York: Harcourt, 1994.
Boardman, John. Greek Art. New York: Praeger, 1966.
Boardman, John, Jasper Griffin, and Oswyn Murray, eds.
The Oxford History of Greece and the Hellenistic World.
Oxford: Oxford UP, 1991.
Boorstin, Daniel J. The Creators. A History of Heroes of the Imagination.
New York: Random, 1992.
Bratton, Fred Gladstone. Myths and Legends of the Ancient Near East.
New York: Barnes, 1993.
Bulley, Margaret. Ancient and Medieval Art. A Short History.
London: Bracken, 1996.
Camp, L. Sprague de, and Catherine C. de Camp. Ancient Ruins and Archaeology.
New York: Barnes, 1992.
Campbell, Joseph. The Power of Myth. With Bill Moyers. New York: Doubleday, 1988.
---. The Hero with a Thousand Faces. New York: MJF, 1949.
Chahin, M. Before the Greeks. Cambridge: Lutterworth, 1996.
Dover, K. J. Greek Homosexuality. New York: MJF Books, 1989.
Durant, Will, and Ariel Durant. The Story of Civilization. New York: Simon, 1965.
1. Our Oriental Heritage
2. The Life of Greece
Epictetus. The Discourses of Epictetus. Ed. Mortimer J. Adler. Chicago: EB, 1992.
Eros in Antiquity. New York: Erotic Art Book Society, 1978.
Euclid. The Thirteen Books of Euclid’s Elements. Ed. Mortimer J. Adler.
Chicago: EB, 1992.
Euripides. Medea and Other Plays.
(Medea, Hecabe, Electra, Heracles)
Trans. Philip Vellacott. Middlesex, England: Penguin, 1987.
---. Medea. Trans. Rex Warner. New York: Dover, 1993.
---. Bacchae. New York: Dover 1997.
---. Ten Plays by Euripides. Trans. Moses Hadas and John McLean.
Alcestis. Medea. Hippolytus. Andromache. Ion. Trojan Women. Electra. Iphigenia Among the Taurians. The Bacchants. Iphigenia at Aulis.
New York: Bantam Book, 1981.
---. Rhesus, The Medea, Hippolytus, Alcestis, The Heracleidae, The Suppliant Women, The Trojan Women, Ion, Helen, Andromache, Electra, The Bacchae, Hecuba, Heracles, The Phoenician Women, Orestes, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops.
Ed. Mortimer J. Adler. Chicago: EB, 1992.
Fowlie, Wallace, ed. Five Classic French Plays. Jean Racine: Phaedra.
Mineola, New York: Dover Publication, Inc., 1997.
Fox, Ello. Rome. In History – in Christianity – in Civilization. Verona: Bellomi Editore.
Frazer, James George. The Golden Bough. New York: Macmillan, 1950.
Galen. On the Natural Faculties. Ed. Mortimer J. Adler. Chicago: EB, 1992.
Grant, Michael. The Classical Greeks. New York: Scribner’s, 1989.
---. The Etruscans. New York: QPBC, 1997.
---. The Founders of the Western World. A History of Greece and Rome.
New York: Scribner’s, 1991.
---, ed. Greek Literature: An Anthology. New York: Penguin, 1984.
---. A Guide to the Ancient World. New York: Barnes, 1997.
---. History of Rome. New York: QPBC, 1997.
---. The Roman Emperors.
A Biographical Guide to the Rulers of Imperial Rome 318 BC-AD 476.
New York: Barnes, 1997.
Green, Peter. Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C. A Historical Biography.
Berkeley: U of California P, 1991.
Hamilton, Edith. Mythology. Boston: Little, 1942.
Harpur, James. The Atlas of Sacred Places. Meeting Points of Heaven and Earth.
New York: Henry Holt Reference Book, 1994.
Herodotus. The History of Herodotus. Ed. Mortimer J. Adler. Chicago: EB, 1992.
Hippocrates. Hippocratic Writings. Ed. Mortimer J. Adler. Chicago: EB, 1992.
Homer. The Iliad. Trans. Robert Fagles. New York: Viking, 1990.
---. The Odyssey. Trans. Robert Fagles. New York: Viking, 1996.
---. The Iliad and the Odyssey of Homer. Trans. Richmond Lattimore.
Ed. Mortimer J. Adler. Chicago: EB, 1992.
The Illustrated Bulfinch’s Mythology. The Age of Fable. New York: Macmillan, 1997.
Jeffers, Robinson. Cawdor and Medea. New York: New Directions, 1970.
Kerenyi, C. The Heroes of the Greeks. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1997.
Kiefer, Otto. Sexual Life in Ancient Rome. New York: Dorset, 1993.
