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Tables of Contents for Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface to the Seventh Edition
xvii
Acknowledgments
xxiii
Phonetic Equivalents
xxv
Masterpieces of the Ancient World
Map: Greece and Western Asia Minor, Ca. Fifth Century B.C.
Introduction
1
15
Map: the Roman Empire, CA. 117
9
5
Timeline
14
2
Gilgamesh (Akkadian, ca. 2500--1500 B.C.)
16
31
N. K. Sandars
The Bible: The Old Testament (Hebrew, ca. 1000--300 B.C.)
47
51
Genesis 1--3 [The Creation---The Fall]
51
3
Genesis 4 [The First Murder]
54
1
Genesis 6--9 [The Flood]
55
3
Genesis 11 [The Origin of Languages]
58
1
Genesis 22 [Abraham and Isaac]
58
1
Genesis 25, 27 [Jacob and Esau]
59
2
Genesis 37, 39--46 [The Story of Joseph]
61
11
From Job
72
16
Psalm 8
88
1
Psalm 19
88
1
Psalm 23
89
1
Psalm 104
89
2
Psalm 137
91
1
The Song of Songs
91
4
Jonah
95
3
Homer (eighth century B.C.)
98
416
The Iliad (Greek)
104
105
Book I [The Rage of Achilles]
104
16
From Book VI [Hector Returns to Troy]
120
11
From Book VIII [The Tide of Battle Turns]
131
1
Book IX [The Embassy to Achilles]
131
19
From Book XVI [Patroclus Fights and Dies]
150
11
Book XVIII [The Shield of Achilles]
161
15
Book XXII [The Death of Hector]
176
13
Book XXIV [Achilles and Priam]
189
20
Robert Fagles
The Odyssey (Greek)
209
305
Book I [A Goddess Intervenes]
209
11
Book II [A Hero's Son Awakens]
220
10
Book III [The Lord of the Western Approaches]
230
12
Book IV [The Red-Haired King and His Lady]
242
20
Book V [Sweet Nymph and Open Sea]
262
11
Book VI [The Princess at the River]
273
8
Book VII [Gardens and Firelight]
281
8
Book VIII [The Songs of the Harper]
289
14
Book IX [New Coasts and Poseidon's Son]
303
13
Book X [The Grace of the Witch]
316
15
Book XI [A Gathering of Shades]
331
16
Book XII [Sea Perils and Defeat]
347
13
Book XIII [One More Strange Island]
360
12
Book XIV [Hospitality in the Forest]
372
13
Book XV [How They Came to Ithaka]
385
15
Book XVI [Father and Son]
400
13
Book XVII [The Beggar at the Manor]
413
18
Book XVIII [Blows and a Queen's Beauty]
431
11
Book XIX [Recognitions and a Dream]
442
16
Book XX [Signs and a Vision]
458
9
Book XXI [The Test of the Bow]
467
11
Book XXII [Death in the Great Hall]
478
13
Book XXIII [The Trunk of the Olive Tree]
491
9
Book XXIV [Warriors, Farewell]
500
14
Robert Fitzgerald
Sappho of Lesbos (born ca. 630 B.C.)
514
3
Lyrics (Greek)
515
2
[Throned in Splendor, Deathless, O Aphrodite]
515
1
[Like the Very Gods in My Sight Is He]
516
1
[Some There Are Who Say That the Fairest Thing Seen]
516
1
Richmond Lattimore
Aeschylus (524?--456 B.C.)
517
79
The Oresteia (Greek)
521
75
Agamemnon
521
45
The Libation Bearers (summary)
566
1
The Eumenides
567
29
Robert Fagles
Sophocles (ca. 496--406 B.C.)
596
44
Oedipus the King (Greek)
599
41
Robert Fagles
Euripides (480--406 B.C.)
640
32
Medea (Greek)
642
30
Rex Warner
Aristophanes (450?--385? B.C.)
672
54
Lysistrata (Greek)
674
52
Douglass Parker
Plato (429--347 B.C.)
726
20
The Apology of Socrates (Greek)
727
19
Benjamin Jowett
Aristotle (384--322 B.C.)
746
4
From Poetics (Greek)
747
3
James Hutton
Plautus (254?--184? B.C.)
750
58
Pseudolus (Latin)
755
53
Peter L. Smith
Catullus (84?--54? B.C.)
