Culture and Values, Volume I A Survey of the Humanities (with CD-ROM)

by Cunningham, Lawrence S.; Reich, John J.

• ISBN13: 9780534582289
• ISBN10: 0534582281
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-06-01
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

Trusted by professors of the humanities survey course for over twenty years, CULTURE AND VALUES covers Western cultures along with important non-Western cultures, providing students solid, accessible introductions to art, music, philosophy, literature, and more. Available in two volumes, or as an alternate single volume without end-of-chapter readings, this text remains the most readable and reliable textbook for college and university students in the integrated humanities.

Table of Contents

The Beginnings of Civilization	3	(32)
The Earliest People and Their Art	3	(10)
The Cultures of Mesopotamia	6	(5)
Ancient Egypt	11	(2)
Values Mortality	13	(4)
Voices of Their Times Love, Marriage, and Divorce in Ancient Egypt	17	(2)
Aegean Culture in the Bronze Age	19	(8)
Cycladic Art	20	(1)
The Excavation of Knossos	21	(4)
Schliemann and the Discovery of Mycenae	25	(2)
Summary	27	(1)
Key Terms	28	(1)
Pronunciation Guide	28	(1)
Exercises	29	(1)
Your Resources	29	(1)
Further Reading	29	(1)
Reading Selections
The Epic of Gilgamesh	30	(5)
Early Greece	35	(36)
Homer and the Heroic Age	35	(4)
Values Destiny	39	(1)
Art and Society in Early Greece	39	(1)
Geometric Art	39	(1)
The Age of Colonization	40	(1)
Voices of Their Times Daily Life in the World of Homer	41	(1)
The Visual Arts at Corinth and Athens	42	(1)
The Beginnings of Greek Sculpture	42	(6)
Sculpture and Painting in the Archaic Period	44	(4)
Architecture: The Doric and Ionic Orders	48	(1)
Music and Dance in Early Greece	48	(3)
Early Greek Literature and Philosophy	51	(3)
Lyric Poetry	51	(1)
The First Philosophers: The Presocratics	52	(1)
Herodotus: The First Greek Historian	53	(1)
Summary	54	(1)
Key Terms	54	(1)
Pronunciation Guide	55	(1)
Exercises	55	(1)
Your Resources	55	(1)
Further Reading	55	(1)
Reading Selections
Homer: The Iliad, Book XV	56	(4)
Homer: The Iliad, Book XXIII	60	(1)
Homer: The Iliad, Book XXIV	61	(3)
Sappho: Selected Poems	64	(1)
Heraclitus of Ephesus: The Presocratics	64	(1)
Parmenides of Elea: The Presocratics	65	(1)
Herodotus: History of the Persian Wars, Book VIII	65	(6)
Classical Greece and the Hellenistic Period	71	(56)
The Classical Ideal	71	(2)
Drama and Philosophy in Classical Greece	73	(1)
The Drama Festivals of Dionysus	73	(1)
Values Civic Pride	74	(6)
The Athenian Tragic Dramatists	75	(3)
Aristophanes and Greek Comedy	78	(1)
Philosophy in the Late Classical Period	78	(2)
Greek Music in the Classical Period	80	(1)
The Visual Arts in Classical Greece	81	(7)
Sculpture and Vase Painting in the Fifth Century B.C.E.	81	(1)
Architecture in the Fifth Century B.C.E.	82	(6)
The Visual Arts in the Fourth Century B.C.E.	88	(2)
The Hellenistic Period	90	(6)
Summary	96	(1)
Voices of Their Times Kerdo the Cobbler	97	(1)
Key Terms	98	(1)
Pronunciation Guide	98	(1)
Exercises	99	(1)
Your Resources	99	(1)
Further Reading	99	(1)
Reading Selections
Sophocles: Oedipus the King	99	(13)
Plato: Apology	112	(2)
Plato: Phaedo	114	(3)
Plato: The Republic, Book VII	117	(1)
Aristotle: The Nicomachean Ethics, Book I	118	(2)
Aristotle: The Politics, Book V	120	(7)
The Roman Legacy	127	(46)
The Importance of Rome	127	(2)
The Etruscans and Their Art	129	(1)
Republican Rome (509--31 B.C.E.)	130	(5)
Literary Developments During the Republic	132	(2)
Roman Philosophy and Law	134	(1)
Voices of Their Times A Dinner Party in Imperial Rome	135	(2)
Republican Art and Architecture	136	(1)
Imperial Rome (31 B.C.E.--C.E. 476)	137	(1)
Values Empire	138	(12)