Knox, Bernard, ed. The Norton Book of Classical Literature.
New York: Norton, 1993.
Licht, Hans. Sexual Life in Ancient Greece. Trans. J. H. Freese. New York: Dorset, 1993.
Lucretius. The Way Things Are. Ed. Mortimer J. Adler. Chicago: EB, 1992.
Macrone, Michael. By Jove! Brush Up Your Mythology. New York: Harper, 1992.
Moliere, Jean Baptiste Poquelin de. Amphitryon. Trans. Richard Wilbur.
New York: Harcourt Brace, 1995.
Nicomachus. The Introduction to Arithmetic. Ed. Mortimer J. Adler. Chicago: EB, 1992.
Ovid. Metamorphoses. Trans. Rolfe Humphries. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1983.
--- (Publius Ovidius). The Erotic Poems. Trans. Peter Green.
London: Penguin Books, 1982.
The Oxford Dictionary of World Religions. Ed. John Bowker. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1997.
Pennick, Nigel. The Pagan Book of Days.
A Guide to the Festivals, Traditions, and Sacred Days of the Year.
Rochester, Vermont: Destiny, 1992.
Peters, F. E. The Harvest of Hellenism.
A History of the Near East from Alexander the Great to the Triumph of Christianity. New York: Barnes, 1996.
Plato. Republic. Trans. Robin Waterfield. New York: Barnes, 1996.
---. The Trial and Death of Socrates. Four Dialogues. New York: Dover, 1992.
---. Lysis, Phaedrus, and Symposium. Plato on Homosexuality. Trans. Benjamin Jowett. New York: Prometheus Books, 1991.
---. The Dialogues of Plato; Charmides, Lysis, Laches, Protagoras, Euthydemus, Cratylus, Phaedrus, Ion, Symposium, Meno, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Gorgias, The Republic, Timaeus, Critias, Parmenides, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, Philebus, Laws. The Seventh Letter. Ed. Mortimer J. Adler.
Chicago: EB, 1992.
Plotinus. The Six Enneads. Ed. Mortimer J. Adler. Chicago: EB, 1992.
Plutarch. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans. Ed. Mortimer J. Adler.
Chicago: EB, 1992.
Powell, Barry B. Classical Myth. 2nd ed. New Jersey: Prentice, 1998.
Quintus of Smyrna. The War at Troy. What Homer Didn’t Tell. New York: Barnes, 1996.
Rappoport, Angelo S. Ancient Israel. Volume One. Myths and Legends.
London: Senate, 1995.
---. Ancient Israel. Volume Two.
---. Ancient Israel. Volume Three.
Ravitch, Diane, and Abigail Thernstrom, eds. The Democracy Reader.
New York: Harper, 1992.
Rawlinson, George. Ancient History.
The Great Civilizations From 3000 B.C. to the Fall of Rome.
New York: Barnes, 1993.
Redford, Donald B. Egypt, Canaan, and Israel in Ancient Times.
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton UP, 1992.
Sophocles. Antigone. New York: Dover, 1993.
---. Oedipus Rex. New York: Dover, 1991.
---. Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone, Ajax, Electra, The Women of Trachis, Philoctetes. Ed. Mortimer J. Adler.
Chicago: EB, 1992.
Strassler, Robert B., ed. The Landmark Thucydides.
A Comprehensive Guide to the Peleponnesian War.
New York: The Free Press, 1996.
Tacitus. The Annals and the Histories. Ed. Mortimer J. Adler. Chicago: EB, 1992.
Thucydides: The History of the Peloponnesian War. Ed. Mortimer J. Adler.
Chicago: EB, 1992.
Vergil, Publius Vergilius Maro. Aeneid. New York: Dover, 1995.
--- (Virgil). The Eclogues. The Georgics. The Aeneid. Ed. Mortimer J. Adler.
Chicago: EB, 1992.
Willis, Roy, ed. World Mythology. New York: Holt, 1993.
Zimmerman, J. E. Dictionary of Classical Mythology. New York: Bantam, 1971.
The Western Canon: Greece and Rome
The Ancient Greeks
Homer (8th century BC)
The Iliad
The Odyssey
The Thebais
The device of a plot was Homer’s invention: subsequent long poems, dramas, novels, and feature films are indebted to him. He is also the inventor of character in literature.
