Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance Literature Texts

Manuscript from Euripides' play Orestes

Anthologies

• Readings About the World, Vol. 1 Ed. Paul Brians

Individual Texts and Collections

Classical Greece and Rome

• The Iliad by Homer
• The Odyssey by Homer
• Cleis by Sappho
• Antigone by Sophocles
• Medea by Euripides
• Hippolytus by Euripides
• The Bacchae by Euripides
• The Trojan Women by Euripides
• The Aeneid by Virgil

Near East

• Who makes these changes" by Rumi, trans. Coleman Barks
• The Journey Selections from Rumi
• The Epic of Kings by Firdawsi
• The Gulistan of Sadi
• The Bhagavad Gita

Asia

• Classical Chinese Poetry
• Classical Chinese Poetry from Cyberway to China

Europe

• The Inferno translations by Allen Mandelbaum and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; from ILT Web
• Utopia by Thomas More
• The City of the Sun by Tommaso Campanella
• "Of Cannibals by Michel de Montaigne
• Don Quixote by Cervantes

Miscellaneous Resources

• European Texts and Images before 1620

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