This is part of my ongoing series on reading the Western Canon. See here for an introduction to the series. Although Bloom’s ‘core 26’ authors start with Shakespeare (and chronologically starts with Dante), his full list of books in the Canon starts with ‘The Theocratic Age,’ with works spanning from The Bible to The Iliad to Beowulf (
The Theocratic Age: Virgil, Sophocles, Aurelius
The Theocratic Age: Virgil, Sophocles…
This is part of my ongoing series on reading the Western Canon. See here for an introduction to the series. Although Bloom’s ‘core 26’ authors start with Shakespeare (and chronologically starts with Dante), his full list of books in the Canon starts with ‘The Theocratic Age,’ with works spanning from The Bible to The Iliad to Beowulf (