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The Extended Syllabus:  additional readings from the earliest times to the mid-17th century, to be completed by Last Judgment (at which time you will be quizzed on a Pass/Fail basis)

THE HOLY BIBLE, (King James translation)
THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH
Homer, THE ILIAD; THE ODYSSEY
Herodotus, THE PERSIAN WARS
Thucydides, THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR
Aeschylus, AGAMEMNON
Sophocles, OEDIPUS THE KING; ANTIGONE;
     OEDIPUS AT COLONUS, PHILOCTETES
Euripides, MEDEA, THE TROJAN WOMEN, THE BACCHAE
Aristophanes, LYSISTRATA
Plato, THE REPUBLIC, THE SYMPOSIUM, MENO, THE APOLOGY
Aristotle, PHYSICS, METAPHYSICS, POETICS, 
      NICHOMACHEAN ETHICS
Sappho, LYRIC POEMS
Vergil, THE AENEID
Horace:  ODES
Cicero, ORATIONS
Julius Caesar, THE GALLIC WARS
Ovid, METAMORPHOSES, ART OF LOVE
Marcus Aurelius, MEDITATIONS
Plutarch, PARALLEL LIVES
Confusius, ANALECTS
Lao-tzu, TAO TE CHING
BHAGAVAD GITA
Augustine, CONFESSIONS; CITY OF GOD
Thomas Aquinas, SUMMA THEOLOGICA
KORAN (QU'RAN)
THE SONG OF ROLAND
BEOWULF
THE NIBELUNGENLIED
Dante Alighieri, THE DIVINE COMEDY (at least "The Inferno")
Boccaccio, THE DECAMERON
Marie de France, LAIS
SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT
Malory, MORTE D'ARTHUR
TRISTAN AND ISOLDE
THE BOOK OF MARGERY KEMPE
EVERYMAN
THE SECOND SHEPHERD’S PLAY
Geoffrey Chaucer, THE CANTERBURY TALES
Erasmus, THE PRAISE OF FOLLY
Macchiavelli, THE PRINCE
Rabelais, GANGANTUA AMD PANTAGRUEL
Montaigne, ESSAYS
Cervantes, DON QUIXOTE
Christopher Marlowe, DOCTOR FAUSTUS
William Shakespeare, SONNETS; HAMLET; AS YOU LIKE IT; 
     TWELFTH NIGHT;  RICHARD II; HENRY IV, PART ONE;
     A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM; THE MERCHANT OF VENICE;
     OTHELLO; KING LEAR; MACBETH; JULIUS CAESAR;
     ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA; MEASURE FOR MEASURE; 
     ROMEO AND JULIET;  HENRY V;  THE TEMPEST
John Donne, HOLY SONNETS AND OTHER POEMS
Andrew Marvell, POEMS
John Milton, PARADISE LOST