TEXTS: Books will be available at Shakespeare & Co., 137 East 23rd St, off Lexington. You are welcome to use e-editions but must have the same translations as we use in class. Items with an asterisk on the syllabus will be available in .pdf form on the blog; please bring downloads or printouts to class.
- Gilgamesh: A New English Version Translator: Stephen Mitchell. ISBN-10: 0743261690. Publisher: Free Press: 304 pp
- The Odyssey. Translator: Richard Lattimore. ISBN-10: 006124418X. Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics: 400pp
- The Tain. Translator: Ciaran Carson. ISBN-10: 0670018686 Publisher: Viking Adult: 256pp
- Arabian Nights, Norton Critical Edition. Translator: Hussein Haddawy. ISBN-10: 039392808X Publisher: Norton: 523pp.
- The Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio. Translator: GH McWilliam. ISBN-10: 0140449302. Publisher: Penguin: 1072pp