Augustan Literature: Vergil	138	(2)
Augustan Sculpture	140	(2)
The Evidence of Pompeii	142	(4)
Roman Imperial Architecture	146	(4)
Rome as the Object of Satire	150	(1)
The End of the Roman Empire	150	(2)
Late Roman Art and Architecture	151	(1)
Summary	152	(2)
Key Terms	154	(1)
Pronunciation Guide	155	(1)
Exercises	155	(1)
Your Resources	155	(1)
Further Reading	155	(1)
Reading Selections
Catullus: Selected Poems	156	(1)
Vergil: Aeneid, Book I	156	(4)
Vergil: Aeneid, Book IV	160	(1)
Vergil: Aeneid, Book VI	161	(3)
Vergil: Aeneid, Book VI	164	(2)
Horace: Selected Odes	166	(1)
Juvenal: Third Satire	167	(1)
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus: The Meditations, Book II	168	(5)
Ancient Civilizations of India and China	173	(26)
Indian Civilization	173	(1)
The Indus Valley Civilization	173	(1)
The Aryans	173	(3)
Buddha	175	(1)
Voices of Their Times War and Religion in the Age of Ashoka	176	(1)
The Emperor Ashoka	176	(1)
Hindu and Buddhist Art	177	(1)
The Gupta Empire and Its Aftermath	178	(1)
Gupta Literature and Science	178	(1)
The Collapse of Gupta Rule	179	(1)
The Origins of Civilization in China	179	(2)
The Chou Dynasty	180	(1)
Confucianism and Taoism	180	(1)
The Unification of China: The Ch'in, Han, and T'ang Dynasties	181	(3)
The Arts in Classical China	181	(3)
Summary	184	(2)
Key Terms	186	(1)
Pronunciation Guide	186	(1)
Exercises	187	(1)
Your Resources	187	(1)
Further Reading	187	(1)
Reading Selections
The Rig Veda	188	(2)
Brihad-Aranyaka Upanishad	190	(3)
Christmas Humphries: The Wisdom of Buddha	193	(1)
Li Po: Selected Poems	194	(5)
Jerusalem and Early Christianity	199	(32)
Judaism and Early Christianity	199	(4)
The Hebrew Bible and Its Message	200	(3)
Values Revelation	203	(2)
The Beginnings of Christianity	203	(2)
Voices of Their Times Vibia Perpetua	205	(6)
Constantine and Early Christian Architecture	209	(1)
Early Christian Music	209	(2)
Summary	211	(1)
Key Terms	211	(1)
Pronunciation Guide	212	(1)
Exercises	212	(1)
Your Resources	212	(1)
Further Reading	212	(1)
Reading Selections
Genesis 1--2	213	(1)
Job 37--40	214	(2)
Exodus 19--20	216	(1)
Amos 3--6	217	(1)
Matthew 5--7	218	(2)
Acts 17:24--34	220	(1)
I Corinthians 13	221	(1)
II Corinthians 11--12	221	(1)
Justin's First Apology	222	(2)
The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity	224	(7)
Byzantium	231	(32)
The Decline of Rome	231	(2)
Literature and Philosophy	231	(2)
The Ascendancy of Byzantium	233	(1)
Voices of Their Times Procopius of Caesarea	234	(2)
Church of Hagia Sophia: Monument and Symbol	234	(2)
Ravenna	236	(3)
Art and Architecture	236	(3)
Values Autocracy	239	(8)
Saint Catherine's Monastery at Mount Sinai	245	(2)
The Persistence of Byzantine Culture	247	(2)
Summary	249	(1)
Key Terms	249	(1)
Pronunciation Guide	250	(1)
Exercises	250	(1)
Your Resources	250	(1)
Further Reading	250	(1)
Reading Selections
Saint Augustine: Confessions	251	(2)
Saint Augustine: The City of God	253	(10)
Islam	263	(26)
Muhammad and the Birth of Islam	263	(9)
The Qur'an	264	(1)
Calligraphy	265	(1)
Islamic Architecture	266	(4)
Sufism	270	(2)
Voices of Their Times Al-Ghazali on the Mystic Path	272	(1)
The Culture of Islam and the West	272	(1)
Values Pure Monotheism	273	(1)
Summary	274	(1)
Key Terms	274	(1)
Pronunciation Guide	274	(1)
Exercises	275	(1)
Your Resources	275	(1)
Further Reading	275	(1)
Reading Selections
Selections from the Qur'an	275	(8)
Memories of Rabia	283	(1)
Rumi: Poems and Meditations	284	(5)
Charlemagne and the Rise of Medieval Culture	289	(50)
Charlemagne as Ruler and Diplomat	289	(2)
Learning in the Time of Charlemagne	291	(1)
Voices of Their Times An Abbot, an Irish Scholar, and Charlemagne's Biographer	292	(1)
Benedictine Monasticism	292	(2)
