Literature as Art

I. Classicism -- from The Iliad / Homer -- from The Odyssey / Homer -- On losing his shield / Archilochus -- Ode to Aphrodite / Sappho -- Hesperus, the bringer / Sappho -- Mother, I cannot mind my wheel / Sappho -- The wounded Cupid / Anacreon -- First Olympian ode / Pindar -- A twofold truth / Empedocles -- Heraclitus / Callimachus -- Crethis / Callimachus -- from Agamemnon / Aeschylus -- Antigone / Sophocles -- from Medea / Eripides -- The death of Socrates from Phaedo / Plato -- The nature of tradegy from On tragedy / Aristotle -- Theocritus / The Incantation -- from Of the nature of things / Lucretius -- from Aeneid / Virgil -- On lesbia / Catullus -- Love is best / Catullus -- After a quarrel / Catullus -- At the grave of his brother / Catullus -- To postumus / Horace -- Orpheus and Eurydice / Ovid -- The Tuscan villa / Pliny the Younger -- from The villas of Pliny the Younger / Pliny the Younger -- from The meditations / Marcus Aurelius -- II. Christianity and the Middle Ages -- The creation / Bible -- The Messiah / Bible -- Psalms / Bible -- The annunciation / Bible -- The birth of Christ / Bible -- The last supper / Bible -- from Confessions / Saint Augustine -- from Beowulf / Anonymous -- from The song of Roland / Anonymous -- Te Deum / Anonymous -- from Little flowers / Saint Francis of Assisi -- Dies Irae / Thomas of Celano -- five cantos from The inferno / Dante Alighieri -- from the Divine comedy / Dante Alighieri -- from Sir Gawain and the green knight / Anonymous -- The Prioress/s tale from The Canterbury tales / Geoffrey Chaucer -- St. Mark's from The stones of Venice / John Ruskin -- The Virgin of Chartres / Henry Adams -- from Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres / Henry Adams -- III. Renaissance -- from An hymn in honour of beauty / Edmund Spenser -- The powers and pleasures of folly / Desiderius Erasmus -- from The praise of folly / Desiderius Erasmus -- The plague of 1348 / Giovanni Boccaccio -- Th