The Western Humanities, 6/e | |
Preface | |
Introduction: Why Study Cultural History? | |
A Humanities Primer: How to Understand the Arts | |
Prehistory And Near Eastern Civilizations | |
Prehistory and Early Cultures Paleolithic Period Neolithic Period Technology in Early Cultures | |
Stone Age Technology Bronze Age Technology Iron Age Technology | |
The Civilizations of the Tigris and Euphrates | |
River Valley: Mesopotamia | |
The Sumerian, Akkadian, and Babylonian Kingdoms | |
The Cradle of Civilization | |
Writing Encounter: "Phonecians and Their Alphabet" | |
Religion | |
Literature Slice of Life: "A Sumerian Father Lectures His Son" | |
Law Science: Astronomy, Mathematics, and Medicine | |
Art and Architecture The Civilization of the Nile River Valley: Egypt | |
Continuity and Change over Three Thousand Years | |
A Quest for Eternal Cultural Values | |
Religion | |
Writing and Literature Slice of Life: "The Instruction of Amenemope" Science and Medicine Architecture Sculpture | |
Painting, and Minor Arts Heirs to the Mesopotamian and Egyptian Empires | |
The Hittites The Assyrians The Medes The Persians | |
The Legacy of Early Near Eastern Civilizations | |
Key Cultural Terms Suggestions for Further Reading Timeline | |
Aegean Civilizations: The Minoans | |
The Mycenaeans, And The Greeks Of The Archaic Age Prelude: Minoan Civilization, 3000 - 1100 B.C.E | |
Beginnings: Mycenaean Civilization, 1900 - 1100 B.C.E. Technology in Minoan Crete and Mycenae Crete and Mycenae Archaic Greece Interlude: The Dark Ages, 1100 - 800 B.C.E | |
The Archaic Age, 800 - 479 B.C.E. | |
Political, Economic, and Social Structures | |
The Greek Polis: Sparta and Athens | |
Technology in Archaic Greece The Persian Wars Encounter: "Near Estern Art and Greek Pottery" | |
The Emergence of Greek Genius: The Mastery of Form Religion | |
Epic Poetry Lyric Poetry Slice of Life: "The Worlds of Women and Men in Ancient Greece" | |
Natural Philosophy | |
Medicine Architecture | |
Sculpture The Legacy of Archaic Greek Civilization Key Cultural Terms Suggestions for Further Reading Timeline | |
Classical Greek Civilization: The Hellenic Age | |
General Characteristics of Hellenic Civilization Domestic and Foreign Affairs: War, Peace, and the Triumph of Macedonia Phases of the Hellenic Age Technology | |
Shipbuilding Warfare The Perfection of the Tradition: The Glory of Hellenic Greece | |
Theater: Tragedy | |
Features of the Greek Theater | |
Encounter: The Representation of Blacks in Greek Art | |
Tragic Drama | |
Aeschylus | |
Sophocles | |
Euripides Theater: Comedy Music | |
History Philosophy, Science and Medicine | |
The Pre-Socratics | |
The Sophists | |
The Socratic Revolution | |
Plato | |
Aristotle Architecture | |
Sanctuaries | |
The Temple: The Perfection of the Form | |
Slice of Life: Xenophon, "Secrets of a Successful Marriage" Sculpture | |
The Legacy of Hellenic Civilization Key Cultural Terms Suggestions for Further Reading Timeline | |
Classical Greek Civilization: The Hellenistic Age | |
The Stages of Hellenistic History | |
The End of the Empire and the Rise of the States | |
The Arrival and Triumph of Rome Urban Life in the Hellenistic Age Pergamum | |
Alexandria in Egypt | |
Slice of Life: Theocritus, "Street Scene in Hellenistic Egypt | |
The Elaboration of the Greek Tradition: The Spread of Classicism to the Hellenistic World | |
Drama and Literature | |
Philosophy and Religion | |
Cynicism | |
Skepticism | |
Epicureanism | |
Stoicism | |
Fate and the Mystery Cults Science and Medicine Encounter: "The Invention of Parchment and the Birth of the Secular Library" | |
Architecture | |
The Corinthian Temple | |
The Altar | |
Sculpture | |
Rhodes: Late Hellenistic Style | |
The Legacy of the Hellenistic World Key Cultural Terms Suggestions for Further Reading Timeline | |
Roman Civilization: The Pre-Christian Centuries | |
The Colossus of the Mediterranean World | |
General Characteristics of Roman Civilization Technology Warfare Construction | |
The Etruscan and Greek Connections | |
Rome in the Age of Kings, 753-509 B.C. | |
The Roman Republ | |
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