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Culture and Values, Volume I A Survey of the Humanities (with CD-ROM)

by: Cunningham, Lawrence S.; Reich, John J.

Culture and Values, Volume I A Survey of the Humanities (with CD-ROM)

by: Cunningham, Lawrence S.; Reich, John J.

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9780534582289
ISBN 10:
0534582281
Edition: 6th
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 06/01/2005
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
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Trusted by professors of the humanities survey course for over twenty years, CULTURE AND VALUES covers Western cultures along with important non-Western cultures, providing students solid, accessible introductions to art, music, philosophy, literature, and more. Available in two volumes, or as an alternate single volume without end-of-chapter readings, this text remains the most readable and reliable textbook for college and university students in the integrated humanities.

The Beginnings of Civilization

(32)

The Earliest People and Their Art

(10)

The Cultures of Mesopotamia

(5)

Ancient Egypt

(2)

Values Mortality

(4)

Voices of Their Times Love, Marriage, and Divorce in Ancient Egypt

(2)

Aegean Culture in the Bronze Age

(8)

Cycladic Art

(1)

The Excavation of Knossos

(4)

Schliemann and the Discovery of Mycenae

(2)

Summary

(1)

Key Terms

(1)

Pronunciation Guide

(1)

Exercises

(1)

Your Resources

(1)

Further Reading

(1)

Reading Selections

The Epic of Gilgamesh

(5)

Early Greece

(36)

Homer and the Heroic Age

(4)

Values Destiny

(1)

Art and Society in Early Greece

(1)

Geometric Art

(1)

The Age of Colonization

(1)

Voices of Their Times Daily Life in the World of Homer

(1)

The Visual Arts at Corinth and Athens

(1)

The Beginnings of Greek Sculpture

(6)

Sculpture and Painting in the Archaic Period

(4)

Architecture: The Doric and Ionic Orders

(1)

Music and Dance in Early Greece

(3)

Early Greek Literature and Philosophy

(3)

Lyric Poetry

(1)

The First Philosophers: The Presocratics

(1)

Herodotus: The First Greek Historian

(1)

Summary

(1)

Key Terms

(1)

Pronunciation Guide

(1)

Exercises

(1)

Your Resources

(1)

Further Reading

(1)

Reading Selections

Homer: The Iliad, Book XV

(4)

Homer: The Iliad, Book XXIII

(1)

Homer: The Iliad, Book XXIV

(3)

Sappho: Selected Poems

(1)

Heraclitus of Ephesus: The Presocratics

(1)

Parmenides of Elea: The Presocratics

(1)

Herodotus: History of the Persian Wars, Book VIII

(6)

Classical Greece and the Hellenistic Period

(56)

The Classical Ideal

(2)

Drama and Philosophy in Classical Greece

(1)

The Drama Festivals of Dionysus

(1)

Values Civic Pride

(6)

The Athenian Tragic Dramatists

(3)

Aristophanes and Greek Comedy

(1)

Philosophy in the Late Classical Period

(2)

Greek Music in the Classical Period

(1)

The Visual Arts in Classical Greece

(7)

Sculpture and Vase Painting in the Fifth Century B.C.E.

(1)

Architecture in the Fifth Century B.C.E.

(6)

The Visual Arts in the Fourth Century B.C.E.

(2)

The Hellenistic Period

(6)

Summary

(1)

Voices of Their Times Kerdo the Cobbler

(1)

Key Terms

(1)

Pronunciation Guide

(1)

Exercises

(1)

Your Resources

(1)

Further Reading

(1)

Reading Selections

Sophocles: Oedipus the King

(13)

Plato: Apology

112

(2)

Plato: Phaedo

114

(3)

Plato: The Republic, Book VII

117

(1)

Aristotle: The Nicomachean Ethics, Book I

118

(2)

Aristotle: The Politics, Book V

120

(7)

The Roman Legacy

127

(46)

The Importance of Rome

127

(2)

The Etruscans and Their Art

129

(1)

Republican Rome (509--31 B.C.E.)