808
6
Lyrics (Latin)
809
5
5 (``Lesbia, let us live only for loving'')
809
1
2 (``Sparrow, you darling pet of my beloved'')
809
1
51 (``To me that man seems like a god in heaven'')
809
1
86 (``Many find Quintia stunning'')
810
1
87 (``No other woman can truthfully say she was cherished'')
810
1
109 (``Darling, we'll both have equal shares in the sweet love you offer'')
810
1
83 (``Lesbia hurls abuse at me in front of her husband'')
811
1
70 (``My woman says there is no one whom she'd rather marry'')
811
1
72 (``You used to say that you wished to know only Catullus'')
811
1
85 (``I hate & love'')
811
1
75 (``To such a state have I been brought by your mischief'')
811
1
8 (``Wretched Catullus! You have to stop this nonsense'')
812
1
58 (``Lesbia, Caelius---yes, our darling'')
812
1
11 (``Aurelius & Furius, true comrades'')
812
1
76 (``If any pleasure can come to a man'')
813
1
Charles Martin
Virgil (70--19 B.C.)
814
81
The Aeneid (Latin)
817
78
From Book I
817
1
[Prologue]
817
1
[Aeneas Arrives in Carthage]
818
7
Book II [How They Took the City]
825
22
Book IV [The Passion of the Queen]
847
21
From Book VI [Aeneas in the Underworld]
868
18
From Book VIII [The Shield of Aeneas]
886
4
From Book XII [The Death of Turnus]
890
5
Robert Fitzgerald
Ovid (43 B.C.--A.D. 17)
895
48
Metamorphoses (Latin)
899
44
From Book I
899
1
[Prologue]
899
1
[Apollo and Daphne]
899
3
[Io and Jove]
902
6
From Book II
908
1
[Europa and Jove]
908
2
From Book V
910
1
[Ceres and Proserpina]
910
12
From Book IX
922
1
[Iphis and Ianthe]
922
5
From Book X
927
1
[Pygmalion]
927
1
[Myrrha and Cinyras]
928
7
[Venus and Adonis]
935
8
Allen Mandelbaum
Petronius (died A.D. 66)
943
17
The Satyricon (Latin)
944
16
[Dinner with Trimalchio]
944
16
J.P. Sullivan
The Bible: the New Testament (Greek, ca. first century)
960
16
Luke 2 [The Birth and Youth of Jesus]
962
1
Matthew 5--7 [The Teaching of Jesus: The Sermon on the Mount]
963
4
Luke 15 [The Teaching of Jesus: Parables]
967
2
Matthew 13 [Why Jesus Teaches in Parables]
969
1
Matthew 26 [The Betrayal of Jesus]
970
2
Matthew 27 [The Trial and Crucifixion of Jesus]
972
3
Matthew 28 [The Resurrection]
975
1
Lucian (A.D. 120?--190?)
976
28
A True Story (Greek)
979
25
Lionel Casson
Augustine (A.D. 354--430)
1004
31
Confessions (Latin)
1005
30
From Book I [Childhood]
1005
4
From Book II [The Pear Tree]
1009
3
From Book III [Student at Carthage]
1012
2
From Book V [Augustine Leaves Carthage for Rome]
1014
1
From Book VI [Worldly Ambitions]
1015
3
From Book VIII [Conversion]
1018
3
From Book IX [Death of His Mother]
1021
14
F. J. Sheed
Masterpieces of the Middle Ages
Map: Europe, CA. 1150
Introduction
1035
5
Timeline
1038
2
The Koran (Arabic, 610--632)
1040
17
Sura 1. the Exordium
1042
1
Sura 5. the Table
1042
9
Sura 12. Joseph
1051
6
N. J. Dawood
Beowulf (Old English, ca. ninth century)
1057
47
E. Talbot Donaldson
From The Song of Roland (French, ca. 1100)
1104
65
Frederick Goldin
Marie De France (twelfth century)
1169
9
Lais (French)
1170
8
Lanval
1170
6
Laustic
1176
2
Glyn S. Burgess
Keith Busby
Thorstein the Staff-Struck (Old Norse, thirteenth century)
1178
6
Hermann Palsson
