Description: VOLUME I Preface. ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN WORLD. The World of Heroes. Enuma Elish, Anonymous, (Second Millennium B.C.E.) (Translated by Stephanie Dalley). The Babylonian Creation Epic. The Pyramid Texts of Unas, Anonymous (ca. 2300 B.C.E.) (Translated by Miriam Lichtheim). Sky Rain, Stars Darken. Unas is Gods'' Steward, Behind the Mansion of Re. Theogony, Hesiod (Eighth Century B.C.E.) (Translated by Norman O. Brown). Now Let Us Begin with the Olympian Muses. First of All, the Void Came into Being. Of All the Children Born of Earth and Sky Rhea submitted to the Embraces of Cronus. The Old Testament (Early First Millennium B.C.E.) (New International Version). Genesis (The Creation Story). The Descent of Ishtar to the Underworld, Anonymous (Second Millennium B.C.E.) (Translated by Stephanie Dalley). Anonymous (Eighth Century B.C.E.) (Translated by Helen P. Foley). The Hymn to Aphrodite. The Hymn to Demeter. The Epic of Gilgamesh, Anonymous (ca. 1200 B.C.E.) (Translated by Maureen Gallery Kovacs). Homer, (Eighth Century B.C.E.). The Iliad, (Translated by Robert Fagles). Book 1 The Rage of Achilles. Book 6 Hector Returns to Troy. Book 9 The Embassy to Achilles. Book 16 Patroclus Fights and Dies. Book 18 The Shield of Achilles. Book 22 The Death of Hector. Book 24 Achilles and Priam. The Odyssey, (Translated by Richmond Lattimore). Book 1 Invocation. Book 9 The Wanderings of Odysseus. The World of the City. The Erra Epic, Kabti-ilani-Marduk, (Early Eighth Century B.C.E.) (Translated by David Damrosch). Works and Days, Hesiod (Eighth Century B.C.E.) (Translated by Dorothea Wender). O Perses, Store This in Your Heart. The Old Testament (First Millennium B.C.E.) (King James Version). The Book of Job. Archilochus, (Seventh Century B.C.E.) (Translated by Diane J. Rayor). I am a Servant of the War Lord. I Don''t Like a Tall General, Swaggering. Some Thracian Exults in an Excellent Shield. Heart, My Heart Churning with Fathomless Cares. No Townsman, Perikles will Blame Us. Tyrtaeus, (Seventh Century B.C.E.) (Translated by Richmond Lattimore). I Would Not Say Anything for a Man nor Take Account of Him. His Tomb is Pointed to With Pride. Solon, (640?-558? B.C.E.) (Translated by Richmond Lattimore). This City of Ours Will Never be Destroyed. I Gave the People as Much Privilege as They Have a Right To. My Purpose was to Being My Scattered People Back. Antigone, Sophocles (496-406 B.C.E.) (Translated by Elizabeth Wyckoff). The History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides (460-400 B.C.E.) (Translated by Rex Warner). Pericles'' Funeral Oration. The Apology, Plato (427-348 B.C.E.) (Translated by G.M.A. Grube). The Trial and Death of Socrates. Lucretius (98-55 B.C.E.). On the Nature of Things De Rerum Natura (Translated by James H. Mantinband). Mother of all the Romans. Therefore Death is Nothing to Us. Sacred Marriage Texts of Sumer (The Ecstasy of Love), Anonymous (Third Millennium B.C.E.). Blessing on the Wedding Night. Love Poems from Egypt, Anonymous (Mid-second Millennium B.C.E.) (Translated by William Kelly Simpson). If I Am Not With You Where Will You Set Your Heart. Distracting is the Foliage of My Pasture. My Heart is Not Yet Happy with Your Love. The Voice of the Turtle Dove Speaks Out. My Heart Remembers Well Your Love. I Embrace Her. How Well the Lady Knows to Cast the Noose. Why Need You Hold Converse with Your Heart. I Found the Lover at the Ford. I Passed by Her House in the Dark. Old Testament, (Mid-late First Millennium B.C.E.) (Jerusalem Bible). The Song of Songs. Let Him Kiss Me with the Kisses of His Mouth. I am Black but Lovely, Daughters of Jerusalem. See Where He Stands. How Beautiful You Are, My Love. I Sleep But My Heart is Awake. You are Beautiful as Tirzah, My Love. Who is This Coming Up from the Desert/Leaning on Her Beloved. Alcaeus, (Late Seventh-early Sixth Century B.C.E.) (Translated by Richmond Lattimore). Zeus Rains upon Upon us. Wet Your Whistle with Wine Now. Sappho, (Late Seventh-early Sixth Century B.C.E.) (Translated by Diane J. Rayor). On the Throne of Many Hues, Immortal Aphrodite. Some Way an Army of Horsemen. To Me it Seems. Evening Start who Gathers Everything. The Sweet Apple Reddens on a High Branch. Ibycus, (Mid-sixth Century B.C.E.) (Translated by Diane J. Rayor). In Spring, Quince Trees. Again Love. Anacreon (Late Sixth Century B.C.E.) (Translated by Diane J. Rayor). Lad, Glancing Like a Virgin. The Dice of Love. Again Love Struck Me. Thracian Filly. Catullus (894-54 B.C.E.). My Lesbia, Let Us Live and Love (Translated by James Michie). How Many Kisses Satisfy (Translated by James Michie). Enough, Catullus, of This Silly Whining (Translated by James Michie). Furios and Aurelius, Loyal Comrades (Translated by James Michie). I Can Remember Lesbia When You Swore (Translated by James Michie). If in Recalling Former Kindnesses (Translated by Guy Lee). Travelling Through Many Nations (Translated by Guy Lee). Horace (65-8 B.C.E.). Winter''s Fists Unclench at the Touch of Spring (Translated by Joseph P. Clancy). What Slim Youth, Pyrrha (Translated by Cedric Whitman). You See How Deep Soracte Stands in the Snow (Translated by Cedric Whitman). Don''t Ask Leucone, the Forbidden Question (Translated by Joseph P. Clancy). My Long Suspended Wars, Venus, are Long Over (Translated by Cedric Whitman). The World of Empires. The Great Hymn to the Aten, Anonymous (ca. 1300 B.C.E.) (Translated by Miriam Litchteim). Anonymous (ca. 1900 B.C.E.). The Story of Sinuhe, (Translated by Miriam Lichtheim). Anonymous (ca. 1200 B.C.E.). The Two Brothers, (Translated by Miriam Lichtheim). The Old Testament, (ca. 900 B.C.E.) (New International Version). Genesis: The Joseph Story. Herodotus (ca. 480-425 B.C.E.). The Histories. The Story of Solon and Croesus. (Translated by Aubrey de Selincourt). The Old Testament, (After 538 B.C.E.) (New International Version). The Book of Ruth. Thucydides (ca. 460-400 B.C.E.). The History of the Peloponnesian War. The Melian Dialogue (Translated by Rex Warner). Euripides (480-406 B.C.E.). The Bacchae, (Translated by C. K. Williams). Aeneid, Vergil (70-19 B.C.E.). Book 4 The Passion of the Queen (Translated by Robert Fitzgerald). The New Testament, (Late First Century C.E.) (Revised Standard Version). The Gospel According to Luke. The Annunciation to Mary. The Birth of Jesus. The Preaching of John the Baptist. The Temptation of Jesus. The Ministry of Jesus. The Last Supper. The Betrayal of Jesus. The Trial of Jesus. The Crucifixion of Jesus. The Burial of Jesus. The Resurrection of Jesus. Acts of the Apostl

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