Readings in the Western Humanities, Volume 1

by Matthews, Roy T.; Platt, Dewitt

• ISBN13: 9780072556391
• ISBN10: 0072556390
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-07-30
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Summary

Volume One ofReadings in the Western Humanitiesincludes a wide range of primary source selections from pre-history and ancient Near Eastern civilizations through the Renaissance.

Table of Contents

* indicates a new selection

Preface

Chapter 1 PREHISTORY AND NEAR EASTERN CIVILIZATIONS

Selections from The Code of Hammurabi

Selections from The Epic of Gilgamesh

Ishtar and Gilgamesh, and the Death of Enkidu

The Search for Everlasting Life

The Story of the Flood

ENHEDUANNA, The Exaltation of Inanna

The Dispute of a Man with His Soul

The Story of Sinuhe the Egyptian

The Great Hymn to the Aten

Chapter 2 AEGEAN CIVILIZATION: The Minoans, the Mycenaeans, and the Greeks of the Archaic Age

HOMER, Selections from the Iliad

Book 1

Book 6

Book 22

*Book 24*

HOMER, Selections from the Odyssey

Book 9

*Book 23*

SAPPHO, Poems

“I”

“II”

“Let’s Not Pretend”

Chapter 3 CLASSICAL GREEK CIVILIZATION: The Hellenic Age

SOPHOCLES, Oedipus the King

THUCYDIDES, Selection from History of the Peloponnesian War

Book II Pericles’ Funeral Oration

Second Year of the War. The Plague and Its Effects

PLATO, Selections from The Republic

Book V

Book VII

PLATO, Selection from Phaedo

ARISTOTLE, Selections from Poetics and Politics

Poetics

A Description of Tragedy

Reversal, Discovery, and Calamity

Tragic Action

Fear and Pity

The Characters of Tragedy

Politics

Book I

Chapter 4 CLASSICAL GREEK CIVILIZATION: The Hellenistic Age

THEOCRITUS, Selection from the Idylls

*Aeschines and Thyonicus*

EPICURUS, “Letter to Menoeceus”

Chapter 5 ROMAN CIVILIZATION: The Pre-Christian Centuries

*CICERO, Selection from On the Republic*

*“The Dream of Scipio”*

CATULLUS, Poems

“5”

“22”

“51”

“72”

VERGIL, Selections from the Aeneid

Book I

Book VI

HORACE, Selections from Odes and Satires

Ode II.16

Ode III.6

Satire I.9

OVID, Selections from Metamorphoses

Book I

Book IV

JUVENAL, Satire III

*MARCUS AURELIUS, Selection from Meditations*

Chapter 6 JUDAISM AND THE RISE OF CHRISTIANITY

Selections from the Holy Scriptures (The Jewish Bible)

Genesis

Exodus

Amos

Psalms

Job

Ecclesiastes

Selections from The Revised Standard Version of the Holy Bible

The Gospel According to Matthew

Sermon on the Mount

1 Corinthians

TERTULLIAN, Selections from The Apparel of Women

Book One

Book Two

Chapter 7 LATE ROMAN CIVILIZATION

ST. AUGUSTINE, Selections from Confessions and The City of God

Confessions, Book VIII

The City of God, Book XIV

The City of God, Book XV

The City of God, Book XIX

EUSEBIUS, Selections from The History of the Church

The Neronian Persecution, in Which Paul and Peter Died

The Destruction of the Churches

Ordeals Endured in the Persecution: God’s Glorious Martyrs

Victory of Constantine; the Benefits He conferred on His Subjects

ANNA COMNENA, Selection from The Alexiad

*Book XIV

BOETHIUS, Selection from the Consolation of Philosophy

*Book III

EINHARD, Selection from The Life of Charlemagne

*Book III

*Selection from Beowulf

*HROSVITHA, Selection from Abraham

Chapter 8 THE WORLD OF ISLAM

Selections from the Qur’an

*The Exordium*

The Prophets

Light

*Clots of Blood*

*The Table*

*IBN KHALDUN, Selections from the Muqaddimah*

*Selection from The Arabian Nights*

*The Story of the Merchant and Demon*

*The First Old Man’s Tale*

*The Second Old Man’s Tale*

*RUMI, Selections from the Masnavi*

*I Have Five Things to Say*

*The Food Sack*

*The Grasses*

*A Man and a Woman Arguing*

*Zikr*

*The Core of Masculinity*

*Put This Design in Your Carpet*

Chapter 9 THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES: The Christian Centuries

Selections from the Song of Roland

CHRÈTIEN DE TROYES, Selection from Arthurian Romances

Lancelot

MARIE DE FRANCE, Lanval

ST. THOMAS AQUINAS, Selection from Summa Theologica

Fifth Article

DANTE ALIGHIERI, Selections from The Divine Comedy

Inferno, Canto I

Inferno, Canto III

Inferno, Canto V

Inferno, Canto XXXIV

HILDEGARD OF BINGEN, Selections from Scivias (May You Know or Know the Ways)

Chapter 10 THE LATE MIDDLE AGES, 1300-1500

PETRARCH, Selections from the Canzoniere

“3”

“132”

“134”

*PETRARCH, Selection from “Letter to Posterity”*

GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO, Selections from The Decameron

Introduction

First Day, Third Story

GEOFFREY CHAUCER, Selections from The Canterbury Tales

The General Prologue (in Middle English)

The Prologue

The Wife of Bath’s Tale

CHRISTINE DE PIZAN, Selections from The Book of the

City of Ladies

Book I

Book II

Chapter 11 THE EARLY RENAISSANCE: RETURN TO CLASSICAL ROOTS, 1400-1494

GIOVANNI PICO DELLA MIRANDOLA, Selections from On the Dignity of Man

LEON BATTISTA ALBERTI, Selection from On Painting

Book II

Chapter 12 THE HIGH RENAISSANCE AND EARLY MANNERISM, 1494-1564

GASPARA STAMPA, Poems

“3”

“43”

“98”

“104”

“151”

BALDASSARE CASTIGLIONE, Selections from The Book of the Courtier

Book I

Book III

NICCOLÒ MACHIAVELLI, Selections from The Prince

Chapter XV

Chapter XVI

Chapter XVII

Credits

Index