Appendix A: The Theocratic Age (Harold Bloom's Western Canon)

1.
The Odyssey
The Odyssey
by: Homer
3.82 avg rating β€” 1,156,750 ratings
2.
The Iliad
The Iliad
by: Homer
3.92 avg rating β€” 494,710 ratings
3.
Oedipus the King
Oedipus the King
by: Sophocles
3.72 avg rating β€” 232,027 ratings
4.
The Old Testament
The Old Testament
by: Various
3.98 avg rating β€” 124 ratings
5.
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Epic of Gilgamesh
by: Anonymous
3.75 avg rating β€” 114,190 ratings
6.
The Aeneid
The Aeneid
by: Virgil
3.87 avg rating β€” 139,147 ratings
7.
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
by: Aeschylus
4.02 avg rating β€” 45,635 ratings
8.
The Complete Fables
The Complete Fables
by: Aesop
4.05 avg rating β€” 128,592 ratings
9.
Metamorphoses
Metamorphoses
by: Ovid
4.10 avg rating β€” 76,412 ratings
10.
The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
by: Sophocles
3.99 avg rating β€” 69,740 ratings
11.
The Histories
The Histories
by: Herodotus
4.01 avg rating β€” 54,683 ratings
12.
Mahabharata
Mahabharata
by: Anonymous
4.32 avg rating β€” 11,794 ratings
13.
Meditations
Meditations 4.28 avg rating β€” 320,804 ratings
14.
Medea
Medea
by: Euripides
3.95 avg rating β€” 84,389 ratings
15.
The Way Things Are
The Way Things Are
by: Lucretius
3.97 avg rating β€” 14,247 ratings
16.
Ramayana
Ramayana 4.19 avg rating β€” 5,259 ratings
17.
The Golden Ass: The Transformations of Lucius
The Golden Ass: The Transformations of Lucius
by: Apuleius
3.86 avg rating β€” 16,754 ratings
18.
The Works and Days/Theogony/The Shield of Herakles
The Works and Days/Theogony/The Shield of Herakles
by: Hesiod
3.95 avg rating β€” 3,604 ratings
19.
Seven Against Thebes
Seven Against Thebes
by: Aeschylus
3.73 avg rating β€” 3,771 ratings
20.
The Frogs and Other Plays
The Frogs and Other Plays 4.02 avg rating β€” 1,868 ratings
21.
Four Plays: The Clouds/The Birds/Lysistrata/The Frogs
Four Plays: The Clouds/The Birds/Lysistrata/The Frogs 4.06 avg rating β€” 6,768 ratings
22.
Poetics
Poetics
by: Aristotle
3.83 avg rating β€” 28,477 ratings
23.
Plutarch's Lives: Volume I
Plutarch's Lives: Volume I
by: Plutarch
4.10 avg rating β€” 5,998 ratings
24.
The Complete Poems
The Complete Poems
by: Catullus
4.10 avg rating β€” 11,444 ratings
25.
The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Book of Going Forth by Day
The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Book of Going Forth by Day 3.91 avg rating β€” 5,991 ratings
26.
Gilgamesh: A New Rendering in English Verse
Gilgamesh: A New Rendering in English Verse
by: Unknown
3.74 avg rating β€” 836 ratings
27.
The Twelve Caesars
The Twelve Caesars
by: Suetonius
4.02 avg rating β€” 22,151 ratings
28.
The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and Sophists
The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and Sophists 3.96 avg rating β€” 955 ratings
29.
The Portable Plato
The Portable Plato
by: Plato
4.22 avg rating β€” 158 ratings
30.
Alcestis
Alcestis
by: Euripides
3.85 avg rating β€” 4,828 ratings
31.
Euripides V: Electra / The Phoenician Women / The Bacchae
Euripides V: Electra / The Phoenician Women / The Bacchae
by: Euripides
4.18 avg rating β€” 3,848 ratings
32.
The Nicomachean Ethics
The Nicomachean Ethics
by: Aristotle
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 57,315 ratings
33.
Fragments
Fragments 4.18 avg rating β€” 7,705 ratings
34.
