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From Homer to Shakespeare: An Introduction to the Western Canon


GREAT AUTHORS - BC
Kagemni
Djedefhor/Hardedef
Ptahhotep
Unknown in North Saqqara
Sargon of Akkad
Ur-Nammu
Unknown near Uruk
Khety III/Wahkare Khety
Dua-Kheti
Sumerian Bard
Egyptian Shakespeare
Hammurabi
Babylonian Bard
Unknown Babylonian Authors c. 1700 BC
Unknown Babylonian Authors c. 1646 BC
Moses
Phoroneus
Joshua
Phineus
Unknown in Eridu
Cadmus
High Priest Ilmilku
Sanchuniathon
Linus of Thrace
Orpheus
Musaeus
Amenope
Author of Wenamun
Samuel
David
Solomon
Obadiah
Joel
Jonah
Hosea
Amos
Micah
Isaiah
Homer
Hesiod
Archilochus
Alcman
Zephaniah
Nahum
Habakkuk
Jeremiah
Baruch ben Neriah
Thales of Miletus
Pittacus of Mytilene
Bias of Priene
Solon of Athens
Cleobulus of Lindos
Periander of Corinth
Myson of Chenae
Anacharsis the Scythian
Chilon of Sparta
Sappho
Pindar
Ezekiel
Daniel
Stesichorus
Aesop
Haggai
Zechariah
Phrynichus
Pythagoras of Samos
Lysis of Taras
Heraclitus
Laozi
Confucius
Aeschylus
Ezra
Nehemiah
Malachi
Sophocles
Euripedes
Thucydides
Herodotus
Antiochus of Syracuse
Aristophanes
Hippocrates
Plato
Xenophon
Aristotle
Theophrastus
Pseudo-Callisthenes
Epicurus
Menander
Euclid
Clearchus of Soli
Apollonius of Rhodes
Archimedes
Ennius
Apollonius of Perga
Quintus Fabius Pictor
Ben Sira
Plautus
Hermes Trismegistus
Terence
Polybius
Sima Qiam
Catullus
Andronicus of Rhodes
Ankhsheshonq
Cicero
Julius Caesar
Lucretius
Vitruvius
Virgil
Horace
Diodorus Siculus
Marcus Terentius Varro
Propertius
Livy
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I’m DONE With the Roman Dodecahedron - Here’s Why

