Novelists, poets, dramatists, historians, biographers, essayists, and philosophers梬hether famous or anonymous, many of Western culture's greatest figures have been writers.
Ranging from the anonymous author of the Epic of Gilgamesh in ancient Mesopotamia to William Faulkner writing about 19th- and 20th-century Mississippi 3,600 years later, Western writers have each played important parts in establishing the West's rich literary tradition. Their landmark themes, unique insights into human nature, dynamic characters, experimental storytelling techniques, and rich philosophical ideas helped create the vibrant storytelling methods we find reflected in today's authors. They've also played critical roles in Western history and culture as well, influencing everything from religion to politics.
Course Lecture Titles
01. Foundations:
02. The Epic of Gilgamesh
03. Genesis and the Documentary Hypothesis
04. The Deuteronomistic History
05. Isaiah
06. Job
07. Homer桾he Iliad
08. Homer桾he Odyssey
09. Sappho and Pindar
10. Aeschylus
11. Sophocles
12. Euripides
13. Herodotus
14. Thucydides
15. Aristophanes
16. Plato
17. Menander and Hellenistic Literature
18. Catullus and Horace
19. Virgil
20. Ovid
21. Livy, Tacitus, Plutarch
22. Petronius and Apuleius
23. The Gospels
24. Augustine
25. Beowulf
26. The Song of Roland
27. El Cid
28. Tristan and Isolt
29. The Romance of the Rose
30. Dante Alighieri桳ife and Works
31. Dante Alighieri桾he Divine Comedy
32. Petrarch
33. Giovanni Boccaccio
34. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
35. Geoffrey Chaucer桳ife and Works
36. Geoffrey Chaucer桾he Canterbury Tales
37. Christine de Pizan
38. Erasmus
39. Thomas More
40. Michel de Montaigne
41. Fran鏾is Rabelais
42. Christopher Marlowe
43. William Shakespeare桾he Merchant of Venice
44. William Shakespeare桯amlet
45. Lope de Vega
46. Miguel de Cervantes
47. John Milton
48. Blaise Pascal
49. Moli鑢e
50. Jean Racine
51. Sister Juana In閟 de la Cruz
52. Daniel Defoe
53. Alexander Pope
54. Jonathan Swift
55. Voltaire
56. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
57. Samuel Johnson
58. Denis Diderot
59. William Blake
60. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
61. William Wordsworth
62. Jane Austen
63. Stendhal
64. Herman Melville
65. Walt Whitman
66. Gustave Flaubert
67. Charles ~censored~
68. Fyodor Dostoevsky
69. Leo Tolstoy
70. Mark Twain
71. Thomas Hardy
72. Oscar Wilde
73. Henry James
74. Joseph Conrad
75. William Butler Yeats
76. Marcel Proust
77. James Joyce
78. Franz Kafka
79. Virginia Woolf
80. William Faulkner
81. Bertolt Brecht
82. Albert Camus
83. Samuel Beckett
84. Conclusion
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