gilgamesh2. HOMER - ILiad and odyssey3. CONFUCIUS- the analects4. AESCHYLUS-the oresteia -agamemnon5.SOPHOCLES-theban plays:-oedipus rex-oedipus at colonus- antigone6.EURIPIDES-Alcestis-medea-Hippolytus-the trojan women-electra7.HERODOTUS-the histories8.THUCYDIDES-the history of peloponnesian war9.SUN-TZU - the art of war10.ARISTOPHANES-lysistrata-the clouds-the birds11.PLATO -the republic12. ARISTOTLE- ethics,politics, and poetics13.MENCIUS -the book of mencius14.VALMIKI -the ramayana15.VYASA - the mahabharata16.ANONYMOUS (200 BCE) -the bhagavad gita17. SSU- MA CH'IEN -records of the great historian18.LUCRETIUS -Of the nature of things19.VIRGIL -the aenid20.AURELIUS, MARCUS -meditations.