Literature for Adventures in the Human Spirit, Vol. I

by Bishop, Philip E.

• ISBN13: 9780131412514
• ISBN10: 0131412515
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-09-20
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

This is a chronologically developed anthology of major works of literature, philosophy and major religious traditions.This book features complete works or major excerpts. It ensures accurate yet reader accessible translations. Volume I covers Antiquity through Middle Ages. Volume II covers Renaissance through the 20th Century.

Table of Contents

The Ancient World	1	(14)
Egyptian Creation	2	(2)
The Egyptian Creation: Earth and Sky	2	(2)
Mesopotamian Myth	4	(3)
From the Enuma Elish	4	(3)
Confucius	7	(3)
The Great Learning	8	(2)
Buddha	10	(5)
Buddha's Four Noble Truths	11	(4)
The Greeks	15	(109)
The Iliad	16	(19)
The Iliad, Book XXIV: Achilles and Priam	16	(19)
The Odyssey	35	(16)
The Odyssey, Book IX: The Kyklops	36	(15)
Sappho	51	(2)
Poems to Aphrodite	51	(2)
Sophocles	53	(43)
Oedipus the King	54	(42)
Plato	96	(24)
The Apology of Socrates	96	(19)
From the Republic, Book XVII: The Allegory of the Cave	115	(5)
Aristotle	120	(4)
From the Nichomachean Ethics, Book I: On Happiness	121	(3)
The Romans	124	(34)
Catullus	125	(1)
Virgil	126	(25)
The Aeneid: Book I	127	(1)
The Aeneid: Book IV	128	(23)
Lucretius	151	(3)
From On the Nature of the Universe, Book III	152	(2)
Marcus Aurelius	154	(4)
From The Meditations, Book II	155	(3)
Christianity and Islam	158	(36)
The Hebrew Creation	159	(4)
The Hebrew Bible: The Creation Stories (Genesis 1:1-3:24)	159	(4)
Abraham and His Sons	163	(3)
Ishmael (Genesis 21:1-21)	164	(1)
Abraham and Isaac (Genesis 22:1-19)	165	(1)
Job	166	(10)
Job 1-3, 38-42	166	(10)
New Testament	176	(6)
The Birth of Jesus (Luke 2:1-20)	177	(1)
The Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7)	177	(4)
The Prodigal Son (Luke 15:11-32)	181	(1)
Augustine	182	(6)
From The Confessions	183	(5)
The Qur'an	188	(6)
Women (Sura 4:1-40)	188	(3)
The Merciful (Sura 55)	191	(3)
The Middle Ages	194	(46)
The Song of Roland	195	(7)
From the Song of Roland	195	(7)
Medieval Lyric Poetry	202	(4)
Ibn Hazm	203	(1)
Bernart de Ventadorn	204	(1)
From the Carmina Burana	205	(1)
Dante Alighieri	206	(28)
From The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Cantos 1-5 and 26	207	(27)
Geoffrey Chaucer	234	(5)
The Wife of Bath's Tale	234	(5)
Christine de Pisan	239	(1)
From The Book of the City of Ladies	240