130

(5)

Literary Developments During the Republic

132

(2)

Roman Philosophy and Law

134

(1)

Voices of Their Times A Dinner Party in Imperial Rome

135

(2)

Republican Art and Architecture

136

(1)

Imperial Rome (31 B.C.E.--C.E. 476)

137

(1)

Values Empire

138

(12)

Augustan Literature: Vergil

138

(2)

Augustan Sculpture

140

(2)

The Evidence of Pompeii

142

(4)

Roman Imperial Architecture

146

(4)

Rome as the Object of Satire

150

(1)

The End of the Roman Empire

150

(2)

Late Roman Art and Architecture

151

(1)

Summary

152

(2)

Key Terms

154

(1)

Pronunciation Guide

155

(1)

Exercises

155

(1)

Your Resources

155

(1)

Further Reading

155

(1)

Reading Selections

Catullus: Selected Poems

156

(1)

Vergil: Aeneid, Book I

156

(4)

Vergil: Aeneid, Book IV

160

(1)

Vergil: Aeneid, Book VI

161

(3)

Vergil: Aeneid, Book VI

164

(2)

Horace: Selected Odes

166

(1)

Juvenal: Third Satire

167

(1)

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus: The Meditations, Book II

168

(5)

Ancient Civilizations of India and China

173

(26)

Indian Civilization

173

(1)

The Indus Valley Civilization

173

(1)

The Aryans

173

(3)

Buddha

175

(1)

Voices of Their Times War and Religion in the Age of Ashoka

176

(1)

The Emperor Ashoka

176

(1)

Hindu and Buddhist Art

177

(1)

The Gupta Empire and Its Aftermath

178

(1)

Gupta Literature and Science

178

(1)

The Collapse of Gupta Rule

179

(1)

The Origins of Civilization in China

179

(2)

The Chou Dynasty

180

(1)

Confucianism and Taoism

180

(1)

The Unification of China: The Ch'in, Han, and T'ang Dynasties

181

(3)

The Arts in Classical China

181

(3)

Summary

184

(2)

Key Terms

186

(1)

Pronunciation Guide

186

(1)

Exercises

187

(1)

Your Resources

187

(1)

Further Reading

187

(1)

Reading Selections

The Rig Veda

188

(2)

Brihad-Aranyaka Upanishad

190

(3)

Christmas Humphries: The Wisdom of Buddha

193

(1)

Li Po: Selected Poems

194

(5)

Jerusalem and Early Christianity

199

(32)

Judaism and Early Christianity

199

(4)

The Hebrew Bible and Its Message

200

(3)

Values Revelation

203

(2)

The Beginnings of Christianity

203

(2)

Voices of Their Times Vibia Perpetua

205

(6)

Constantine and Early Christian Architecture

209

(1)

Early Christian Music

209

(2)

Summary

211

(1)

Key Terms

211

(1)

Pronunciation Guide

212

(1)

Exercises

212

(1)

Your Resources

212

(1)

Further Reading

212

(1)

Reading Selections

Genesis 1--2

213

(1)

Job 37--40

214

(2)

Exodus 19--20

216

(1)

Amos 3--6

217

(1)

Matthew 5--7

218

(2)

Acts 17:24--34

220

(1)

I Corinthians 13

221

(1)

II Corinthians 11--12

221

(1)

Justin's First Apology

222

(2)

The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity

224

(7)

Byzantium

231

(32)

The Decline of Rome

231

(2)

Literature and Philosophy

231

(2)

The Ascendancy of Byzantium

233

(1)

Voices of Their Times Procopius of Caesarea

234

(2)

Church of Hagia Sophia: Monument and Symbol

234

(2)

Ravenna

236

(3)

Art and Architecture

236

(3)

Values Autocracy

239

(8)

Saint Catherine's Monastery at Mount Sinai

245

(2)

The Persistence of Byzantine Culture

247

(2)

Summary

249

(1)

Key Terms

249

(1)

Pronunciation Guide

250

(1)

Exercises

250

(1)

Your Resources

250

(1)

Further Reading

250

(1)

Reading Selections

Saint Augustine: Confessions

251

(2)

Saint Augustine: The City of God

253

(10)

Islam

263

(26)

Muhammad and the Birth of Islam

263

(9)

The Qur'an

264

(1)

Calligraphy

265

(1)

Islamic Architecture

266

(4)

Sufism

270

(2)

Voices of Their Times Al-Ghazali on the Mystic Path

272

(1)

The Culture of Islam and the West

272

(1)

Values Pure Monotheism

273

(1)

Summary

274

(1)

Key Terms

274

(1)

Pronunciation Guide

274

(1)

Exercises

275

(1)

Your Resources

275

(1)

Further Reading

275

(1)

Reading Selections

Selections from the Qur'an

275

(8)

Memories of Rabia

283

(1)

Rumi: Poems and Meditations

284

(5)

Charlemagne and the Rise of Medieval Culture

289

(50)

Charlemagne as Ruler and Diplomat

289

(2)

Learning in the Time of Charlemagne

291

(1)

Voices of Their Times An Abbot, an Irish Scholar, and Charlemagne's Biographer

292

(1)

Benedictine Monasticism

292

(2)

The Rule of Saint Benedict

293

(1)

Women and the Monastic Life

293

(1)

