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Taught by Professor Dr. Grant L. Voth | 30 min
At seven times the combined length of the “Iliad” and “Odyssey,” the “Mahabharata” may be the longest epic poem in the world. In this lecture, we examine one episode of this enormous work, the Bhagavad Gita, which offers a Hindu meditation on the meaning of life.
48 Lectures
1
Stories and Storytellers
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of 33 min
2
The “Epic of Gilgamesh”
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of 30 min
3
The Hebrew Bible
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of 30 min
4
Homer's “Iliad”
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of 30 min
5
Homer's “Odyssey”
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of 29 min
6
Chinese Classical Literature
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of 30 min
7
Greek Tragedy
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of 30 min
8
Virgil's “Aeneid”
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of 30 min
9
Bhagavad Gita
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of 30 min
10
The New Testament
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of 28 min
11
“Beowulf”
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of 31 min
12
Indian Stories
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of 30 min
13
T'ang Poetry
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of 29 min
14
Early Japanese Poetry
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of 30 min
15
“The Tale of Genji”
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of 29 min
16
“Inferno,” from Dante's “Divine Comedy”
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of 29 min
17
Chaucer's “The Canterbury Tales”
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of 31 min
18
“1001 Nights”
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of 30 min
19
Wu Ch'eng-en's “Monkey”
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of 31 min
20
The “Heptameron”
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of 30 min
21
Shakespeare
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of 32 min
22
Cervantes's “Don Quixote”
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of 31 min
23
Molière's Plays
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of 31 min
24
Voltaire's “Candide”
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of 31 min
25
Cao Xueqin's “The Story of the Stone”
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of 31 min
26
Goethe's “Faust”
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of 32 min
27
Emily Brontë “Wuthering Heights”
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of 32 min
28
Pushkin's “Eugene Onegin”
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of 32 min
29
Flaubert's “Madame Bovary”
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of 32 min
30
Dostoevsky's “Notes from Underground”
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of 32 min
31
Twain's “Huckleberry Finn”
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of 30 min
32
Dickinson's Poetry
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of 32 min
33
Ibsen and Chekhov-Realist Drama
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of 32 min
34
Rabindranath Tagore's Stories and Poems
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of 31 min
35
Higuchi Ichiy “Child's Play”
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of 31 min
36
Proust's <"Remembrance of Things Past”
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of 31 min
37
Joyce's “Dubliners”
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of 31 min
38
Kafka's “The Metamorphosis”
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of 31 min
39
Pirandello's “Six Characters”
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of 31 min
40
Brecht's “The Good Woman of Setzuan”
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of 31 min
41
Anna Akhmatova's “Requiem”
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of 31 min
42
Kawabata Yasunari's “Snow Country”
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of 31 min
43
Faulkner-Two Stories and a Novel
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of 30 min
44
Naguib Mahfouz's “The Cairo Trilogy”
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of 31 min
45
Achebe's “Things Fall Apart”
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of 31 min
46
Beckett's Plays
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of 31 min
47
Borges's “Labyrinths”
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of 30 min
48
Rushdie's “Haroun and the Sea of Stories”
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of 32 min