Medieval Lyrics: a Selection
1184
44
Elegy on Reichenau
1189
2
Walahfrid Strabo
A Hymn to Holy Women
1191
2
Notker Balbulus
The Ruin
1193
1
Anonymous
Song of Summer
1194
1
Anonymous
The Singing Lute
1194
1
Ibn Arfa` Ra'suh
Spring Song
1195
1
William IX
Summer
1196
1
Judah Halevi
In Battle
1197
1
Abu-l-Hassan ibn Al-Qabturnuh
Hildegard of Bingen • A Hymn to St. Maximinus
1197
2
The Archpoet • His Confession
1199
3
Love Song
1202
1
Jaufre Rudel
The Sacrifice of Isaac
1203
3
Rabbi Ephraim ben Jacob
Beatrice, countress of Dia • A Lover's Prize
1206
1
In Praise of War
1207
1
Bertran de Born
The Wound of Love
1208
1
Heinrich von Morungen
The Art of Love
1209
1
Arnaut Daniel
Dancing Girl
1210
1
Walther von der Vogelweide
A Letter from the Grave
1211
1
Meir Halevi Abulafia
Hedewijch of Brabant • The Cult of Love
1212
1
The Scorpions
1213
2
Alfonso X
Love and Nobility
1215
1
Guido Guinizzelli
An Encounter
1216
1
Guido Cavalcanti
Love and Poetry
1217
1
Dante Alighieri
Sonnet
1217
1
Calvary
1218
1
Anonymous
Alexander the Wild • Strawberry Picking
1218
2
The Fox
1220
1
Dafydd ap Gwilym
Aubade
1221
1
Anonymous
Alone in Martyrdom
1222
1
Christine de Pizan
Lament of the Virgin
1222
3
Anonymous
Balade
1225
1
Charles d'Orleans
From The Testament
1225
3
Francois Villon
Medieval Tales: a Selection
1228
65
From The Scholar's Guide
1232
2
Petrus Alfonsi
Four Fabliaux
1234
23
The Trial of Renard
1257
33
The Cursed Dancers of Colbeck
1290
3
Robert Mannyng
Dante Alighieri (1265--1321)
1293
136
The Divine Comedy (Italian)
1303
126
Inferno
1303
106
From Purgatorio
1409
17
From Paradiso
1426
3
Allen Mandelbaum
Giovanni Boccaccio (1313--1375)
1429
29
The Decameron (Italian)
1431
27
[The First Story of the First Day]
1431
9
[The Ninth Story of the Fourth Day]
1440
3
[The Eighth Story of the Fifth Day]
1443
4
[The Sixth Story of the Ninth Day]
1447
3
[The Tenth Story of the Tenth Day]
1450
8
G. H. McWilliam
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Middle English, 1380?)
1458
54
Marie Borroff
Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?--1400)
1512
74
The Canterbury Tales (Middle English)
1517
69
General Prologue
1517
17
The Miller's Prologue and Tale
1534
1
The Prologue
1534
2
The Tale
1536
13
The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
1549
1
The Prologue
1549
17
The Tale
1566
7
The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale
1573
1
The Prologue
1573
3
The Tale
1576
10
Theodore Morrison
The Thousand and One Nights (Arabic, fourteenth century)
1586
24
Prologue [The Story of King Shahrayar and Shahrazad, His Vizier's Daughter]
1588
7
[The Tale of the Ox and the Donkey]
1595
2
[The Tale of the Merchant and His Wife]
1597
2
[The Story of the Merchant and the Demon]
1599
11
[The First Old Man's Tale]
1603
3
[The Second Old Man's Tale]
1606
2
[The Third Old Man's Tale]
1608
2
Husain Haddawy
Sir Thomas Malory (ca. 1405--1471)
1610
18
Morte Darthur (Middle English)
1611
17
[The Conspiracy against Lancelot and Guinevere]
1611
5
[War Breaks Out between Arthur and Lancelot]
1616
3
[The Death of Arthur]
1619
6
[The Deaths of Lancelot and Guinevere]
1625
3
Everyman (Middle English, 1495?)
