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The Humanities

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The Humanities

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9780618045372
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0618045376
Edition: 6th
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 08/10/2000
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
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Summary

The Humanitiesprovides an overview of the liberal arts, including literature, art, music, philosophy, and history. The book comes equipped with numerous pedagogical aids, including a web site that features 50-60 art images. The text begins with a "Chronicle of Events," which provides a timetable of key events in world history. "Continuities" sections--which cover political life, religion, art, music, and writing--summarize each part of the text by reviewing the lasting contributions of each society.

Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgments

xiv

Chronicle of Events

Introduction Defining the Humanities and Cultural Roots for the Twenty-First Century

(1)

Controversies

(1)

Development of the Western Humanities

(1)

The Humanities Today

(1)

The Interdisciplinary Humanities

(1)

Culture and Cultural Roots

(2)

PART ONE Earliest Civilizations

(60)

Mesopotamia

(26)

Revolutions in the Land Between Two Rivers

(2)

Sumerian Architecture and Art

(3)

Sumerian Mythology, Religion, and Worship

(2)

Sumerian Music

(1)

Daily Lives A Day in School

(1)

Literacy and Literature in Mesopotamia

(2)

Mesopotamian Empire: The Akkadians at Agade

(6)

Reading Selections

From The Epic of Gilgamesh

(7)

From The Hammurabi Code

(3)

Egypt and the Kingdom of Kush

(33)

The Nile

(1)

The First and Second Dynasties

(1)

The Old Kingdom

(7)

Daily Lives The Settlement of the Tomb Builders of Thebes

(1)

The Middle Kingdom

(1)

The New Kingdom

(3)

The Third Intermediate Period and the Late Period

(1)

The Ptolemaic Period

(1)

Egyptian Music

(1)

Nubia and the Kingdom of Kush

(8)

Reading Selections

The Instruction of Ptah-hotep

(1)

From the Book of the Dead

(2)

Amenhotep IV (Akhenaton), The Great Hymn to the Aten

(1)

Egyptian Love Poetry

(4)

Continuities: Earliest Civilizations

(2)

PART TWO The Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian Roots

(192)

Early Greece

(24)

Hellenism: The Rise of Greek Culture

(3)

Greek Religion and Mythology

(1)

Homer and the Epic

(2)

The Lyric

(2)

Reading Selections

From The Iliad

(9)

From The Odyssey

(2)

Sappho, Selected Lyric Poems and Fragments

(4)

Classical Greece: Life and Art

(17)

Politics and Life in Ancient Athens

(1)

Daily Lives The Ideal Wife

(1)

Classical Greek Architecture

(3)

Greek Sculpture

(3)

Classical Architecture and Sculpture Compared

(1)

Other Classical Greek Buildings

100

(1)

From Classical to Hellenistic Sculpture

101

(3)

Reading Selection

Thucydides, Pericles' Funeral Oration

104

(3)

Classical Greece: Drama

107

(44)

The Development of Tragedy

107

(2)

Daily Lives Going to the Theater in Ancient Athens

109

(4)

Greek Comedy

113

(2)

Reading Selections

Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

115

(19)

Euripides, The Women of Troy

134

(17)

Classical Greece: Philosophy and Ethical Thought

151

(16)

The Pre-Socratics

151

(1)

Socrates

152

(1)

Plato

152

(1)

Aristotle

153

(3)

Reading Selections

Heraclitus of Ephesus, Fragments

156

(1)

Plato, The Allegory of the Cave; The Death of Socrates

156

(5)

Aristotle, From The Politics; The High-Minded Man; From The Poetics

161

(6)

The Culture of Rome

167

(49)

Hellenistic and Roman History and Thought

168

(6)

Daily Lives On the Construction of a Villa and the Treatment of Slaves

174

(1)

Roman Art and Architecture

174

(5)

Roman Literature

179

(7)

Reading Selections

Cicero, From On the Laws

186

(2)

Ovid, From The Metamorphoses

188

(1)

Virgil, From The Aeneid

188

(20)

Horace, My Slave Is Free to Speak Up for Himself

208

(2)

Juvenal, The Roman Matron

210

(2)

Lucretius, From The Triumph Song of Death

212

(1)

Marcus Aurelius, From The Meditations

213

(3)

Judaism and Early Christianity

216

(41)

The Ancient Hebrews and the Bible

217

(1)

The Prophets and the Fall of Israel

218

(1)

Early Christianity

219

(2)

The End of Antiquity

221

(3)

The Barbarian Influence in the Western Roman Empire

224

(3)

Early Christian Music: Gregorian Chant

227

(1)

Daily Lives Life in an Early Medieval Monastery

228

(4)

Reading Selections

Genesis: The Creation; The Fall; Noah and the Flood

232

(5)

Exodus: The Ten Commandments

237

(1)

Judges: The Song of Deborah

238

(3)

Psalms: Psalm 8

241

(1)

Amos: The Prophets

241

(1)

From The Song of Solomon

242

(1)

The Gospel According to Luke: The Magnificat

243

(3)

The Gospel According to Matthew: The Sermon on the Mount

246

(3)

The Apostle Paul: From The Letter to the Ephesians; From The First Letter to the Corinthians

249

(2)

Saint Augustine, From The Confessions

251

(3)

Continuities: The Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian Roots

254

(3)

PART THREE Medieval Cultures

257

(110)

The Byzantine and the Islamic Empires

258

(28)

The Eastern Roman Empire, or Byzantium

259

(5)

The Threat of Islam and Separation from the West

264

(3)

Collapse of the Empire

267

(1)

