Philosophy and Theology: Plato's Republic, Meno, Symposium, Phaedo, Phaedrus Aristotle's Metaphysics, Physics, Nichomachean Ethics, Poetics, Politics Augustine's Confessions Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy, Arithmetic Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching (Dao De Ching) Chuang Tzu (Make sure to get an accurate translation!) Nagarjuna Confucius' Analects, Doctrine of the Mean
Epic and Novel: Homer's Iliad, Odyssey Apollonius' Argonautika (Jason and the Argonauts) Virgil's Aeneid Dante's Vita Nuova, Divine Comedy Song of Roland Chretien de Troyes' Arthurian stories Tolkien
Poetry: Sappho Shakespeare John Keats Francesco Petrarch T.S. Eliot's Wasteland, Four Quartets, Love Song for J. Alfred Prufrock
Drama: Aeschelus' Orestaia (sp?), Oedipus Rex (Oedipus the King/Tyrant) Shakespeare's Henry V, Macbeth, Othello, King Lear T.S. Eliot's Cocktail-Party, Murder in the Cathedral
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Plato's Republic, Meno, Symposium, Phaedo, Phaedrus
Aristotle's Metaphysics, Physics, Nichomachean Ethics, Poetics, Politics
Augustine's Confessions
Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy, Arithmetic
Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching (Dao De Ching)
Chuang Tzu (Make sure to get an accurate translation!)
Nagarjuna
Confucius' Analects, Doctrine of the Mean
Epic and Novel:
Homer's Iliad, Odyssey
Apollonius' Argonautika (Jason and the Argonauts)
Virgil's Aeneid
Dante's Vita Nuova, Divine Comedy
Song of Roland
Chretien de Troyes' Arthurian stories
Tolkien
Poetry:
Sappho
Shakespeare
John Keats
Francesco Petrarch
T.S. Eliot's Wasteland, Four Quartets, Love Song for J. Alfred Prufrock
Drama:
Aeschelus' Orestaia (sp?), Oedipus Rex (Oedipus the King/Tyrant)
Shakespeare's Henry V, Macbeth, Othello, King Lear
T.S. Eliot's Cocktail-Party, Murder in the Cathedral
It's a start! :-)
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