![]() ![]() ![]() 405 BC) Oedipus the King Oedipus at Colonus Antigone Electra Ajax Women of Trachis Philoctetes. Aeschylus (525 BC – 456 BC) Oresteia Seven Against Thebes Prometheus Bound Persians Suppliant Women. ![]() Archilochos Sappho (ca.600BC) Alkman Pindar. Hesiod (ca.700BC) Works and Days Theogony. 531) The Ancient Near East The Epic of Gilgamesh Egyptian Book of the Dead Holy Bible (King James Version) The Apocrypha Sayings of the Fathers (Pirke Aboth) Ancient India (Sanskrit) Mahabharata Bhagavad-Gita Ramayana The Ancient Greeks Homer (ca.800BC) Iliad Odyssey. The immense wealth of ancient Chinese literature is mostly a sphere apart from Western literary tradition and is rarely conveyed adequately in the translations available to us.” (p. “I have included some Sanskrit works, scriptures and fundamental literary texts, because of their influence on the Western canon. I would think that, of all the books that are in this first list, once the reader is conversant with the Bible, Homer, Plato, the Athenian dramatists, and Virgil, the crucial work is the Koran. “Since the literary canon is at issue here, I include only those religious, philosophical, historical, and scientific writings that are themselves of great aesthetic interest. ![]()
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