The Greek Kingdom That History Tried to Erase


GREAT AUTHORS - 1 to 1619
Ovid
Augustus
Jesus
Philo of Alexandria
Seneca the Younger
Matthew the Apostle
Paul the Apostle
Luke the Evangelist
Petronius
Mark the Evangelist
Gaius Musonius Rufus
Josephus
Pliny the Elder
John the Apostle
Statius
Quintilian
Tacitus
Suetonius
Plutarch
Nicomachus of Gerasa
Apostolic Fathers
Juvenal
Pliny the Younger
Epictetus
Arrian
Marcion of Sinope
Claudius Ptolemy
Lucian
Apuleius
Marcus Aurelius
Galen
Tatian the Assyrian
Tertullian of Carthage
Lucius Flavius Philostratus
Cassius Dio
Diogenes Laertius
Porphyry
Plotinus
Constantine
Jerome
Augustine of Hippo
Martianus Capella
John Cassian
Macrobius
Priscus of Panium
Pope Gregory I
Boethius
Saint Benedict
Cassiodorus
Venerable Bede
Einhard
Notker the Stammerer
Alcuin
Li Bai
Du Fu
Sedulius Scottus
Anglo-Saxons
Beowulf's Poet
Domesday Book Scribes
Anselm of Canterbury
Njáls Saga Recorder
Turold
Gloss Commentators
Geoffrey of Monmouth
John of Salisbury
Saxo Grammaticus
Poet of the Nibelungenlied
Stephen Langton
Thomas of Celano
Thomas Aquinas
Jacobus de Varagine
Theodore Metochites
Sir Thomas Malory
Dante Alighieri
Petrarch
Gawain Poet
Luo Guanzhong
Chaucer
Pier Paolo Vergerio the Elder
Leon Battistta Alberti
Christopher Columbus
Erasmus
Thomas More
Martin Luther
Baldesar Castiglione
Machiavelli
François Rabelais
Anglican Scribes
Giorgio Vasari
Ferdinand Columbus
Michel de Montaigne
Catholic Scribes
Wu Cheng'en
Jin Ping Mei
Francis Bacon
James I of England and Ireland
William Shakespeare
Miguel de Cervantes
Saint Francis de Sales
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GREAT AUTHORS - 1620 to PRESENT
Settlers of New Plymouth
John Winthrop
John Milton
Anne Bradstreet
Thomas Hobbes
Isaac Newton
John Locke
Joseph Addison
Daniel Defoe
Jonathan Swift
Benjamin Franklin
Voltaire
Samuel Johnson
Francis Hutcheson
Jonathan Swift
Great Awakening Influencers
George Whitefield
Jonathan Edwards
David Fordyce
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Edmund Burke
Adam Smith
Laurence Sterne
Thomas Paine
Thomas Jefferson
John Adams
Abigail Adams
Immanuel Kant
Publius (Pseudonym)
Abbé Sieyès
Alexander Hamilton
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Cao Xueqin
William Blake
William Wordsworth
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Lord George Gordon Byron
Percy Bysshe Shelley
John Keats
Jane Austen
Sir Walter Scott
Arthur Schopenhauer
Walter Scott
Washington Irving
Benjamin Constant
James Fenimore Cooper
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Alexis de Tocqueville
Edgar Allan Poe
Alexandre Dumas
Frederick Douglass
Charlotte Bronte
Emily Bronte
Karl Marx
Otto von Bismarck
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Herman Melville
Harriet Beecher Stowe
George Fitzhugh
Henry David Thoreau
Charles Dickens
Abraham Lincoln
Sam Houston
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Walt Whitman
Emily Dickinson
John Stuart Mill
Charles Darwin
Leo Tolstoy
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Jules Verne
Nietzsche
Susan Fenimore Cooper
Robert Louis Stevenson
Andrew Carnegie
Carl Menger
Andrew Fleming West
Henry Adams
Frederick Jackson Turner
William Graham Sumner
William Jennings Bryan
Albert Beveridge
Joseph Conrad
Mark Twain
Booker T. Washington
Vladimir Lenin
Edith Wharton
George W. Plunkitt
G.K. Chesterton
Theodore Roosevelt
George Bernard Shaw
Woodrow Wilson
Murray Rothbard
Robert Frost
Marcel Proust
James Joyce
Franz Kafka
Thomas Mann
T. S. Eliot
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Booth Tarkington
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Winston Churchill
Sinclair Lewis
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Henry Ford
Max Weber
Calvin Coolidge
Adolf Hitler
Willa Cather
Ernest Hemingway
Virginia Woolf
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Aldous Huxley
Conrad Aiken
Ludwig von Mises
George Orwell
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
John Maynard Keynes
Charles Lindbergh
Albert Camus
C.S. Lewis
Friedrich Hayek
Walter Lippmann
Douglass Adair
Harry S. Truman
George F. Kennan
Henry Hazlitt
Ernest Hemingway
Herbert Butterfield
J. R. R. Tolkien
Flannery O'Connor
T.S. Eliot
Josef Pieper
M. Stanton Evans
Ronald Reagan
Milton Friedman
Sir Karl Popper
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Frank Herbert
Michael Collins
Ron Paul
Tom Wolfe
Nick Szabo
J. K. Rowling
Satoshi Nakamoto
Scott Adams
Saifedean Ammous
Who were Europe's last pagans?
ARTICLES
How I've Been Learning About AI + Education

Five exercises to help your kid plan their 2026

Our 7 best prompts of 2025

THE STOIC January 2026

Bringing emotional cognition to deep time

2025 LLM Year in Review

Jevons Paradox for Knowledge Work

Side Quest Recommendation: "The Story of Civilization" Series

The Top Ten of 2025 | The Point Magazine

Love Is All You Need: Motive Power of Western Civilization


FREE ONLINE COURSE
From Homer to Shakespeare: An Introduction to the Western Canon


VIDEOS
Self-help is dead. Read this instead.

WOMEN Ruined Video Games

Quest for Ancient Civilizations Continues Tonight with William Henry and Billy Carson!

The Mystery Of The Peruvian Screaming Mummy

Yes, We Know You Got the Shaft

"I'm Sorry It's Not White."

if you can’t beat them...

Millenniyule 2025: Martin Lichtmesz

I’m DONE With the Roman Dodecahedron - Here’s Why

The Greek Kingdom That History Tried to Erase


PODCASTS
The Casebook of Gregory Hood: The Double Diamond (Encore) (EP4875e)

The Ice Age

6241 The Ethics of Starving

Must Be Rats on the Brain

A Duke of Edinburgh Award With Live Ammunition | Margaret Thatcher & The Falklands (Part 4/6)

The Secrets Hidden In Tudor Art

What was the Hanseatic League?

