Part I. Near Eastern and Meditteranean foundations. Disc 1. Foundations -- The Epic of Gilgamesh -- Genesis and the documentary hypothesis -- The Deuteronomistic history -- Isaiah -- Job -- Disc 2. Homer: the Iliad -- Homer: the Odyssey -- Sappho and Pindar -- Aeschylus -- Sophocles -- Euripides -- Part II. Literature of the Classical World. Disc 3. Herodotus -- Thucydides -- Aristophanes -- Plato -- Menander and hellenistic literature -- Catullus and Horace -- Disc 4. Virgil -- Ovid -- Livy, Tacitus, Plutarch -- Petronius and Apuleius -- The Gospels -- Augustine -- Part III. Literature of the Middle Ages. Disc 5. Beowulf -- The Song of Roland -- El Cid -- Tristan and Isolt -- The Romance of the Rose -- Dante Alighieri: Life and works -- Disc 6. Dante Alighieri: The Divine comedy -- Petrarch --Giovanni Boccaccio -- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight -- Geoffrey Chaucer: Life and work -- Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury tales --

Part IV. Literature of the Renaissance. Disc 7. Christine de Pizan -- Erasmus -- Thomas More -- Michel de Montaigne -- François Rabelais -- Christopher Marlowe -- Disc 8. William Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice -- William Shakespeare: Hamlet -- Lope de Vega -- Miguel de Cervantes -- John Milton -- Blaise Pascal -- Part V. Disc 9. Molière -- Jean Racine -- Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz -- Daniel Defoe -- Alexander Pope -- Jonathan Swift -- Disc 10. Voltaire -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- Samuel Johnson -- Denis Diderot -- William Blake -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -- Part VI. Literature of the 19th Century. Disc 11. William Wordsworth -- Jane Austen -- Stendhal -- Herman Melville -- Walt Whitman -- Gustave Flaubert -- Disc 12. Charles Dickens -- Fyodor Dostoevsky -- Leo Tolstoy -- Mark Twain -- Thomas Hardy -- Oscar Wilde -- Part VII. Modern Literature. Disc 13. Henry James -- Joseph Conrad -- William Butler Yeats -- Marcel Proust -- James Joyce -- Franz Kafka -- Disc 14. Virginia Woolf --William Faulkner -- Bertolt Brecht -- Albert Camus -- Samuel Beckett -- Conclusion.