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| The Western Humanities, 6/e | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction: Why Study Cultural History? | |
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| A Humanities Primer: How to Understand the Arts | |
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| Prehistory And Near Eastern Civilizations | |
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| Prehistory and Early Cultures Paleolithic Period Neolithic Period Technology in Early Cultures | |
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| Stone Age Technology Bronze Age Technology Iron Age Technology | |
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| The Civilizations of the Tigris and Euphrates | |
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| River Valley: Mesopotamia ���� | |
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| The Sumerian, Akkadian, and Babylonian Kingdoms ���� | |
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| The Cradle of Civilization �������� | |
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| Writing Encounter: "Phonecians and Their Alphabet" �������� | |
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| Religion �������� | |
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| Literature ��Slice of Life: "A Sumerian Father Lectures His Son" �������� | |
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| Law Science: Astronomy, Mathematics, and Medicine �������� | |
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| Art and Architecture The Civilization of the Nile River Valley: Egypt ���� | |
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| Continuity and Change over Three Thousand Years ���� | |
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| A Quest for Eternal Cultural Values �������� | |
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| Religion �������� | |
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| Writing and Literature ��Slice of Life: "The Instruction of Amenemope" Science and Medicine Architecture Sculpture | |
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| Painting, and Minor Arts Heirs to the Mesopotamian and Egyptian Empires | |
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| The Hittites The Assyrians The Medes The Persians | |
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| The Legacy of Early Near Eastern Civilizations | |
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| Key Cultural Terms Suggestions for Further Reading Timeline | |
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| Aegean Civilizations: The Minoans | |
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| The Mycenaeans, And The Greeks Of The Archaic Age Prelude: Minoan Civilization, 3000 - 1100 B.C.E | |
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| Beginnings: Mycenaean Civilization, 1900 - 1100 B.C.E. Technology in Minoan Crete and Mycenae Crete and Mycenae Archaic Greece Interlude: The Dark Ages, 1100 - 800 B.C.E | |
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| The Archaic Age, 800 - 479 B.C.E. ���� | |
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| Political, Economic, and Social Structures ���� | |
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| The Greek Polis: Sparta and Athens ���� | |
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| Technology in Archaic Greece The Persian Wars Encounter: "Near Estern Art and Greek Pottery" | |
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| The Emergence of Greek Genius: The Mastery of Form ����Religion ���� | |
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| Epic Poetry Lyric Poetry Slice of Life: "The Worlds of Women and Men in Ancient Greece" ���� | |
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| Natural Philosophy ���� | |
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| Medicine Architecture ���� | |
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| Sculpture The Legacy of Archaic Greek Civilization Key Cultural Terms Suggestions for Further Reading Timeline | |
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| Classical Greek Civilization: The Hellenic Age | |
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| General Characteristics of Hellenic Civilization Domestic and Foreign Affairs: War, Peace, and the Triumph of Macedonia Phases of the Hellenic Age Technology | |
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| Shipbuilding Warfare The Perfection of the Tradition: The Glory of Hellenic Greece ���� | |
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| Theater: Tragedy �������� | |
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| Features of the Greek Theater ���� | |
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| Encounter: The Representation of Blacks in Greek Art �������� | |
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| Tragic Drama �������� | |
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| Aeschylus �������� | |
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| Sophocles �������� | |
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| Euripides ����Theater: Comedy ����Music ���� | |
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| History ����Philosophy, Science and Medicine �������� | |
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| The Pre-Socratics �������� | |
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| The Sophists �������� | |
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| The Socratic Revolution �������� | |
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| Plato �������� | |
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| Aristotle ����Architecture �������� | |
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| Sanctuaries �������� | |
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| The Temple: The Perfection of the Form ���� | |
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| Slice of Life: Xenophon, "Secrets of a Successful Marriage" ����Sculpture | |
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| The Legacy of Hellenic Civilization Key Cultural Terms Suggestions for Further Reading Timeline | |
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| Classical Greek Civilization: The Hellenistic Age | |
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| The Stages of Hellenistic History ���� | |
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| The End of the Empire and the Rise of the States ���� | |
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| The Arrival and Triumph of Rome Urban Life in the Hellenistic Age ����Pergamum ���� | |
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| Alexandria in Egypt ���� | |
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| Slice of Life: Theocritus, "Street Scene in Hellenistic Egypt | |
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| The Elaboration of the Greek Tradition: The Spread of Classicism to the Hellenistic World ���� | |
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| Drama and Literature ���� | |
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| Philosophy and Religion �������� | |
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| Cynicism �������� | |
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| Skepticism �������� | |
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| Epicureanism �������� | |
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| Stoicism �������� | |
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| Fate and the Mystery Cults Science and Medicine Encounter: "The Invention of Parchment and the Birth of the Secular Library" ���� | |
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| Architecture �������� | |
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| The Corinthian Temple �������� | |
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| The Altar ���� | |
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| Sculpture ���� | |
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| Rhodes: Late Hellenistic Style | |
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| The Legacy of the Hellenistic World Key Cultural Terms Suggestions for Further Reading Timeline | |
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| Roman Civilization: The Pre-Christian Centuries | |
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| The Colossus of the Mediterranean World ���� | |
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| General Characteristics of Roman Civilization Technology Warfare Construction ���� | |
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| The Etruscan and Greek Connections ���� | |
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| Rome in the Age of Kings, 753-509 B.C. ���� | |
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| The Roman Republ | |