Mortimer J. Adler, editor in chief; Clifton Fadiman, Philip W. Goetz, associate editors
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Great books of the Western world
EDITION STATEMENT
Edition Statement
2nd ed
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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61 v. : ill. , maps
NOTES PERTAINING TO BINDING AND AVAILABILITY
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CONTENTS NOTE
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v. 1-2. The syntopicon: an index to the great ideas.--v.3.The Iliad and the Odyssey of Homer.--v.4. Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes.--v.5.The history of Herodotus. The history of the Peloponnesian War/Thucydides. --v.6. The dialogues of plato.--v.7. The works of Aristotle [part 1].--v.8. The works of Aristotle [part 2].--v.9. Hippocratic writings: Galen On the natural faculties.--v.10. The thirteen books of Euclid's elements. The worksof Archimedes including the method. Introduction to arithmetic/by Nicomachus.-- v.11. The way things are/ Lucretius. The discourses of Epictetus. The meditations of Marcus Aurelius. The six Enneads/ Plotinus.--v.12. Virgil: the Eclogues, the Georgics, the Aeneid.--v.13. Plutarch: the lives of the Noble, Grecians and romans.--v.14. Tacitus: the annals and the histories.-- v.15. The almagest/ Ptolemy.On the revolutions of the heavenly spheres/ Nicolaus Copernicus. epitome of Copernican Astronomy:IV-V, The harmonies of the world:V/ Johannes Kepler.-- v.16. The confessions, the city of god, On Christiandoctrine/ Saint Augustine.--v.17. The summa theologica/ Saint Thomas Aquinas [part 1].-- v.18. The summa theologica/ Saint Thomaas Aquinas [part 2].--v.19. The Divine Comedy/ Dante Alighieri, Troilus and criseyde, The canterbury tales/ Geoffrey Chaucer.--v.20. Selections from institutesof the christian Religion/ John Calvin.--v.21 The prince/ Nicolo Machiavelli, Leviathan,/... Thomas Hobbes.--v.22. Gargantua and pantagruel/ Francois Rab