Glencoe World History

Unit 1: The First Civilizations and Empires, Prehistory –A.D. 500

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from the Aeneid by Virgil
from the Analects by Confucius
from the Apology: from the Dialogues by Plato
At Last It's Come by Sulpicia
Better to Live, Licinius by Horace
The Book of Ruth: from the Tanakh
The Burning of Rome by Tacitus
The Butterfly Dream by Chuang Tzu
Coyote Finishes His Work retold by Barry Lopez
The Dog and the Wolf by Aesop
For My Mother Said by Sappho
Genesis 6-9: The Flood: from the Tanakh
from Gilgamesh: The Death of Enkidu translated by N. K. Sandars
from Gilgamesh: The Death of Humbaba by Anonymous
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
In My Eyes He Matches the Gods by Sappho
from the Mahabharata: Hundred Questions retold by R. K. Narayan
Most Beautiful of All the Stars by Sappho
Oedipus the King by Sophocles
from the Panchatantra: The Lion-Makers translated by Arthur W. Ryder
Penelope by Dorothy Parker
Poems of Catullus by Catullus
from the Popol Vuh: Creation Hymn translated by Ralph Nelson
The Raven and the Fox by Aesop
from the Rig Veda translated by Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty
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
The Story of Pyramus and Thisbe from the Metamorphoses by Ovid
from the Tao Te Ching by Lao-tzu
The Useless by Chuang Tzu