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Table of Contents

Preface

The Arts: An Introduction

The Beginnings of Civilization

(32)

The Earliest People and Their Art

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(3)

Ancient Egypt

(7)

The Cultures of Mesopotamia

(7)

Aegean Culture in the Bronze Age

(1)

Cycladic Art

(1)

The Excavation of Knossos

(4)

Schliemann and the Discovery of Mycenae

(2)

Summary

(1)

Pronunciation Guide

(1)

Exercises

(1)

Further Reading

(1)

Reading Selections

(6)

from The Epic of Gilgamesh

(6)

Early Greece

(40)

Homer and the Heroic Age

(5)

Art and Society in Early Greece

(1)

Geometric Art

(1)

The Age of Colonization

(2)

The Visual Arts at Corinth and Athens

(1)

The Beginnings of Greek Sculpture

(1)

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

(1)

Lyric Poetry

(1)

The First Philosophers: The Presocratics

(2)

Herodotus, The First Greek Historian

(1)

Summary

(1)

Pronunciation Guide

(1)

Exercises

(1)

Further Reading

(1)

Reading Selections

(18)

Homer, from the Iliad, Book XV

(5)

Homer, from the Iliad, Book XXIII

(1)

Homer, from the Iliad, Book XXIV

(4)

Sappho, Selected Poems

(1)

The Presocratics: Heraclitus of Ephesus

(1)

The Presocratics: Parminedes of Elea

(1)

Herodotus, from History of the Persian Wars, Book VIII

(7)

Classical Greece and the Hellenistic Period

(60)

The Classical Ideal

(3)

Drama and Philosophy in Classical Greece

(1)

The Drama Festivals of Dionysus

(1)

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

(1)

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

(3)

Architecture in the Fifth Century B.C.

The Visual Arts in the Fourth Century B.C.

(3)

The Hellenistic Period

(15)

Summary

102

(1)

Exercises

103

(1)

Pronunciation Guide

103

(1)

Further Reading

103

(1)

Reading Selections

103

(32)

Sophocles, Oedipus the King

103

(17)

Plato, from the Apology

120

(3)

Plato, from the Phaedo

123

(2)

Plato, The Republic, Book VII

125

(2)

Aristotle, from The Nicomachean Ethics, Book I

127

(2)

Aristotle, from the Politics, Book V

129

(6)

The Roman Legacy

135

(54)

The Importance of Rome

135

(1)

The Etruscans and Their Art

136

(3)

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

139

(1)

Literary Developments during the Republic

140

(1)

Roman Philosophy and Law

141

(2)

Republican Art and Architecture

143

(1)

Imperial Rome (31 B.C.--A.D. 476)

144

(1)

Augustan Literature: Vergil

145

(3)

Augustan Sculpture

148

(2)

The Evidence of Pompeii

150

(5)

Roman Imperial Architecture

155

(3)

Rome as the Object of Satire

158

(2)

The End of the Roman Empire

160

(1)

Late Roman Art and Architecture

160

(2)

Summary

162

(2)

Pronunciation Guide

164

(1)

Exercises

164

(1)

Further Reading

164

(1)

Interlude: Antony and Cleopatra

165

(2)

Further Reading

167

(1)

Reading Selections

168

(21)

Catullus, Selected Poems

168

(1)

Vergil, from the Aeneid, Book I

168

(5)

Vergil, from the Aeneid, Book IV

173

(2)

Vergil, from the Aeneid, Book VI

175

(6)

Horace, Selected Odes

181

(1)

Juvenal, from the Third Satire

182

(1)

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, the Meditations, Book II

183

(6)

Jerusalem and Early Christianity

189

(36)

Judaism and Early Christianity

189

(1)

The Hebrew Bible and Its Message

190

(3)

The Beginnings of Christianity

193

(4)

Frescoes (Wall Paintings Done on Fresh Plaster)

197

(2)

Glass and Sculpture

199

(1)

Inscriptions

199

(3)

Summary

202

(1)

Pronunciation Guide

202

(1)

Exercises

203

(1)

Further Reading

203

(1)

Reading Selections

203

(22)

Genesis 1--2

203

(1)

Job 37--40

204

(3)

Exodus 19--20

207

(1)

Amos 3--6

208

(3)

Matthew 5--7

211

(2)

Acts 17:14--34

213

(1)

I Corinthians 13

214

(1)

II Corinthians 11--12

214

(1)

