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Columbia Core: Literature Humanities
20 books, 3,584,263 words, in reading order.
Books in this course
238.9 h read
The Iliad
Homer
c. 750 BC
The Odyssey
Homer
c. 725 BC
The House of Atreus (The Oresteia Trilogy)
Aeschylus
458 BC
The Oedipus Trilogy
Sophocles
c. 440 BC
The Bacchae
Euripides
405 BC
Lysistrata
Aristophanes
411 BC
The History of Herodotus — Volume 1
Herodotus
c. 430 BC
The History of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides
c. 400 BC
The Republic
Plato
c. 380 BC
The Aeneid
Virgil
19 BC
The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I–VII
Ovid
8 AD
The King James Version of the Bible
Anonymous
Confessions
Augustine of Hippo
397 AD
The Divine Comedy: Inferno
Dante Alighieri
1320
Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete
Montaigne, Michel de
1592
Hamlet
William Shakespeare
1601
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes
1605
Pride and Prejudice
Austen, Jane
1817
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
1866
Mrs. Dalloway
Woolf, Virginia
1941