This is a bibliography of the classical books that you will find on my bookshelf.
Mesopotamia
| Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and others translated by Stephanie Dalley [Oxford Classics] |
| The Epic of Gilgamesh translated by N. K. Sandars [Penguin Classics] |
| Letters From Mesopotamia: Official, Business, and Private Letters on Clay Tablets from Two Millennia by A. Leo Oppenheim [University of Chicago Press] |
| Berossos and Manetho, Introduced and Translated translated by G. P. Verbrugghe and J. M. Wickersham [Michigan] |
Egypt
| Les contes populaire de l’Égypte ancienne translated by Gaston Maspero [Amazon] |
| An Introduction to Ancient Egyptian Literature translated by E. A. Wallace Budge [Amazon;] |
| Egyptian Tales: Volume 1: Translated from the Papyri translated by W. M. F. Petrie [Amazon] |
| The Tale of Sinuhe and Other Ancient Egyptian Poems 1940-1640 BC translated by Richard Parkinson [Oxford University Presss] |
| The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Papyrus of Ani in the British Museum translated by W. M. F. Petrie [Amazon] |
| The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Book of Going Forth by Day translated by James Wasserman [Amazon] |
| Berossos and Manetho, Introduced and Translated translated by G. P. Verbrugghe and J. M. Wickersham [Michigan] |
China
| The Shu King or Book of Historical Documents translated by James Legge [Kessinger Legacy Reprints] |
| The Analects by Confucius [Penguin Classics] |
| Mencius translated by D. C. Lau [Penguin Classics] |
Greece
| The Iliad by Homer [Oxford Classics] |
| The Odyssey by Homer [Oxford Classics] |
| The Complete Fables of Aesop [Penguin Classics] |
| The Histories by Herodotus [Penguin Classics] |
| The Complete Plays of Aristophanes by Aristophanes [Bantam Classics] |
| Timaeus and Critias by Plato [Penguin Classics] |
| Six Great Dialogues: Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Phaedrus, Symposium, and The Republic by Plato [Dover Thrift Editions] |
| The Metaphysics by Aristotle [Dover Philosophical Classics] |
| Guide to Greece 1: Central Greece by Pausanias [Penguin Classics] |
Rome
| The Rope and Other Plays by Plautus [Penguin Classics] |
| The Comedies of Terence translated by Betty Rice [Penguin Classics] |
| The Rise of the Roman Empire by Polybius [Penguin Classics] |
| In Defence of the Republic by Cicero [Penguin Classics] |
| The Poems of Catullus translated by Peter Whigham [Penguin Classics] |
| Memorable Deeds and Sayings by Valerius Maximus [Hackett Classics] |
| On the Shortness of Life by Seneca [Penguin Great Ideas] |
| The Satyricon by Petronius [Penguin Classics] |
| The Golden Ass by Apuleius [Penguin Classics] |
| Meditations by Marcus Aurelius [Penguin Classics] |
Judeo-Christian
| The Bible [Oxford Classics] |
| Book of Enoch translated by R. H. Charles [Dover Occult] |
| The Bible [Oxford Classics] |
| The Christian Topography of Cosmas, An Egyptian Monk by Cosmas Indicopleustes [Cambridge University Press] |
| The Dialogues of Saint Gregory translated by Edmund Garratt Gardner [Ulan Press] |
| The Dialogues of Gregory the Great in their Late Antique Cultural Background by Joan M. Petersen [Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies] |
| An Encyclopedia of the Dark Ages: Isidore of Seville translated by Ernest Brehaut [Ulan Press] |