The Rule of Saint Benedict	293	(1)
Women and the Monastic Life	293	(1)
Monasticism and Gregorian Chant	294	(1)
Liturgical Music and the Rise of Drama	295	(1)
The Liturgical Trope	295	(1)
The Quem Quaeritis Trope	296	(1)
The Morality Play: Everyman	296	(1)
Nonliturgical Drama	297	(1)
The Legend of Charlemagne: Song of Roland	297	(2)
The Visual Arts	299	(2)
The Illuminated Book	299	(2)
Charlemagne's Palace at Aachen	301	(4)
The Carolingian Monastery	303	(1)
The Romanesque Style	304	(1)
Values Feudalism	305	(2)
Summary	307	(1)
Key Terms	308	(1)
Pronunciation Guide	308	(1)
Exercises	309	(1)
Your Resources	309	(1)
Further Reading	309	(1)
Reading Selections
Hildegard of Bingen: Causae et Curae	309	(3)
Everyman	312	(9)
Hroswitha: The Conversion of the Harlot Thais	321	(5)
Bertilla, Abbess of Chelles	326	(2)
The Song of Roland	328	(11)
High Middle Ages: The Search for Synthesis	339	(54)
The Significance of Paris	339	(1)
The Gothic Style	339	(12)
Suger's Building Program for Saint Denis	339	(3)
The Mysticism of Light	342	(4)
The Many Meanings of the Gothic Cathedral	346	(4)
Music: The School of Notre Dame	350	(1)
Scholasticism	351	(2)
The Rise of the Universities	351	(2)
Values Dialectics	353	(1)
Voices of Their Times A Medieval Parent and a Student	354	(5)
Francis of Assisi	355	(2)
Thomas Aquinas	357	(2)
Dante's Divine Comedy	359	(4)
Summary	363	(1)
Key Terms	363	(1)
Pronunciation Guide	363	(1)
Exercises	364	(1)
Your Resources	364	(1)
Further Reading	364	(1)
Reading Selections
Saint Francis of Assisi: The Canticle of Brother Sun	365	(1)
Saint Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologiae	365	(2)
Dante Alighieri: Divine Comedy	367	(26)
The Fourteenth Century: A Time of Transition	393	(44)
Calamity, Decay, and Violence	393	(2)
The Black Death	393	(1)
The Great Schism	393	(2)
Values Natural Disaster and Human Response	395	(1)
The Hundred Years' War	395	(1)
Literature in Italy, England, and France	395	(3)
Petrarch	395	(2)
Petrarch's Sonnet 15	397	(1)
Chaucer	397	(1)
Voices of Their Times John Ball	398	(1)
Christine de Pisan	399	(1)
Art in Italy	399	(9)
The Italo-Byzantine Background	399	(3)
Giotto's Break with the Past	402	(2)
Painting in Siena	404	(4)
Art in Northern Europe	408	(2)
Late Gothic Architecture	410	(3)
Music: Ars Nova	413	(2)
Summary	415	(1)
Key Terms	415	(1)
Pronunciation Guide	415	(1)
Exercises	415	(1)
Your Resources	415	(1)
Further Reading	415	(2)
Reading Selections
Giovanni Boccaccio: Decameron	417	(2)
Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales	419	(13)
Christine de Pisan: The Book of the City of Ladies	432	(5)
The Early Renaissance	437	(39)
Toward the Renaissance	437	(1)
The First Phase: Masaccio, Ghiberti, and Brunelleschi	437	(1)
Voices of Their Times Fra Savonarola	438	(6)
The Medici Era	444	(7)
Cosimo de' Medici	445	(2)
Piero de' Medici	447	(2)
Lorenzo the Magnificent	449	(2)
Values Intellectual Synthesis	451	(6)
The Character of Renaissance Humanism	457	(3)
Pico della Mirandola	458	(1)
Printing Technology and the Spread of Humanism	459	(1)
Women and the Renaissance	459	(1)
Two Styles of Humanism	460	(2)
Machiavelli	460	(1)
Erasmus	460	(2)
Music in the Fifteenth Century	462	(1)
Guillaume Dufay	462	(1)
Music in Medici Florence	462	(1)
Summary	463	(1)
Key Terms	463	(1)
Pronunciation Guide	463	(1)
Exercises	464	(1)
Your Resources	464	(1)
Further Reading	464	(1)
Reading Selection
Pico della Mirandola: Oration on the Dignity of Man	464	(1)
Laura Cereta: Defense of the Liberal Instruction of Women and Against Women Who Disparage Learned Women	465	(3)
Niccolo Machiavelli: The Prince	468	(2)
Desiderius Erasmus: The Praise of Folly	470	(6)
Glossary	476	(14)
Index	490	(11)
Photo Credits	501	(2)
Literary Credits	503