Some time ago. Next up is the Egyptian Book of the Dead.
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amasapolis has written 2 entries about this goal
I’ve decided to embark on a quest to read the entire Western Canon according to Bloom. He divides the Canon into four historical periods following the Viconian cycle. The first period, the Theocratic Age (2000 BCE-1321 CE), is further broken down into the literature of the Ancient Near East, Ancient India (Sanskrit), The Ancient Greeks, The Hellenistic Greeks, The Romans, and The Middle Ages: Latin, Arabic, and the Vernacular before Dante.
I will accomplish this task section by section, age by age. To begin with I list the canonical books of the Ancient Near East:
• Gilgamesh
• Egyptian Book of the Dead
• Holy Bible (King James Version)
• The Apocrypha
• Sayings of the Fathers (Pirke Aboth)
I’ve already read the Epic of Gilgamesh, which is why it appears in bold. I am currently reading the Holy Bible, which is an arduous enough task that I’ve given it a whole section of its own.
