Rent 9780072910070 | The Humanistic Tradition, Book 1: The First Civilizations and the Classical Legacy

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Preface

Introduction: Prehistory and the Birth of Civilization

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Prehistory

xiv

Paleolithic (``Old Stone'') Culture (ca. 7 million--10,000 B.C.E.)

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Reading 1.1 The ... MORE

(8)

Neolithic (``New Stone'') Culture (ca. 8000--4000 B.C.E.)

(6)

The Birth of Civilization

(4)

The Evolution of Writing

(2)

Metallurgy

(1)

People and Nature

(1)

Myth and the Quest for Beginnings

(1)

Reading 1.2 Creation Tales

(3)

Glossary

(2)

PART ONE The First Civilizations

(50)

Timeline

(1)

Egypt: Gods, Rulers, and the Social Order

(17)

The Gods of Ancient Egypt

(1)

Reading 1.3 ``The Hymn to the Aten'' (ca. 1352--1336 B.C.E.)

(3)

The Rulers of Ancient Egypt

(9)

Theocracy and the Cult of the Dead

(8)

Akhenaton's Reform

(1)

Nubia and Ancient Egypt

(1)

Law in Ancient Egypt

(1)

The Social Order

(1)

Egyptian Women

(1)

The Arts in Ancient Egypt

(1)

Literature

(1)

Reading 1.4 Egyptian Poetry

(2)

The Visual Arts

(2)

New Kingdom Temples

(1)

Music in Ancient Egypt

(1)

Summary

(1)

Glossary

(1)

Mesopotamia: Gods, Rulers, and the Social Order

(22)

The Gods of Mesopotamia

(1)

Reading 1.5 From The Babylonian Creation

(2)

The Search for Immortality

(1)

Reading 1.6 From the Epic of Gilgamesh

(2)

The Rulers of Mesopotamia

(1)

The Social Order

(2)

Law and the Social Order in Babylon

(2)

Reading 1.7 From the Hammurabi's Code (ca. 1750 B.C.E.)

(1)

The Arts in Mesopotamia

(1)

The Hebrews

(2)

Reading 1.8a From the Hebrew Bible (Genesis)

(1)

Reading 1.8b From the Hebrew Bible (Exodus)

(2)

The Hebrew State and the Social Order

(1)

Reading 1.8c From the Hebrew Bible (Jeremiah)

(1)

The Babylonian Captivity and the Book of Job

(1)

Reading 1.8d From the Hebrew Bible (Job)

(3)

The Book of Psalms

(1)

Reading 1.8e From the Hebrew Bible (Psalms)

(1)

The Iron Age

(3)

The Assyrian Empire

(1)

The Persian Empire

(1)

Summary

(1)

Glossary

(1)

India and China: Gods, Rulers, and the Social Order

(9)

Ancient India

(1)

Indus Valley Civilization (ca. 2700--1500 B.C.E.)

(2)

The Vedic Era (ca. 1500--322 B.C.E.)

(1)

Hindu Pantheism

(1)

The Bhagavad-Gita

(1)

Reading 1.9 From the Bhagavad-Gita

(1)

Ancient China

(4)

The Shang Dynasty (ca. 1520--1027 B.C.E.)

(2)

The Zhou Dynasty (1027--256 B.C.E.)

(1)

Spirits, Gods, and the Natural Order

(2)

Daoism

(1)

Reading 1.10 From the Dao de jing (ca. 550 B.C.E.)

(1)

Summary

(2)

Glossary

(2)

PART TWO The Classical Legacy

(104)

Timeline

(1)

Greece: Humanism and the Speculative Leap

(37)

Bronze Age Civilizations of the Aegean (ca. 3000--1200 B.C.E.)

(3)

Minoan Civilization (ca. 2000--1400 B.C.E.)

(2)

Mycenaean Civilization (ca. 1600--1200 B.C.E.)

(1)

The Heroic Age (ca. 1200--750 B.C.E.)

(2)

Reading 1.11 From the lliad (ca. 850 B.C.E.)

(2)

The Greek Gods

(1)

The Greek City-State and the Persian Wars (ca. 750--480 B.C.E.)

(1)

Herodotus

(1)

Athens and the Greek Golden Age (ca. 480--430 B.C.E.)

(2)

Pericles' Glorification of Athens

(1)

Reading 1.12 From Thucydides' Peloponnesian Wars (ca. 410 B.C.E.)

(3)

The Olympic Games

(1)

Greek Drama

(2)

The Individual and the Community

(1)

The Case of Antigone

(1)

Reading 1.13 From Sophocles' Antigone (ca. 440 B.C.E.)

(10)

Aristotle on Tragedy

(1)

Reading 1.14 From Aristotle's Poetics (ca. 340 B.C.E.)

(1)

Greek Philosophy: The Speculative Leap

(1)

Naturalist Philosophy: The Pre-Socratics

(1)

Humanist Philosophy

(2)

The Sophists

(1)

Socrates and the Quest for Virtue

(2)

Reading 1.15 From Plato's Crito (ca. 390 B.C.E.)

