BONUS POST: The second 50 of the BC list

 

Having just passed the 50th book on the BC list it's time to give you the next 50 on the list!

I'm looking forward to Plato though I wonder how long it will take me to get through his stuff!

Hippocrates Of the Epidemics

Hippocrates The Science of Medicine

Hippocrates On Airs, Waters, and Places

Hippocrates The Book of Prognostics

Hippocrates On Regimen in Acute Diseases

Hippocrates Aphorisms

Hippocrates Dreams

Hippocrates on the Nature of Man

Hippocrates A Regimen of Health

Hippocrates On Fractures

Hippocrates The Seed and The Nature of the Child

Hippocrates The Heart

Hippocrates On the Sacred Disease

Hippocrates On the Surgery

Hippocrates On Hemorrhoids

Hippocrates On Injuries of the Head

Hippocrates Instruments of Reduction

Hippocrates On the Articulations

Hippocrates On Fistulae

Hippocrates On Ulcers

Aristophanes The Acharnians

Aristophanes The Clouds

Aristophanes Lysistrata

Aristophanes The Birds

Aristophanes The Knights

Aristophanes Peace

Aristophanes Plutus/wealth

Aristophanes The Frogs

Aristophanes The Ecclesiazusae

Aristophanes The Thesmophoriazusae

Aristophanes The Wasps

Xenophon Agesilaus

Xenophon Anabasis

Xenophon Apology

Xenophon On the Art of Horsemanship

Xenophon The Constitution of the Athenians

Xenophon The Constitution of the Lacedaemonian

Xenophon On the Cavalry Commander

Xenophon Cyropaedia

Xenophon Economics

Xenophon Hellenica

Xenophon Hiero

Xenophon On Hunting

Xenophon Memorabilia

Xenophon Symposium

Xenophon Ways and Means

Plato         Apology

Plato         Charmides, or Temperance

Plato         Cratylus

Plato         Critias

BONUS POST: First 50 Books in the BC list with links

Last week we passed the 50 books mark on this list. So it's about time I gave you updated lists. First, this one with the 50 all linked and then a list of the next 50.

unknown         The Epic Of Gilgamesh

unknown         Egyptian Book of the Dead

Homer         Iliad

Homer         Odyssey

Various         Rig Veda

Hesiod         Shield of Heracles

Hesiod         Theogony

Hesiod         The Works and Days

Confucius The Analects

Confucius The Doctrine of the Mean

Confucius The Great Learning

Lao Tzu         The Tao-te Ching

Sappho         Collection

Aeschylus Agamemnon

Aeschylus The Choephori (The libation bearers)

Aeschylus Eumenides

Aeschylus Prometheus Bound

Aeschylus The Suppliants

Aeschylus The Seven Against Thebes

Aeschylus The Persians

Sun Tzu         The art of war

Sophocles Antigone

Sophocles Oedipus the King(Oedipus Rex)

Sophocles Oedipus at Colonus

Sophocles Ajax

Sophocles Electra by Sophocles

Sophocles The Trachiniae

Sophocles Philoctetes

Herodotus Histories(the Persian war)

Euripidies Alcestis

Euripidies Hippolytus

Euripidies Iphigenia in Tauris

Euripidies Ion

Euripidies The Trojan Women

Euripidies Helen

Euripidies The Bacchantes

Euripidies Medea

Euripidies Hecabe

Euripidies Electra

Euripidies Heracles

Euripidies The Heracleidae

Euripidies The Phoenissae

Euripidies Orestes

Euripidies The Suppliants

Euripidies Iphigenia At Aulis

Euripidies Andromache

Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War 1 and 2

Hippocrates The Oath 

Hippocrates The Law

Hippocrates On Ancient Medicine

First 50 of the AD Literature list: Updated

So here is my updated first 50 list I've added The Volsung saga and the Edda as well as splitting the divine comedy into its three volumes to line it up with how I am doing series in the BC list. As I've said previously I can't get two of my planned works for Dante in English and so I have crossed them off the list.
Also after conversation with my husband I have also added the City of God which I will have to go back to at some point.

500	Augustine	The City of God
1000	Unknown	Beowulf
1100	Unknown	The song of Roland
1200	Unknown	The Nibelungenlied
1200	Unknown	The Saga of Burnt Njal
1265	Dante Alighieri	Inferno
1266	Dante Alighieri	Purgatorio
1267	Dante Alighieri	Paradiso
1265	Dante Alighieri	Convivio
1265	Dante Alighieri	Monarchia
1265	Dante Alighieri	On the Eloquence of Vernacular
1265	Dante Alighieri	The New Life
1220	The Edda	Snorri
1300	Volsunga Saga	Unknown
1300	Everyman	The Everyman and Miracle Plays
1340	Geoffrey Chaucer	The Book of the Duchess
1340	Geoffrey Chaucer	The House of Fame
1340	Geoffrey Chaucer	Anelida and Arcite
1340	Geoffrey Chaucer	Parlement of Foules
1340	Geoffrey Chaucer	Troilus and Criseyde
1340	Geoffrey Chaucer	The Legend of Good Women
1340	Geoffrey Chaucer	The Canterbury Tales
1340	Geoffrey Chaucer	A Treatise on the Astrolabe
1340	Geoffrey Chaucer	Poems
1350	Unknown	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
1495	Francois Rabelais	Gargantua and Pantagruel
1547	Meguel de Cervantes	Don Quixote
1552	Edmund Spenser	Prothalamion
1552	Edmund Spenser	The Faerie Queene
1561	Francis Bacon	Essays
1561	Francis Bacon	Advancement of Learning
1561	Francis Bacon	Novum Organum
1561	Francis Bacon	New Atlantis
1564	William Shakespeare	Plays
1564	William Shakespeare	Poems
1588	Christopher Marlowe	Doctor Faustus
1608	John Milton	Paradise Lost
1608	John Milton	Paradise Regained
1622	Moliere	The Misanthrope
1622	Moliere	The School for Wives
1622	Moliere	Tartuffe
1622	Moliere	The Miser
1622	Moliere	The Imaginary Invalid
1622	Moliere	The Bourgeois Gentleman
1639	Jean Baptiste Racine	Phèdre
1639	Jean Baptiste Racine	Andromaque
1639	Jean Baptiste Racine	Athalie
1660	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe
1667	Jonathan Swift	A Tale of a Tub
1667	Jonathan Swift	Journal to Stella

