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COLUMBIA COLLEGE TODAY
TODAY’S LIT HUM SYLLABUS BY THE NUMBERS
Today’s Lit Hum Syllabus by the Numbers
80
70
To see all the books
that have been on the
Lit Hum syllabus since
1937, and the academic
years during which
each was taught, go to
college.columbia.edu/
core/1937.php.
60
50
40
30
20
10
Total years
book has
been on
syllabus
“Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus’ son Achilleus/and its devastation, which put pains thousandfold upon the Achaians … ”
“Tell me, Muse, of the man of many ways, who was driven/far journeys ... ”
“I ask the gods some respite from the weariness/of this watchtime measured by years I lie ...”
“Children, young sons and daughters of old Cadmus, why do you sit here with your suppliant crowns”
“How I wish the Argo never had reached the ... ”
”According to learned Persians, it was the Phoenicians who caused the conflict.”
“Thucydides the Athenian wrote the history of the war fought between Athens and Sparta, beginning the account at the ... ”
“Just think if it had been a Bacchic ... ”
“In fact, your question does not find me unprepared.”
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”
“There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was ...”
“Inasmuch as many ... ”
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God ... ”
“I sing of arms and of a man: his fate/had made him fugitive; he was the first/to journey from the coasts of Troy as far ... ”
“Before ... ”
“‘You are great, Lord, and highly to be praised (Ps. 47: 2): great is your power and your wisdom is immeasurable ... ’”
“When I had journeyed half of our life’s way/I found myself within a shadowed forest,/for I had lost the path that does not ... ”
“This, reader, is an honest book.”
“I thought the king had more affected the Duke of Albany than Cornwall.”
“Somewhere in La Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, a gentleman lived not long ... ”
“You two who often stood by me/in times of hardship and ... ”
“It is a truth universally acknowledged ... ”
“At the beginning of July, during an ...”
“‘Yes, of course, if it’s fine ... ’”
Month book is read
Year book debuted on
syllabus (some have gone
on and off multiple times)
SEPTEMBER
Homer, The Iliad
1937
Homer,
The Odyssey
1956
OCTOBER
Aeschylus, Oresteia 1937
Sophocles, Oedipus the King 1937
Euripides, The Medea 1937 Herodotus, The Histories 1938
Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1938
Aristophones, Lysistrata 1951
NOVEMBER
Plato, Symposium 1937
Bible, Genesis 1948
Bible, Job 1940
DECEMBER
Bible, Luke
1990
Bible, John
1990
JAN.
Virgil,
Aeneid
1937
FEBRUARY
Ovid, Metamorphoses 1972
Augustine, Confessions 1937
Dante, Inferno 1937
Montaigne, Essays 1937
MARCH
Shakespeare,
King Lear 1937
Cervantes,
Don Quixote
1937
APRIL
Goethe, Faust 1937
Austen, Pride and Prejudice 1985
Dostoevsky,
Crime and Punishment 1952
Woolf, To the Lighthouse 1990
SPRING 2013
30
SPRING 2013
31