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Explore the Literature
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Fall Semester
The Iliad
Homer
Genesis
Unknown
The Odyssey
Homer
If Not, Winter, Fragments of Sappho
Sappho
Job
Unknown
Oresteia
Aeschylus
Father Comes Home From the Wars
The Symposium
Plato
The Aeneid
Virgil
Luke/John
Unknown
The Golden Ass
Apuleius
Spring Semester
Confessions
Augustine
The Translator of Desires: Poems
Ibn ‘Arabi
The Lais of Marie de France
Marie de France
The Divine Comedy
Dante
Essays
Michel de Montaigne
The Oxford Shakespeare: Othello
William Shakespeare
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubás
Machado de Assis
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka
To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
Notebook of a Return to the Native Land
Aimé Césaire
Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison
Citizen: An American Lyric
Claudia Rankine
Commons
Myung Mi Kim
Former Readings
Gilgamesh
Unknown
Isaiah
Isaiah
Hymn to Demeter
Unknown
Macbeth
William Shakespeare
Song of Solomon
Unknown
Paradise Lost
John Milton
The Histories
Herodotus
Oedipus Rex
Sophocles
Antigone
Sophocles
Lysistrata
Aristophanes
