Humanities Western Culture Vol. I : A Search for Human Values

by Lamm, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780697254276
• ISBN10: 0697254275
• Edition: 10th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-08-01
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Summary

These two beautifully illustrated chronological volumes introduce your students to the arts of literature, sculpture, painting, architecture, music, photography, and film, and the philosophical ideas permeating ancient through modern civilizations. Packaged with supplemental Student Study Guides and audio cassettes to accompany each volume, this set provides an excellent all-in-one introduction to the humanities.

Table of Contents

Volume 1. Prehistory Middle Ages

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