An exploration of some of the most influential works of literature composed over the course of the last three thousand years. The poetry, prose, and drama studied may include such works as Genesis, Homer’s Odyssey, the lyrics of Sappho, Dante’s Inferno, the Islamic Sufi poet Rumi, Cervantes’ Don Quixote, Milton’s Paradise Lost, Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, and Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment.