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

ISBN: 9780534582289 | 0534582281
Edition: 6th
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 6/1/2005

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SummaryTable of Contents
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
3(32)
The Earliest People and Their Art
3(10)
The Cultures of Mesopotamia
... MORE		6(5)
Ancient Egypt
11(2)
Values Mortality
13(4)
Voices of Their Times Love, Marriage, and Divorce in Ancient Egypt
17(2)
Aegean Culture in the Bronze Age
19(8)
Cycladic Art
20(1)
The Excavation of Knossos
21(4)
Schliemann and the Discovery of Mycenae
25(2)
Summary
27(1)
Key Terms
28(1)
Pronunciation Guide
28(1)
Exercises
29(1)
Your Resources
29(1)
Further Reading
29(1)
Reading Selections
The Epic of Gilgamesh
30(5)
Early Greece
35(36)
Homer and the Heroic Age
35(4)
Values Destiny
39(1)
Art and Society in Early Greece
39(1)
Geometric Art
39(1)
The Age of Colonization
40(1)
Voices of Their Times Daily Life in the World of Homer
41(1)
The Visual Arts at Corinth and Athens
42(1)
The Beginnings of Greek Sculpture
42(6)
Sculpture and Painting in the Archaic Period
44(4)
Architecture: The Doric and Ionic Orders
48(1)
Music and Dance in Early Greece
48(3)
Early Greek Literature and Philosophy
51(3)
Lyric Poetry
51(1)
The First Philosophers: The Presocratics
52(1)
Herodotus: The First Greek Historian
53(1)
Summary
54(1)
Key Terms
54(1)
Pronunciation Guide
55(1)
Exercises
55(1)
Your Resources
55(1)
Further Reading
55(1)
Reading Selections
Homer: The Iliad, Book XV
56(4)
Homer: The Iliad, Book XXIII
60(1)
Homer: The Iliad, Book XXIV
61(3)
Sappho: Selected Poems
64(1)
Heraclitus of Ephesus: The Presocratics
64(1)
Parmenides of Elea: The Presocratics
65(1)
Herodotus: History of the Persian Wars, Book VIII
65(6)
Classical Greece and the Hellenistic Period
71(56)
The Classical Ideal
71(2)
Drama and Philosophy in Classical Greece
73(1)
The Drama Festivals of Dionysus
73(1)
Values Civic Pride
74(6)
The Athenian Tragic Dramatists
75(3)
Aristophanes and Greek Comedy
78(1)
Philosophy in the Late Classical Period
78(2)
Greek Music in the Classical Period
80(1)
The Visual Arts in Classical Greece
81(7)
Sculpture and Vase Painting in the Fifth Century B.C.E.
81(1)
Architecture in the Fifth Century B.C.E.
82(6)
The Visual Arts in the Fourth Century B.C.E.
88(2)
The Hellenistic Period
90(6)
Summary
96(1)
Voices of Their Times Kerdo the Cobbler
97(1)
Key Terms
98(1)
Pronunciation Guide
98(1)
Exercises
99(1)
Your Resources
99(1)
Further Reading
99(1)
Reading Selections
Sophocles: Oedipus the King
99(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)
Glossary476(14)
Index490(11)
Photo Credits501(2)
Literary Credits503

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