Byzantium as a Transmitter of Ancient Greek Culture to the West

267

(1)

The Islamic Empire

268

(2)

Daily Lives The Quran on Women

270

(9)

Reading Selections

Justinian, From The Digest or Pandects

279

(1)

From The Quran

280

(1)

Sufi Literature: Poems by Baba Kuhi of Shiraz and Al-Junayd of Baghdad; From The Epic of `Antar

281

(5)

Medieval Europe: Culture and the Cathedral

286

(28)

Medieval Revivals

287

(4)

Daily Lives Hildegard of Bingen: An Exceptional Medieval Woman

291

(1)

Medieval Art and the Church: The Gothic Cathedral

292

(10)

Music and Drama in the Cathedral

302

(4)

Reading Selections

William of Rubruck, Letter from Mongolia

306

(1)

Marco Polo, From The Travels of Marco Polo

306

(1)

The Play of Daniel

307

(7)

Divine and Human Love

314

(53)

The Adoration of the Virgin Mary

314

(1)

Representations of the Virgin Mary

315

(1)

The Literature and Music of Courtly Love

315

(3)

Dante Alighieri

318

(4)

Chaucer and the Comedy of Love

322

(2)

Reading Selections

From The Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise

324

(1)

Guiraut Riquier, Song to the Virgin

325

(1)

Bernart de Ventadorn, Be m'an perdut

326

(1)

Quis Dabit Capiti

327

(1)

The Countess of Die, Selected Lyrics

327

(1)

Beroul, From The Romance of Tristan and Iseult

328

(3)

Marie de France, Equitan

331

(2)

Dante Alighieri, From The Divine Comedy

333

(22)

Geoffrey Chaucer, The Miller's Tale

355

(8)

Continuities: Medieval Cultures

363

(4)

PART FOUR The West African Cultural Root

367

(74)

African Background

368

(15)

Images of Africa in the West

369

(1)

Africa and America

369

(1)

Stages in African History

369

(10)

Reading Selections

The Culture of Benin: From A Short History of Benin; From Benin Oral Literature

379

(1)

European Accounts of Benin: Ruy de Pina, From The Chronicle of John II; Willem Bosman, From New and Accurate Description of the Coast of Guinea

380

(3)

West African Languages and Literature: The Oral Tradition and Its Legacy

383

(34)

Written Literature in Africa

384

(1)

Oral Literature

384

(2)

African Myths and Religions: Some Generalizations

386

(1)

Tales (Hausa)

387

(1)

Riddles

387

(1)

Proverbs

387

(1)

Daily Lives Language, Learning, and Performance

388

(1)

Poetry

388

(2)

Reading Selections

The Epic: From Sundiata

390

(12)

Myths: Two Yoruba Myths of Creation; Myths on the Separation of Man from God; Myths on the Origin of Death

402

(3)

Tales and Proverbs: A Labarai Tale; Tatsuniyoyi Tales; Yoruba Riddles; Yoruba Proverbs

405

(4)

Poetry: Oriki---Yoruba Praise Poems; Ijala---The Poetry of Yoruba Hunters; Iwi---The Poetry of Yoruba Masqueraders

409

(4)

Fulani Poetry

413

(1)

Ga Poetry

413

(1)

Modern Poems: Birago Diop, Forefathers; Chinua Achebe, Generation Gap; Wole Soyinka, Death in the Dawn; I Think It Rains

414

(3)

Visual and Musical Arts of West Africa

417

(24)

Visual Arts

417

(8)

African Music

425

(3)

African Arts in Festival: The Efe/Gelede of the Western Yoruba

428

(3)

Efe Poetry

431

(10)

Continuities: The West African Cultural Root and Its Survival in the New World

436

(5)

PART FIVE The Asian Cultural Root

441

(58)

An Introduction to the Civilization of India

442

(25)

India and China as River Civilizations

443

(1)

India's Geography and Early History

443

(3)

Hinduism

446

(2)

Buddhism

448

(1)

The Village

448

(1)

Daily Lives The Indian Family Past and Present

449

(1)

Indian Literature

449

(1)

Art and Architecture in India

450

(6)

Music and Dance

456

(4)

Reading Selections

From The Bhagavad Gita

460

(2)

From The Kamasutra of Vatsyayana

462

(2)

The Buddha's Sermon in the Deer Park

464

(1)

From The Bodhisattva

464

(3)

An Introduction to the Civilization of China

467

(32)

Early Dynasties: Shang and Zhou (Chou)

467

(2)

Religion and Philosophical Thought

469

(2)

Qin and Han Dynasties

471

(1)

Buddhism

472

(1)

Sui and Tang Dynasties

472

(2)

Daily Lives Traveling in Mongol China

474

(1)

Later Science and Technology

475

(1)

Foreign Trade

476

(1)

Why Not China? Why Europe?

476

(1)

Chinese Poetry

476

(1)

Art and Architecture

477

(7)

Music

484

(3)

Reading Selections

From The Analecta (Commentaries and Sayings) of Confucius

487

(1)

Lao Zi, Dao De Jing (Tao-te Ching)

488

(1)

Gou Xiang, Commentary on the Chuang Tzu

489

(1)

Zong Bing, Introduction to Landscape Painting

489

(1)

Other Buddhist Commentary

490

(1)

ban Jieyu, Poem in Rhyme-Prose Form; Song of Regret

491

(1)

Poets of the Tang Dynasty: Wang Wei and Li Bo

492

(3)

Continuities: The Civilizations of India and China

495

(4)

Glossary

499

(10)

Credits

509

(2)

Index

511

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