Peter Rushton

Hard Times Strong Men

Protecting Your Boredom


GREAT AUTHORS - 1 to 1619
Ovid
Augustus
Jesus
Philo of Alexandria
Seneca the Younger
Matthew the Apostle
Paul the Apostle
Luke the Evangelist
Petronius
Mark the Evangelist
Gaius Musonius Rufus
Josephus
Pliny the Elder
John the Apostle
Statius
Quintilian
Tacitus
Suetonius
Plutarch
Nicomachus of Gerasa
Apostolic Fathers
Juvenal
Pliny the Younger
Epictetus
Arrian
Marcion of Sinope
Claudius Ptolemy
Lucian
Apuleius
Marcus Aurelius
Galen
Tatian the Assyrian
Tertullian of Carthage
Lucius Flavius Philostratus
Cassius Dio
Diogenes Laertius
Porphyry
Plotinus
Constantine
Jerome
Augustine of Hippo
Martianus Capella
John Cassian
Macrobius
Priscus of Panium
Pope Gregory I
Boethius
Saint Benedict
Cassiodorus
Venerable Bede
Einhard
Notker the Stammerer
Alcuin
Li Bai
Du Fu
Sedulius Scottus
Anglo-Saxons
Beowulf's Poet
Domesday Book Scribes
Anselm of Canterbury
Njáls Saga Recorder
Turold
Gloss Commentators
Geoffrey of Monmouth
John of Salisbury
Saxo Grammaticus
Poet of the Nibelungenlied
Stephen Langton
Thomas of Celano
Thomas Aquinas
Jacobus de Varagine
Theodore Metochites
Sir Thomas Malory
Dante Alighieri
Petrarch
Gawain Poet
Luo Guanzhong
Chaucer
Pier Paolo Vergerio the Elder
Leon Battistta Alberti
Christopher Columbus
Erasmus
Thomas More
Martin Luther
Baldesar Castiglione
Machiavelli
François Rabelais
Anglican Scribes
Giorgio Vasari
Ferdinand Columbus
Michel de Montaigne
Catholic Scribes
Wu Cheng'en
Jin Ping Mei
Francis Bacon
James I of England and Ireland
William Shakespeare
Miguel de Cervantes
Saint Francis de Sales
GREAT AUTHORS - 1620 to PRESENT
Settlers of New Plymouth
John Winthrop
John Milton
Anne Bradstreet
Thomas Hobbes
Isaac Newton
John Locke
Joseph Addison
Daniel Defoe
Jonathan Swift
Benjamin Franklin
Voltaire
Samuel Johnson
Francis Hutcheson
Jonathan Swift
Great Awakening Influencers
George Whitefield
Jonathan Edwards
David Fordyce
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Edmund Burke
Adam Smith
Laurence Sterne
Thomas Paine
Thomas Jefferson
John Adams
Abigail Adams
Immanuel Kant
Publius (Pseudonym)
Abbé Sieyès
Alexander Hamilton
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Cao Xueqin
William Blake
William Wordsworth
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Lord George Gordon Byron
Percy Bysshe Shelley
John Keats
Jane Austen
Sir Walter Scott
Arthur Schopenhauer
Walter Scott
Washington Irving
Benjamin Constant
James Fenimore Cooper
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Alexis de Tocqueville
Edgar Allan Poe
Alexandre Dumas
Frederick Douglass
Charlotte Bronte
Emily Bronte
Karl Marx
Otto von Bismarck
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Herman Melville
Harriet Beecher Stowe
George Fitzhugh
Henry David Thoreau
Charles Dickens
Abraham Lincoln
Sam Houston
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Walt Whitman
Emily Dickinson
John Stuart Mill
Charles Darwin
Leo Tolstoy
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Jules Verne
Nietzsche
Susan Fenimore Cooper
Robert Louis Stevenson
Andrew Carnegie
Carl Menger
Andrew Fleming West
Henry Adams
Frederick Jackson Turner
William Graham Sumner
William Jennings Bryan
Albert Beveridge
Joseph Conrad
Mark Twain
Booker T. Washington
Vladimir Lenin
Edith Wharton
George W. Plunkitt
G.K. Chesterton
Theodore Roosevelt
George Bernard Shaw
Woodrow Wilson
Murray Rothbard
Robert Frost
Marcel Proust
James Joyce
Franz Kafka
Thomas Mann
T. S. Eliot
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Booth Tarkington
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Winston Churchill
Sinclair Lewis
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Henry Ford
Max Weber
Calvin Coolidge
Adolf Hitler
Willa Cather
Ernest Hemingway
Virginia Woolf
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Aldous Huxley
Conrad Aiken
Ludwig von Mises
George Orwell
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
John Maynard Keynes
Charles Lindbergh
Albert Camus
C.S. Lewis
Friedrich Hayek
Walter Lippmann
Douglass Adair
Harry S. Truman
George F. Kennan
Henry Hazlitt
Ernest Hemingway
Herbert Butterfield
J. R. R. Tolkien
Flannery O'Connor
T.S. Eliot
Josef Pieper
M. Stanton Evans
Ronald Reagan
Milton Friedman
Sir Karl Popper
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Frank Herbert
Michael Collins
Ron Paul
Tom Wolfe
Nick Szabo
J. K. Rowling
Satoshi Nakamoto
Scott Adams
Saifedean Ammous