Fall 2007 Texts
All texts are available at the Longwood University Bookstore.
Homer, The Iliad, trans. Fagles (Penguin) [ISBN: 0140445927]
Virgil, The Aeneid, trans. Mandelbaum (Bantam) [ISBN: 0553210416]
Bhagavad Gita, trans. Miller (Bantam) [ISBN: 0553213652]
Dante, Inferno, trans. Mandelbaum (Bantam) [ISBN: 0553213393]
Li Po, Poems, trans. Hinton (New Directions) [ISBN: 0811213234]
Two Spanish Picaresque Novels [incl. Lazarillo de Tormes], trans. Alpert (Penguin, revised edition). [ISBN: 0140449000]
Voltaire, Candide, trans. Theo Cuffe (Penguin, 2005) [ISBN: 0143039423]
Kakfa, Metamorphosis, trans. Corngold (Bantam) [ISBN: 0553213695]
Please also download, print, read, and bring to class the following additional readings on days indicated on the calendar (obtain password from instructor):
The Sermon on the Mount [PDF]
Excerpts from St. Augustine's Confessions [PDF]
Excerpts from Aquinas's Summa Theologiae [PDF]
Dante Maps [PDF]
Petrarch's "Ascent of Mount Ventoux" [PDF]
Excerpts from Petrarch's Canzoniere [PDF]