HUM/COM 205 Classical Roots of Western Literature:

The following texts are available from the Princeton University Store under HUM 205. Copies are also on Reserve for HUM 205 in Firestone Library.

• The Epic of Gilgamesh: Tr. N. K. Sandars. Paperback Rev. edition (1987) (Penguin)
• The Bible (Any translation is acceptable. The New Jeruslaem Bible is on order; it is recommended and will be used in precepts.)
• Homer, Iliad, tr. Lattimore (Chicago)
• Homer, Odyssey, tr. Fagles (Penguin)
• Sophocles, Three Theban Plays, tr. Fagles.
• Plato, The Symposium, tr. Nehamas and Woodruff (Hackett).
• Vergil, Aeneid, tr. Fitzgerald (Vintage):
• Ovid, Metamorphoses, tr. Innes (Penguin)

• W. Strunk, Jr. and E.B. White, The Elements of Style (Macmillan)

Return to home page