Susan Sage Heinzelman

A very extensive literature overview and probably the best bang for your buck in this genre that Great Courses provides. However, with multiple lecturers the quality is not consistent - and some eras have better lecturers and coverage offered in other of their courses.

Part I: Near Eastern and Mediterranean. Just excellent. Vandiver is a lecturer to stick with.
Part II: Literature of the Classical World. Just the same. So illuminating, Astonished to find out how much and how very little I know of these works.

This is also available as a 14 disk DVD set with accompanying book of 589 pages. The book does not have an ISBN.

I own the CD version of this, not the DVDs.

Fantastic, very well done overview of the history of western lit. Covered me to and from work for a month and a half!