Readings in the Western Humanities, Volume 1 by Roy Matthews
Volume One of Readings in the Western Humanities includes a wide range of primary source selections from pre-history and ancient Near Eastern civilizations through the Renaissance.
Readings in the Western Humanities, Volume 1
Readings in the Western Humanities, Volume 1
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Includes a range of primary source selections from pre-history and ancient Near Eastern civilizations through the Renaissance.
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* indicates a new selectionPrefaceChapter 1 PREHISTORY AND NEAR EASTERN CIVILIZATIONSSelections from The Code of HammurabiSelections from The Epic of GilgameshIshtar and Gilgamesh, and the Death of EnkiduThe Search for Everlasting LifeThe Story of the FloodENHEDUANNA, The Exaltation of InannaThe Dispute of a Man with His SoulThe Story of Sinuhe the EgyptianThe Great Hymn to the Aten Chapter 2 AEGEAN CIVILIZATION: The Minoans, the Mycenaeans, and the Greeks of the Archaic AgeHOMER, Selections from the IliadBook 1Book 6 Book 22*Book 24* HOMER, Selections from the OdysseyBook 9*Book 23*SAPPHO, PoemsIIILet's Not PretendChapter 3 CLASSICAL GREEK CIVILIZATION: The Hellenic AgeSOPHOCLES, Oedipus the KingTHUCYDIDES, Selection from History of the Peloponnesian WarBook II Pericles' Funeral OrationSecond Year of the War. The Plague and Its EffectsPLATO, Selections from The RepublicBook VBook VIIPLATO, Selection from PhaedoARISTOTLE, Selections from Poetics and PoliticsPoeticsA Description of TragedyReversal, Discovery, and CalamityTragic ActionFear and PityThe Characters of TragedyPoliticsBook IChapter 4 CLASSICAL GREEK CIVILIZATION: The Hellenistic AgeTHEOCRITUS, Selection from the Idylls*Aeschines and Thyonicus*EPICURUS, Letter to MenoeceusChapter 5 ROMAN CIVILIZATION: The Pre-Christian Centuries*CICERO, Selection from On the Republic**The Dream of Scipio*CATULLUS, Poems5225172VERGIL, Selections from the AeneidBook IBook VIHORACE, Selections from Odes and SatiresOde II.16Ode III.6Satire I.9OVID, Selections from MetamorphosesBook IBook IVJUVENAL, Satire III*MARCUS AURELIUS, Selection from Meditations*Chapter 6 JUDAISM AND THE RISE OF CHRISTIANITYSelections from the Holy Scriptures (The Jewish Bible)GenesisExodusAmosPsalmsJobEcclesiastesSelections from The Revised Standard Version of the Holy BibleThe Gospel According to MatthewSermon on the Mount1 CorinthiansTERTULLIAN, Selections from The Apparel of WomenBook OneBook TwoChapter 7 LATE ROMAN CIVILIZATIONST. AUGUSTINE, Selections from Confessions and The City of GodConfessions, Book VIIIThe City of God, Book XIVThe City of God, Book XVThe City of God, Book XIXEUSEBIUS, Selections from The History of the ChurchThe Neronian Persecution, in Which Paul and Peter DiedThe Destruction of the ChurchesOrdeals Endured in the Persecution: God's Glorious MartyrsVictory of Constantine; the Benefits He conferred on His SubjectsANNA COMNENA, Selection from The Alexiad*Book XIVBOETHIUS, Selection from the Consolation of Philosophy*Book IIIEINHARD, Selection from The Life of Charlemagne*Book III*Selection from Beowulf*HROSVITHA, Selection from AbrahamChapter 8 THE WORLD OF ISLAMSelections from the Qur'an*The Exordium*The ProphetsLight*Clots of Blood**The Table**IBN KHALDUN, Selections from the Muqaddimah**Selection from The Arabian Nights**The Story of the Merchant and Demon**The First Old Man's Tale**The Second Old Man's Tale**RUMI, Selections from the Masnavi**I Have Five Things to Say**The Food Sack**The Grasses**A Man and a Woman Arguing**Zikr**The Core of Masculinity**Put This Design in Your Carpet*Chapter 9 THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES: The Christian CenturiesSelections from the Song of RolandCHRETIEN DE TROYES, Selection from Arthurian RomancesLancelotMARIE DE FRANCE, LanvalST. THOMAS AQUINAS, Selection from Summa Theologica Fifth ArticleDANTE ALIGHIERI, Selections from The Divine ComedyInferno, Canto IInferno, Canto IIIInferno, Canto VInferno, Canto XXXIVHILDEGARD OF BINGEN, Selections from Scivias (May You Know or Know the Ways)Chapter 10 THE LATE MIDDLE AGES, 1300-1500PETRARCH, Selections from the Canzoniere3132134*PETRARCH, Selection from Letter to Posterity*GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO, Selections from The DecameronIntroductionFirst Day, Third StoryGEOFFREY CHAUCER, Selections from The Canterbury TalesThe General Prologue (in Middle English)The PrologueThe Wife of Bath's TaleCHRISTINE DE PIZAN, Selections from The Book of the City of LadiesBook IBook IIChapter 11 THE EARLY RENAISSANCE: RETURN TO CLASSICAL ROOTS, 1400-1494GIOVANNI PICO DELLA MIRANDOLA, Selections from On the Dignity of ManLEON BATTISTA ALBERTI, Selection from On PaintingBook IIChapter 12 THE HIGH RENAISSANCE AND EARLY MANNERISM, 1494-1564GASPARA STAMPA, Poems34398104151BALDASSARE CASTIGLIONE, Selections from The Book of the CourtierBook IBook IIINICCOLO MACHIAVELLI, Selections from The PrinceChapter XVChapter XVIChapter XVIICreditsIndex
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0072556390
Readings in the Western Humanities, Volume 1 by Roy Matthews
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