The Basic Works of Aristotle
The Basic Works of Aristotle
by: Aristotle
4.24 avg rating β€” 2,452 ratings
35.
Satires and Epistles
Satires and Epistles
by: Horatius
3.75 avg rating β€” 130 ratings
36.
The Last Days of Socrates
The Last Days of Socrates
by: Plato
4.12 avg rating β€” 44,777 ratings
37.
The Apocrypha: King James Version
The Apocrypha: King James Version
by: Anonymous
4.01 avg rating β€” 640 ratings
38.
The Annals of Imperial Rome
The Annals of Imperial Rome
by: Tacitus
3.98 avg rating β€” 9,163 ratings
39.
The Georgics of Virgil
The Georgics of Virgil
by: Virgil
3.73 avg rating β€” 2,453 ratings
40.
The Satyricon
The Satyricon
by: Petronius
3.78 avg rating β€” 9,456 ratings
41.
Sophocles: The Complete Plays
Sophocles: The Complete Plays
by: Sophocles
4.26 avg rating β€” 5,219 ratings
42.
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
by: Sappho
4.43 avg rating β€” 20,759 ratings
43.
The Bhagavad-Gita: Krishna's Counsel in Time of War
The Bhagavad-Gita: Krishna's Counsel in Time of War 4.19 avg rating β€” 78,229 ratings
44.
Greek Lyrics, Second Edition: More than a Hundred Poems and Poetic Fragments from the Great Age of Greek Lyric Poetry (Phoenix Books)
Greek Lyrics, Second Edition: More than a Hundred Poems and Poetic Fragments from the Great Age of Greek Lyric Poetry (Phoenix Books) 3.94 avg rating β€” 349 ratings
45.
The Complete Aeschylus: Volume II: Persians and Other Plays
The Complete Aeschylus: Volume II: Persians and Other Plays
by: Aeschylus
3.99 avg rating β€” 8,684 ratings
46.
The Homeric Hymns
The Homeric Hymns
by: Homer
4.05 avg rating β€” 6,435 ratings
47.
Iphigeneia at Aulis
Iphigeneia at Aulis
by: Euripides
4.02 avg rating β€” 6,069 ratings
48.
The Birds and Other Plays
The Birds and Other Plays 4.11 avg rating β€” 1,656 ratings
49.
The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War
The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War 3.94 avg rating β€” 39,937 ratings
50.
Callimachus: Hymns, Epigrams, Select Fragments
Callimachus: Hymns, Epigrams, Select Fragments 3.62 avg rating β€” 88 ratings
51.
Euripides II: The Cyclops / Heracles / Iphigenia in Tauris / Helen
Euripides II: The Cyclops / Heracles / Iphigenia in Tauris / Helen
by: Euripides
4.27 avg rating β€” 934 ratings
51.
Euripides IV: Rhesus / The Suppliant Women / Orestes / Iphigenia in Aulis
Euripides IV: Rhesus / The Suppliant Women / Orestes / Iphigenia in Aulis
by: Euripides
4.19 avg rating β€” 641 ratings
53.
The Complete Euripides, Volume III: Hippolytos and Other Plays
The Complete Euripides, Volume III: Hippolytos and Other Plays
by: Euripides
4.18 avg rating β€” 57 ratings
54.
Classical Literary Criticism
Classical Literary Criticism 3.84 avg rating β€” 211 ratings
55.
Four Comedies
Four Comedies
by: Plautus
3.73 avg rating β€” 585 ratings
56.
Six Tragedies
Six Tragedies
by: Seneca
3.97 avg rating β€” 511 ratings
57.
The Satires
The Satires
by: Juvenal
3.89 avg rating β€” 2,833 ratings
57.
Epigrams
Epigrams 4.01 avg rating β€” 946 ratings
59.
On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It
On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It
by: Seneca
4.17 avg rating β€” 43,015 ratings
60.
The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis (Pocket Canons)
The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis (Pocket Canons)
by: Anonymous
4.39 avg rating β€” 4,638 ratings
61.
The Art of Love
The Art of Love
by: Ovid
3.71 avg rating β€” 7,287 ratings
62.
