BB Lit up to 1800 Flashcards by Evan Waldmann | Brainscape

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Homer

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Illiad and Odyssey 800 bc

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Herodotus

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History of the Persian Wars 484-420 b c

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Thucydides

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History of the Peloponnessian War 470-404 bc

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Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Philippics (against Marc Antony) 106-43 bc

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Julius Caesar

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commentaries on the Gallic War 100-44 bc

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Virgil

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Aeneid 70-19 bc

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Ovid

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Metamorphosis 43bc -17

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Plutarch

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Parallel Lives 46-120

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Marcus Aurelius

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Meditations 121-180

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St. Augustine of Hippo

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Confessions and City of God 315-430

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Dante Aligheri

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The Divine Comedy 1265-1321

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Petrarch

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sonnets 1304-74

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Geoffrey Chaucer

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Canterbury Tales 1343-1400

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Sir Thomas Malory

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Le Morte D’Arthur 1408-71

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Niccolo Machiavelli

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The Prince 1469-1527

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Sir Thomas More

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Utopia 1478-1535

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Miguel de Saavedra Cervantes

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Don Quixote 1547-1616

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Edmund Spenser

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The Faerie Queene 1552 -99

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Robert Herrick

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To the Virgins, to mkake Much of Time 1591-1674

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John Milton

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Paradise Lost 1608-1674

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Anne (Dudley) Bradstreet

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Early American poet 1612-72

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John Bunyan

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Pilgrams progress 1628-1688

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Daniel Defoe

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Robinson Crusoe 1660-1703

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Jonathan Swift

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Gulliver’s Travels (A modest proposal) 1667-1745

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Alexander Pope

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The Rape of the Lock

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Voltaire

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(Franoic Marie Arouet) Candide 1694-1778

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Jonathan Edwards

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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God 1703-58

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Benjamin Franklin

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Poor Richard’s Almanack 1706-90

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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The Social Contract 1712-78

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Thomas Paine

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Common Sense 1737-1809

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James Boswell

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1740-95

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Robert Burns

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A Red, Red Rose, To a Mouse, and Auld Lang Syne 1759-96