Longman Anthology of World Literature, The The Ancient World, Volume A

by Damrosch, David; Pike, David L.; Alliston, April; Brown, Marshall; Hafez, Sabry; Kadir, Djelal; Pollock, Sheldon; Robbins, Bruce; Shirane, Haruo; Tylus, Jane; Yu, Pauline

• ISBN13: 9780205625956
• ISBN10: 0205625959
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780205648733
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-06-27
• Publisher: Pearson
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Summary

The Longman Anthology of World Literature, Volume Aoffers a fresh presentation of the varieties of world literature from the ancient world.The editors of the anthology have sought to find economical ways to place texts within their cultural contexts, and have selected and grouped materials in ways intended to foster connections and conversations across the anthology, between eras as well as regions. The anthology includes epic, lyric poetry, drama, and prose narrative, with many works in their entirety. Classic major authors are presented together with more recently recovered voices as the editors seek to suggest something of the full literary dialogue of each region and period. Engaging introductions, scholarly annotations, regional maps, pronunciation guides, and illustrations will provide a supportive editorial setting.For anyone interested in world literature.

Table of Contents

Volume A: The Ancient World

The Ancient Near East

The Babylonian Theogony (c. 2^nd millennium B.C.E)

A Memphite Theology (c. 2500 B.C.E.)

Genesis: Chapters 1-11 (1^st millennium B.C.E.)

Translations: Genesis

Poetry Of Love And Devotion (c. 3^rd to 2^nd millennium B.C.E.)

Last night, as I, the queen, was shining bright

Egyptian Love Songs

Distracting is the foliage of my pasture

I sail downstream in the ferry by the pull of the current

The voice of the turtledove speaks out

I embrace her, and her arms open wide

One, the lady love without a duplicate

How well the lady knows to cast the noose

Why need you hold converse with your heart?

I passed by her house in the dark

The Song Of Songs (1^st millennium B.C.E.)

The Epic Of Gilgamesh (c. 1200 B.C.E.)

Perspectives: Death and Immortality

The Descent of Ishtar to the Underworld (late 2^nd millennium B.C.E)

from The Book of the Dead (2^nd millennium B.C.E.)

Letters to the Dead (2^nd to 1^st millennium B.C.E.)

Kabti-Ilani-Marduk: Erra and Ishum (8^th century B.C.E.)

Crosscurrents

The Book Of Job (6^th century B.C.E.), (trans. 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 L and The Story of Sinuhe (c. 1925 B.C.E.)

The Two Brothers (c. 1200 B.C.E.)

The Joseph Story (1^st millennium B.C.E.), (New International Version) Genesis 37-50

The Book of Ruth (c. late 6^th century B.C.E.), (New International Version)

Crosscurrents

Classical Greece

Homer (8^th century B.C.E.) from The Iliad

The Wrath of Achilles

Achilles' Sheild

The Death of Hektor

Achilles and Priam

Resonance

Filip Visnjic: The Death of Kraljevic Marko

The Odyssey

Athena Inspires the Prince

Telemachus Sets Sail

King Nestor Remembers

Book 4. The King and Queen of Sparta

Odysseus - Nymph and Shipwreck

The Princess and the Stranger

Phaeacia's Halls and Gardens

A Day for Songs and Contests

In the One-Eyed Giant's Cave

The Bewitching Queen of Aeaea

The Kingdom of the Dead

The Cattle of the Sun

Book 13. Ithaca at Last

The Loyal Swineherd

The Prince Sets Sail for Home

Father and Son

Stranger at the Gates

The Beggar-King of Ithaca

Penelope and Her Guest

Portents Gather

Odysseus Strings His Bow

Slaughter in the Hall

The Great Rooted Bed

Peace

Resonances

Franz Kafka: The Silence of the Sirens

George Seferis: Upon a Foreign Verse

Derek Walcott: from Omeros

Archaic Lyric Poetry

Arkhilokhos (7^th century B.C.E)

Encounter in a Meadow

The Fox and the Hedgehog

Elegies

Sappho (early 7^th century B.C.E)

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

Resonance

Alejandra Pizarnik: Poem, Lovers, Recognition, Meaning of His Absence, Dawn, Falling

Alkaios (7^th - 6^th century B.C.E)

And fluttered Argive Helen's heart

They tell that Priam and his sons

The high hall is agleam

I can't make out the lie of the winds

Pindar (518-438 B.C.E.)

First Olympian Ode

Resonances

John Keats: Ode on a Grecian Urn

Rainer Maria Rilke: Archaic Torso of Apollo

AESCHYLUS (525-456 B.C.E.)

Agamemnon

Resonance

W. B. Yeats: Leda and the Swan

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

Oedipus the King

Antigone

Resonance

Aristotle: from Poetics

Perspectives: Tyranny and Democracy

Solon (c. 640-558 B.C.E.)

Our state will never fail

The commons I have granted

Those aims for which I called the public meeting

Thucydides (c. 460-400 B.C.E.) from The Peloponnesian War

Plato (c. 429-347 B.C.E)

Apology

Euripides (c. 480-405 B.C.E.)

The Medea

Resonance

Friedrich Nietzsche: from The Birth of Tragedy

Crosscurrents

Aristophanes (445-c.380 B.C.E.)

Lysistrata

Early South Asia

The Mahabharata Of Vyasa (last centuries B.C.E.-early centuries C.E.)

The Friendly Dice Game

The Temptation of Karna

from The Bhagavad Gita

Translations: The Bhagavad Gita

Resonances

Kautilya: from The Treatise on Power

Asoka: from Inscriptions

The Ramayana Of Valmiki (last centuries B.C.E.)