First 50 of the AD literature list

Below is the first 50 entries into the AD Literature List. You will notice approximate dates for each author, these are what I have used to put the texts into chronological order, while it might not be 100% precise it does keep all the works of a given author together.

1000	Unknown	Beowulf
1100	Unknown	The song of Roland
1200	Unknown	The Nibelungenlied
1200	Unknown	The Saga of Burnt Njal
1265	Dante Alighieri	The Divine Comedy
1265	Dante Alighieri	Convivio
1265	Dante Alighieri	Monarchia
1265	Dante Alighieri	On the Eloquence of Vernacular
1265	Dante Alighieri	The New Life
1300	Everyman	The Everyman and Miracle Plays
1340	Geoffrey Chaucer	The Book of the Duchess
1340	Geoffrey Chaucer	The House of Fame
1340	Geoffrey Chaucer	Anelida and Arcite
1340	Geoffrey Chaucer	Parlement of Foules
1340	Geoffrey Chaucer	Troilus and Criseyde
1340	Geoffrey Chaucer	The Legend of Good Women
1340	Geoffrey Chaucer	The Canterbury Tales
1340	Geoffrey Chaucer	A Treatise on the Astrolabe
1340	Geoffrey Chaucer	Poems
1350	Unknown	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
1495	Francois Rabelais	Gargantua and Pantagruel
1547	Meguel de Cervantes	Don Quixote
1552	Edmund Spenser	Prothalamion
1552	Edmund Spenser	The Faerie Queene
1561	Francis Bacon	Essays
1561	Francis Bacon	Advancement of Learning
1561	Francis Bacon	Novum Organum
1561	Francis Bacon	New Atlantis
1564	William Shakespeare	Plays
1564	William Shakespeare	Poems
1588	Christopher Marlowe	Doctor Faustus
1608	John Milton	Paradise Lost
1608	John Milton	Paradise Regained
1622	Moliere	The Misanthrope
1622	Moliere	The School for Wives
1622	Moliere	Tartuffe
1622	Moliere	The Miser
1622	Moliere	The Imaginary Invalid
1622	Moliere	The Bourgeois Gentleman
1639	Jean Baptiste Racine	Phèdre
1639	Jean Baptiste Racine	Andromaque
1639	Jean Baptiste Racine	Athalie
1660	Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe
1667	Jonathan Swift	A Tale of a Tub
1667	Jonathan Swift	Journal to Stella
1667	Jonathan Swift	Gulliver's Travels
1667	Jonathan Swift	A modest Proposal
1679	John Bunyan	The Pilgrim's Progress
1688	Alexander Pope	Essay on Criticism
1688	Alexander Pope	Rape of the Lock

First 50 from the BC list

Below is the first 50 entries into the BC List. As you can see it is a mix of most major cultures that have recorded writings.
I skipped the Old Testament because I have read it both as a whole and in separate books many times an I did not feel the need to revisit it for this project.The Upanishads I got stuck on and eventually choose to skip and not complete as it was holding up the project significantly.

-2000	unknown	The Epic Of Gilgamesh
-1000	unknown	Egyptian Book of the Dead
-900	Homer	Iliad
-900	Homer	Odyssey
-800	Various	Old Testemant
-800	Various	Rig Veda
-700	Hesiod	Shield of Heracles
-700	Hesiod	Theogony
-700	Hesiod	The Works and Days
-600	unknown	The Upanishads
-551	Confucius	The Analects
-551	Confucius	The Doctrine of the Mean
-551	Confucius	The Great Learning
-550	Lao Tzu	The Tao-te Ching
-550	Sappho	Collection
-525	Aeschylus	Agamemnon
-525	Aeschylus	The Choephori (The libation bearers)
-525	Aeschylus	Eumenides
-525	Aeschylus	Prometheus Bound
-525	Aeschylus	The Suppliants
-525	Aeschylus	The Seven Against Thebes
-525	Aeschylus	The Persians
-500	Sun Tzu	The art of war
-495	Sophocles	Antigone
-495	Sophocles	Oedipus the King(Oedipus Rex)
-495	Sophocles	Oedipus at Colonus
-495	Sophocles	Ajax
-495	Sophocles	Electra by Sophocles
-495	Sophocles	The Trachiniae
-495	Sophocles	Philoctetes
-484	Herodotus	Histories(the persian war)
-485	Euripidies	Alcestis
-485	Euripidies	Hippolytus
-485	Euripidies	Iphigenia in Tauris
-485	Euripidies	Ion
-485	Euripidies	The Trojan Women
-485	Euripidies	Helen
-485	Euripidies	The Bacchantes
-485	Euripidies	Medea
-485	Euripidies	Hecuba
-485	Euripidies	Electra
-485	Euripidies	Heracles
-485	Euripidies	The Heracleidae
-485	Euripidies	The Phoenissae
-485	Euripidies	Orestes
-485	Euripidies	The Suppliants
-485	Euripidies	Iphigenia At Aulis
-485	Euripidies	Andromache
-485	Euripidies	The Cyclops
-485	Euripidies	Rhesus