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Explore the Literature
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Fall Semester
The Iliad
Homer
If Not, Winter, Fragments of Sappho
Sappho
The Odyssey
Homer
Genesis
Unknown
Job
Unknown
Song of Solomon
Unknown
The Histories
Herodotus
Oresteia
Aeschylus
Antigone
Sophocles
Father Comes Home From the Wars
The Symposium
Plato
The Aeneid
Virgil
Metamorphoses
Ovid
Spring Semester
Luke/John
Unknown
Confessions
Augustine
The Divine Comedy
Dante
Essays
Michel de Montaigne
Macbeth
William Shakespeare
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes
Paradise Lost
John Milton
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison
Former Readings
Gilgamesh
Unknown
Isaiah
Isaiah
Hymn to Demeter
Unknown
Oedipus Rex
Sophocles
Bacchae
Euripides
The Medea
Euripides
Lysistrata
Aristophanes
History of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides
The Decameron
Boccaccio
King Lear
William Shakespeare
