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(NOTE: Numbers in brackets refer to corresponding chapters in Adventures in the Human Spirit) | |
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The Ancient World | |
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Egyptian Myth The Egyptian Creation: Earth and Sky | |
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Mesopotamian Myth From the Enuma Elish | |
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Confucius The Great Learning. Buddha Buddha's Four Noble Truths | |
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The Greeks | |
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The Iliad The Iliad, Book XXIV; Achilles and Priam | |
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The Odyssey The Odyssey, Book IX: The Kyklops | |
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Sappho Poems to Aphrodite | |
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Sophocles Oedipus the King | |
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Plato Apology of Socrates | |
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From The Republic, Book XVII: The Allegory of the Cave | |
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Aristotle, From the Nichomachean Ethics: On Happiness | |
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The Romans | |
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Catullus Catullus Lyric | |
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Virgil The Aeneid: From Book I | |
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Book XIV: Aeneas and Dido | |
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Lucretius From On the Nature of the Universe, Book III | |
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Marcus Aurelius From Meditations, Book II | |
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Christianity and Islam | |
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The Hebrew Bible The Hebrew Creation | |
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Job | |
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The New Testament | |
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The Birth of Jesus | |
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The Sermon on the Mount | |
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The Parable of the Prodigal Son | |
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Augustine From The Confessions | |
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The Qur'an The Qur'an | |
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The Middle Ages [5, 6] | |
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The Song of Roland From The Song of Roland | |
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Medieval Lyric Poetry | |
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From Garmina Burana | |
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Dante Aligheri From The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Books 1-5, Book 26 | |
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Geoffrey Chaucer The Wife of Bath's Tale | |
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From The Book of the City of Ladies | |
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The Renaissance and Reformation [7, 8] Francis Petrarch Pico Della Mirandola From Oration on the Dignity of Man | |
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Machiavelli From The Prince | |
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Erasmus From In Praise of Folly | |
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Michel De Montaigne From In Defense of Raymond Sebond | |
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Baroque and Enlightenment, [9, 10] | |
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Rene Descartes From Discourse on Method | |
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Swift A Modest Proposal | |
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Baroque and Enlightenment Poetry St | |
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Teresa of Avila, I gave myself to Love Divine." | |
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Not Proud | |
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Alexander Pope, From Essay on Man | |
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Revolution, Romanticism, and Realism [11, 12] | |
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The Declaration of Independence | |
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Romantic Poetry William Blake: The Lamb | |
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The Tyger | |
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Lines Composed a Few Miles Above | |
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Mary Shelley From Frankenstein, or the MOdern | |
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Prometheus | |
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Symbolist Poetry Charles Baudelaire, To the Reader | |
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Emily Dickinson, Much Madness is divinest Sense | |
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Rainer Maria Rilke, Torso of a Archaic Apollo | |
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Fyodor Dostoevsky From The Brothers Karamazov: The Legend of the Grand Inquisitor | |
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The Modern Mind [13] | |
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Modernist Poetry William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming | |
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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock | |
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Countee Cullen, Sottsboro, Too Is Worth Its Song | |
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Virginia Woolf From A Room of One's Own | |
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Contemporary Voices [14] | |
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