1628
25
E. Talbot Donaldson
Masterpieces of the Renaissance
Map: Western Europe, CA. 1560
Introduction
1653
11
Timeline
1661
3
Francis Petrarch (1304--1374)
1664
14
Letter to Dionisio da Borgo San Sepolcro [the Ascent of Mount Ventoux] (Italian)
1668
5
James H. Robinson
Henry W. Rolfe
Sonnets (Italian)
1673
5
1 (``You who hear in scattered rhymes'')
1673
1
3 (``It was the day'')
1674
1
34 (``Apollo, if the sweet desire'')
1674
1
Robert M. Durling
61 (``Blest be the day'')
1675
1
Joseph Auslander
62 (``Father in heaven'')
1675
1
Bernard Bergonzi
78 (``When Simon received the high idea'')
1675
1
Robert M. Durling
90 (``She used to let her golden hair fly free'')
1676
1
Morris Bishop
126 (``Clear, fresh, sweet waters'')
1676
1
189 (``My ship laden with forgetfulness'')
1677
1
Robert M. Durling
333 (``Go, grieving rimes of mine'')
1678
1
Morris Bishop
Desiderius Erasmus (1466?--1536)
1678
27
The Praise of Folly (Italian)
1682
23
Clarence Miller
Niccolo Machiavelli (1469--1527)
1705
17
Letter to Francesco Vettori [``That Food Which alone Is Mine''] (Italian)
1708
1
The Prince (Italian)
1709
13
New Princedoms Gained with Other Men's Forces and through Fortune
1709
3
[Princely Virtues]
1712
6
[``Fortune Is a Woman'']
1718
2
[The Roman Dream]
1720
2
Allan H. Gilbert
Ludovico Ariosto (1474--1533)
1722
87
Orlando Furioso (Italian)
1726
83
Canto 1
1726
9
From Canto 6; Canto 7 [Ruggiero Visits the Isle of Alcina and Logistilla]
1735
14
From Cantos 8 and 9 [Angelica Travels Alone and Orlando Has a Dream]
1749
10
From Cantos 10 and 11 [Ruggiero Learns from Logistilla and Takes a Grand Tour]
1759
9
From Cantos 12 and 22 [Orlando Finds an Enchanted Castle and Ruggiero and Bradamant Unite]
1768
4
From Cantos 23 and 24 [Orlando's Great Madness]
1772
5
From Canto 25 [Fiordispina's Love for Bradamant]
1777
6
Canto 29; from Canto 30 [Isabel Outwits Rodomont and Angelica Encounters Orlando]
1783
9
From Cantos 34 and 35 [Astolfo's Voyage to the Moon]
1792
7
From Canto 39 [Orlando Regains His Wits]
1799
3
From Canto 41 [Ruggiero Is Baptized and Hears a Prophecy]
1802
2
From Canto 46 [Rodomont Interrupts the Wedding of Ruggiero and Bradamant]
1804
5
Guido Waldman
Baldesar Castiglione (1478--1529)
1809
45
The Book of the Courtier (Italian)
1812
42
[From The Dedication]
1812
2
From Book 1
1814
36
From Book 4
1850
4
Charles S. Singleton
Marguerite De Navarre (1492--1549)
1854
27
The Heptameron (French)
1857
24
From Prologue
1857
4
From Day One
1861
1
Story Three
1861
4
Story Four
1865
5
Story Five
1870
3
Story Six
1873
1
Story Seven
1874
2
Story Eight
1876
5
P. A. Chilton
Francois Rabelais (1495?--1553)
1881
40
Gargantua and Pantagruel (French)
1885
36
From Book I
1885
1
[Education of a Giant Humanist]
1885
12
[The Abbey of Theleme]
1897
9
From Book II
1906
1
[Pantagruel: Birth and Education]
1906
2
[Father's Letter from Home]
1908
3
[The World in Pantagruel's Mouth]
1911
10
Burton Raffel
Michel De Montaigne (1533--1592)
1921
39
Essays (French)
1925
35
To the Reader
1925
1
Of the Power of the Imagination
1925
8
Of Cannibals
1933
9
Of the Inconsistency of Our Actions
1942
5
Of Coaches
1947
13
Donald Frame
Miguel De Cervantes (1547--1616)
1960
112
Don Quixote (Spanish)
1964
108
From Part I
1964
1
Prologue
1964
5
[``I Know Who I Am, and Who I May Be, If I Choose'']
1969
20
[Fighting the Windmills and a Choleric Biscayan]
1989
14
[Fighting the Sheep]
2003
4
[``To Right Wrongs and Come to the Aid of the Wretched'']
2007
8
[``Set Free at Once That Lovely Lady'']
2015
5
From Part II
2020
1
Prologue
2020
3
[``Put into a Book'']
2023
6
[A Victorious Duel]
2029
25
[``For I Well Know the Meaning of Valor'']
2054
7
[Last Duel]
2061
3
[Homecoming and Death]
2064
8
Samuel Putnam
Lope De Vega (1562--1635)
2072
38
Fuente Ovejuna (Spanish)
2076
34
Angel Flores
Muriel Kittel
William Shakespeare (1564--1616)
2110
82
Othello
2115
77
John Milton (1608--1674)
2192
65
Paradise Lost
2197
60
From Book I [``This Great Argument'']
2197
1
From Book 4 [Satan's Entry into Paradise; Adam and Eve in Their Bower]
2198
12
From Book 8 [Adam Describes His Own Creation and That of Eve; Having Repeated His Warning, the Angel Departs]
2210
10
Book 9 [Temptation and Fall]
2220
26
From Book 10 [Acceptance, Reconciliation, Hope]
2246
9
From Book 12 [``The World Was All Before Them'']
2255
2
A Note on Translation
2257
6
Permissions Acknowledgments
2263
4
Index
2267