Great Books
- Bible: Genesis—Book of Job
- Epic of Gilgamesh (c. 2500 B.C.)
- Homer, Iliad and Odyssey (c. 850 B.C.)
- Sophocles, Oedipus the King (490 B.C.)
- Aeschylus, Agamemnon (c. 458 B.C.)
- Herodotus, The Histories (c. 441 B.C.)
- Euripides, Medea (c. 431 B.C.)
- Aristophanes, The Birds (c. 400 B.C.)
- Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War (c. 400 B.C.)
- Plato, The Republic (c. 375 B.C.)
- Aristotle, On Poetics (350 B.C.)
- Aristotle, Rhetoric (c. 350 B.C.)
- Bible: Book of Daniel (c. 165 B.C.)
- Horace, Odes (c. 65 B.C.)
- Lucretius, On the Nature of Things (c. 60 B.C.)
- Cicero, De republica (54 B.C.)
- Virgil, Aeneid (c. 30 B.C.)
- Ovid, Metamorphoses (c. A.D. 5)
- Bible: Corinthians 1 and 2 (c. A.D. 58)
- Josephus, Wars of the Jews (c. A.D. 68)
- Plutarch, The Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans (c. A.D. 100)
- Tacitus, Annals (c. A.D. 117)
- Athanasius, On the Incarnation (c. A.D. 300)