h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

OK I know that when you compile a list of this nature you always get wind-ups like this, but....

I am not much of a classicist, but if you have Aeschylus in this list, surely you should also include Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes. And then if you need Homer and Sappho. And, for their literary value, Plato and Aristotle (the discussion at the beginning of the Ars Poetica about whether cats can perceive rhythm seems very much in the spirit of h2g2).

Then, if you have the Greek chaps, why not Roman chappies, viz, Virgil, Ovid, Horace, Juvenal, and Lucretius, etc.

I can certainly recommend these chaps to you (maybe you should list authors of classical antiquity under a different heading, to avoid them being mixed up with people like Hemingway).

By the way, probably the best list of top famous books is at the end of Harold Bloom's The Great Tradition (or something). The rest of the book isn't up to much, but the list is a) interesting, b) very long

See youse later
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