The Norton Anthology of World Literature: Beginning to 1650 VOL A,B,C

by: Lawall, Sarah N.; MacK, Maynard; Lawall, Sarah N.

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9780393977646
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0393977641
Edition: 2nd
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Copyright: 05/01/2001
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
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Summary

Offers poetry, prose, and religious writings from the earliest human civilizations to the present from throughout the world.

Preface

Acknowledgments

xxi

Phonetic Equivalents

xxiii

MAP: THE ANCIENT MIDDLE EAST, CA. 1000 B.C.

(1)

The Invention of Writing and the Earliest Literatures

(5)

TIME LINE

(96)

Gilgamesh (Akkadian, ca. 2500--1500 B.C.)

(31)

N. K. Sandars

Ancient Egyptian Poetry (ca. 1500--ca. 1200 B.C.)

(11)

Akhenaten's ``Hymn to the Sun''

(4)

The Leiden Hymns

(3)

[How splendid you ferry the skyways]

(1)

[God is a master craftsman]

(1)

[When Being began back in the days of the genesis]

(1)

[The mind of God is perfect knowing]

(1)

Love Songs

(3)

[My love is one and only, without peer]

(1)

[I wish I were her Nubian girl]

(1)

[Love, how I'd love to slip down to the pond]

(1)

[Why, just now, must you question your heart?]

(1)

[I was simply off to see Nefrus my friend]

(1)

[I think I'll go home and lie very still]

(1)

[Love of you is mixed deep in my vitals]

(1)

John L. Foster

The Bible: The Old Testament (Hebrew, ca. 1000--300 B.C.)

(52)

Genesis 1--3 [The Creation---The Fall]

(3)

Genesis 4 [The First Murder]

(1)

Genesis 6--9 [The Flood]

(3)

Genesis 11 [The Origin of Languages]

(1)

Genesis 22 [Abraham and Isaac]

(1)

Genesis 25, 27 [Jacob and Easu]

(2)

Genesis 37, 39--46 [The Story of Joseph]

(11)

From Job

(16)

Psalm 8

(1)

Psalm 19

(1)

Psalm 23

(1)

Psalm 104

(2)

Psalm 137

(1)

The Song of Songs

(5)

Jonah

101

(3)

(The King James Version)

MAP: GREECE AND WESTERN ASIA MINOR, CA. FIFTH CENTURY B.C.

104

(1)

Ancient Greece and the Formation of the Western Mind

105

(7)

TIME LINE

112

(692)

Homer (Eighth century B.C.)

114

(416)

The Iliad (Greek)

120

(105)

Book I [The Rage of Achilles]

120

(16)

From Book VI [Hector Returns to Troy]

136

(11)

From Book VIII [The Tide of Battle Turns]

147

(1)

Book IX [The Embassy to Achilles]

147

(19)

From Book XVI [Patroclus Fights and Dies]

166

(11)

Book XVIII [The Shield of Achilles]

177

(15)

Book XXII [The Death of Hector]

192

(13)

Book XXIV [Achilles and Priam]

205

(20)

Robert Fagles

The Odyssey (Greek)

225

(1)

Book I [A Goddess Intervenes]

225

(11)

Book II [A Hero's Son Awakens]

236

(10)

Book III [The Lord of the Western Approaches]

246

(12)

Book IV [The Red-Haired King and His Lady]

258

(20)

Book V [Sweet Nymph and Open Sea]

278

(11)

Book VI [The Princess at the River]

289

(8)

Book VII [Gardens and Firelight]

297

(8)

Book VIII [The Songs of the Harper]

305

(14)

Book IX [New Coasts and Poseidon's Son]

319

(13)

Book X [The Grace of the Witch]

332

(15)

Book XI [A Gathering of Shades]

347

(16)

Book XII [Sea Perils and Defeat]

363

(13)

Book XIII [One More Strange Land]

376

(12)

Book XIV [Hospitality in the Forest]

388

(13)

Book XV [How They Came to Ithaka]

401

(15)

Book XVI [Father and Son]

416

(13)

Book XVII [The Beggar at the Manor]

429

(18)

Book XVIII [Blows and a Queen's Beauty]

447

(11)

Book XIX [Recognitions and a Dream]

458

(16)

Book XX [Signs and a Vision]

474

(9)

Book XXI [The Test of the Bow]

483

(11)

Book XXII [Death in the Great Hall]

494

(13)

Book XXIII [The Trunk of the Olive Tree]

507

(9)

Book XXIV [Warriors, Farewell]

516

(14)

Robert Fitzgerald

Sappho of Lesbos (Born ca. 630 B.C.)

