Glencoe World History: Modern Times

Unit 1: The World Before Modern Times, Prehistory –A.D. 1500

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from the Aenid by Virgil
from the Analects by Confucius
An Ancient Gesture by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Antigone by Sophocles
from the Apology: from the Dialogues by Plato
At Last It's Come by Sulpicia
The Bamboo Hut by Nguyen Trai
from Beowulf by Anonymous
Better to Live, Licinius by Horace
Bisclavret: The Lay of the Werewolf by Marie de France
Bonny Barbara Allan by Anonymous
from The Book of Margery Kempe by Margery Kempe
The Book of Ruth: from the Tanakh
The Burning of Rome by Tacitus
The Butterfly Dream by Chuang Tzu
By the Waters of Babylon by Stephen Vincent Benét
from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Counsels of the Bird: from the Masnavi by Rumi
Coyote Finishes His Work retold by Barry Lopez
The Damask Drum by Seami Motokiyo
from the Decameron: Federigo's Falcon by Giovanni Boccaccio
The Dog and the Wolf by Aesop
from The Ecclesiastical History of the English People by The Venerable Bede
from Everyman by Anonymous
For My Mother Said by Sappho
Forsaking the Mists by Lady Ise
Genesis 6-9: The Flood: from the Tanakh
Get Up and Bar the Door by Anonymous
from Gilgamesh: The Death of Enkidu translated by N. K. Sandars
from Gilgamesh: The Death of Humbaba by Anonymous
Green Willow retold by Rafe Martin
from The Histories by Herodotus
How the World Was Made retold by James Mooney
from the Iliad by Homer
from The Immortality of Writers translated by Ezra Pound and Noel Stock
from the Inferno: from the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
In My Eyes He Matches the Gods by Sappho
Ithaka by C. P. Cavafy
Jade Flower Palace by Tu Fu
The Lady, or the Tiger? by Frank R. Stockton
The Lark by Bernart de Ventadorn
Laura: from Canzoníere by Petrarch
from Le Morte d'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory
from the Mahabharata: Hundred Questions retold by R. K. Narayan
The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe
Most Beautiful of All the Stars by Sappho
from the Odyssey by Homer
Oedipus the King by Sophocles
from the Panchatantra: The Lion-Makers translated by Arthur W. Ryder
Penelope by Dorothy Parker
from The Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon
Poems of Catullus by Catullus
from the Popol Vuh: Creation Hymn translated by Ralph Nelson
from the Qur'an: The Exordium and Daylight translated by N. J. Dawood
The Raven and the Fox by Aesop
from the Rig Veda: Creation Hymn translated by Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty
The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter by Li Po
from the Rubáiyát by Omar Khayyám
The Seafarer by Anonymous
from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Anonymous
Sir Patrick Spens by Anonymous
Siren Song by Margaret Atwood
The Sky Tree retold by Joseph Bruchac
So small are the flowers of Seamu translated by Ezra Pound and Noel Stock
Some Say Thronging Calvary by Sappho
from the Song of Roland translated by Frederick Goldin
The Story of Pyramus and Thisbe from the Metamorphoses by Ovid
from Sundiata: from The Lion's Awakening retold by D. T. Niane
from the Tao Te Ching by Lao-tzu
from The Thousand and One Nights: The Second Voyage of Sinbad the Sailor translated by N. J. Dawood
Three Haiku by Matsuo Basho
The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Trailing on the Wind by Saigyo
Two Lies told by An Zong-Og
Two Tanka by Lady Ise
The Useless by Chuang Tzu
Waiting for the Barbarians by C. P. Cavafy
Was It That I Went to Sleep by Ono no Komachi
When I Went to Visit by Ki no Tsurayuki