Foundations of Western Culture: Homer to Dante

Art: Gustave Doré, Gustave Doré, Illustration for John Milton’s “Paradise Lost“, 1866.…, 1866 · Public domain

Instructor: Prof. Arthur Bahr
Term: Fall 2008
Level: Undergraduate
What's inside: 4 readings · 7 other files · 3 web pages
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Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 21L.001 Foundations of Western Culture: Homer to Dante, Fall 2008, Prof. Arthur Bahr — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: none is claimed; materials are grouped by MIT's own sections. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.

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