Volumes 4, 6, 10-12
In collection: Great Books of the Western World
Works
Volume 4
- Homer
- The Iliad
- The Odyssey
Volume 6
- Herodotus
- History of the Persian War
- Thucydides
- History of the Peloponnesian War
Volume 10
- Hippocrates
- On Airs, Waters and Places
- On Ancient Medicine
- Aphorisms
- On the Articulations (or, On Joints)
- The Book of Prognostics
- Of the Epidemics
- On Fistulae
- On Fractures
- On Injuries of the Head
- On Hemorrhoids
- Instruments of Reduction (or, Mochlicon)
- The Law
- The Oath
- On Regimen in Acute Diseases
- On the Sacred Disease
- On the Surgery
- On Ulcers
- Galen
- On the Natural Faculties
Volume 11
- Euclid
- Archimedes
- On Conoids and Spheroids
- On the Equilibrium of Planes
- On Floating Bodies
- Lemmas
- On the Measurement of the Circle
- On the Method of Mechanical Problems
- On the Quadrature of the Parabola
- The Sand-Reckoner
- On Sphere and Cylinder
- On Spirals
- Apollonius of Perga
- On Conic Sections (not included in the second edition)
- Nicomachus of Gerasa
- Introduction to Arithmetic
Volume 12
- Lucretius
- Epictetus
- Discourses
- Marcus Aurelius
- Meditations
- (Holy Bible) (c. 1400? BC-AD 95?)
- Euclid (fl.c. 300 BC)
- Apollonius of Perga (fl.c. 240 BC)
- Cicero (106-43 BC)
- Julius Caesar (100-44 BC)
- Titus Lucretius Carus (c. 99-55 BC)
- Virgil (70-19 BC)
- Horace (65-8 BC)
- Livy (59 BC-AD 17)
- Ovid (43 BC-AD 17)
- Tacitus (c. 55-117)
- Claudius Ptolemy (c. 100-178)
- Tertullian (c. 155?-230?)
- St. Augustine of Hippo (354-430)
- St. Benedict of Nursia (c. 480-540)
- (The Qur'an) (c. 632)
- Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374)
- Martin Luther (1483-1546)
- Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
- William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
- William Harvey (1578-1657)
- René Descartes (1596-1650)