Hesiod (8th century BC)
The Works and Days
Theogony
Catalogue of Women
Bacchylides (5th century BC)
Archilochos (7th century BC)
Sappho (c.620 – c.565 BC)
Alkman
Pindar (518 – 438 BC)
The Odes
Nemean
Pythians
Olympians
Aeschylus (525 – 456 BC)
The Oresteia (458 BC):
Agamemnon
Choephoroe (Libation-Bearers)
Eumenides
Seven against Thebes (467 BC)
Prometheus Bound
The Suppliant Women (462/461 BC)
The Persians (472 BC)
Sophocles (c.496 – 406 BC)
Oedipus the King (429 BC)
Oedipus at Colonus (406 BC)
Antigone (441 BC)
Electra (staged 418 – 410 BC)
Ajax (441 BC)
Women of Trachis (430 BC)
Philoctetes (409 BC)
Ichneutae (Searching Satyrs)
Euripides (485 – 406 BC)
Electra (413 BC)
Cyclops
Heracles or Mad Heracles (Hercules Furens) (414 BC, performed c.420 BC)
Alcestis (438 BC)
Hecuba (Hecabe) (c.425/424 BC)
The Bacchae (The Bacchants)(shown 405 BC)
Orestes (408 BC)
Andromache (430/424 BC)
Medea (431 BC)
Ion (c.411 BC)
Hippolytus (428 BC)
Helen (412 BC)
Iphigeneia at Aulis (performed 406/405 BC)
The Phoenician Women (c.410 BC)
The Trojan Women (415 BC)
The Heraclidae (The Children of Heracles) (c.429/427 BC)
The Suppliant Women (c.422/421 BC)
Appolonius of Rhodes (3rd century BC)
The Argonautica
The Clouds (423 BC)
The Birds (414 BC)
The Frogs (405 BC)
Lysistrata (Demobilize the Army) (411 BC)
The Knights (Hippeis)
The Wasps (422 BC)
The Assemblywomen (also called The Parliament of Women)
The Peace (performed in 421 BC)
The Thesmophoriazusae (411 or 410 BC)
The Ecclesiazusae
Plutus (388 BC)
Herodotus (c.480 – 425 BC), father of history
The History (nine books)
Thucydides (c.460 – c.400 BC)
The Peloponnesian War
Heraclitus (c.540 – c.470 BC)
Empedocles (c.490 – c.430 BC)
Plato (427 – 347 BC)
Symposium (360 BC)
Dialogues
Republic (Politeia) (380s or 370s BC)
Statesman (Politicus) (360s BC)
Laws (350s and 340s BC)
Cratylus
Phaedo
Gorgias
Protagoras
Theaetetus (c.368 BC)
Sophist
Apology
Phaedrus
Euthyphro
Crito
Charmides
Laches
Lesser Hippias
Greater Hippias
Meno
Parmenides (c.370 BC)
Timaeus
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC)
Ethics
Poetics
On Generation and Corruption
Rhetoric
Metaphysics
Sophistical Refutations
Politics
On the Sky
Hellenistic Greeks
Menander (? 342 –291 BC)
The Girl from Samos
Longinus, Dionysius Cassius
On the Sublime
Callimachus (c.310 – c.240 BC)
Hymns and Epigrams
Theocritus
Idylls
Plutarch (AD c.46 – c.120)
Lives
Themistocles
Cimon
On the Malice of Herodotus (De Malignitate Herodoti)
Pericles
Timoleon
Demosthenes
Aesop (c.620 – c.560 BC)
Fables
Lucian (AD 117 – c.180)
Satires
The Romans
Plautus, Titus Maccius (c.254 – c.184 BC)
The Braggart Soldier
Pseudolus
The Rope
Amphitryon
Terence, Publius Terentius Afer (c.190 -? 159 BC)
The Eunuch
The Girl from Andros
The Mother-in-law
Lucretius, Titus Lucretius Carus (? 97 – 54 BC)
The Way Things Are
Cicero, Marcus Tullius (106 – 43 BC)
On the Gods
Horace, Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65 – 8 BC)
Satires
Epistles
Persius, Aulus Persius Flaccus (AD 34 – 62)
Satires
Catullus, Gauis Valerius (84 – 54 BC)
Attis
Vergil (Virgil), Publius Vergilius Maro (70 – 19 BC)
Eclogues
The Aeneid
Georgics
Lucan, Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (AD 39 – 65)
Pharsalia
Ovid, Publius Ovidius Naso (c.43 BC – AD 17)
The Art of Love
Metamorphoses
Epistulae heroidum or Heroides
Juvenal, Decimus Junius Juvenalis (AD c.60 – 140)
Satires
Livy, Titus Livius (59 BC – AD 17)
Martial, Marcus Valerius Martialis (AD? 43 -? 104)
Epigrams
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (4 BC – AD 65)
Tragedies (Medea, Hercules furens)
Petronius, Gaius Petronius Arbiter
Satyricon
Apuleius, Lucius
The Golden Ass
Works Cited and Consulted:
Bloom, Harold. The Western Canon. New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1994.
Grant, Michael. The Classical Greeks. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1989.