Humanities Vol. 1 : Cultural Roots and Continuities

by Witt, Mary Ann Frese; Brown, Charlotte; Dunbar, Roberta; Tirro, Frank; Witt, Ronald G.

• ISBN13: 9780618417766
• ISBN10: 0618417761
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780618045372
• Edition: 7th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-07-16
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
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Summary

This introductory text presents an overview of the liberal arts--literature, art, music, philosophy, and history--with a particular emphasis on literature. The unique selection of works from each culture provides students with a global understanding of the humanities. Several pedagogical features of the Seventh Edition, such as chapter objectives, key terms, art images, and summary questions, help students understand the major concepts of the text. Each volume begins with a "Chronicle of Events" that provides a timetable of key events in world history. "Continuities" sections--which cover political life, religion, art, music, and writing--focus on the lasting contributions of each society. Non-Western coverage includes a section on Japan in Volume I; Western material has been scaled back to provide balanced coverage. A special introduction to River-Valley Civilizations helps students see the connections between global societies. The Online Student Study Guide features chapter summaries, web activities, and ACE self-testing program.

Table of Contents

Defining the Humanities and Cultural Roots for the Twenty-First Century

Earliest Civilizations

Mesopotamia

The City-State Culture

Sumerian Architecture and Art Sumerian Mythology, Religion, and Worship

Sumerian Music Daily Lives: A Day in School Literacy and Literature in Mesopotamia

The Mesopotamian Empire Reading

Selections:From The Epic of Gilgamesh

From The Hammurabi Code

Egypt and the Kingdom of Kush

The First and Second Dynasties (3100–2686 B.C.)

The Old Kingdom (2686–2180 B.C.)

The Middle Kingdom (2140–1786 B.C.)

The New Kingdom (1570–1085 B.C.)

Daily Lives: Schools and Scribes

The Third Intermediate Period and the Late Period (1085–332 B.C.)

The Ptolemaic Period (332–30 B.C.)

Egyptian Music Nubia and the Kingdom of Kush

Reading Selections:The Instruction of Ptah-hotep

From the Book of the Dead

Amenhotep IV (Akhenaton), The Great Hymn to the Aten

Egyptian Love Poetry

The Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian Roots

Early Greece Hellenism: The Rise of Greek Culture

Greek Religion and Mythology Homer and the Epic

The Lyric

The Archaic Period: Architecture and Sculpture

Reading Selections:Homer, from the Iliad; From the Odyssey

Sappho, Selected Lyric Poems and Fragments

Classical Greece: Politics, Art, Drama Politics and Life in Ancient Athens

The Classical Period: Architecture and Sculpture

From Classical to Hellenistic Sculpture

Classical Greek Drama

Daily Lives: Going to the Theater in Ancient Athens

Greek Comedy Reading Selections:Thucydides, Pericles' Funeral Oration

Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

Euripides, The Women of Troy

Classical Greece: Philosophy and Ethical Thought

The Pre-Socratics Socrates (470?–399 B.C.)

Plato (427? –347 B.C.)

Aristotle (384–322 B.C.)

Reading Selections:Heraclitus of Ephesus, Fragments

Plato, The Allegory of the Cave; The Death of Socrates

Aristotle, from the Politics; The High-Minded Man; From the Poetics

The Culture of Rome Hellenistic and Roman

History and Thought

Daily Lives: The Shrewd Landowner

Roman Art and Architecture

Roman Literature

Reading Selections:Cicero, from On the Laws

Ovid, from the Metamorphoses

Virgil, from the Aeneid

Horace, My Slave is Free to Speak Up for Himself Juvenal, Satire

On Leaving Rome

Lucretius, from the Triumph Song of Death

Marcus Aurelius, from the Meditations

Judaism and Early Christianity

The Ancient Hebrews and the Bible

The Prophets and the Fall of Israel

Early Christianity

The End of Antiquity

The Barbarian Influence in the Western Roman Empire

Early Christian Music: Gregorian Chant

Daily Lives: Life in an Early Medieval Monastery

Reading Selections:Genesis: The Creation; The Fall

Exodus: The Ten Commandments

Judges: The Song of Deborah

Psalms: Psalm

The Prophets: Amos

From the Song of Solomon

The Gospel According to Luke: The Magnificat

The Gospel According to Matthew: The Sermon on the Mount

The Apostle Paul: From the Letter to the Ephesians

From the First Letter to the Corinthians

Augustine, from the Confessions

Medieval Cultures

The Byzantine and the Islamic Empires

The Eastern Roman Empire, or Byzantium

The Threat of Islam and Separation from the West

Collapse of the Byzantine Empire (1261-1453)

