A great books reader series · Sixteen volumes

Old Western Culture Readers

The greatest books of Western civilization, from Homer’s Iliad to the novels of the nineteenth century, in beautifully typeset, single-column readers. Developed as the companion to the Old Western Culture curriculum; a library on its own.

The complete set · sixteen volumes

All sixteen Readers

One Reader for each of the sixteen units: every assigned text, whole or in the course’s selections, in one volume. Paperback $32, casebound hardback $45; the eBook is included with every printed copy, and with the course itself. Intended for high school students, adults seeking a classical education later in life, and classical teacher training.

The set: paperback $512 · casebound hardback $720 · the eBooks included

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The sixteen paperback Readers

Year One · The Greeks

Vols. 1–4
Vol. 1

The Epics

Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey · 820 pages · $32 paperback · $45 hardback

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Vol. 2

Drama and Lyric

The tragedians, Aristophanes and the lyric poets · 702 pages · $32 paperback · $45 hardback

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Year Two · The Romans

Vols. 5–8
Vol. 5

The Aeneid

Vergil, Ovid, Lucretius, Lucan and Statius · 682 pages · $32 paperback · $45 hardback

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Year Three · Christendom

Vols. 9–12

Year Four · Early Moderns

Vols. 13–16
The curriculum

Made for Old Western Culture

Each Reader pairs with a unit of the four-year great-books curriculum: twelve video lectures with Wesley Callihan, the questions, and the exams. Every unit and year includes its Reader eBooks. See also the Roman Roads Classics, standalone editions of single works with introductions and notes.

Old Western Culture
The Readers on a shelf