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GREEK LITERATURE
Homer	from the Iliad
	from Book 1: The Rage of Achilles	Epic Poem	326
	from Book 6: Hector Returns to Troy	Epic Poem	336
	from Book 22: The Death of Hector	Epic Poem	345
	from Book 24: Achilles and Priam	Epic Poem	359
Comparing Literary Works
Sappho	You Know the Place: Then	Poem	377
	He Is More Than a Hero	Poem	378
Pindar	Olympia 11	Poem	380
Thucydides	from History of the Peloponnesian War: Pericles' Funeral Oration	Nonfiction	386
Plato	from the Apology	Philosophical Text	402
Sophocles	Oedipus the King
	Part I	Drama	426
	Part II	Drama	461
ROMAN LITERATURE
Virgil	from the Aeneid from Book II: How They Took the City	Epic Poem	492
Comparing Literary Works
Catullus	I Crossed Many Lands and a Lot of Ocean	Poem	508
	I Hate Her and I Love Her	Poem	508
	My Woman Says There's Nobody She'd Rather Marry	Poem	509
Horace	Carpe Diem	Poem	510
Ovid	from the Metamorphoses: The Story of Daedalus and Icarus	Narrative Poem	516
Tacitus	from the Annals: from The Burning of Rome	Nonfiction	524