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| Preface | |
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| The Prehistoric Past and the River Cultures of the Ancient World | |
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| The Beginnings of Culture | |
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| Agency and Ritual: Cave Art | |
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| Paleolithic Culture and Its Artifacts | |
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| The Rise of Agriculture Neolithic Pottery | |
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| The Neolithic Megaliths of Northern Europe | |
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| Neolithic Cultures of the Americas | |
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| The Anasazi and the Role of Myth | |
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| Reading | |
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| Talk Concerning the First Beginning | |
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| Mesopotamia: Power and Social Order in the Fertile Crescent Sumerian | |
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| Reading | |
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| from the Law Code of Hammurabi (ca. 1792-1750 BCE) | |
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| Mesopotamian Literature and the Epic of Gilgamesh | |
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| Reading | |
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| from the Epic of Gilgamesh, Tablet VI (ca. 1200 BCE) | |
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| The Hebrews | |
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| Reading | |
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| from the Hebrew Bible (Deuteronomy 6:6-9) | |
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| The Stability of Ancient Egypt: Flood and Sun | |
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| The Nile and Its Culture | |
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| Focus | |
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| Reading the Palette of Narmer | |
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| The Old Kingdom | |
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| The New Kingdom and Its Moment of Change | |
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| The Early Civilizations of China and India | |
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| Reading | |
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| from the Book of Songs | |
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| from the Dao de jing Ancient India | |
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| from ldquo;The Second Teachingrdquo; in the Bhagavad Gita: Krishnarsquo;s Counsel in Time of War | |
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| Continuity And Change | |
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| Egyptian and Greek Sculpture | |
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| The Greek World | |
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| The Classical Tradition | |
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| Bronze Age Culture in the Aegean | |
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| The Cyclades Minoan Culture in Crete | |
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| Mycenean Culture on the Peloponnese | |
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| The Homeric Epics | |
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| Reading | |
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| from Homer, Iliad, Book 24 (ca. 750 BCE) | |
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| The Rise of the Greek City-States | |
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| The Greek Gods | |
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| The Greek Architectural Tradition | |
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| Focus | |
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| The Classical Orders | |
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| Greek Sculpture and the Taste for Naturalism | |
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| Athenian Pottery | |
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| The Poetry of Sappho | |
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| Reading | |
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| lyric poetry | |
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| Reading | |
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| lyric poetry | |
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| Reading | |
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| from Book VII of Herodotus, The Histories | |
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| The Golden Age | |
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| Reading | |
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| History of the Peloponnesian Wars, Periclesrsquo; | |
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| Funeral Speech | |
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| The Architectural Program at the Acropolis | |
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| Reading | |
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| Life of Pericles | |
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| The Sculpture Program at the Parthenon | |
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| Philosophy and the Polis | |
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| The Theater of the People | |
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| The Hellenistic World | |
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| The Empire of Alexander the Great | |