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| Volume A: The Ancient World | |
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| The Ancient Near East | |
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| The Babylonian Theogony (c. 2<sup>nd</sup> millennium B.C.E) | |
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| A Memphite Theology (c. 2500 B.C.E.) | |
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| Genesis: Chapters 1-11 (1<sup>st</sup> millennium B.C.E.) | |
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| Translations: Genesis | |
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| Poetry Of Love And Devotion (c. 3<sup>rd</sup> to 2<sup>nd</sup> millennium B.C.E.) | |
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| Last night, as I, the queen, was shining bright | |
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| Egyptian Love Songs | |
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| Distracting is the foliage of my pasture | |
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| I sail downstream in the ferry by the pull of the current | |
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| The voice of the turtledove speaks out | |
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| I embrace her, and her arms open wide | |
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| One, the lady love without a duplicate | |
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| How well the lady knows to cast the noose | |
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| Why need you hold converse with your heart? | |
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| I passed by her house in the dark | |
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| The Song Of Songs (1<sup>st</sup> millennium B.C.E.) | |
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| The Epic Of Gilgamesh (c. 1200 B.C.E.) | |
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| Perspectives: Death and Immortality | |
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| The Descent of Ishtar to the Underworld (late 2<sup>nd</sup> millennium B.C.E) | |
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| from The Book of the Dead (2<sup>nd</sup> millennium B.C.E.) | |
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| Letters to the Dead (2<sup>nd</sup> to 1<sup>st</sup> millennium B.C.E.) | |
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| Kabti-Ilani-Marduk: Erra and Ishum (8<sup>th</sup> century B.C.E.) | |
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| Crosscurrents | |
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| The Book Of Job (6<sup>th</sup> century B.C.E.), (trans. Revised Standard Version) | |
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| Resonances from The Babylonian Theodicy | |
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| Psalm 22 "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" | |
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| Psalm 102 "Hear my prayer, O Lord; let my cry come unto thee!" | |
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| Perspectives: Strangers in a Strange L and The Story of Sinuhe (c. 1925 B.C.E.) | |
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| The Two Brothers (c. 1200 B.C.E.) | |
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| The Joseph Story (1<sup>st</sup> millennium B.C.E.), (New International Version) Genesis 37-50 | |
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| The Book of Ruth (c. late 6<sup>th</sup> century B.C.E.), (New International Version) | |
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| Crosscurrents | |
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| Classical Greece | |
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| Homer (8<sup>th</sup> century B.C.E.) from The Iliad | |
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| The Wrath of Achilles | |
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| Achilles' Sheild | |
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| The Death of Hektor | |
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| Achilles and Priam | |
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| Resonance | |
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| Filip Visnjic: The Death of Kraljevic Marko | |
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| The Odyssey | |
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| Athena Inspires the Prince | |
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| Telemachus Sets Sail | |
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| King Nestor Remembers | |
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| Book 4. The King and Queen of Sparta | |
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| Odysseus - Nymph and Shipwreck | |
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| The Princess and the Stranger | |
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| Phaeacia's Halls and Gardens | |
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| A Day for Songs and Contests | |
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| In the One-Eyed Giant's Cave | |
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| The Bewitching Queen of Aeaea | |
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| The Kingdom of the Dead | |
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| The Cattle of the Sun | |
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| Book 13. Ithaca at Last | |
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| The Loyal Swineherd | |
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| The Prince Sets Sail for Home | |
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| Father and Son | |
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| Stranger at the Gates | |
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| The Beggar-King of Ithaca | |
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| Penelope and Her Guest | |
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| Portents Gather | |
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| Odysseus Strings His Bow | |
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| Slaughter in the Hall | |
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| The Great Rooted Bed | |
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| Peace | |
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| Resonances | |
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| Franz Kafka: The Silence of the Sirens | |
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| George Seferis: Upon a Foreign Verse | |
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| Derek Walcott: from Omeros | |
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| Archaic Lyric Poetry | |
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| Arkhilokhos (7<sup>th</sup> century B.C.E) | |
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| Encounter in a Meadow | |
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| The Fox and the Hedgehog | |
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| Elegies | |
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| Sappho (early 7<sup>th</sup> century B.C.E) | |
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| Rich-throned immortal Aphrodite | |
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| Come, goddess | |
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| Some think a fleet | |
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| He looks to me to be in heaven | |
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| Love shakes my heart | |
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| Honestly, I wish I were dead | |
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| ...she worshipped you | |
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| Like a sweet-apple | |
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| The doorman's feet | |
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| Resonance | |
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| Alejandra Pizarnik: Poem, Lovers, Recognition, Meaning of His Absence, Dawn, Falling | |
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| Alkaios (7<sup>th</sup> - 6<sup>th</sup> century B.C.E) | |
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| And fluttered Argive Helen's heart | |
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| They tell that Priam and his sons | |
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| The high hall is agleam | |
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| I can't make out the lie of the winds | |
