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

   NEW TESTAMENT

   HOMER
   The Iliad or The Odyssey

  

CONFUCIUS
The Great Learning
Confucian Analects

SOPHOCLES
Oedipus at Colonnus
Antigone

AESCHYLUS
Prometheus Bound

EURIPIDES
Iphigenia

JOSEPHUS
History of the Jews

ARCHIMEDES
Geometric Theories

PTOLEMY
Almagest

ARISTOPHANES
The Clouds

SUN TZU
The Art of War

ARISTOTLE
Politics

PLATO
The Statesman
Phaedo
Symposium

HIPPOCRATES
On Ancient Medicine
On Airs Waters Places
Hippocratic Oath

CICERO
The Orations
On Friendship

PLUTARCH
The Lives
VIRGIL
The Aeneid

SENECA
On Benefits

THUCYDIDES
Roman History

GALEN
On the Natural Faculties

EUSEBIUS
Ecclesiastical History
Oration of Constantine

SIENKIEWICZ
Quo Vadis (Movie)

BOETHIUS
Consolation of Philosophy

ST. AUGUSTINE
City of God

ST. ATHANSIUS
Various Writings
ST. BASIL THE GREAT
Hexameron
De Spiritu Sancto

POPE GREGORY THE GREAT
The Pastoral Rule

ECUMENICAL COUNCILS

LEW WALLACE
Ben Hur (Movie)

SIR. THOMAS MALORY
King Arthur

ST. BENEDICT
The Rule

ST. PATRICK
The Confession
Patrick's Purgatory

EINHARDS
Life of Charlemagne

ANONYMOUS
Song of Roland

ST. BERNARD
Rule of the Knights Templar
On Loving God

KING ALFRED THE GREAT
Anglo Saxon Book of Justice
or The Chronicles of England

Asser's Life of Alfred

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
Richard III
Henry VI
Merchant of Venice

ST. THOMAS MORE
Utopia

MARTIN LUTHER
Address to German Nobility
Let Your Sins be Strong


MACHIAVELLI
The Prince

CALDERON
DE LA BARCA
Life is a Dream

GALILEO GALELI
Letter to the Grand Duchess 
Christina of Tuscany

ROBERT BOYLE
The Skeptical Chemist

CHRISTIAN HUYGENS
Treatise on Light

CHRISTOPHER DAWSON
Confucian Tradition
Early Development of Rome
On the Rights of Man
Christianity and Humanism
English Catholicism
NICOLAUS COPERNICUS
On the Revolution of the
Heavenly Spheres


FRANCIS BACON
Novum Organum

BLAISE PASCAL
Pensees

MSGR. PHILLIP HUGHES
History of the Catholic Church

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