Epic & Empire
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Research Aids
Recitations
Diversions
Contact

There are multiple sources for some texts. Not all of them are required.
The MIT Classics archive is at http://classics.mit.edu/ and the main Perseus Project page is at http://www.perseus.tufts.edu if you wish to explore other authors or texts.

Greek | Latin | Renaissance | Modern
In English, unless otherwise noted

Greek
Euripides

Andromache - Perseus or MIT version

Homer

The Iliad - Perseus or MIT version
The Odyssey - Perseus or MIT version
Plutarch
The Life of Alexander - MIT version

 

Latin
Horace

Epistles - From the Gutenberg Project

Lucan

Pharsalia (Civil War) - Berkeley version

Ovid

Metamorphoses- Perseus or MIT version

Virgil

The Aeneid - Perseus or MIT version

 

Renaissance
Ariosto, Ludovico

Orlando Furioso - Berkeley version

Ercilla y Zúñiga, Alonso

La Araucana - Un-translated Spanish version

Milton, John

Paradise Lost - Dartmouth or Literature.org version
Paradise Regained - Dartmouth or Literature.org version

Tasso, Torquato

Gerusalemme Liberata (Jerusalem Delivered) - Berkeley version

Vaz de Camões, Luís

Os Lusíadas - Un-translated Portugese version

 

Modern
Barlow, Joel

The Columbiad - University of Michigan version

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The Poet - RWE.org version

Whitman, Walt

Leaves of Grass - University of Virginia or Bartleby.com version

On the Westwardness of Everything

A collection of lyrics and poems that reflect the westward movement of empire.

 
 

 

 

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Created by: Tara A. McGovern '04
Maintained by: Brendon Reay, Classical Studies
Date Created: July 7, 2003
Last Modified: July 24, 2003
Expires: May 31, 2004