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The literature and histories written during the time-periods of history. This list primarily covers Ancient Greece, Rome and the Middle Ages in Western Europe, though there are a few other texts scattered in for good measure. For some of the books, there are multiple translations listed.
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Beowulf (Tr. Seamus Heaney)
Beowulf
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Tr. Seamus Heaney
Herodotus -- The Histories (Herodotus)
Herodotus -- The Histories
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Herodotus
Thucydides -- The History of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides -- The History of the Peloponnesian War
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Roman Lives (Plutarch)
Roman Lives
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Plutarch
Greek Lives (Plutarch)
Greek Lives
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Plutarch
Lives of the Caesars - Suetonius
Lives of the Caesars - Suetonius
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Aeneid (Virgil)
Aeneid
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Virgil
The Illiad (Homer)
The Illiad
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Homer
The Odyssey (Homer)
The Odyssey
9
Homer
All's Well That Ends Well (William Shakespeare)
All's Well That Ends Well
10
William Shakespeare
The Anglo Saxon World (Kevin Crossley-Holland)
The Anglo Saxon World
11
Kevin Crossley-Holland
Annals
Annals
12
Antigone (Sophocles)
Antigone
13
Sophocles
Archaic Times to the End of the Peloponnesian War (Fornara)
Archaic Times to the End of the Peloponnesian War
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Fornara
As You Like It (William Shakespeare)
As You Like It
15
William Shakespeare
Beowulf (J.R.R. Tolkien)
Beowulf
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J.R.R. Tolkien
Beowulf (Chickering)
Beowulf
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Chickering
The Book of Contemplation: Islam & the Crusades (Usama Ibn Munqidh)
The Book of Contemplation: Islam & the Crusades
18
Usama Ibn Munqidh
The Book of Margery Kempe (Margery Kempe)
The Book of Margery Kempe
19
Margery Kempe
The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
The Canterbury Tales
20
Geoffrey Chaucer
Canterbury Tales (Coghiill)
Canterbury Tales
21
Coghiill
The Poems of Catullus (Catullus)
The Poems of Catullus
22
Catullus
Anglo Saxon Verse (Richard Hamer)
Anglo Saxon Verse
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Richard Hamer
Chronicle of the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds (Jocelin of Brakelond)
Chronicle of the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds
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Jocelin of Brakelond
Chronicles of the Crusades (Joinville & Villehardouin)
Chronicles of the Crusades
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Joinville & Villehardouin
Chronicles of the First Crusade (Joinville)
Chronicles of the First Crusade
26
Joinville
The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls (Anonymous)
The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls
27
Anonymous
The Conquest of Gaul (Gaius Julius Caesar)
The Conquest of Gaul
28
Gaius Julius Caesar
Crusades: A Reader (S. J. Allen)
Crusades: A Reader
29
S. J. Allen
The Chronicles of Theophanes (Harry Turtledove)
The Chronicles of Theophanes
30
Harry Turtledove
Divine Comedy--Devil Alichino (Dante Alighieri)
Divine Comedy--Devil Alichino
31
Dante Alighieri
The Divine Comedy, Vol. 2: Purgatory (Dante Alighieri)
The Divine Comedy, Vol. 2: Purgatory
32
Dante Alighieri
The Divine Comedy - Paradise, Translated by Dorothy L Sayers
The Divine Comedy - Paradise, Translated by Dorothy L Sayers
33
The Ecclesiastical History of the English People (Bede)
The Ecclesiastical History of the English People
34
Bede
Everyman and Medieval Miracle Plays (A. C. Cawley, Ed.)
Everyman and Medieval Miracle Plays
35
A. C. Cawley, Ed.
Fall of the Roman Republic (Plutarch)
Fall of the Roman Republic
36
Plutarch
Greek Lyric Poetry (Sherod Santos)
Greek Lyric Poetry
37
Sherod Santos
Guide to Greece, Vol. 1: Central Greece (Pausanias)
Guide to Greece, Vol. 1: Central Greece
38
Pausanias
Henry V (William Shakespeare)
Henry V
39
William Shakespeare
Historia Brittonum, From a Manuscript Lately Discovered (Nennius)
Historia Brittonum, From a Manuscript Lately Discovered
40
Nennius
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