Pirke Aboth, The Ethics of the Talmud: Sayings of the Fathers
Pirke Aboth, The Ethics of the Talmud: Sayings of the Fathers 4.39 avg rating β€” 18 ratings
63.
The Mahabharata: A Play
The Mahabharata: A Play 4.27 avg rating β€” 267 ratings
64.
War Music: An Account of Books 1-4 and 16-19 of Homer's Iliad
War Music: An Account of Books 1-4 and 16-19 of Homer's Iliad 4.37 avg rating β€” 644 ratings
65.
Archilochus, Sappho, Alkman: Three Lyric Poets of the Seventh Century B.C.
Archilochus, Sappho, Alkman: Three Lyric Poets of the Seventh Century B.C. 4.14 avg rating β€” 51 ratings
66.
7 Greeks
7 Greeks 4.40 avg rating β€” 310 ratings
67.
The Odes of Pindar
The Odes of Pindar
by: Pindar
3.85 avg rating β€” 1,595 ratings
68.
Euripides III: Hecuba / Andromache / The Trojan Women / Ion (Complete Greek Tragedies, #7)
Euripides III: Hecuba / Andromache / The Trojan Women / Ion (Complete Greek Tragedies, #7)
by: Euripides
4.02 avg rating β€” 670 ratings
69.
Ion: A Play After Euripides (Black Swan Books Literary Series)
Ion: A Play After Euripides (Black Swan Books Literary Series)
by: H.D.
3.80 avg rating β€” 15 ratings
70.
Plato: Complete Works
Plato: Complete Works
by: Plato
4.37 avg rating β€” 11,937 ratings
71.
The Girl from Samos or the In-Laws
The Girl from Samos or the In-Laws
by: Menander
3.07 avg rating β€” 138 ratings
72.
The Plays and Fragments
The Plays and Fragments
by: Menander
3.56 avg rating β€” 753 ratings
73.
Pure Pagan: Seven Centuries of Greek Poems and Fragments
Pure Pagan: Seven Centuries of Greek Poems and Fragments 3.70 avg rating β€” 136 ratings
74.
Idylls
Idylls 3.84 avg rating β€” 716 ratings
75.
Essays
Essays
by: Plutarch
4.22 avg rating β€” 301 ratings
76.
Selected Satires of Lucian
Selected Satires of Lucian 4.10 avg rating β€” 152 ratings
77.
The Menaechmus Twins and Two Other Plays (Norton Library (Paperback)) (N602)
The Menaechmus Twins and Two Other Plays (Norton Library (Paperback)) (N602)
by: Plautus
3.79 avg rating β€” 48 ratings
78.
Amphitryon and Two Other Plays
Amphitryon and Two Other Plays
by: Plautus
3.44 avg rating β€” 18 ratings
79.
The Comedies
The Comedies
by: Terence
3.79 avg rating β€” 1,379 ratings
80.
The Nature of the Gods
The Nature of the Gods 3.83 avg rating β€” 1,184 ratings
81.
Odes
Odes
by: Horatius
4.05 avg rating β€” 1,132 ratings
82.
The Satires of Persius
The Satires of Persius
by: Persius
3.64 avg rating β€” 73 ratings
83.
The Penguin Book of English Verse
The Penguin Book of English Verse 4.14 avg rating β€” 183 ratings
84.
The Eclogues of Virgil
The Eclogues of Virgil
by: Virgil
3.89 avg rating β€” 3,172 ratings
85.
Civil War
Civil War
by: Lucan
3.92 avg rating β€” 1,602 ratings
86.
Heroines: A Verse Translation
Heroines: A Verse Translation
by: Ovid
4.12 avg rating β€” 3,719 ratings
87.
The Poems of Exile: Tristia and the Black Sea Letters
The Poems of Exile: Tristia and the Black Sea Letters
by: Ovid
4.04 avg rating β€” 675 ratings
88.
The History of Rome, Books 1-5: The Early History of Rome
The History of Rome, Books 1-5: The Early History of Rome
by: Livy
3.96 avg rating β€” 9,759 ratings
89.
Natural History: A Selection
Natural History: A Selection 3.99 avg rating β€” 582 ratings