World Lit Flashcards
Epic poem
Ancient Mesopotamia
<100 CE
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Homer
Ancient Greece
Epic poem
The Iliad
The Odyssey
Sophocles
Ancient Greek tragedy
Oedipus Rex
Aristophanes
Ancient Greek comedy
Lysistrata
Virgil
Latin epic poem
The Aeneid
Ovid
Latin narrative poem
Metamorphoses
Plato
Socratic dialogue
The Republic
Dante Alighieri
14th c.
Epic poem
Inferno (first part of Divine comedy)
Petrarch
Collection of poems
~1300s
Canzoniere
Niccolo Machiavelli
16th c.
Political treatise
The Prince
Martin Luther
1521
Speech at the Diet of Worms
Miguel de Cervantes
“First modern novel”
1615
Don Quixote
Olaudah Equiano/Gustavus Vassa
Autobiography
Slave narrative
1789
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
Voltaire
French satire
1759
Candide
Jonathan Swift
1726
Prose satire
Gulliver’s Travels
Rene Descartes
Autobiographical treatise
1637
Discourse on Method
Matsuri Basho
Major text of Japanese lit, Edo period
1702
The Narrow Road {to the Deep North}/{to the Interior}
Celebi
Ottoman
17th c.
Travel narrative
The Book of Travels
Moliere
Theatrical comedy
French
1664
Tartuffe
Rousseau
1782
Autobiography
The Confessions (of Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Tragic play
Faust
1800s France
Victor Hugo
Les Miserables
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Odes and Ballads
Alexander Pushkin 1830s human avarice, supernatural Short story Russia
The Queen of Spades
Fyodor Dostoevsky
1863
Existential
Notes from the Underground
