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Reading the
Classics This list has been prepared by King's Meadow Study Center to serve as a guide for reading the basic writings of history. This list by no means is comprehensive, but it embodies the depth of literature readily available to the modern reader. For more in-depth study of some of these works, go to the Stirling Bridge page for information on the year-long Stirling Bridge Reading Program. |
| Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics, Politics, Rhetoric, Poetics |
| Thomas Bullfinch: Mythology |
| Homer: The Illiad and The Odyssey |
| Plato: The Republic |
| Plutarch: Roman Lives |
| M.I. Finley (ed.): The Portable Greek Historians* |
| Athanasius: On the Incarnation and The Life of Antony |
| Augustine: Confessions and The City of God |
| Basil the Great: On the Holy Spirit |
| John Chrysostom: On Marriage and Family Life |
| J.B. Lightfoot (tr.): The Seven Ecumenical Councils |
| Maxwell Staniforth (tr.): Early Christian Writings: The Apostolic Fathers* |
| Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologica |
| Geoffry Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales |
| Gordon Gerould (tr.): Beowulf, Sir Gawain, and The Song of Roland |
| Thomas Malory: Le Morte d'Arthur |
| Villehardouin and Joinville: Chronicles of the Crusades |
| James Ross and Mary McLaughlin (eds.): The Portable Medieval Reader* |
| Dante: The Inferno |
| Erasmus: In Praise of Folly |
| Kevin Crosslwy-Holland (tr.): The Exeter Book of Riddles |
| Niccolo Machiavelli: The Prince |
| Giorgio Vasari: Lives of the Artists |
| James Ross and Mary McLaughlin (eds.): The Portable Renaissance Reader* |
| John Bunyan: Pilgrim's Progress |
| John Calvin: The Institutes of Christian Religion |
| John Knox: The History of the Reformation in Scotland |
| Martin Luther: The Bondage of the Will |
| John Milton: The Portable Milton |
| Alexander McPherson (ed.): Westminster Confession of Faith* |
| Samuel Johnson: Lives of the Poets and Rasselas |
| Thomas More: Utopia |
| Jean Rousseau: The Social Contract |
| William Shakespeare: The Portable Shakespeare |
| Edmund Spenser: The Fairie Queen |
| Arthur Quiller-Couch (ed.): The Oxford Book of English Verse* |
| Edmund Burke: Reflections on the Revolution in France |
| Oliver Cromwell: Speeches |
| John Locke: Two Treatises on Government |
| Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan |
| Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America |
| Russell Kirk (ed.): The Portable Conservative Render* |
| G.K. Chesterton: Orthodoxy |
| Hilaire Belloc: The Servile State |
| Donald Davidson: I'll Take My Stand |
| J.R.R. Tolkien: The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings |
| Paul Johnson: Modern Times |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poems of America* |
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