Texts
All texts are available at the Longwood University Bookstore.
Homer, The Iliad, trans. Fagles (Penguin) [ISBN: 0140445927]
Virgil, The Aeneid, trans. Fitzgerald (Viking) [ISBN: 0679729526]
Bhagavad Gita, trans. Mitchell. [ISBN: 0609810340]
Dante, Inferno, trans. Durling (Oxford) [ISBN: 0195087445]
Cervantes, Don Quixote, trans. Edith Grossman (HarperCollins, 2005). [ISBN: 0060934344]
Voltaire, Candide, trans. Theo Cuffe (Penguin, 2005) [ISBN: 0143039423]
Please also download, print, read, and bring to class the following additional readings on days indicated on the calendar (obtain password from instructor):
The Hebrew Bible, Genesis 22: The Akedah ("The Binding of Isaac") [PDF]
The Qur'an, Sura 37: Abraham and Ishmael [PDF]
Bob Dylan, "Highway 61 Revisited" [PDF]
Bob Dylan, "Highway 61 Revisited" [WMA audio file]
Sumerian Creation and Flood Stories [PDF]
The Hebrew Bible: Creation and Flood Stories [PDF]
The Alphabet of Ben Sira: The Story of Lilith
The Qur'an, Sura: The Story of Noah [PDF]
The Sermon on the Mount [PDF]
Excerpts from St. Augustine's Confessions [PDF]
Excerpts from Aquinas's Summa Theologiae [PDF]
Dante Maps [PDF]
Dante, selections from Purgatorio and Paradiso [PDF]
Petrarch's "Ascent of Mount Ventoux" [PDF]
Excerpts from Petrarch's Canzoniere [PDF]
Milton, selections from Paradise Lost [PDF]
Samuel Beckett, Krapp's Last Tape [PDF]