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| Pindar (518-438 B.C.E.) | |
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| First Olympian Ode | |
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| Resonances | |
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| John Keats: Ode on a Grecian Urn | |
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| Rainer Maria Rilke: Archaic Torso of Apollo | |
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| AESCHYLUS (525-456 B.C.E.) | |
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| Agamemnon | |
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| Resonance | |
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| W. B. Yeats: Leda and the Swan | |
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| Sophocles (496-406 B.C.E.) | |
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| Oedipus the King | |
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| Antigone | |
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| Resonance | |
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| Aristotle: from Poetics | |
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| Perspectives: Tyranny and Democracy | |
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| Solon (c. 640-558 B.C.E.) | |
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| Our state will never fail | |
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| The commons I have granted | |
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| Those aims for which I called the public meeting | |
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| Thucydides (c. 460-400 B.C.E.) from The Peloponnesian War | |
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| Plato (c. 429-347 B.C.E) | |
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| Apology | |
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| Euripides (c. 480-405 B.C.E.) | |
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| The Medea | |
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| Resonance | |
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| Friedrich Nietzsche: from The Birth of Tragedy | |
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| Crosscurrents | |
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| Aristophanes (445-c.380 B.C.E.) | |
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| Lysistrata | |
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| Early South Asia | |
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| The Mahabharata Of Vyasa (last centuries B.C.E.-early centuries C.E.) | |
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| The Friendly Dice Game | |
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| The Temptation of Karna | |
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| from The Bhagavad Gita | |
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| Translations: The Bhagavad Gita | |
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| Resonances | |
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| Kautilya: from The Treatise on Power | |
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| Asoka: from Inscriptions | |
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| The Ramayana Of Valmiki (last centuries B.C.E.) | |
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| The Exile of Rama | |
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| The Abduction of Sita | |
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| The Death of Ravana and The Fire Ordeal of Sita | |
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| Resonances from A Public Address, 1989: The Birthplace of God Cannot Be Moved | |
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| Daya Pawar, et al.: We Are Not Your Monkeys | |
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| Perspectives: What is "Literature"? | |
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| The Ramayana of Valmiki | |
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| The Invention of Poetry | |
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| Rajashekhara (early 900s) from Inquiry into Literature | |
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| Anandavardhana (mid-800s) from Light on Suggestion | |
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| Crosscurrents | |
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| Love In A Courtly Langauge | |
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| The Tamil Anthologies (2<sup>nd</sup> -3<sup>rd</sup> century) | |
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| Orampokiyar: What Her Girl Friend Said | |
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| Anonymous: What Her Girl Friend Said to Him | |
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| Kapliar: What She Said | |
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| Uruttiran: What She Said to Her Girl Friend | |
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| Maturaittamilkkutta Katuvan Mallanar: What the Servants Said to Him | |
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| Vanmanipputi: What She Said to Her Girl Friend | |
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| The Seven Hundred Songs Of Hala (2nd-3rd century) | |
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| At night, cheeks blushed | |
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| After a quarrel | |
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| His form | |
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| While the bhikshu | |
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| Though he's wronged me | |
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| Tight lads in fields | |
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| He finds the missionary position | |
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| When she bends to touch | |
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| As though she'd glimpsed | |
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| Those men | |
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| The Hundred Poems Of Amaru (7<sup>th</sup> century) | |
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| She is the child, but I the one of timid heart | |
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| You will return in an hour? | |
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| As he came to bed the knot fell open of itself | |
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| At first our bodies knew a perfect oneness | |
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| Your palm erases from your cheek the painted ornament | |
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| They lay upon the bed each turned aside | |
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| If you are angry with me, you of lotus eyes | |
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| You listened not to words of friends | |
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| At day's end as the darkness crept apace | |
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| Held her | |
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| Lush clouds in | |
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| Kalidasa (4<sup>th</sup> -5<sup>th</sup> century) | |
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| Shakuntala and the Ring of Recollection | |
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| Resonances | |
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| Kuntaka: from The Life-force of Literary Beauty | |
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| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: On Shakuntala | |
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| Rabindranath Tagore: from Shakuntala: Its Inner Meaning | |
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| China: The Classical Tradition | |
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| The Book Of Songs (1000-600 B.C.E.) | |
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| The Ospreys Cry | |
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| Locusts | |
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| Plop Fall the Plums | |
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| In the Wilds is a Dead Doe | |
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| Resonances | |
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| In the wilds there is a dead deer | |
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| Lies a dead deer on younder plain | |
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| Cypress Boar | |
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| Northern Wind | |