530

(3)

[Lyrics] (Greek)

531

(2)

[Throned in splendor, deathless, O Aphrodite]

531

(1)

[Like the very gods in my sight is he]

532

(1)

[Some there are who say that the fairest thing seen]

532

(1)

Richmond Lattimore

Aeschylus (524?--456 B.C.)

533

(79)

The Oresteia (Greek)

537

(75)

Agamemnon

537

(45)

The Libation Bearers

582

(1)

The Eumenides

583

(29)

Robert Fagles

Sophocles (ca. 496--406 B.C.)

612

(81)

Oedipus the King (Greek)

617

(41)

Antigone (Greek)

658

(35)

Robert Fagles

Euripides (480--406 B.C.)

693

(32)

Medea (Greek)

695

(30)

Rex Warner

Aristophanes (450?--385? B.C.)

725

(54)

Lysistrata (Greek)

727

(52)

Douglass Parker

Plato (429--347 B.C.)

779

(20)

The Apology of Socrates (Greek)

780

(19)

Benjamin Jowett

Aristotle (384--322 B.C.)

799

(5)

From Poetics (Greek)

800

(4)

James Hutton

MAP: CHINA DURING THE WARRING STATES PERIOD, CA. 250. B.C.

804

(1)

Poetry and Thought in Early China

805

(5)

TIME LINE

810

(70)

Classic of Poetry (Chinese, ca. 1000--600 B.C.)

812

(8)

Fishhawk

814

(1)

Plums are Falling

814

(1)

Dead Roe Deer

815

(1)

Boat of Cypress

815

(1)

Gentle Girl

816

(1)

Quince

816

(1)

Chung-tzu, Please

817

(1)

I Went Along the Broad Road

817

(1)

Rooster Crows

817

(1)

Willows by the Eastern Gate

818

(1)

She Bore the Folk

818

(2)

Stephen Owen

Confucius (551--479 B.C.)

820

(12)

From Analects (Chinese)

823

(9)

D. C. Lau

Chuang Chou (ca. 369--286 B.C.)

832

(26)

Chuang Tzu (Chinese)

834

(24)

Free and Easy Wandering

834

(4)

Discussion on Making All Things Equal

838

(7)

The Secret of Caring for Life

845

(1)

From Chapter 4. In the World of Men

846

(2)

From Chapter 6. The Great and Venerable Teacher

848

(3)

From Chapter 7. Fit for Emperors and Kings

851

(1)

From Chapter 12. Heaven and Earth

851

(1)

From Chapter 13. The Way of Heaven

852

(1)

From Chapter 17. Autumn Floods

853

(1)

From Chapter 18. Perfect Happiness

854

(1)

From Chapter 19. Mastering Life

854

(1)

From Chapter 20. The Mountain Tree

855

(1)

From Chapter 21. Tien Tzu-fang

856

(1)

From Chapter 22. Knowledge Wandered North

857

(1)

From Chapter 24. Hsu Wu-Kuei

858

(1)

Burton Watson

SSU-MA Ch'Ien (ca. 145--ca. 85 B.C.)

858

(22)

Letter in Reply to Jen An (Chinese)

860

(6)

Stephen Owen

Historical Records (Chinese)

866

(14)

The Biography of Po Yi and Shu Ch'i

866

(3)

The Prince of Wei

869

(7)

From The Schemes of the Warring States: Yu-Jang

876

(1)

From Biographies of the Assassins: Nieh Cheng

877

(3)

Stephen Owen

MAP: INDIA, 1200 B.C.--A.D. 100

880

(1)

India's Heroic Age

881

(7)

TIME LINE

888

(152)

The Ramayana of Valmiki (Sanskrit, ca. 550 B.C.)

