Roy Matthews, DeWitt Platt

Beginnings Through the Renaissance

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Readings in the Western Humani Nr.1
• Verlag: McGraw Hill LLC
• 5th edition
• Seitenzahl: 305
• Erscheinungstermin: Juli 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 275mm x 214mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 685g
• ISBN-13: 9780072556391
• ISBN-10: 0072556390
• Artikelnr.: 21484866

Inhaltsangabe

* 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