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Does the Western canon contain only works originally written in English?
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∙ 10y ago
No. The Bible was written in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek. The ancient Greek philosophers like Aristotle are there too. Some people include the great Hindu epics as well. Dante's Divine Comedy was written in Italian. Don Quixote was written in Spanish. Shakespeare makes the cut, that's in English. Grimm's Fairy Tales were written in German. Huckleberry Fin, though, is in English, so is James Joyce's Ulysses. I've made no effort to list all the works that people put in the canon, but the ones I listed certainly make it clear that it's not all English!
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