The Exile of Rama

The Abduction of Sita

The Death of Ravana and The Fire Ordeal of Sita

Resonances from A Public Address, 1989: The Birthplace of God Cannot Be Moved

Daya Pawar, et al.: We Are Not Your Monkeys

Perspectives: What is "Literature"?

The Ramayana of Valmiki

The Invention of Poetry

Rajashekhara (early 900s) from Inquiry into Literature

Anandavardhana (mid-800s) from Light on Suggestion

Crosscurrents

Love In A Courtly Langauge

The Tamil Anthologies (2^nd -3^rd century)

Orampokiyar: What Her Girl Friend Said

Anonymous: What Her Girl Friend Said to Him

Kapliar: What She Said

Uruttiran: What She Said to Her Girl Friend

Maturaittamilkkutta Katuvan Mallanar: What the Servants Said to Him

Vanmanipputi: What She Said to Her Girl Friend

The Seven Hundred Songs Of Hala (2nd-3rd century)

At night, cheeks blushed

After a quarrel

His form

While the bhikshu

Though he's wronged me

Tight lads in fields

He finds the missionary position

When she bends to touch

As though she'd glimpsed

Those men

The Hundred Poems Of Amaru (7^th century)

She is the child, but I the one of timid heart

You will return in an hour?

As he came to bed the knot fell open of itself

At first our bodies knew a perfect oneness

Your palm erases from your cheek the painted ornament

They lay upon the bed each turned aside

If you are angry with me, you of lotus eyes

You listened not to words of friends

At day's end as the darkness crept apace

Held her

Lush clouds in

Kalidasa (4^th -5^th century)

Shakuntala and the Ring of Recollection

Resonances

Kuntaka: from The Life-force of Literary Beauty

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: On Shakuntala

Rabindranath Tagore: from Shakuntala: Its Inner Meaning

China: The Classical Tradition

The Book Of Songs (1000-600 B.C.E.)

The Ospreys Cry

Locusts

Plop Fall the Plums

In the Wilds is a Dead Doe

Resonances

In the wilds there is a dead deer

Lies a dead deer on younder plain

Cypress Boar

Northern Wind

Of Fair Girls

Cypress Boat

I Beg You, Zhong

The Lady Says

Out in the Bushlands a Creeper Grows

Resonances

In the open grounds there is the creeping grass

Mid the bind-grass on the plain

The Cock Has Crowed

Big Rat

Tall Pear Tree

Tall is the Pear Tree

Moon Rising

The Seventh Month

May Heaven Guard

Resonances

Heaven protects and secures you

Heaven conserve thy course in quietness

The Beck

What Plant is not Faded?

Oak Clumps

Birth to the People

So They Appeared

Resonances

Confucius: from The Analects

Wei Hong: from Preface to The Book of Songs

Confucius (551-479 B.C.E.) from The Analects

Perspectives: Daoism and its Ways from Dao De Jing

from Zhuangzi

Liezi (4th century C.E.): from The Book of Liezi

Xi Kang (223-262 C.E.): from Letter to Shan Tao

Liu Yiqing (403-444 C.E.): from A New Account of the Tales of the World

Crosscurrents

Rome And The Roman Empire

Virgil (70-19 B.C.E.)

Aeneid

from Book 1: A Fateful Haven

from Book 2: How They Took the City

The Passion of the Queen

from Book 6: The World Below

from Book 8: Evander

from Book 12: The Death of Turnus

Resonances

Horace: from Odes: 1.24: Why should our grief for a man so loved

Macrobius: from Saturnalia

Ovid (43 B.C.E.-18 C.E.)

Metamorphoses

Phaethon

Tiresias

Narcissus and Echo

Book 6

Book 8

Daedalus and Icarus

Book 10

Orpheus' Song: Ganymede, Hyacinth, Pygmalion

Book 11

Book 15

Perspectives: The Culture of Rome and the Beginnings of Christianity

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

"Cry out lamenting, Venuses and Cupids"

"Lesbia, let us live only for loving"

"You will dine well with me, my dear Fabullus"

"To me that man seems like a god in heaven"

"If any pleasure can come to a man through recalling"

"If ever something which someone with no expectation"

Translations: Catullus' Poem 85

Horace (65-8 B.C.E.)

Satire 1.8 "Once I was wood from a worthless old fig tree"

Satire 1.5 "Leaving the big city behind I found lodgings at Aricia"

Ode 1.25 "The young bloods are not so eager now"

Ode 1.9 "Soracte standing white and deep"

Ode 2.13 "Not only did he plant you on an unholy day"

Ode 2.14 "Ah how quickly, Postumus, Postumus"

Petronius (d. 65 C.E.)

from Satyricon

Paul (c. 10- c. 67 C.E.) from Epistle to the Romans (trans. New Revised Standard Version)

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

Roman Responses to Early Christianity

Suetonius (c. 70 - after 122 C.E.): from The Twelve Caesars

Tacitus (c. 56 - after 118 C.E.): from The Annals of Imperial Rome

Pliny the Younger (c. 60 - c. 112 C.E.): Letter to Emperor Trajan

Trajan (Emperor of Rome, 98-117 C.E.): Response to Pliny

Crosscurrents

Augustine (354-430 C.E.)

Confessions

Book 1

Grammar school

Book 2

Book 3

Book 5

Book 8

Pick up and read

Book 9

Book 11

Resonances

Michel de Montaigne: from Essays (trans. Frame)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: from The Confessions (trans. Cohen)

Bibliography

Credits

Index

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