- The Iliad (c. 850? BC)
- The Odyssey (c. 850? BC)
- Batrachomyomachia ("The Frog-Mouse War")
- The Capture of Oechalia
- The Contest of Homer and Hesiod
- The Cypria
- The Epigoni
- Homeric Hymns
- The Little Iliad
- The Margites
- The Nostoi
- The Phocais
- The Thebaid
Homer was the greatest of the ancient Greek poets, the author of two great works that are foundational to the whole western canon of literature, and Plato even called him the "educator of all Greece". Wouldn't you think, with that kind of résumé, that we would know a fair bit about the man?
Nope. Not even close.
In truth, we know next to nothing about Homer himself - not when he lived (guesses range from 750BC all the way back to 1200BC), not where he came from (seven cities claim him as a native son, and none of those claims can be disproven), not even something so basic as whether or not he actually existed as a single individual. Everything we think we know is extrapolated from analysis of the Iliad and Odyssey and from the handful of things written about him in antiquity.
- Great Books of the Western World
- Harvard Classics
- How to Read a Book
- Great Books Foundation Adult Discussion Series
- Wikipedia article on Homer
- Mini-biography at GrAdeSaver.com
- Biography.com article
- Short discussion at the Ancient History Encyclopedia
- Abelard and Heloise; Letters of
- Abolishing Christianity; An Argument Against
- Abolition of Man, The (1943)
- Abroad; Innocents
- Absalom, Absalom!
- Abyssinia; The Prince of
- Account of the Great Experiment Concerning the Equilibrium of Fluids
- Acharnians; The
- Acute Diseases, On Regimen in
- Adam Bede
- Adams, The Education of Henry
- Address to the Christian Nobility
- Ado About Nothing, Much
- Adonis, Venus and
- Advancement of Learning
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The
- Adventures of Ideas
- Adventures of Pinocchio, The
- Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The
- Advice to a Young Poet, A Letter of
- Aeneid, The
- Affections, Treatise Concerning Religious
- African War, The
- After the Ball
- Against Apion
- Agamemnon
- Agesilaus
- Agnes Grey
- Agonistes, Samson
- Agricola
- Aids to Reflection
- Aims of Education and Other Essays, The
- Air, Treatises on the Equilibrium of Liquids and on the Weight of the Mass of the
- Airs, Waters, and Places; On
- Ajax
- Alcestis
- Alexandrian War, The
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
- Alienated Labor
- All's Well That Ends Well
- Almagest
- Amatoria, Ars
- Ambassadors, The
- America, Democracy in
- American, The
- American Scene, The
- American Tragedy, An
- Amerika
- Amicitia, Laelius de
- Among School Children
- Amontillado, The Cask of
- Amores
- Amoris, Remedia
- Anabasis
- Analects (Confucius)
- Analysis of the Ego, Group Psychology and the
- Analysis of Mind, The
- Analytical Theory of Heat
- Analytics, Posterior
- Analytics, Prior
- Ancient Mariner, Rime of the
- Ancient Medicine, On
- Andrews, Joseph
- Andromache (Euripides)
- Andromache (Racine)
- Andronicus, Titus
- Angler, The Compleat
- Animal Faith, Skepticism and
- Animal Farm
- Animals, On the Gait of
- Animals, On the Generation of (Aristotle)
- Animals, On the Generation of (Harvey)
- Animals, The History of
- Animals, On the Motion of
- Animals, On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in
- Animals, On the Parts of
- Anna Karenina
- Annals (Tacitus)
- Anthem
- Anti-Federalist Papers
- Antigone
- Antiquities of the Jews
- Antony, Life of
- Antony and Cleopatra
- Anxiety; Inhibitions, Symptoms, and
- Aphorisms (Hippocrates)
- Apion, Against
- Apprenticeship, Wilhelm Meister's
- Apology (Plato)
- Apology (Tertullian)
- Apology (Xenophon)
