YEAR 1 READING LIST:

Core Monthly Seminars

1. The Epic of Gilgamesh  
   The Epic of Gilgamesh
   translated by Andrew George
   Penguin Classics; Second edition, 2020
   ISBN-13: 9780140449198
   available at Amazon    
   
   

2. Homer, Iliad I  
   The Iliad, by Homer
   translated by Robert Fagles, with introduction by Bernard Knox
   Penguin Classics, 1998
   ISBN-13‏:‎ 978-0140275360
   available at Amazon
                          

3. Homer, Iliad II  
   The Iliad, by Homer
   translated by Robert Fagles, with introduction by Bernard Knox
   Penguin Classics, 1998
   ISBN-13‏:‎ 978-0140275360
   available at Amazon
   
   

4. Homeric Hymns to Demeter and Aphrodite
   The Homeric Hymns

   translated by Apostolos N. Athanassakis

   Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 3rd Edition; 2020

   ISBN-13: ‎978-1421438603  
   available at Amazon
                          

5. Homer, Odyssey I
   The Odyssey, by Homer
   translated by Robert Fagles, with introduction by Bernard Knox
   Penguin Classics, 1999
   ISBN-13‏:‎ 978-0140268867
   available at Amazon

                                          

6. Homer, Odyssey II      
   The Odyssey, by Homer
   translated by Robert Fagles, with introduction by Bernard Knox
   Penguin Classics, 1999
   ISBN-13‏:‎ 978-0140268867
   available at Amazon
   
   

7. Sappho, Poems and fragments
   If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

   Translated by Anne Carson

   ‎Vintage, 2003

   ISBN-13: ‎978-0375724510
   available at Amazon
                    

8. Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound
   found in:
   The Greek Plays: 16 Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides

   edited by Mary Lefkowitz and James Room

   Modern Library, 2017

   ISBN-13:‎ 978-0812983098
   available at Amazon

                      

9. Confucius, Analects  
   Analects: With Selections from Traditional Commentaries

   Translated by Edward Slingerland

   Hackett Pub, 2003

   ISBN-13: 978-0872206359
   available at Amazon

                                          

10. Old Testament, Book of Genesis

    Genesis: Translation and Commentary

    Translated by Robert Alter

    W.W. Norton, 1997

    ISBN-13: 978-0393316704
    available at Amazon
                           

11. Aeschylus, Agamemnon        
    found in:
    The Greek Plays: 16 Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides

    edited by Mary Lefkowitz and James Room

    Modern Library, 2017

    ISBN-13:‎ 978-0812983098
    available at Amazon
                               

12. Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers and Eumenides  
    found in:
    The Greek Plays: 16 Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides

    edited by Mary Lefkowitz and James Room

    Modern Library, 2017

    ISBN-13:‎ 978-0812983098
    available at Amazon

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