Part One

1. Anonymous, 2000 B.C., The Epic of Gilgamesh.
2. Homer, 800 B.C., The Iliad.
3. Homer, 800 B.C., The Odessy.
   
4. Confucius, 551-479 B.C., The Analects.
   
5. Aeschylus, 525-456 B.C., The Oresteia.
6. Sophocles, 496-406 B.C., Oedupus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone.
   
7. Euripedes, 484-406 B.C., Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus, The Trojan Women, Electra, The Bacchae.
   
8. Herodotus, 484-425 B.C., The Histories.
   
9. Thucydides, 470/460-400 B.C., The History of the Peloponnesian War.
   
10. Sun-tzu, 450-380 B.C., The Art of War.
    
11. Aristphanes, 448-388 B.C., Lysistrata, The Clouds, The Birds.
    
12. Plato, 428-348 B.C. Selected Works.
13. Aristotle, 384-322 B.C., Ethics, Politics, Poetics.
    
14. Mencius, 400-320 B.C., The Book of Mencius.
    
15. Attributed to Valmiki, 300 B.C., The Ramayana.
    
16. Attributed to Vyasa, 200 B.C., The Mahabharata.
    
17. Anonymous, 200 B.C., The Bhagavad Gita.
    
18. Ssu-ma Ch'ien, 145-86 B.C., Records of the Grand Historian.
19. Lucretius, 100 B.C., Of the Nature of Things.
20. Virgil, 70-19 B.C., The Aeneid.
    
21. Marcus Aurelius, 121-180, Meditations.