Great Books - Western World

The Great Books of the Western World

The Harvard Classics

World Literature

• Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition, Various Lecturers, The Great Courses

• Great Authors of the Western Literary Tradition, Various Professors, The Great Courses, 2nd ed.

• Masterpieces of Ancient Greek Literature, Professor David J. Schenker (University of Missouri-Columbia), The Great Courses

• Classics of British Literature, Professor John Sutherland (University College London; California Institute of Technology), The Great Courses

• Classic Novels: Meeting the Challenge of Great Literature, Professor Arnold Weinstein (Brown University), The Great Courses

• Greek Tragedy, Professor Elizabeth Vandiver (University of Maryland), The Great Courses

The Bible

• Reading Biblical Literature Genesis to Revelation, Craig R. Koester, Ph.D., The Great Courses

• The History of the Bible: The Making of the New Testament Canon, Professor Bart D. Ehrman (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), The Great Courses

• The Story of the Bible, Professor Luke Timothy Johnson (Emory University), The Great Courses

• The Old Testament, Professor Amy-Jill Levine (Vanderbilt University Divinity School), The Great Courses

• The New Testament, Professor Bart D. Ehrman (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), The Great Courses

• Understanding the Old Testament, Professor Robert D. Miller II (The Catholic University of America), The Great Courses

• Understanding the New Testament, Professor David Brakke (The Ohio State University), The Great Courses

• Bible: The Story of the King James Version, Gordon Campbell 

• The King James Bible: A Short History from Tyndale to Today, David Norton

Dante Alighieri

• Dante’s Divine Comedy, Professors William R. Cook and Ronald B. Herzman (State University of New York, Geneseo), The Great Courses

Homer

• The Odyssey of Homer, Professor Elizabeth Vandiver (Whitman College), The Great Courses

James Joyce

• Joyce’s Ulysses, Professor James A. W. Heffernan (Dartmouth College), The Great Courses

Plato

• Plato, Socrates, and the Dialogues, Professor Michael Sugrue (Princeton University), The Great Courses

Shakespeare

• How to Read and Understand Shakespeare, Professor Marc C. Conner (Washington and Lee University), The Great Courses