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Originally Posted by HarryT
Homer: Odyssey, Iliad
Plato: Complete works
Complete works of Dickens.
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Very good!
Myself, taking your list as a starting point, I would modify it so:
Plato: Complete works -> A mix of Plato and Aristotle
Complete works of Dickens -> Marktwain (!!)
I would add
Dante la divina commedia at least Inferno, with the commentary of De Sanctis, without which it becomes rocky unreadable for us moderns. It takes studying Italian, but it is worth the effort. My philosophy professor, that before the war was a medicine student, and when that was over, decided to become a teacher, studied German to be able to read Hegel ...
Shakespeare selection
Moliere selection
P.S. This is not my list. I might post it later on.