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(Epic of Gilgamesh) (c. 2000?-1400? BC)

(The Vedas) (c. 2000?-200 BC)

Hammurabi (fl.c. 1700? BC)

(Old Testament) (c. 1400?-300? BC)

Homer (fl.c. 850? BC)

(The Upanishads) (c. 800?-400? BC)

Hesiod (fl.c. 700? BC)

Tyrtaeus (fl.c. 650? BC)

(The Ramayana) (c. 600? BC)

Confucius (c. 551-479 BC)

(The Mahabharata) (c. 540-300 BC)

Aeschylus (c. 525-456 BC)

Pindar (c. 522-446? BC)

Lao-Tzu (fl.c. 500? BC)

Sophocles (c. 495-406 BC)

Euripides (c. 485-406 BC)

Herodotus (c. 484-425 BC)

Thucydides (c. 460-400 BC)

Hippocrates (c. 460-377? BC)

Aristophanes (c. 448-380 BC)

Xenophon (c. 431-354 BC)

Plato (c. 427-347 BC)

(Bhagavad-Gita) (c. 400 BC)

Sun-Tzu (c. 400?-320? BC)

Aristotle (c. 384-322 BC)

Epicurus (c. 341-270 BC)

Aesop (fl.c. 300 BC)

Euclid (fl.c. 300 BC)

Archimedes (c. 287-212 BC)

Apollonius of Perga (fl.c. 240 BC)

New Great Books forum at Britannica
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. . . thought you and your readers might be interested in the new Britannica forum on the Great Books:
http://www.britannica.com/blogs/2008/12/how-now-great-books/
We're asking such questions as:
Are the "Great Books" really superior to secondary sources for understanding new topics and for teaching students today?
Why are the "classics" and "great works" of the West essential to democracy?
Can the "Great Books" really be taught at the community college level to students with little rigorous educational training?
Why don't the Brits have as strong a Great Books lobby as the U.S.? Comments are welcome on all of the posts.

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Most Recent Updates/Additions
January 1, 2009:	George Eliot	Found Spanish etext for Silas Marner.
	Moliere	Found English etexts of The Learned Ladies and The Hypochondriac.
	Giovanni Boccaccio	Found Dutch etext of The Decameron.
	Miguel Cervantes	Found French etext of Don Quixote.
	Dante Alighieri	Found French etexts of La Vita Nuova and The Divine Comedy.
	Sir Thomas More	Found German etext of Utopia.
December 21, 2008:	Plato	Found Finnish etext for Phaedo, and German etexts for the majority of works (all but Laws and The Seventh Letter).
December 19, 2008:	Aristotle	Found German etexts for Categories, On Interpretation, Metaphysics, Posterior Analytics, Prior Analytics, On Sophistical Refutations, and Topics.
	Lucian	Found English etexts of The Sale of Creeds, The True History, and The Way to Write History, plus a parallel Greek/English etext of The True History.
	Trofim D. Lysenko	Found limited preview of Heredity and Its Variability at Google Books.
December 6, 2008:	Herodotus	Found Greek etext for History of the Persian War.
	Titus Lucretius Carus	Found Latin etext of On the Nature of Things.
	Virgil	Found Latin etexts of Aeneid, Eclogues, and Georgics.
	St. Clement of Rome	Found Greek etext of the Letter to the Corinthians.
December 3, 2008:	Charles Dickens	Found French etexts for A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, Great Expectations, and The Pickwick Papers. Also found Finnish etexts of David Copperfield and A Christmas Carol
	Rene Descartes	Added links to Latin etext of Meditations on First Philosophy and French etext of Geometry.
	Fyodor Dostoevsky	Added links to French etext of The Possessed and Russian etexts of The Brothers Karamazov and The Idiot.
	Alexandre Dumas	Added links to French etext of The Count of Monte Cristo.
November 29, 2008:	Johnathan Swift	Found French etext for Gulliver's Travels.
	Voltaire	Added links to a Spanish etext of Candide, Spanish and English etexts of Zadig, and an English etext of Letters on the English.
	Leo Tolstoy	Added links to a French etext of War and Peace, a Dutch etext of Anna Karenina, and an English etext of What is Art?.
	Louisa May Alcott	Added link to Dutch etext of Little Women.
	Francis Bacon	Added link to Finnish etext of the Essays.
	Lewis Carroll	Added links to German etext and Amazon copy of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, plus Spanish Amazon copies of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass, and The Hunting of the Snark.
November 28, 2008:	Friedrich Nietzsche	Added link to French etext of Thus Spake Zarathustra, and German etexts of all listed works.
	Robert Louis Stevenson	Added links to Esperanto and Finnish etexts of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
	Sigmund Freud	Added links to German etexts of The Origin and Development of Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology of Everyday Life.
	Oscar Wilde	Added links to Dutch and French etexts of The Picture of Dorian Grey; found new site for info about Wilde.
	George Santayana	Added link to etext of The Life of Reason.
	Max Plack	Found copy of Scientific Autobiography at Amazon.
	Herman Hesse	Added links to English and German etexts of Siddhartha.
	James Joyce	Added link to etext of Finnegans Wake.
	Franz Kafka	Added link to English etext of The Trial.
	Arnold Toynbee	Found used copies of Civilization on Trial on Amazon.
November 27, 2008:	Mark Twain	Added link to Dutch etext of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
November 26, 2008:	Edgar Allan Poe	Added numerous new etext links for Esperanto, French, and Spanish versions of various works.
	Harriet Beecher Stowe	Added links to Dutch and Finnish etexts of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
	Jules Verne	Added links to: Hungarian etext of Around the World in Eighty Days; Polish etext of Journey to the Center of the Earth; and Hungarian and Icelandic etexts of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
November 24, 2008:	John Stuart Mill	Found new etext for Utilitarianism; found in-print edition of A System of Logic at Amazon.
November 23, 2008:	*The Quran*	Replaced numerious broken links with link to site having versions in multiple languages.
November 23, 2008:	Victor Hugo	Added link to French etext of Les Miserables.
November 22, 2008:	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Added listing for Prometheus Unbound, with links to English and Dutch etexts.
	William Thackeray	Added link to French etext of Vanity Fair.
	Washington Irving	Added links to Esperanto etexts of Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
	Benedict de Spinoza	Added link to Dutch etext of Ethics.
	Henry David Thoreau	Added link to online audio files of Walden.
	Nicomachus of Gerasa	Added link to online excerpt from Introduction to Arithmetic, also added new Amazon.com link for version which has available used copies.
November 21, 2008:	Sir Walter Scott	Added link to Dutch etext of Ivanhoe.
November 13, 2008:	Immanuel Kant	Added link for German etext of Critique of Pure Reason.
August 6, 2008:	C.S. Lewis	Added new page for C.S. Lewis, with links to Amazon.com copies for The Abolition of Man, The Chronicles of Narnia, Mere Christianity, and The Screwtape Letters.

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