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| Volume A | |
| Cross-currents: Creation Myths and Social Realities | |
| The Babylonian Theogony | |
| A Memphite Theology | |
| The Pyramid Texts of Unas (Egypt, c. 2300 B.C.E.), tr | |
| From Utterance 217: The King Joins the Sun-god | |
| Utterances 273-274: The King Feeds on the Gods | |
| Utterance 309: The King Serves the Sun-god | |
| The Rig Veda | |
| Hymn of Creation | |
| Hymn of Man | |
| Hymn to the Dawn | |
| Resonance | |
| From Agganna Sutta (Buddhist counter-creation) | |
| The Great Hymn to the Aten (Egypt, 14th century B.C.E.) | |
| The Babylonian Creation Epic (c. 1200 B.C.E.) | |
| Birth of the Gods. Conflict Begins | |
| Who will face Tiamat? | |
| The Gods Commission Marduk | |
| Marduk and Tiamat at War | |
| Victory Celebration. Founding of Babylon | |
| Creation of Humanity | |
| Hesiod, from Theogony | |
| Genesis (Israel, c. 900 B.C.E.) | |
| The Ancient Near East | |
| Poetry of Love and Devotion | |
| Last night, as I, the queen, was shining bright (Sumer, c. late 3rd millennium B.C.E.) | |
| Egyptian Love Songs (2nd millennium B.C.E.) | |
| The Song of Songs, Jerusalem Bible tr. | |
| The Epic of Gilgamesh | |
| Perspectives: Death and Immortality | |
| The Descent of Ishtar to the Underworld (Babylon, 2nd millennium) | |
| From The Book of the Dead (Egypt, 2nd millennium) | |
| Letters to the Dead | |
| Kabti-Ilani-Marduk, from The Erra Epic (Babylon, c. 8th century B.C.E.) | |
| The Book of Job (Israel, c. 900 B.C.E.), Revised Standard Version | |
| Resonances | |
| From The Babylonian Theodicy | |
| Psalm 22 (My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?) | |
| Psalm 102 (Hear my prayer, O Lord; let my cry come unto thee!) | |
| Perspectives: Strangers in a Strange Land | |
| The Story of Sinuhe (Egypt, c. 1925 B.C.E.) | |
| The Two Brothers (Egypt, c. 1200 B.C.E.) | |
| The Joseph Story (Israel, 1st millennium B.C.E.), New International Version | |
| Genesis 35-50: The Joseph Story | |
| The Book of Ruth (Israel, c. 6th century B.C.E.), New International Version. Classical Greece | |
| Homer | |
| From The Iliad | |
| Resonances: Oral Composition | |
| Filip Visnjic: The Death of Kraljevic Marko | |
| From Sirat Bani Hilal | |
| Homer | |
| The Odyssey | |
| Resonances | |
| Franz Kafka: The Silence of the Sirens | |
| George Seferis: Upon a Foreign Verse | |
| Derek Walcott: From Omeros | |
| Arkhilokhos, tr. M. L. West | |
| Encounter in a Meadow | |
| The Fox and the Hedgehog | |
| Elegies | |
| Sappho, tr. M. L. West | |
| Rich-throned immortal Aphrodite | |
| Come, goddess | |
| Some think a fleet | |
| He looks to me to be in heaven | |
| Love shakes my heart | |
| Honestly, I wish I were dead | |
| She worshipped you | |
| Like a sweet-apple | |
| The doorman's feet | |
| Resonances | |
| H.D.: from The Wise Sappho | |
| Alejandra Pizarnik: Poem, Lovers, Recognition, Meaning of His Absence, Dawn, Falling | |
| Alkaios, tr. M. L. West | |
| And fluttered Argive Hel | |
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