Readings in the Western Humanities, Volume 1

by MATTHEWS

• ISBN13: 9780767415965
• ISBN10: 0767415965
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-07-14
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Summary

Volume 2 of "Readings in the Western Humanities" presents a wide array of primary source readings ranging from the Renaissance to the present day..

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Prehistory and Near Eastern Civilizations	1	(27)
Selections from The Code of Hammurabi	1	(3)
Selections from The Epic of Gilgamesh	4	(8)
Ishtar and Gilgamesh, and the Death of Enkidu	5	(3)
The Search for Everlasting Life	8	(2)
The Story of the Flood	10	(2)
Enheduanna, The Exaltation of Inanna	12	(5)
The Dispute of a Man with His Soul	17	(3)
The Story of Sinuhe the Egyptian	20	(5)
The Great Hymn to the Aten	25	(3)
Aegean Civilization: The Minoans, the Mycenaeans, and the Greeks of the Archaic Age	28	(16)
Homer, Selections from the Iliad	28	(8)
Book I	29	(4)
Book VI	33	(1)
Book XXII	34	(2)
Homer, Selection from the Odyssey	36	(5)
Book IX	36	(5)
Sappho, Poems	41	(3)
``I''	42	(1)
``II''	42	(1)
``Let's Not Pretend''	43	(1)
Classical Greek Civilization: The Hellenic Age	44	(40)
Aristophanes, Selection from Lysistrata	44	(2)
Sophocles, Oedipus the King	46	(19)
Thucydides, Selection from History of the Peloponnesian War	65	(5)
Book II Pericles' Funeral Oration	66	(2)
Second Year of the War. The Plague and Its Effects	68	(2)
Plato, Selections from The Republic	70	(5)
Book V	71	(2)
Book VII	73	(2)
Plato, Selection from Phaedo	75	(3)
Aristotle, Selections from Poetics and Politics	78	(6)
Poetics
A Description of Tragedy	79	(1)
Reversal, Discovery, and Calamity	80	(1)
Tragic Action	80	(1)
Fear and Pity	81	(1)
The Characters of Tragedy	82	(1)
Politics
Book I	82	(2)
Classical Greek Civilization: The Hellenistic Age	84	(9)
Menander, Selection from The Woman of Samos	84	(4)
Act III	85	(3)
Theocritus, Selections from the Idylls	88	(2)
The Graces	88	(2)
Epicurus, ``Letter to Menoeceus''	90	(3)
Roman Civilization: The Pre-Christian Centuries	93	(25)
Cicero, Selection from Against Catiline	93	(2)
First Oration	94	(1)
Catullus, Poems	95	(2)
``5''	96	(1)
``22''	96	(1)
``51''	97	(1)
``72''	97	(1)
Vergil, Selections from the Aeneid	97	(8)
Book I	98	(3)
Book VI	101	(4)
Horace, Selections from Odes and Satires	105	(4)
Ode II.16	106	(1)
Ode III.6	107	(1)
Satire 1.9	108	(1)
Ovid, Selections from Metamorphoses	109	(4)
Book I	110	(1)
Book IV	111	(2)
Juvenal, Satire III	113	(5)
Judaism and the Rise of Christianity	118	(22)
Selections from The Holy Scriptures (The Jewish Bible)	118	(13)
Genesis	120	(2)
Exodus	122	(1)
Amos	122	(1)
Psalms	123	(2)
Job	125	(5)
Ecclesiastes	130	(1)
Selections from The Revised Standard Version of the Holy Bible	131	(5)
The Gospel According to Matthew	132	(1)
Sermon on the Mount	133	(3)
1 Corinthians	136	(1)
Tertullian, Selections from The Apparel of Women	136	(4)
Book One	137	(1)
Book Two	138	(2)
Late Roman Civilization	140	(10)
St. Augustine, Selections from Confessions and The City of God	140	(6)
Confessions, Book VIII	141	(3)
The City of God, Book XIV	144	(1)
The City of God, Book XV	144	(1)
The City of God, Book XIX	145	(1)
Eusebius, Selections from The History of the Church	146	(4)
The Neronian Persecution, in Which Paul and Peter Died	147	(1)
The Destruction of the Churches	147	(1)
Ordeals Endured in the Persecution: God's Glorious Martyrs	148	(1)
Victory of Constantine; the Benefits He Conferred on His Subjects	148	(2)
The Successors of Rome: Byzantium, Islam, and the Early Medieval West	150	(21)
Selections from the Koran	150	(4)
The Prophets	151	(2)
Light	153	(1)
Anna Comnena, Selections from The Alexiad	154	(3)
Preface	155	(1)
Book XIV	155	(2)
Boethius, Selection from The Consolation of Philosophy	157	(3)
Book III	158	(2)
Bede, Selection from A History of the English Church and People	160	(2)
Book IV	161	(1)
Einhard, Selection from The Life of Charlemagne	162	(3)
Book III	163	(2)
Selection from Beowulf	165	(2)
Hrosvitha, Selection from Abraham	167	(4)
The High Middle Ages: The Christian Centuries	171	(29)
Selection from the Song of Roland	171	(3)
Chretien De Troyes, Selection from Arthurian Romances	174	(5)
Lancelot	175	(4)
Marie De France, Lanval	179	(7)
St. Thomas Aquinas, Selection from Summa theologica	186	(2)
Fifth Article	187	(1)
Dante Alighieri, Selections from The Divine Comedy	188	(8)
Inferno, Canto I	189	(1)
Inferno, Canto III	190	(2)
Inferno, Canto V	192	(2)
Inferno, Canto XXXIV	194	(2)
Hildegard of Bingen, Selections from Scivias (May You Know or Know the Ways)	196	(4)
Part I	197	(1)
Part II	198	(2)
The Late Middle Ages, 1300-1500	200	(25)
Petrarch, Selections from the Canzoniere	200	(2)
``3''	201	(1)
``132''	201	(1)
``134''	201	(1)
``272''	202	(1)
``365''	202	(1)
Giovanni Boccaccio, Selections from The Decameron	202	(6)
Introduction	203	(4)
First Day, Third Story	207	(1)
Geoffrey Chaucer, Selections from The Canterbury Tales	208	(11)
The General Prologue (in Middle English)	209	(1)
The Prologue	209	(7)
The Wife of Bath's Tale	216	(3)
Christine De Pizan, Selections from The Book of the City of Ladies	219	(6)
Book I	220	(3)
Book II	223	(2)
The Early Renaissance: Return to Classical Roots, 1400-1494	225	(9)
Pius II, Selection from The Commentaries	225	(2)
Book I	226	(1)
Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola, Selections from On the Dignity of Man	227	(3)
Leon Battista Alberti, Selection from On Painting	230	(4)
Book II	231	(3)
The High Renaissance and Early Mannerism, 1494-1564	234	(11)
Gaspara Stampa, Poems	234	(3)
``3''	235	(1)
``43''	236	(1)
``98''	236	(1)
``104''	236	(1)
``151''	236	(1)
Baldassare Castiglione, Selections from The Book of the Courtier	237	(4)
Book I	238	(2)
Book III	240	(1)
Niccolo Machiavelli, Selections from The Prince	241	(4)
Chapter XV	242	(1)
Chapter XVI	242	(1)
Chapter XVII	243	(2)
Credits	245	(4)
Index	249