[mburbank]

It gets worse. I think you need to balance all of that with literature from each period, so you get some idea of what it felt like to be part of the vhunk of time you're concidering.

I would start with Western Civ. Since that's the world tradition you're a part of. If you are way interested and no anyone going to Reed college (or could make contact with anyone there) they used to teach a two year multi-disciplinary course in humanities that was a model of western education. You could ask for the syllabus.