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Section I 3 CLASSICAL GREEK LITERATURE Chapter 1 Sappho (ca. 630-ca. 580 b.c.) Chapter 2 Early M ale Lyric Poets Chapter 3 Theocritus and the Pastoral Tradition Chapter 4 Strato of Sardis Musa Puerilis The Boyish Muse Section II CLASSICAL LATIN LITERATURE Chapter 5 The Lyric: Catullus , Horace , and Tibullus Chapter 6 Vergil Chapter 7 Ovid Chapter 8 Satire : Martial, Juvenal , and Petronius Section III MEDIEVAL LATIN LITERATURE Chapter 9 A.D. 300-1000 Chapter 10 A.D. 100-1300 Chapter 11 Anonymous Poems from Later Manuscripts Section IV ARABIC POETRY Chapter 12 Medieval Spanish Selections Section V HEBREW POETRY Chapter 13 Medieval Spanish Selections Section VI LATE MEDIEVAL VERNACULAR LITERATURE to 1400 Chapter 14 The trobairitz Bietris de Romans (ca. e a r l y 1200s)Chapter 15 Dante Alighieri (1265- 1321 ) Chapter 16 Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. 1341- 1400) Section VII ITALIAN RENAISSANCE LITERATURE TO MICHELANGELO Chapter 17 Selections from 1400 to 1550