800s BCE
Torah (finalized around 450 BCE): Genesis; Exodus; Leviticus; Numbers; Deuteronomy.
Homer: Iliad; Odyssey.
Ketuvim: Psalms (dates unknown); Song of Songs (dates unknown).
Nevi’im: Hosea; Amos; Nahum; Joel (authorship date unknown).
700s BCE
Nevi’im: Zephaniah
600s BCE
Ketuvim: Proverbs; Ruth; Lamentations.
Nevi’im: Joshua; Judges; Samuel; Kings; Isaiah (divided into sections written in 800s and 500s); Jeremiah; Ezekiel; Obadiah; Jonah; Micah; Habbakuk.
500s BCE
Nevi’im: Haggai; Zechariah; Malachi.
450s BCE
Aeschylus: The Oresteia; Prometheus Bound.
400s BCE
Aristophanes - The Clouds. The Birds.
Euripides: Medea. The Bacchae.
Herodotus: History.
Sophocles: Ajax; Oedipus at Colonus; Philoctetes; Antigone; Oedipus Rex.
Thucydides. Peloponessian War.
Ketuvim: Ecclesiastes; Esther; Ezra; Nehemiah; Chronicles.
300s BCE
Aristotle:
Plato:
200s BCE
Deuterocanon: Tobit; Judith (date unknown); Sirach; Letter of Jeremiah (date unknown); Additions to Daniel
Ketuvim: Daniel.
100s BCE
Deuterocanon: 1, 2, 3, 4 Maccabees; Wisdom; Baruch.
50s BCE
Lucretius – De rerum natura.
00s BCE
Virgil – Aeneid.
40s
NT: Galatians
50s
NT: Romans; Corinthians; Phillippians; 1, 2 Thessalonians; Philemon; James.
60s
NT: Mark; Ephesians; Colossians; Timothy; Titus; First Peter; Second Peter; Jude; Revelation.
70s
NT: Matthew; Luke.
80s:
NT: Acts; Hebrews.
90
NT: John; Epistles of John.
98
Tacitus: The Life of Agricola; Germania.
100
Plutarch: Lives.
102
Tacitus: Dialogue on Oratory.
105
Tacitus: Histories.
108
Epictetus: Discourses (his other works are abridgments of this one).
117
Tacitus: Annals.
270
Plotinus: Enneads.
300s >>> Nag Hammadi Library.
1353 >>> Boccaccio, The Decameron: 1:1-3.
1588 >>> Shakespeare: Henry VI.i. 1589 >>> Shakespeare: A Comedy of Errors.
1590
Shakespeare: Titus Andronicus; Henry VI.ii; Henry VI.iii.
1591
Shakespeare: Richard III.
1593
Shakespeare: Venus and Adonis; The Two Gentlemen of Verona.
1594
Shakespeare – The Rape of Lucrece.
1594
Shakespeare – Taming of the Shrew.
1595
Shakespeare – Love’s Labors Lost.
1606
Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra.
1664
Molière – Tartuffe.
1666
Molière – The Misanthrope.
1682
Penn – Some Fruits of Solitude.
1746
Collins – “Ode on the Poetical Character”
1774 >>>
Woolman – Journal.
1793 >>>
Wordsworth: “An Evening Walk“
1788 >>>
Blake – “All Religions Are One.” “There Is No Natural Religion.”
1789 >>>
Blake – Songs of Innocence. Book of Thel.
1790 >>>
Franklin – Autobiography.
1794 >>>
Blake – Songs of Experience.
1806 >>>
Byron – Hours of Idleness.
1807 >>>
Byron – Occasional Pieces (1807-8).
Hegel – Phenomenology of Spirit.
1808 >>>
Byron - Occasional Pieces (1807-8).
1809 >>>
Byron – Occasional Pieces (1809) .
1810 >>>
Byron – Occasional Pieces (1810).
Byron – Occasional Pieces (1811).
1812 >>>
Byron – Occasional Pieces (1812).
Hegel -Science of Logic.
1813 >>>
Byron – Occasional Pieces (1813).
1817 >>>
Hegel -Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences.
