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ENGL 2400 World Literature I: Myths and Traditions
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Each link below will take you to an introduction - read these before continuing with the assigned readings themselves. In each introduction, there is either a link you can click to the reading or it is marked PDF (these are located on Blackboard under “Course Documents.").

• Bhāgavata Purana: “Krishna” 

• The Bible

  • Old Testament: "Genesis”

  • Old Testament: “Exodus” 

  • New Testament: “Matthew”

• The Canterbury Tales 

  • “Clerk’s Tale”

  • “Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale"

  • “Reeve’s Tale”

• The Classic of Mountains and Seas

• Crusades Readings 

  • "Pope Urban II's Call to the First Crusade"

  • History of the First Crusade

  • The Collection of Histories

• Enuma Elish: "The Epic of Creation”

• The Epic of Gilgamesh

• Essays: “Of Cannibals”

• ”Hymn to Aten”

• The Kebra Nagast 

• Lais: “Yonec”

• “Lament for a Maidenhead” 

• “Life and Passion of Saint Margaret” 

• “Life of Buddha” 

• "Life of Muhammad"

• Lives of Eminent Philosophers: “Socrates”

• Lysistrata

• Metamorphoses 

  • Beginning

  • “Pluto and Proserpine” 

  • “Daphne and Phoebus” 

• New World Readings

  • Diario of Christopher Columbus

  • The History of the Indies 

  • Letters from Mexico 

  • Codex Florentino

• Prose Edda

• Rigveda: “Nāsadīya Sūkta”

• Shiva Purana: “Ganesha” 

• The Tale of Genji 

• The Tale of Princess Fatima, Warrior Woman

• Theogony