HOLY BIBLE
   Leviticus (Law & Politics)
   Deuteronomy (Law & Politics)
   NEW TESTAMENT

   HOMER
   The Iliad or The
Odyssey

  

CONFUCIUS
The Great Learning
Doctrine of the Mean

SOPHOCLES
Oedipus at Colonnus
Antigone

AESCHYLUS
Prometheus Bound

EURIPIDES
Bacchae

JOSEPHUS
History of the Jews

ARCHIMEDES
Geometrical Solutions from Mechanics
On Floating Bodies

PTOLEMY
Almagest

ARISTOPHANES
The Clouds

SUN TZU
The Art of War

ARISTOTLE
Politics

PLATO
Apology of Socrates
Phaedo
Euthyphro

HIPPOCRATES
On Ancient Medicine
The Law
Hippocratic Oath

CICERO
The Orations
The Commonwealth

PLUTARCH
The Lives
VIRGIL
The Aeneid

SENECA
On Benefits

THUCYDIDES
Roman History

GALEN
On the Natural Faculties

EUSEBIUS
Ecclesiastical History
Life of
Constantine

SIENKIEWICZ
Quo Vadis (Movie)

BOETHIUS
Consolation of Philosophy

ST. AUGUSTINE
City of God


ST. ATHANSIUS

ST. BASIL THE GREAT

POPE GREGORY THE GREAT

ECUMENICAL COUNCILS

LEW WALLACE
Ben Hur (Movie)

SIR. THOMAS MALORY
King Arthur

ST. BENEDICT
The Rule

ST. PATRICK
The Confession
Patrick's Purgatory

EINHARD
Life of Charlemagne

ANONYMOUS
Song of Roland

ST. BERNARD
In Praise of the New Knighthood

MAIMONIDES
Guide for the Perplexed

ST. ALBERT THE GREAT
On Cleaving to God

ST. THOMAS AQUINAS
Summa Theologiae
Treatise on Law & Kingship

ST. BONAVENTURE
Mind's Road to God

DANTE ALIGHIERI
The Divine Comedy

JOHN CALVIN
The Institutes

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Othello
The Tempest
Merchant of Venice

ST. THOMAS MORE
Utopia

MARTIN LUTHER
Address to German Nobility
Freedom of a Christian


MACHIAVELLI
The Prince

CALDERON DE LA BARCA
Life is a Dream

GALILEO GALELI
Letter to the Grand Duchess 
Christina of Tuscany

ROBERT BOYLE
Experiments on Colours

CHRISTIAN HUYGENS
Treatise on Light

CHRISTOPHER DAWSON
Confucian Tradition
Early Development of Rome
Nature and Destiny of Man
Medieval Essays
Dynamics of World History
The Making of Europe
NICOLAUS COPERNICUS
Dedication to the Heavenly Bodies

FRANCIS BACON
Novum Organum

BLAISE PASCAL
Pensees

MSGR. PHILLIP HUGHES
History of the Catholic Church

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