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This innovative two-volume primary source reader offers students an opportunity to evaluate and interact - through both discussion and writing - with some of the greatest ideas and creative expressions of humanity. Chronological in format, with individual units focused on time periods, specific events, and historical questions, The Human Spirit features six major themes: The Institution and the Individual; Social and Spiritual Values; The Power Structure; Revolution and Transition; The Varieties of Truth; and Women in History and the Humanities. Throughout these volumes, students are confronted with basic questions regarding historical development, human nature, moral action, and practical necessity.
Résumé
For a one or two-quarter/semester survey course.
This innovative two-volume primary source reader is designed to give students an opportunity to evaluate and interact-through both discussion and writing-with some of the greatest ideas and creative expressions of humanity. Chronological in format-with individual units focused on time periods, specific events, and historical questions, it is internally organized around six major themes-The Institution and the Individual; Social and Spiritual Values; The Power Structure; Revolution and Transition; The Varieties of Truth; and Women in History and the Humanities. Throughout the volumes, students are confronted with basic questions regarding historical development, human nature, moral action, and practical necessity.
Contenu
Volume I:
I. FOUNDATIONS OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION (3500 B.C.E. TO 500 C.E.).
1. Civilization in the Ancient Near East: Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Israel.
Mesopotamian Civilization.
The Code of Hammurabi. The Epic of Gilgamesh. The Biblical Flood. The Mesopotamian View of Death. A Prayer to the Gods of Night.
Egyptian Civilization.
The Authority of the Pharaohs.
Building the Pyramids, Herodotus. Mummification, Herodotus. Ramses the Great.
The Architectural Foundation.
The Great Pyramids of Egypt.
Egyptian Values.
Instructions of Kagemni Love Song: “Would You Then Leave Me?” Love Song: “I Am Your Best Girl.”
Egyptian Religion.
The Pyramid Texts. The Book of the Dead: Negative Confession.
Against the Grain: The Amarna Revolution.
Hymn to the Aten, Akhenaten.
Hebrew Civilization.
Origins, Oppression, and the Exodus of the Hebrews from Egypt.
The Creation of the World.
The Cultural Intersection: Yucatan: 1550.
Maya Origins: The Creation of the World.
Paradise and the Fall from Grace. The Hebrew Bondage. The Burning Bush. The Mission of Moses. The Departure of the Israelites.
Covenant and Commandments.
The Ten Commandments. The Covenant Code. The Omnipotence of Yahweh: “Clothed in Fearful Splendor” (Job 37-40).
The Reflection in the Mirror: The New Covenant of Jeremiah.
“Deep Within Them I Will Plant My Law.”
2. The Glory of Greece.
The World of Early Greece.
The Trojan War: Homer's Iliad.
The Wrath of Achilles, Homer. The Death of Patroclus, Homer. The Death of Hector, Homer.
Greek Values: The Odyssey of Homer.
The Adventure of the Cyclops, Homer. Odysseus in the Underworld, Homer. The Return of Odysseus, Homer.
The Heroic Age.
The Poetry of Sappho, Sappho. The Olympic Ideal, Pindar. Works and Days, Hesiod.
Early Greek Philosophy.
Thales of Miletus: Water Is the Primary Element, Aristotle. Anaximenes: “The First Principle Is Infinite Air,” Hippolytus. Pythagoras on the Transmigration of the Soul, Diodorus.
The Classical Era: The Golden Age of Athens.
Greek Tragedy.
Oedipus the King (430 B.C.E.), Sophocles. Antigone (441 B.C.E.), Sophocles. Medea, Euripides.
The Architectural Foundation.
The Theater of Dionysus.
The Peloponnesian War and the Decline of Athens (431-400 B.C E.).
The City-State of Athens: Funeral Oration of Pericles (430 B.C.E.), Thycydides. The Melian Dialogue (416 B.C.E.), Thucydides.
The Reflection in the Mirror: Hubris: The Conceit of Power.
The Trojan Women (415 B.C.E.), Euripides.
Women and War: Lysistrata (411 B.C.E.), Aristophanes. The Trial of Socrates (399 B.C.E.), Plato. The Death of Socrates, Plato.
The Fourth Century and the Hellenistic Age.
Allegory of the Cave, Plato. Against Communism, Aristotle. On Education, Aristotle. Virtue and Moderation: The Doctrine of the Mean, Aristotle.
The Cultural Intersection: China: 350 B.C.E.
The Basis of Humane Government, Mencius.
The Leadership of Alexander the Great, Arrian. Epicureanism: Golden Maxims, Epicurus.
The Artistic Vision: Hellenistic Sculpture.
The Dying Gaul, Epigonos.
3. The World of Rome.
The Roman Republic.
Roman Values.
The Foundation of Rome/The Fall of Tarquin, Livy. “Hannibal Is At the Gates!”: The Defense of Rome, Livy. Scipio's Dream, Cicero.
The Fall of the Roman Republic (100-31 B.C E.).
Catiline Plots Revolt, Sallust. “The Enemy Is Within,” Cicero. ”The Assassination of Julius Caesar (44 B.C.E.), Plutarch.
Against the Grain: Cleopatra: Queen of the Nile.
“The Attraction Was Something Bewitching,” Plutarch. “She Was No Weak-Kneed Woman,” Horace.
Late Republican Thought and Literature.
The Way Things Are, Lucretius. Poetry Selections, Catullus. The Art of Love, Ovid.
Imperial Rome.
The Age of Augustus.
The Transition from Republic to Principate, Tacitus. The Peace of Augustus, Horace. “To Spare the Conquered and Crush the Proud,” Virgil. Dido and Aeneas, Virgil.
“All Roads Lead to Rome.”
The Glory of the City, Strabo. The Dark Side of Rome, Juvenal. The Magnificence of the Baths, Lucian. The Bathing Establishment, Seneca.
The Architectural Foundation.
Pont du Gard.
“Bread and Circuses,” Fronto. “The Give and Take of Death”: Gladiatorial Combat, Seneca.
The Stoic Philosophy.
“How Will I Die,” Epictetus. “What Is the Principle Thing In Life?” Seneca. Meditations, Marcus Aurelius.
The Artistic Vision: The Good Life in Pompeii.
“Portrait of a Man and Woman”/Fresco.
Caesar and Christ.
The Message of Jesus.
The Baptism of Jesus. The Sermon on the Mount. The Good Samaritan.
The Mission of Jesus.
Instructions to the Twelve Disciples. Peter: The Rock. Suffering, Persecution, and the Son of Man. The Final Judgment.
The Work of Paul.
Paul's Answer to the Intellectuals. On Faith. The Resurrection of Christ. On Love.
The Reflection in the Mirror: The Decline of the West.
Decline and Christianity, Edward Gibbon.
II. THE CONSOLIDATION OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION (500-1400). 4. Icon, Scimitar, and Cross: Early Medieval Civilization (500-1100).
Byzantine and Islamic Civilization.
Byzantine Spiritual Foundations.
Heresy: The Threat of Arianism, Eusebius. ”The Nicene Creed…