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

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

• ISBN13: 9780393977646
• ISBN10: 0393977641
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-05-01
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc

Summary

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

Table of Contents

Preface	xv
Acknowledgments	xxi
Phonetic Equivalents	xxiii
MAP: THE ANCIENT MIDDLE EAST, CA. 1000 B.C.	2	(1)
The Invention of Writing and the Earliest Literatures	3	(5)
TIME LINE	8	(96)
Gilgamesh (Akkadian, ca. 2500--1500 B.C.)	10	(31)
N. K. Sandars
Ancient Egyptian Poetry (ca. 1500--ca. 1200 B.C.)	41	(11)
Akhenaten's ``Hymn to the Sun''	42	(4)
The Leiden Hymns	46	(3)
[How splendid you ferry the skyways]	46	(1)
[God is a master craftsman]	47	(1)
[When Being began back in the days of the genesis]	48	(1)
[The mind of God is perfect knowing]	48	(1)
Love Songs	49	(3)
[My love is one and only, without peer]	49	(1)
[I wish I were her Nubian girl]	49	(1)
[Love, how I'd love to slip down to the pond]	50	(1)
[Why, just now, must you question your heart?]	50	(1)
[I was simply off to see Nefrus my friend]	51	(1)
[I think I'll go home and lie very still]	51	(1)
[Love of you is mixed deep in my vitals]	52	(1)
John L. Foster
The Bible: The Old Testament (Hebrew, ca. 1000--300 B.C.)	52	(52)
Genesis 1--3 [The Creation---The Fall]	56	(3)
Genesis 4 [The First Murder]	59	(1)
Genesis 6--9 [The Flood]	60	(3)
Genesis 11 [The Origin of Languages]	63	(1)
Genesis 22 [Abraham and Isaac]	63	(1)
Genesis 25, 27 [Jacob and Easu]	64	(2)
Genesis 37, 39--46 [The Story of Joseph]	66	(11)
From Job	77	(16)
Psalm 8	93	(1)
Psalm 19	93	(1)
Psalm 23	94	(1)
Psalm 104	94	(2)
Psalm 137	96	(1)
The Song of Songs	96	(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	A1
Permissions Acknowledgments	A13
Index	A15