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Defining the Humanities and Cultural Roots for the Twenty-First Century | |
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Earliest Civilizations | |
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Mesopotamia | |
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The City-State Culture | |
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Sumerian Architecture and Art Sumerian Mythology, Religion, and Worship | |
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Sumerian Music Daily Lives: A Day in School Literacy and Literature in Mesopotamia | |
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The Mesopotamian Empire Reading | |
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Selections:From The Epic of Gilgamesh | |
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From The Hammurabi Code | |
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Egypt and the Kingdom of Kush | |
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The First and Second Dynasties (31002686 B.C.) | |
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The Old Kingdom (26862180 B.C.) | |
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The Middle Kingdom (21401786 B.C.) | |
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The New Kingdom (15701085 B.C.) | |
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Daily Lives: Schools and Scribes | |
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The Third Intermediate Period and the Late Period (1085332 B.C.) | |
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The Ptolemaic Period (33230 B.C.) | |
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Egyptian Music Nubia and the Kingdom of Kush | |
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Reading Selections:The Instruction of Ptah-hotep | |
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From the Book of the Dead | |
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Amenhotep IV (Akhenaton), The Great Hymn to the Aten | |
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Egyptian Love Poetry | |
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The Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian Roots | |
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Early Greece Hellenism: The Rise of Greek Culture | |
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Greek Religion and Mythology Homer and the Epic | |
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The Lyric | |
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The Archaic Period: Architecture and Sculpture | |
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Reading Selections:Homer, from the Iliad; From the Odyssey | |
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Sappho, Selected Lyric Poems and Fragments | |
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Classical Greece: Politics, Art, Drama Politics and Life in Ancient Athens | |
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The Classical Period: Architecture and Sculpture | |
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From Classical to Hellenistic Sculpture | |
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Classical Greek Drama | |
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Daily Lives: Going to the Theater in Ancient Athens | |
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Greek Comedy Reading Selections:Thucydides, Pericles' Funeral Oration | |
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Sophocles, Oedipus Rex | |
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Euripides, The Women of Troy | |
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Classical Greece: Philosophy and Ethical Thought | |
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The Pre-Socratics Socrates (470?399 B.C.) | |
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Plato (427? 347 B.C.) | |
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Aristotle (384322 B.C.) | |
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Reading Selections:Heraclitus of Ephesus, Fragments | |
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Plato, The Allegory of the Cave; The Death of Socrates | |
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Aristotle, from the Politics; The High-Minded Man; From the Poetics | |
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The Culture of Rome Hellenistic and Roman | |
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History and Thought | |
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Daily Lives: The Shrewd Landowner | |
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Roman Art and Architecture | |
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Roman Literature | |
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Reading Selections:Cicero, from On the Laws | |
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Ovid, from the Metamorphoses | |
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Virgil, from the Aeneid | |
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Horace, My Slave is Free to Speak Up for Himself Juvenal, Satire | |
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On Leaving Rome | |
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Lucretius, from the Triumph Song of Death | |
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Marcus Aurelius, from the Meditations | |
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Judaism and Early Christianity | |
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The Ancient Hebrews and the Bible | |
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The Prophets and the Fall of Israel | |
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Early Christianity | |
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The End of Antiquity | |
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The Barbarian Influence in the Western Roman Empire | |
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Early Christian Music: Gregorian Chant | |
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Daily Lives: Life in an Early Medieval Monastery | |
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Reading Selections:Genesis: The Creation; The Fall | |
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Exodus: The Ten Commandments | |
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Judges: The Song of Deborah | |
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Psalms: Psalm | |
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The Prophets: Amos | |
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From the Song of Solomon | |
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The Gospel According to Luke: The Magnificat | |
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The Gospel According to Matthew: The Sermon on the Mount | |
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The Apostle Paul: From the Letter to the Ephesians | |
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From the First Letter to the Corinthians | |
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Augustine, from the Confessions | |
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Medieval Cultures | |
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The Byzantine and the Islamic Empires | |
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The Eastern Roman Empire, or Byzantium | |
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The Threat of Islam and Separation from the West | |
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Collapse of the Byzantine Empire (1261-1453) | |
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Byzantium as a Transmitter of Ancient | |
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Greek Culture to the West | |
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The Islamic Empire | |
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Daily Lives: The Quran on Women | |
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Reading Selections:From the Quran | |
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Sufi Poetry | |