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| Of Fair Girls | |
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| Cypress Boat | |
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| I Beg You, Zhong | |
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| The Lady Says | |
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| Out in the Bushlands a Creeper Grows | |
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| Resonances | |
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| In the open grounds there is the creeping grass | |
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| Mid the bind-grass on the plain | |
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| The Cock Has Crowed | |
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| Big Rat | |
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| Tall Pear Tree | |
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| Tall is the Pear Tree | |
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| Moon Rising | |
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| The Seventh Month | |
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| May Heaven Guard | |
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| Resonances | |
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| Heaven protects and secures you | |
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| Heaven conserve thy course in quietness | |
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| The Beck | |
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| What Plant is not Faded? | |
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| Oak Clumps | |
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| Birth to the People | |
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| So They Appeared | |
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| Resonances | |
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| Confucius: from The Analects | |
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| Wei Hong: from Preface to The Book of Songs | |
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| Confucius (551-479 B.C.E.) from The Analects | |
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| Perspectives: Daoism and its Ways from Dao De Jing | |
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| from Zhuangzi | |
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| Liezi (4th century C.E.): from The Book of Liezi | |
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| Xi Kang (223-262 C.E.): from Letter to Shan Tao | |
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| Liu Yiqing (403-444 C.E.): from A New Account of the Tales of the World | |
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| Crosscurrents | |
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| Rome And The Roman Empire | |
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| Virgil (70-19 B.C.E.) | |
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| Aeneid | |
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| from Book 1: A Fateful Haven | |
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| from Book 2: How They Took the City | |
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| The Passion of the Queen | |
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| from Book 6: The World Below | |
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| from Book 8: Evander | |
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| from Book 12: The Death of Turnus | |
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| Resonances | |
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| Horace: from Odes: 1.24: Why should our grief for a man so loved | |
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| Macrobius: from Saturnalia | |
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| Ovid (43 B.C.E.-18 C.E.) | |
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| Metamorphoses | |
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| Phaethon | |
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| Tiresias | |
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| Narcissus and Echo | |
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| Book 6 | |
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| Book 8 | |
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| Daedalus and Icarus | |
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| Book 10 | |
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| Orpheus' Song: Ganymede, Hyacinth, Pygmalion | |
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| Book 11 | |
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| Book 15 | |
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| Perspectives: The Culture of Rome and the Beginnings of Christianity | |
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| Catullus (84-54 B.C.E.) | |
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| "Cry out lamenting, Venuses and Cupids" | |
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| "Lesbia, let us live only for loving" | |
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| "You will dine well with me, my dear Fabullus" | |
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| "To me that man seems like a god in heaven" | |
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| "If any pleasure can come to a man through recalling" | |
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| "If ever something which someone with no expectation" | |
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| Translations: Catullus' Poem 85 | |
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| Horace (65-8 B.C.E.) | |
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| Satire 1.8 "Once I was wood from a worthless old fig tree" | |
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| Satire 1.5 "Leaving the big city behind I found lodgings at Aricia" | |
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| Ode 1.25 "The young bloods are not so eager now" | |
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| Ode 1.9 "Soracte standing white and deep" | |
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| Ode 2.13 "Not only did he plant you on an unholy day" | |
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| Ode 2.14 "Ah how quickly, Postumus, Postumus" | |
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| Petronius (d. 65 C.E.) | |
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| from Satyricon | |
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| Paul (c. 10- c. 67 C.E.) from Epistle to the Romans (trans. New Revised Standard Version) | |
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| Luke (fl. 80-110 C.E.) from The Gospel According to Luke (trans. New Revised Standard Version) from The Acts of the Apostles (trans. New Revised Standard Version | |
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| Roman Responses to Early Christianity | |
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| Suetonius (c. 70 - after 122 C.E.): from The Twelve Caesars | |
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| Tacitus (c. 56 - after 118 C.E.): from The Annals of Imperial Rome | |
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| Pliny the Younger (c. 60 - c. 112 C.E.): Letter to Emperor Trajan | |
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| Trajan (Emperor of Rome, 98-117 C.E.): Response to Pliny | |
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| Crosscurrents | |
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| Augustine (354-430 C.E.) | |
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| Confessions | |
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| Book 1 | |
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| Grammar school | |
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| Book 2 | |
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| Book 3 | |
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| Book 5 | |
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| Book 8 | |
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| Pick up and read | |
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| Book 9 | |
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| Book 11 | |
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| Resonances | |
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| Michel de Montaigne: from Essays (trans. Frame) | |
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| Jean-Jacques Rousseau: from The Confessions (trans. Cohen) | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Credits | |
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| Index | |