890

(63)

From Book 2. Ayodhya

895

(8)

From Book 3. Aranya

903

(19)

From Book 4. Kiskindha

922

(4)

From Book 5. Sundhara

926

(20)

From Book 6. Yuddha

946

(7)

Swami Venkatesananda

The Mahabharata (Sanskrit, ca. 400 B.C.--A.D. 400)

953

(49)

From Book 1. Adi [Origins]

959

(8)

C. V. Narasimhan

From Book 2. Sabha [The Assemby Hall]

967

(16)

J. A. B. van Buitenen

From Book 5. Udyoga [The Preparation for War]

983

(7)

From Book 8. Karna [The Book of Karna]

990

(4)

From Book 9. Salya [The Book of Salya]

994

(4)

From Book 11. Stri [The Book of the Women]

998

(2)

From Book 12. Santi [The Book of Peace]

1000

(2)

C. V. Narasimhan

The Jataka (Pali, fourth century B.C.)

1002

(8)

The Cheating Merchant

1004

(1)

E. B. Cowell

The Hare's Self-Sacrifice

1005

(3)

The Monkey's Heroic Self-Sacrifice

1008

(2)

H. T. Francis

E. J. Thomas

The Bhagavad-Gita (Sanskrit, first Century B.C.)

1010

(19)

From The First Teaching [Arjuna's Dejection]

1014

(2)

From The Second Teaching [Philosophy and Spiritual Discipline]

1016

(4)

From The Third Teaching [Discipline of Action]

1020

(3)

From The Sixth Teaching [The Man of Discipline]

1023

(2)

From The Eleventh Teaching [The Vision of Krishna's Totality]

1025

(4)

Barbara Stoler Miller

The Tamil Anthologies (Tamil, ca. 100--250)

1029

(11)

What She Said [1]

1031

(1)

What She Said [2]

1032

(1)

What She Said [3]

1032

(1)

What She Said [4]

1032

(1)

What She Said [5]

1033

(1)

What her Girl-Friend Said

1033

(1)

What the Conclubine Said

1033

(1)

What She Said [6]

1034

(1)

What She Said [1]

1034

(1)

What She Said [2]

1035

(1)

A Chariot Wheel

1035

(1)

His Hill

1036

(1)

Mothers

1037

(1)

Earth's Bounty

1037

(3)

A. K. Ramanujan

MAP: THE ROMAN EMPIRE, CA. 117

1040

(1)

The Roman Empire

1041

(3)

TIME LINE

1044

Catullus (84?--54? B.C.)

1046

[Lyrics] (Latin)

1047

[Lesbia, let us live only for loving]

1047

[Sparrow, you darling pet of my beloved]

1047

[To me that man seems like a god in heaven]

1047

[Many find Quintia stunning. I find her attractive]

1048

[No other woman can truthfully say she was cherished]

1048

[Darling, we'll both have equal shares in the sweet love you offer]

1048

[Lesbia hurls abuse at me in front of her husband]

1049

[My woman says there is no one whom she'd rather marry]

1049

[You used to say that you wished to know only Catullus]

1049

[I hate & love. And if you should ask how I can do both]

1049

[To such a state I have been brought by your mischief, my Lesbia]

1049

[Wretched Catullus! You have to stop this nonsense]

1050

[Lesbia, Caelius---yes, our darling]

1050

[Aurelius & Furius, true comrades]

1050

[If any pleasure can come to a man through recalling]

1051

Charles Martin

Virgil (70--19 B.C.)

1052

The Aeneid (Latin)

1055

From Book I

1055

[Prologue]

1055

[Aeneas Arrives in Carthage]

1056

Book II

1063

[How They Took the City]

1063

Book IV

1085

[The Passion of the Queen]

1085

From Book VI

1106

[Aeneas in the Underworld]

1106

From Book VIII

1125

[The Shield of Aeneas]

1125

From Book XII

1129

[The Death of Turnus]

1129

Robert Fitzgerald

Ovid (43 B.C.---A.D. 17)

1134

Metamorphoses (Latin)

1138

From Book I

1138

[Prologue]

1138

[Apollo and Daphne]

1138

[Io and Jove]

1141

From Book II

1147

[Europa and Jove]

1147

From Book V

1149

[Ceres and Proserpina]

1149

From Book IX

1161

[Iphis and lanthe]

1161

From Book X

1166

[Pygmalion]

1166

[Myrrha and Cinyras]

1167

[Venus and Adonis]

1174

Allen Mandelbaum

Petronius (died A.D. 66)

1182

The Satyricon (Latin)

1183

[Dinner with Trimalchio]

1183

J. P. Sullivan

A Note on Translation

Permissions Acknowledgments

A13

Index

A15

The Norton Anthology of World Literature: Beginning to 1650 VOL A,B,C

9780393977646

0393977641

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