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Ibn Zaydun, Poem to Walladah | |
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Four Poems Addressed to Ibn Zaydun | |
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From The Thousand and One Nights | |
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Medieval Europe: Culture and the Cathedral Medieval Revivals | |
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Daily Lives: Hildegard of Bingen: An Exceptional Medieval Woman | |
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Medieval Art and the Church: The Gothic | |
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Cathedral Music and Drama in the Cathedral Reading Selections:William of Rubruck, Letter from Mongolia | |
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Marco Polo, from the Travels of Marco Polo | |
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The Play of Daniel | |
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Divine and Human Love in Medieval Europe | |
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The Adoration of the Virgin Mary | |
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Representations of the Virgin Mary | |
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The Literature and Music of Courtly | |
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Love Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) | |
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Chaucer (c. 1342-1400) and the Comedy of Love | |
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Polyphonic Music | |
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Reading Selections:From The Letters of Abelard and Heloise | |
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Bernart de Ventadorn, Be m'an perdut | |
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Quis Dabit Capiti | |
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The Countess of Die, Selected Lyrics | |
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Dante Alighieri, from the Divine Comedy | |
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Geoffrey Chaucer, The Miller's Tale | |
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The Western African Cultural Root | |
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African Backgrounds Images of Africa in the West Africa and America Stages in African History | |
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Reading Selections:The Culture of Benin: From A Short History of Benin | |
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From Benin Oral Literature | |
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European Accounts of Benin: Ruy de Pina, from the Chronicle of John II | |
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Willem Bosman, from New and Accurate Description of the Coast of Guinea | |
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West African Languages and Literature: The Oral Tradition and Its Legacy | |
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Written Literature in Africa Oral Literature | |
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African Myths and Religions: Some Generalizations Tales (Hausa) | |
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Riddles Proverbs Poetry | |
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Daily Lives: Language, Learning, and Performance | |
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Reading Selections:The Epic: From Sundiata | |
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Myths: Two Yoruba Myths of Creation | |
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Myths on the Separation of Man from God | |
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Myths on the Origin of Death | |
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Tales and Proverbs: A Labarai Tale | |
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Tatsuniyoyi Tales | |
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Yoruba Proverbs | |
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Poetry: Oriki--Yoruba Praise Poems | |
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Iwi--The Poetry of Yoruba Masqueraders | |
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Fulani Poetry | |
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Ga Poetry | |
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Visual and Musical Arts of West Africa | |
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Visual Arts African | |
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Music African Arts in Festival: The Efe/Gelede of the Western Yoruba | |
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The Asian Cultural Root | |
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An Introduction to the Civilization of India | |
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India's Early History Hinduism | |
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Daily Lives: Manu the Lawgiver Buddhism and Islam | |
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The Village Indian Literature | |
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Art and Architecture | |
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Music and Dance | |
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Reading Selections:From the Bhagavad Gita | |
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From the Kamasutra of Vatsyayana | |
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The Buddha's Sermon in the Deer Park | |
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From The Bodhisattva | |
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An Introduction to the Civilizations of China and Japan | |
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Daily Lives: Rites of Ancestor Worship | |
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China from 2000 B.C. to A.D. 221 | |
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Religion and Philosophical Thought China from 221 B.C. to A.D. 221 | |
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Buddhism and the Age of Dispersal (220-586) | |
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China from 581 to 1300 | |
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Science and Technology | |
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Foreign Trade Why Not China? | |
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Why Europe? | |
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Chinese Poetry | |
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Art and Architecture | |
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Music Japan: Early Civilization Late Bronze Age | |
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The Yamato Court (Fourth Through Seventh Centuries A.D.) | |
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The High Culture of the Nara Period (710-794) | |
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The Heian Court (794-1192) | |
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The Rise of Medieval Society Japan and the West | |
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Reading Selections:Confucius, From the Analecta (Commentaries and Sayings) | |
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Lao Zi, Dao De Jing (Tao-te Ching) | |
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Gou Xiang, Commentary on the Chuang Tzu | |
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Zong Bing, Introduction to Landscape Painting | |
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A Commentary on Buddhismby Mou Tzu | |
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Ban Jieyu (Pan Chieh-Yuuml;), Poem in Rhyme--Prose Form; Song of Regret | |
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Poets of the Tang Dynasty: Wang Wei and Li Bo, Poems from the Manyocirc;shucirc; | |
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Ono no Komachi, Poems | |
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The Tale of the Heike | |
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Lady Sarashina, A | |