(2)

Plato and the Theory of Forms

(1)

Reading 1.16 The ``Allegory of the Cave'' from Plato's Republic (ca. 375 B.C.E.)

(4)

Aristotle and the Life of Reason

102

(1)

Aristotle's Ethics

102

(1)

Reading 1.17 From Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (ca. 340 B.C.E.)

103

(2)

Aristotle and the State

104

(1)

Summary

105

(1)

Glossary

105

(1)

The Classical Style

106

(23)

Key Features of the Classical Style

106

(1)

Order and Proportion

106

(2)

Reading 1.18 From Vitruvius' Principles of Symmetry (ca. 46--30 B.C.E.)

108

(1)

Humanism, Realism, and Idealism

108

(1)

The Evolution of the Classical Style

109

(11)

Greek Sculpture: The Archaic Period (ca. 700--480 B.C.E.)

109

(1)

Greek Sculpture: The Classical Period (ca. 480--323 B.C.E.)

110

(3)

Greek Architecture: The Parthenon

113

(3)

The Sculpture of the Parthenon

116

(3)

The Gold of Greece

119

(1)

The Classical Style in Poetry

120

(1)

Reading 1.19 Sappho's Poems (ca. 590 B.C.E.)

120

(1)

Reading 1.20 From Pindar's Odes (ca. 420 B.C.E.)

121

(1)

The Classical Style in Music and Dance

121

(1)

The Diffusion of the Classical Style: The Hellenistic Age (323--30 B.C.E.)

122

(6)

Hellenistic Schools of Thought

124

(1)

Hellenistic Art

124

(4)

Summary

128

(1)

Music Listening Selection

128

(1)

Glossary

128

(1)

Rome: The Rise to Empire

129

(29)

The Roman Rise to Empire

129

(2)

Rome's Early History

129

(1)

The Roman Republic (509--133 B.C.E.)

129

(2)

Reading 1.21 Josephus' Description of the Roman Army (ca. 70 C.E.)

131

(4)

The Collapse of the Republic (133--30 B.C.E.)

132

(1)

The Roman Empire (30 B.C.E.--180 C.E.)

132

(2)

Roman Law

134

(1)

The Roman Contribution to Literature

135

(1)

Roman Philosophic Thought

135

(1)

Reading 1.22 From Seneca's On Tranquility of Mind (ca. 40 C.E.)

135

(1)

Latin Prose Literature

136

(1)

Reading 1.23 From Cicero's On Duty (44 B.C.E.)

136

(1)

Reading 1.24 From Tacitus' Dialogue on Oratory (ca. 100--105 C.E.)

137

(1)

Roman Epic Poetry

138

(1)

Reading 1.25 From Virgil's Aeneid (Books Four and Six) (ca. 20 B.C.E.)

138

(1)

Roman Lyric Poetry and Satire

139

(1)

Reading 1.26 The Poems of Catullus (ca. 60 B.C.E.)

139

(1)

Reading 1.27 The Poems of Horace (ca. 30--15 B.C.E.)

140

(1)

Reading 1.28a From Juvenal's ``Against the City of Rome'' (ca. 100--127 C.E.)

141

(1)

Reading 1.28b From Juvenal's ``Against Women'' (ca. 101--127 C.E.)

142

(1)

Roman Drama

143

(1)

The Arts of the Roman Empire

143

(13)

Roman Architecture

143

(7)

Roman Sculpture

150

(4)

Roman Painting

154

(2)

Roman Music

156

(1)

Summary

156

(2)

Glossary

157

(1)

China: The Rise to Empire

158

(13)

Confucius and the Classics

158

(1)

Reading 1.29 From the Analects of Confucius

159

(2)

Confucianism and Legalism

160

(1)

The Chinese Rise to Empire

161

(3)

The Qin Dynasty (221--206 B.C.E.)

161

(2)

The Han Dynasty (206 B.C.E.--220 C.E.)

163

(1)

The Literary Contributions of Imperial China

164

(1)

Chinese Prose Literature

164

(1)

Reading 1.30 From Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian (ca. 100 B.C.E.)

165

(2)

Chinese Poetry

166

(1)

Reading 1.31 A Selection of Han Poems

167

(1)

The Visual Arts and Music in Han China

167

(2)

Summary

169

(2)

Glossary

170

(1)

Suggestions for Reading

171

(2)

Credits

173

(1)

Index

174

Gloria Konig Fiero was born and raised in New York City. She earned her Masters degree in Art History at the University of California, Berkeley, and her Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Humanities at the Florida State University. She has taught Humanities, World History, and Art History for more than twenty-five years. She has written and lectured extensively on medieval and renaissance topics and on the arts of both East and West as they reflect the human condition. She currently divides her time between New Orleans, Louisiana, and New York City.

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