Gilgamesh ~ The Torah ~ Egyptian Book of the Dead ~ Tao Te Ching ~ The I Ching ~

The Upanishads ~ The Ramayana ~ The Bhagavad-Gita ~ Tibetan Book of the Dead ~ The Dhammapada ~

Homer (8th century BCE) The Iliad ~ The Odyssey ~ Herodotus (484 – 425 BCE) The Histories ~

Sophocles (496 – 406 BCE) Oedipus the King ~ Antigone ~ Aristophanes (446 – 386 BCE) The Clouds ~ Plato (427 – 327 BCE) The Republic ~ The Apology of …

Cicero (106 – 43 BCE) Against Verres ~ Selections from his letters ~ Second Phillipic Against Antony ~ On Duties ~ On Old Age ~ Lucretius (99 – 55 BCE) …

Seneca (4 BCE – 65 CE) Dialogues and Essays Letters Plutarch (46 – 120 CE) Selections from Lives 1 ~ 2 ~ Marcus Aurelius (121 – 180 CE) Meditations ~

The Bible (King James) ~

The Qur’an ~ Saint Augustine (354 – 430 CE) The Confessions ~ Selections from Arabian Nights “Tale of Scheherazade,” “Sinbad the Sailor,” “Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp,” “Ali Baba and …

Dante Alighieri (1265 – 1321) Inferno ~ Petrarch (1304 – 1374) “Letter to Posterity” “The Ascent of Mount Ventoux” Selections from the Canzoniere Select sonnets ~ Giovanni Bocaccio (1313 – …