My recommendations for those who want to read the Western Canon. (Part 1) These are the essentials. Most are available free online (see links below left) or via Amazon. There are many more than are on this list, but this is the core. It's an ambitious list. When your'e done you can consider yourself classically educated and pat yourself on the back. It may take you a lifetime. So get started!
Homer Illad, Odyssey
Bible King James Version (for beauty of the language)
Anonymous The Epic of Gilgamesh
Aeschylus Oresteia, Agamemnon, Choephoroe, Eumenides
Sophocles Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
Herodotus Histories
Euripides Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus, The Trojan Women, Electra, The Bacchae
Thucydides The History of the Peloponnesian War
Aristotle Poetics, Rhetoric, Physics On the Soul, Nicom, Ethics, Physics, Metaphysics
Aristophanes Lysistrata, The Clouds, The Birds
Plato The Republic, Meno, Protagoras, Gorgias, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Timaeus
Xenophon Anabasis
Archimedes On Conolds and Spheroids
Epictetus Manual
Lucretius Of the Nature of Things
Galen On the Natural Faculties
Euclid Elements
Virgil Aeneid
Cicero Offices, Academica, Complete Orations
Livy History of Rome, Ab Urbe Conditia
Marcus Aurelius Meditations
Plutarch The Lives
Tacitus Annals
Ovid Amores, Metamorphoses, Ars Amatoria, Tristia
Pliny the Elder Natural History
Suetonius Twelve Caesars
Seneca Selected Works
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