Justin's First Apology, Chapters 61--67

215

(2)

The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity

217

(8)

Byzantium and the Rise of Islam

225

(46)

The Decline of Rome

225

(1)

Literature and Philosophy

225

(1)

Augustine of Hippo

225

(1)

Boethius

226

(1)

The Ascendancy of Byzantium

227

(1)

Hagia Sophia: Monument and Symbol

228

(3)

Ravenna

231

(1)

Art and Architecture

231

(8)

Saint Catherine's Monastery at Mount Sinai

239

(4)

The Persistence of Byzantine Culture

243

(2)

The Rise of Islam

245

(1)

The Culture of Islam

245

(2)

Summary

247

(1)

Exercises

248

(1)

Pronunciation Guide

248

(1)

Further Reading

248

(1)

Reading Selections

249

(22)

Saint Augustine, Confessions

249

(2)

Saint Augustine, The City of God

251

(7)

Selections from the Qur'an

258

(13)

Charlemagne and the Rise of Medieval Culture

271

(54)

Charlemagne as Ruler and Diplomat

271

(2)

Learning in the Time of Charlemagne

273

(1)

Benedictine Monasticism

274

(1)

The Rule of Saint Benedict

275

(1)

Women and the Monastic Life

276

(1)

Monasticism and Gregorian Chant

276

(2)

Liturgical Music and the Rise of Drama

278

(1)

The Liturgical Trope

278

(1)

The Quem Quæritis Trope

278

(1)

The Morality Play: Everyman

279

(1)

Nonliturgical Drama

279

(1)

The Legend of Charlemagne: Song of Roland

280

(1)

The Visual Arts

281

(1)

The Illuminated Book

281

(3)

Charlemagne's Palace at Aachen

284

(2)

The Carolingian Monastery

286

(1)

The Romanesque Style

286

(5)

Summary

291

(1)

Pronunciation Guide

291

(1)

Exercises

291

(1)

Further Reading

291

(1)

Reading Selections

292

(33)

Hildegard of Bingen, Selections from Causae et Curae

292

(3)

Everyman

295

(10)

Hrosvitha, The Conversion of the Harlot Thais

305

(4)

The Life of Saint Bertilla

309

(3)

The Song of Roland

312

(13)

High Middle Ages: The Search for Synthesis

325

(64)

The Significance of Paris

325

(1)

The Gothic Style

325

(1)

Suger's Building Program for Saint Denis

325

(3)

The Mysticism of Light

328

(4)

The Many Meanings of the Gothic Cathedral

332

(4)

Music: The School of Notre Dame

336

(1)

Scholasticism

337

(1)

The Rise of the Universities

337

(5)

Francis of Assisi

342

(1)

Thomas Aquinas

342

(4)

Dante's Divine Comedy

346

(3)

Summary

349

(1)

Exercises

350

(1)

Pronunciation Guide

350

(1)

Further Reading

350

(2)

Interlude: Abelard and Heloise

352

(3)

Further Reading

355

(1)

Reading Selections

356

(33)

Saint Francis of Assisi, The Canticle of Brother Sun

356

(1)

Saint Thomas Aquinas, from Summa Theologiae

356

(2)

Dante Alighieri, from the Divine Comedy

358

(31)

The Fourteenth Century: A Time of Transition

389

(46)

Calamity, Decay, and Violence

389

(1)

The Black Death

389

(1)

The Great Schism

389

(1)

The Hundred Years' War

390

(1)

Literature in Italy, England, and France

391

(1)

Petrarch

391

(2)

Petrarch's Sonnet 15

393

(1)

Chaucer

393

(2)

Christine de Pisan

395

(1)

Art in Italy

396

(1)

The Italo-Byzantine Background

396

(3)

Giotto's Break with the Past

399

(4)

Painting in Siena

403

(1)

Art in Northern Europe

404

(4)

Late Gothic Architecture

408

(2)

Music: Ars Nova

410

(2)

Summary

412

(1)

Pronunciation Guide

413

(1)

Exercises

413

(1)

Further Reading

413

(1)

Reading Selections

414

(21)

Giovanni Boccaccio, from the Decameron

414

(2)

Geoffrey Chaucer, from The Canterbury Tales

416

(15)

Christine de Pisan, from The Book of the City of Ladies

431

(4)

Glossary

435

(8)

Index

443

(10)

Photographic Credits

453

(2)

Literary Acknowledgments

455

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