
Selected prose and poetry / Tao Ch'ien Selected poetry / Han-Shan, Wang Wei, Li Po, Tu Fu, Li Ho, Po Chu-i, Yuan Chen, Li Ch'ing-Chao - Rise of Islam and Islamic literature. from Pancatantra / Visnusarman Sakuntala and the ring of recollection / Kalidasa from Satakatrayam / Bhartrhari from Amarusataka / Amaru from Kathasaritsagara / Somadeva - China's "Middle period".

Bible : the New Testament (excerpts) from Confessions / Augustine - India's classical age. 100-1500 : From Roman empire to Christian Europe. Catullus (excerpts) Aeneid (excerpts) / Virgil - Metamorphoses (excerpts) / Ovid - Satyricon (excerpt) / Petronis. Ramayana of Valmiki (excerpts) Mahabharata (excerpts) Jataka (excerpts) Bhagavad-gita (excerpts) Tamil anthologies (excerpts) - Roman empire. Classic of poetry : Fishhawk (excerpts) from Analects / Confucius Chuang Tzu (excerpts) / Chuang Chou Letter in reply to Jen An Historical records (excerpts) / Ssu-Ma Ch'ien - India's heroic age. Iliad (excerpts) Odyssey (excerpts) / Homer Lyrics (excerpts) / Sappho of Lesbos Oresteia (excerpts) / Aeschylus Oedipus the King Antigone / Sophocles Medea / Euripides Lysistrata / Aristophanes Apology of Socrates / Plato from Poetics / Aristotle -Poetry and thought in early China. Gilgamesh - Ancient Egyptian poetry : Akhenaten's "Hymn to the sun" Leiden hymns Love songs -Bible : the Old Testament : Genesis (excerpts) from Job Psalms 8, 19, 23, 104, 137 Song of songs Jonah - Ancient Greece and the formation of the western mind. Invention of writing and the earliest literatures.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Revised edition of: The Norton anthology of world masterpieces, expanded edition.
