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9781559345774

Readings in the Western Humanities Vol. 1 : Beginnings Through the Renaissance

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    9781559345774

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    1559345772

  • Edition: 3rd
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  • Copyright: 1997-07-01
  • Publisher: McGraw Hill College Div
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Table of Contents

Preface vii
Chapter 1 PREHISTORY AND NEAR EASTERN CIVILIZATIONS
1(25)
Selection from Inanna: Queen of Heaven and Earth
1(4)
From the Great Above to the Great Below
2(3)
Selections from The Epic of Gilgamesh
5(5)
Ishtar and Gilgamesh, and the Death of Enkidu
5(3)
The Story of the Flood
8(2)
ENHEDUANNA, The Exaltation of Inanna
10(5)
The Dispute of a Man with His Soul
15(3)
The Story of Sinuhe the Egyptian
18(5)
The Great Hymn to the Aten
23(3)
Chapter 2 AEGEAN CIVILIZATION: The Minoans, the Mycenaeans, and the Greeks of the Archaic Age
26(18)
HOMER, Selections from the Iliad
26(8)
Book I
27(4)
Book XXIV
31(3)
HOMER, Selection from the Odyssey
34(5)
Book XII
35(4)
HESIOD, Selection from Works and Days
39(2)
SAPPHO, Poems
41(3)
"To a Soldier's Wife in Sardis: Anactoria"
42(1)
"I More Than Envy Him"
42(1)
"Let's Not Pretend"
42(2)
Chapter 3 CLASSICAL GREEK CIVILIZATION: The Hellenic Age
44(46)
ARISTOPHANES, Selection from Lysistrata
44(2)
SOPHOCLES, Oedipus the King
46(27)
THUCYDIDES, Selection from History of the Peloponnesian War
73(3)
Book II
74(2)
PLATO, Selections from The Republic
76(5)
Book V
77(2)
Book VII
79(2)
PLATO, Selection from Phaedo
81(3)
ARISTOTLE, Selections from Poetics
84(6)
The Rise of Comedy. Epic Compared with Tragedy
85(1)
A Description of Tragedy
85(1)
Reversal, Discovery, and Calamity
86(1)
Tragic Action
87(1)
Fear and Pity
87(1)
The Characters of Tragedy
88(2)
Chapter 4 CLASSICAL GREEK CIVILIZATION: The Hellenistic Age
90(8)
MENANDER, Selection from The Woman of Samos
90(2)
Act III
91(1)
THEOCRITUS, Selections from the Idylls
92(3)
The Cyclops
93(1)
The Graces
94(1)
EPICURUS, "Letter to Menoeceus"
95(3)
Chapter 5 ROMAN CIVILIZATION: The Pre-Christian Centuries
98(24)
CICERO, Selection from On the Republic
98(5)
The Dream of Scipio
99(4)
CATULLUS, Poems
103(3)
"5"
104(1)
"22"
104(1)
"51"
105(1)
"72"
105(1)
"75"
105(1)
VERGIL, Selection from the Aeneid
106(5)
Book VI
106(5)
HORACE, Selections from Odes and Satires
111(3)
Odes, II.16
112(1)
Odes, III.6
112(1)
Satires, I.9
113(1)
OVID, Selection from Metamorphoses
114(2)
Book I
115(1)
JUVENAL, Satire III
116(6)
Chapter 6 JUDAISM AND THE RISE OF CHRISTIANITY
122(19)
Selections from The Holy Scriptures (The Jewish Bible)
122(13)
Genesis
123(2)
Exodus
125(1)
Isaiah
126(1)
Amos
127(1)
Psalms
128(2)
Job
130(5)
Selections from The Revised Standard Version of the Holy Bible
135(6)
The Gospel According to Matthew
136(4)
1 Corinthians
140(1)
Chapter 7 LATE ROMAN CIVILIZATION
141(11)
ST. AUGUSTINE, Selections from Confessions and The City of God
141(7)
Confessions, Book VIII
142(3)
The City of God, Book XIV
145(1)
The City of God, Book XV
145(1)
The City of God, Book XIX
146(2)
EUSEBIUS, Selections from The History of the Church
148(4)
The Neronian Persecution, in Which Paul and Peter Died
149(1)
The Destruction of the Churches
149(1)
Ordeals Endured in the Persecution: God's Glorious Martyrs
150(1)
Victory of Constantine; the Benefits He Conferred on His Subjects
150(2)
Chapter 8 THE SUCCESSORS OF ROME: Byzantium, Islam, and the Early Medieval West
152(15)
Selections from the Koran
152(4)
The Prophets
153(2)
Light
155(1)
BOETHIUS, Selection from The Consolation of Philosophy
156(3)
Book III
157(2)
BEDE, Selection from A History of the English Church and People
159(2)
Book IV
160(1)
EINHARD, Selection from The Life of Charlemagne
161(3)
Book III
162(2)
Selection from Beowulf
164(3)
Chapter 9 THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES:- The Christian Centuries
167(29)
Selections from the Song of Roland
167(3)
ANNA COMNENA, Selections from The Alexiad
170(3)
Preface
171(1)
Book XIV
171(2)
CHRETIEN DE TROYES, Selection from Arthurian Romances
173(5)
Lancelot
174(4)
MARIE DE FRANCE, The Lay of the Dolorous Knight
178(2)
ST. THOMAS AQUINAS, Selection from Summa theologica
180(2)
Fifth Article
181(1)
DANTE ALIGHIERI, Selections from The Divine Comedy
182(9)
Inferno, Canto I
183(2)
Inferno, Canto III
185(2)
Inferno, Canto V
187(2)
Inferno, Canto XXXIV
189(2)
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN, Selections from Scivias (May You Know or Know the Ways)
191(5)
Part I
192(1)
Part II
193(3)
Chapter 10 THE LATE MIDDLE AGES: 1300-1500
196(25)
PETRARCH, Selections from the Canzoniere
196(3)
"3"
197(1)
"61"
197(1)
"132"
197(1)
"134"
198(1)
"272"
198(1)
"311"
198(1)
"365"
199(1)
GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO, Selections from The Decameron
199(5)
Introduction
200(3)
First Day, Third Story
203(1)
GEOFFREY CHAUCER, Selections from The Canterbury Tales
204(11)
The Prologue
205(7)
The Wife of Bath's Tale
212(3)
CHRISTINE DE PIZAN, Selections from The Book of the City of Ladies
215(6)
Book I
216(3)
Book II
219(2)
Chapter 11 THE EARLY RENAISSANCE: RETURN TO CLASSICAL ROOTS, 1400-1494
221(6)
LEON BATTISTA ALBERTI, Selection from On Painting
221(3)
Book II
222(2)
GIOVANNI PICO DELLA MIRANDOLA, Selections from On the Dignity of Man
224(3)
Chapter 12 THE HIGH RENAISSANCE AND EARLY MANNERISM: 1494-1564
227(8)
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI, Selections from The Prince
227(4)
Chapter XV
228(1)
Chapter XVI
229(1)
Chapter XVII
230(1)
BALDASSARE CASTIGLIONE, Selections from The Book of the Courtier
231(4)
Book I
232(2)
Book III
234(1)
Credits 235(2)
Index 237

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