Columbia Reading List, Literature Humanities, 1991-1992

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Fall Semester

Homer. Iliad.
Odyssey.
Homeric Hymns. "Hymn to Demeter."
Sappho. Poems.
Aeschylus. Oresteia.
Herodotus. The Persian Wars.
Sophocles. Oedipus the King.
Antigone.
Thucydides. The History of the Peloponnesian War (selections).
Euripides. Electra.
The Bacchae.
Aristophanes. The Clouds.
Plato. Symposium.
Apology or The Republic.
Aristotle. The Nicomachean Ethics
The Poetics.
Virgil. Aeneid.
The Bible. Old Testament: Genesis, Job.

Spring Semester

The Bible. New Testament: The Gospels.
Augustine. Confessions.
Dante. Inferno.
Boccaccio. The Decameron (selections).
Montaigne. Essays (selections).
Shakespeare. Play of Choice
King Lear.
Milton. Paradise Lost (optional).
Cervantes. Don Quixote (selections).
Descartes. Discourse on Method.
Meditations on the First Philosophy.
Goethe. Faust, Part 1.
Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
Woolf. To the Lighthouse.
A Room of One's Own.
Instructor's Choice.

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