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The Bedford anthology of world literature : the ancient world, beginnings-100 C.E. / edited by Paul Davis ... [et al.].

Contributor(s): Publication details: Boston : Bedford/St. Martin's, c2003-c2004.Description: 6 v. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0312248733 (v. 1 : pbk.)
Other title:
  • The ancient world, beginnings-100 C.E. : book 1
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 808.8 22
LOC classification:
  • PN6013 .B35 2003
Contents:
Mesopotamia, the formation of cities and the earliest literatures: Epic of Gilgamesh Egypt, the seasons of the Nile, pyramids, tombs, and hieroglyphics: Hymns, Hymn to Osiris; Love poems, Egyptian love poems, I embrace her Ancient Hebrews, the path of righteousness and the ten commandments: Hebrew scriptures: Song of songs; In the world, creating cosmogony, from Timaeus / Plato Greece, the golden age of literature and philosophy: Odyssey / Homer; In the world, changing gods, from religion to philosophy, Lysistrata / Aristophanes; In theworld, heroes and citizens, Bibliotheca / Apollodorus Rome, creating the myth of empire in the land of the Caesars: I hate and love / Catullus India, the timeless worlds of priests, warriors, and caste: Vedic literature, Rig Veda; Ramayana; Mahabharata; Bhagavad Gita; In the world, war, rulers, and empire, from Moralia / Plutarch China, the ancient way, ancestors, emperors, and society: Book of songs; On goodness / Confucius (Kongfuzi); In the world, the good life, Invocation / Cleanthes Glossary of literary and critical terms
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World Mythology

Includes index.

Mesopotamia, the formation of cities and the earliest literatures: Epic of Gilgamesh
Egypt, the seasons of the Nile, pyramids, tombs, and hieroglyphics: Hymns, Hymn to Osiris; Love poems, Egyptian love poems, I embrace her
Ancient Hebrews, the path of righteousness and the ten commandments: Hebrew scriptures: Song of songs; In the world, creating cosmogony, from Timaeus / Plato
Greece, the golden age of literature and philosophy: Odyssey / Homer; In the world, changing gods, from religion to philosophy, Lysistrata / Aristophanes; In theworld, heroes and citizens, Bibliotheca / Apollodorus
Rome, creating the myth of empire in the land of the Caesars: I hate and love / Catullus
India, the timeless worlds of priests, warriors, and caste: Vedic literature, Rig Veda; Ramayana; Mahabharata; Bhagavad Gita; In the world, war, rulers, and empire, from Moralia / Plutarch
China, the ancient way, ancestors, emperors, and society: Book of songs; On goodness / Confucius (Kongfuzi); In the world, the good life, Invocation / Cleanthes
Glossary of literary and critical terms

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