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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
The Histories
Herodotus
Oresteia
Aeschylus
Bacchae
Euripides
History of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides
The Symposium
Plato
The Aeneid
Virgil
Heroides
Ovid
Spring Semester
Luke/John
Unknown
Confessions
Augustine
The Divine Comedy
Dante
The Decameron
Boccaccio
Essays
Michel de Montaigne
King Lear
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
Hymn to Demeter
Unknown
Job
Unknown
Oedipus Rex
Sophocles
The Medea
Euripides
Lysistrata
Aristophanes
Metamorphoses
Ovid
Faust
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
