Spring 2008 Texts
All texts are available at the Longwood University Bookstore.
Important: Make sure you buy these translations and editions, and please make sure the bookstore gives you these translations and editions. Other translations and editions are used by other World Literature instructors and should not be substituted for the editions below.
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]
Cervantes, Don Quixote, trans. Edith Grossman (HarperCollins, 2005). [ISBN: 0060934344]
Voltaire, Candide, trans. Theo Cuffe (Penguin, 2005) [ISBN: 0143039423]
Li Po, Poems, trans. Hinton (New Directions) [ISBN: 0811213234]
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]