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Ancient and Medieval Middle East and Asia

 

• Gilgamesh (Anonymous, trans. N. K. Sandars)

  • Introduction

  •  Date: 20th c. BCE

  • Language: Old Babylonian

• The Bible: Genesis (Anonymous, King James Version)

  • Introduction

  • Date: 6th to 5th c. BCE

  • Language: Hebrew

• The Bible: 1 and 2 Samuel selections: Jonathan and David (Anonymous, King James Version)

  • Introduction

  • 7th to 6th c. BCE

  • Language: Hebrew

• The Bible: The Song of Songs (Anonymous, King James Version)

  • Introduction

  • Date: 6th c. BCE

  • Language: Hebrew

• Ramayana (Valmiki, trans. Ralph T. H. Griffith)

•  The Bhagavad-Gita (Anonymous, trans. Ramanand Prasad)

  • Introduction

  • 5th to 2nd c. BCE

  • Sanskrit

• Analects (Confucius, trans. James Legge)

• The Bible: Sermon on the Mount (Anonymous, King James Version)

  • Introduction

  • Date: 1st c.

  • Language: Greek

• The Koran (Mohammed, trans. Authorized English Version)

  • Introduction

  • Date: 7th. c.

  • Language: Arabic

• The Arabian Nights (Anonymous, trans. Andrew Lang)

  • Introduction

  • Date:12th. c.

  • Language: Arabic

• The Tale of Genji (Murasaki Shikibu, trans. Suyematz Kenchio)

  • Date: 11th. c.

  • Language: Early Middle Japanese

• The Pillow Book (Sei Shonagon, trans. Ivan Morris)

  •   Date: 11th c.

  • Language: early Middle Japanese

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Ancient Greece and Rome

• Iliad (Homer, trans. Samuel Butler)

  • Introduction

  •  Date: 8th c. BCE

  • Language: Greek

• Lysistrata (Aristophanes, trans. Jack Lindsay)

  • Introduction

  • Date: 5th c. BCE

  • Language: Greek

• Medea (Euripides, trans. Gilbert Murray)

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  • Introduction

  • Date: 5th c. BCE

  • Language: Greek

• The Symposium (Plato, trans. Benjamin Jowett)

  • Introduction

  • Date: 4th. BCE

  • Language: Greek

• The Apology of Socrates (Plato, trans. Henry Cary)

  • Date: 4th. BCE

  • Language: Greek

• de Amicitia (Cicero, trans. Evelyn S. Shuckburgh)

  • Introduction

  • Date: 1st c. BCE

  • Language: Latin

• Lyrics (Catullus, trans. A. S. Kline)

  • Introduction

  • Date: 1st c. BCE

  • Language: Latin

• Aeneid (Virgil, trans. John Dryden)

  • Introduction

  • Date: 1st c. BCE

  • Language: Latin

• Art of Love (Ovid,  trans. A. S. Kline)

  • Introduction

  • Date:1st c.

  • Language: Latin

• Metamorphoses (Ovid,  trans. A. S. Kline)

  • Date:1st c.

  • Language: Latin

• The Satyricon (Petronius,  trans. W. C. Firebaugh)

  • Introduction

  • Date:1st c.

  • Language: Latin

• The Golden Ass (Apuleius,  trans. A. S. Kline)

  • Introduction

  • Date: 2nd c.

  • Language: Latin

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Medieval and Renaissance Europe

• Beowulf (Anonymous, trans. J. Lesslie Hall)

  • Introduction

  • Date: 10th c.

  • Language: Anglo-Saxon

• Song of Roland (Anonymous, trans. John O'Hagan)

  • Introduction

  • Date: 12th c.

  • Language: Old French

• The Lais (Marie de France, trans. Eugene Mason)

  • Introduction

  • Date: 12th c.

  • Language: Anglo-Norman

• Parzival (Volume 1) (Wolfram von Eschenbach, trans. Jessie Weston)

• Date: 13th c.

• Language: Middle High German

• Parzival (Volume 2) (Wolfram von Eschenbach, trans. Jessie Weston)

• Date: 13th c.

• Language: Middle High German

• Nibelungenlied (Anonymous, trans. Daniel Shumway)

  • Date: 13th c.

  • Language: Middle High German

• The Inferno (Dante, trans. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

  • Introduction

  • Date: 14th c.

  • Language: Italian

• Decameron (Giovanni Boccaccio, trans. J. M. Rigg)

  • Introduction

  • Date: 14th. c.

  • Language: Italian

• The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer,  modernized by Michael Murphy)

  The Miller

  The Wife of Bath

  • Introduction

  • Date: 14th c.

  • Language: Middle English

• Sir Gawain and The Green Knight (The Pearl Poet; trans. Rhonda L. Kelley and A. S. Kline)

  • Introduction

  • Date: 14th c.

  • Language: Middle English

• Morte d'Arthur (Sir Thomas Malory, ed. A. W. Pollard)

  • Introduction

  • Date: 15th c.

  • Language: Early Modern English

• The Book of the Courtier (Count Baldessar Castiglione, trans. L. E. Opdycke)

  • Introduction

  • Date: 16th c.

  • Language: Italian

• The Prince (Niccolò Machiavelli, trans. W. K. Marriott)

  • Introduction

  • Date: 16th c.

  • Language: Italian

• Essays (Michel de Montaigne, trans. Charles Cotton)

  • Introduction

  • Date: 16th c.

  • Language: Middle French

• Doctor Faustus (Christopher Marlowe)

  • Introduction

  • Date: 16th c.

  • Language: English

• Hamlet (William Shakespeare)

  • Introduction

  • Date: 16th c.

  • Language: English

• Henry V (William Shakespeare)

  • Introduction

  • Date: 16th c.

  • Language: English

• Much Ado About Nothing (William Shakespeare)

  • Introduction

  • Date: 16th c.

  • Language: English

• A Midsummer Night's Dream (William Shakespeare)

  • Introduction

  • Date: 16th c.

  • Language: English

• Othello (William Shakespeare)

  • Introduction

  • Date: 16th c.

  • Language: English

• Macbeth (Shakespeare)

  • Introduction

  • Date: 16th c.

  • Language: English

• Don Quixote (Cervantes, trans. Ormsby)

  • Introduction

  • Date: 17th c.

  • Language: Spanish

• Milton: Paradise Lost

  • Introduction

  • Date: 17th c.

  • Language: English

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