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Human Spirit Sources in the Western Humanities

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ISBN-10: 0130480533

ISBN-13: 9780130480538

Edition: 2004

Authors: Perry M. Rogers

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For a one or two-quarter/semester survey course. This innovative two-volume primary source reader is designed to give students an opportunity to evaluate and interactthrough both discussion and writingwith some of the greatest ideas and creative expressions of humanity. Chronological in formatwith individual units focused on time periods, specific events, and historical questions, it is internally organized around six major themesThe Institution and the Individual; Social and Spiritual Values; The Power Structure; Revolution and Transition; The Varieties of Truth; and Women in History and the Humanities. Throughout the volumes, students are confronted with basic questions regarding…    
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Book details

List price: $93.32
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Pearson Education
Publication date: 12/24/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 408
Size: 7.75" wide x 9.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English

Foundations of Western Civilization (3500 B.C.E. TO 500 C.E.)
Civilization in the Ancient Near East: Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Israel
Mesopotamian Civilization
The Code of Hammurabi
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Biblical Flood
The Mesopotamian View of Death
A Prayer to the Gods of Night
Egyptian Civilization
The Authority of the Pharaohs
Building the Pyramids,Herodotus
Mummification,Herodotus
Ramses the Great
The Architectural Foundation
The Great Pyramids of Egypt
Egyptian Values
Instructions of Kagemni Love Song: ldquo;Would You Then Leave Me?rdquo;
Love Song: ldquo;I Am Your Best Girl.rdquo;
Egyptian Religion
The Pyramid Texts
The Book of the Dead: Negative Confession
Against the Grain: The Amarna Revolution
Hymn to the Aten,Akhenaten
Hebrew Civilization
Origins, Oppression, and the Exodus of the Hebrews from Egypt
The Creation of the World
The Cultural Intersection: Yucatan: 1550
Maya Origins: The Creation of the World
Paradise and the Fall from Grace
The Hebrew Bondage
The Burning Bush
The Mission of Moses
The Departure of the Israelites
Covenant and Commandments
The Ten Commandments
The Covenant Code
The Omnipotence of Yahweh: ldquo;Clothed in Fearful Splendorrdquo;(Job 37-40)
The Reflection in the Mirror: The New Covenant of Jeremiah
ldquo;Deep Within Them I Will Plant My Law.rdquo;
The Glory of Greece
The World of Early Greece
The Trojan War: Homer's Iliad
The Wrath of Achilles,Homer
The Death of Patroclus,Homer
The Death of Hector,Homer
Greek Values: The Odyssey of Homer
The Adventure of the Cyclops,Homer
Odysseus in the Underworld,Homer
The Return of Odysseus,Homer
The Heroic Age
The Poetry of Sappho,Sappho
The Olympic Ideal,Pindar
Works and Days,Hesiod
Early Greek Philosophy
Thales of Miletus: Water Is the Primary Element,Aristotle
Anaximenes: ldquo;The First Principle Is Infinite Air,rdquo;Hippolytus
Pythagoras on the Transmigration of the Soul,Diodorus
The Classical Era: The Golden Age of Athens
Greek Tragedy