Humanities in Western Culture, brief Revised Fourth Edition

Unit 1: Ancient River-Valley Civilizations

1 Prehistory and Mesopotamia

2 Egypt

Unit 2: Greece: Birthplace of Western Civilization

3 The Aegean Heritage

4 Early Greece: Preparation for the Good Life

5 Hellenic Athens: The Fulfillment of the Good Life

6 Greece: From Hellenic to Hellenistic World

7 The Greek Arts

Unit 3: Rome: The International Culture

8 A Thousand Years of Rome

9 Roman Art and Architecture: The Arts of Megalopolis

Unit 4: Judaism and Christianity

10 The Star and the Cross

11 The Beginnings of Christian Art

Unit 5: The Age of Faith

12 Building Medieval Walls

13 The Late Middle Ages: Expansion and Synthesis

14 The Medieval Synthesis in Art

15 Medieval Music: Sacred and Secular

Unit 6: The Renaissance, 1350-1600

16 New Ideas and Discoveries Result from a New Way of Looking at the World

17 Renaissance Art: A New Golden Age

18 Renaissance Music: Court and Church

19 Shadow and Substance: Literary Insights into the Renaissance

Unit 7: The Early Modern World, 1600-1789

20 Science, Reason, and Absolutism

21 Art: Baroque, Rococo, and Neoclassic

22 Music: Baroque, Rococo, and Classical

Unit 8: the Middle Modern World, 1789-1914

23 Revolution, Romanticism, Realism

24 Romanticism in Music

25 Nineteenth-Century Art: Conflict and Diversity

Unit 9: The Twentieth Century

26 Things Fall Apart: The Center Cannot Hold

27 Ideas and Conflicts that Motivate the Twentieth Century

28 Art in the Twentieth Century: Shock Waves and Reactions

29 Music in the Twentieth Century

30 Twentieth-Century Literature

Unit 10: Into the Twenty-First Century

31 Crossing Borders: Historical Overview, 1990-2003

32 Art in the Twenty-First Century

33 Music in the Twenty-First Century

34 Literature for the New Century

Appendices

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