1841 >>> Kierkegaard – On the Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates 1843 >>> Kierkegaard: Either/Or. Fear and Trembling. Repetition. 1844 >>> Dumas: The Count of Monte Cristo. Kierkegaard: Philosophical Fragments. The Concept of Anxiety. 1845 >>> Kierkegaard – Stages on Life’s Way. Marx – The German Ideology. 1846 >>> Kierkegaard – Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments. Melville: Typee. 1847 >>> Kierkegaard: Edifying Discourses in Diverse Spirits. Works of Love. Melville: Omoo. 1848 >>> Kierkegaard – Christian Discourses. Marx – Manifesto of the Communist Party. 1849 >>> Kierkegaard – The Sickness Unto Death. Melville: Mardi. Redburn.
1850 >>> Kierkegaard -Practice in Christianity. Melville: White-Jacket. 1851 >>> Melville: Moby-Dick. 1852 >>> Melville: Pierre. Tolstoy: Childhood. 1854 >>> Tolstoy: Boyhood. 1855 >>> Melville: Israel Potter . 1856 >>> Melville: The Piazza Tales. Tolstoy: Youth. 1857 >>> Baudelaire – Flowers of Evil. Melville – The Confidence Man. 1859 >>> Tolstoy: Family Happiness.
1865 >>> Tolstoy: War and Peace. 1867 >>> Marx – Capital, Vol 1.
1875 >>> Tolstoy: Anna Karenina.
1885 >>> Marx – Capital, Vol 2. 1887 >>> Tolstoy: The Death of Ivan Ilyich. 1889 >>> Tolstoy: The Kreutzer Sonata
1894 >>> Marx – Capital, Vol 4. 1899 >>> Tolstoy: Resurrection.
1903 >>> DuBois – The Souls of Black Folk. 1907 >>> Joyce: Chamber Music.
1912 >>> Lawrence – The Trespasser. Tolstoy: Hadji Murat. 1913 >>> Proust – Swann’s Way (Overture). 1914 >>> Joyce: Dubliners. 1916 >>> Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. 1918 >>> Joyce: Exiles.
1920>>>Fitzgerald: This Side of Paradise. 1922
Joyce: Ulysses.
1924
Melville – Billy Budd, Sailor.
1927
Joyce: Pomes Penyeach
1928 >>> Lawrence – Lady Chatterley’s Lover.
1930 >>> Brecht – The Measures Taken; The Exception and the Rule. 1936 >>> Husserl: The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Philosophy. 1939 >>> Joyce: Finnegan’s Wake.
1944 >>> Maugham – The Razor’s Edge
1952 >>> Lewis – Voyage of the Dawn Treader. 1954 >>> Huxley – The Doors of Perception. 1956 >>> Ginsberg – Howl.
1992 >>> Duras – Yann Andrea Steiner. 1998 >>> Frayn – Copenhagen
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Augustine: Confessions
Anselm,Proslogium; Gaunilon’s Reply and Anselm’s Response
Acquinas: Summa Theologiae Prima Pars.
Livy, the early history of rome
Maimonides,
Guide of the Perplexed
dante, divine comedy
chaucer, canterbury tales
shakespeare, all
machiavelli, the prince
montaigne, essays
bacon, New Organon*,New Atlantis; Great Instauration
Cervantes. Don Quixote.
Descartes. Meditations; Discourse on Method,
Pascal. Pensees.
Milton. Paradise Lost.
Hobbes. Leviathan.
Spinoza. Theologico-Political Treatise
Leibniz: Discourse on Metaphysics, Principles of Nature and Grace; Monadology; Philosophical Essays
Locke, Second Treatise of Government*
Rousseau,
Discourse on
the Origin of Inequality*
swift, gulliver’s travels
Hume, Treatise of Human Nature*
Hume, Enquiry Concerning Principles of Morals,
Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, “Canon;”Foundation of the Metaphysics of Morals *
Rousseau, Social Contract,
Mozart –
Don Giovanni
Madison, Hamilton, Jay,
The Federalist*
Goethe, Faust*
Tocqueville, Democracy in America*
Dostoevsky,
Brothers Karamazov,
Wagner,
Tristan & Isolde
Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil,
Freud, Introductory Lectures
Heidegger, Basic Writings,”What is Metaphysics?”
Heidegger, “The Word of Nietzsche: God is Dead”*