Monasticism and Gregorian Chant

294

(1)

Liturgical Music and the Rise of Drama

295

(1)

The Liturgical Trope

295

(1)

The Quem Quaeritis Trope

296

(1)

The Morality Play: Everyman

296

(1)

Nonliturgical Drama

297

(1)

The Legend of Charlemagne: Song of Roland

297

(2)

The Visual Arts

299

(2)

The Illuminated Book

299

(2)

Charlemagne's Palace at Aachen

301

(4)

The Carolingian Monastery

303

(1)

The Romanesque Style

304

(1)

Values Feudalism

305

(2)

Summary

307

(1)

Key Terms

308

(1)

Pronunciation Guide

308

(1)

Exercises

309

(1)

Your Resources

309

(1)

Further Reading

309

(1)

Reading Selections

Hildegard of Bingen: Causae et Curae

309

(3)

Everyman

312

(9)

Hroswitha: The Conversion of the Harlot Thais

321

(5)

Bertilla, Abbess of Chelles

326

(2)

The Song of Roland

328

(11)

High Middle Ages: The Search for Synthesis

339

(54)

The Significance of Paris

339

(1)

The Gothic Style

339

(12)

Suger's Building Program for Saint Denis

339

(3)

The Mysticism of Light

342

(4)

The Many Meanings of the Gothic Cathedral

346

(4)

Music: The School of Notre Dame

350

(1)

Scholasticism

351

(2)

The Rise of the Universities

351

(2)

Values Dialectics

353

(1)

Voices of Their Times A Medieval Parent and a Student

354

(5)

Francis of Assisi

355

(2)

Thomas Aquinas

357

(2)

Dante's Divine Comedy

359

(4)

Summary

363

(1)

Key Terms

363

(1)

Pronunciation Guide

363

(1)

Exercises

364

(1)

Your Resources

364

(1)

Further Reading

364

(1)

Reading Selections

Saint Francis of Assisi: The Canticle of Brother Sun

365

(1)

Saint Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologiae

365

(2)

Dante Alighieri: Divine Comedy

367

(26)

The Fourteenth Century: A Time of Transition

393

(44)

Calamity, Decay, and Violence

393

(2)

The Black Death

393

(1)

The Great Schism

393

(2)

Values Natural Disaster and Human Response

395

(1)

The Hundred Years' War

395

(1)

Literature in Italy, England, and France

395

(3)

Petrarch

395

(2)

Petrarch's Sonnet 15

397

(1)

Chaucer

397

(1)

Voices of Their Times John Ball

398

(1)

Christine de Pisan

399

(1)

Art in Italy

399

(9)

The Italo-Byzantine Background

399

(3)

Giotto's Break with the Past

402

(2)

Painting in Siena

404

(4)

Art in Northern Europe

408

(2)

Late Gothic Architecture

410

(3)

Music: Ars Nova

413

(2)

Summary

415

(1)

Key Terms

415

(1)

Pronunciation Guide

415

(1)

Exercises

415

(1)

Your Resources

415

(1)

Further Reading

415

(2)

Reading Selections

Giovanni Boccaccio: Decameron

417

(2)

Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales

419

(13)

Christine de Pisan: The Book of the City of Ladies

432

(5)

The Early Renaissance

437

(39)

Toward the Renaissance

437

(1)

The First Phase: Masaccio, Ghiberti, and Brunelleschi

437

(1)

Voices of Their Times Fra Savonarola

438

(6)

The Medici Era

444

(7)

Cosimo de' Medici

445

(2)

Piero de' Medici

447

(2)

Lorenzo the Magnificent

449

(2)

Values Intellectual Synthesis

451

(6)

The Character of Renaissance Humanism

457

(3)

Pico della Mirandola

458

(1)

Printing Technology and the Spread of Humanism

459

(1)

Women and the Renaissance

459

(1)

Two Styles of Humanism

460

(2)

Machiavelli

460

(1)

Erasmus

460

(2)

Music in the Fifteenth Century

462

(1)

Guillaume Dufay

462

(1)

Music in Medici Florence

462

(1)

Summary

463

(1)

Key Terms

463

(1)

Pronunciation Guide

463

(1)

Exercises

464

(1)

Your Resources

464

(1)

Further Reading

464

(1)

Reading Selection

Pico della Mirandola: Oration on the Dignity of Man

464

(1)

Laura Cereta: Defense of the Liberal Instruction of Women and Against Women Who Disparage Learned Women

465

(3)

Niccolo Machiavelli: The Prince

468

(2)

Desiderius Erasmus: The Praise of Folly

470

(6)

Glossary

476

(14)

Index

490

(11)

Photo Credits

501

(2)

Literary Credits

503

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