Byzantium as a Transmitter of Ancient

Greek Culture to the West

The Islamic Empire

Daily Lives: The Quran on Women

Reading Selections:From the Quran

Sufi Poetry

Ibn Zaydun, Poem to Walladah

Four Poems Addressed to Ibn Zaydun

From The Thousand and One Nights

Medieval Europe: Culture and the Cathedral Medieval Revivals

Daily Lives: Hildegard of Bingen: An Exceptional Medieval Woman

Medieval Art and the Church: The Gothic

Cathedral Music and Drama in the Cathedral Reading Selections:William of Rubruck, Letter from Mongolia

Marco Polo, from the Travels of Marco Polo

The Play of Daniel

Divine and Human Love in Medieval Europe

The Adoration of the Virgin Mary

Representations of the Virgin Mary

The Literature and Music of Courtly

Love Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)

Chaucer (c. 1342-1400) and the Comedy of Love

Polyphonic Music

Reading Selections:From The Letters of Abelard and Heloise

Bernart de Ventadorn, Be m'an perdut

Quis Dabit Capiti

The Countess of Die, Selected Lyrics

Dante Alighieri, from the Divine Comedy

Geoffrey Chaucer, The Miller's Tale

The Western African Cultural Root

African Backgrounds Images of Africa in the West Africa and America Stages in African History

Reading Selections:The Culture of Benin: From A Short History of Benin

From Benin Oral Literature

European Accounts of Benin: Ruy de Pina, from the Chronicle of John II

Willem Bosman, from New and Accurate Description of the Coast of Guinea

West African Languages and Literature: The Oral Tradition and Its Legacy

Written Literature in Africa Oral Literature

African Myths and Religions: Some Generalizations Tales (Hausa)

Riddles Proverbs Poetry

Daily Lives: Language, Learning, and Performance

Reading Selections:The Epic: From Sundiata

Myths: Two Yoruba Myths of Creation

Myths on the Separation of Man from God

Myths on the Origin of Death

Tales and Proverbs: A Labarai Tale

Tatsuniyoyi Tales

Yoruba Proverbs

Poetry: Oriki--Yoruba Praise Poems

Iwi--The Poetry of Yoruba Masqueraders

Fulani Poetry

Ga Poetry

Visual and Musical Arts of West Africa

Visual Arts African

Music African Arts in Festival: The Efe/Gelede of the Western Yoruba

The Asian Cultural Root

An Introduction to the Civilization of India

India's Early History Hinduism

Daily Lives: Manu the Lawgiver Buddhism and Islam

The Village Indian Literature

Art and Architecture

Music and Dance

Reading Selections:From the Bhagavad Gita

From the Kamasutra of Vatsyayana

The Buddha's Sermon in the Deer Park

From The Bodhisattva

An Introduction to the Civilizations of China and Japan

Daily Lives: Rites of Ancestor Worship

China from 2000 B.C. to A.D. 221

Religion and Philosophical Thought China from 221 B.C. to A.D. 221

Buddhism and the Age of Dispersal (220-586)

China from 581 to 1300

Science and Technology

Foreign Trade Why Not China?

Why Europe?

Chinese Poetry

Art and Architecture

Music Japan: Early Civilization Late Bronze Age

The Yamato Court (Fourth Through Seventh Centuries A.D.)

The High Culture of the Nara Period (710-794)

The Heian Court (794-1192)

The Rise of Medieval Society Japan and the West

Reading Selections:Confucius, From the Analecta (Commentaries and Sayings)

Lao Zi, Dao De Jing (Tao-te Ching)

Gou Xiang, Commentary on the Chuang Tzu

Zong Bing, Introduction to Landscape Painting

A Commentary on Buddhismby Mou Tzu

Ban Jieyu (Pan Chieh-Yuuml;), Poem in Rhyme--Prose Form; Song of Regret

Poets of the Tang Dynasty: Wang Wei and Li Bo, Poems from the Manyocirc;shucirc;

Ono no Komachi, Poems

The Tale of the Heike

Lady Sarashina, A

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