Traditions: Humanities Readings Through the Ages
Traditions Spring 2011 TRADITIONS: HUMANITIES READINGS THROUGH THE AGES • An Introduction to the Work accompanies each selection and is optional. • Lengthy works (novels, plays, etc.) are available by individual sections (Chapters, Act, etc.). FIRST CIVILIZATIONS Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching Babylon, Code of Hammurabi Ancient India, The Bhagavad-Gita Ancient Egypt, The Book of the Dead (excerpt) Mesopotamia, Epic of Gilgamesh (excerpt) Ancient Maya, Popul Vuh (excerpt) CLASSICISM: GREECE Aeschylus, Agamemnon Aristophanes, Lysistrata Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics Euripides, Electra Euripides, Medea Euripides, Trojan Women Hesiod, Creation Story (Theogony) Homer, Iliad Plato, Crito Plato, The Republic Sophocles, Antigone Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus Sophocles, Oedipus Rex BEYOND THE WEST: WORLD HISTORY, RELIGIONS AND PHILOSOPHIES Confucius, The Analects Hindu Tradition, The Upanishads THE AGE OF THE RENAISSANCE Giovanni Boccaccio, Decameron Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales (Prologue: The Miller’s Tale) Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Christine Pisan, The Book of the City of Ladies (excerpt) selections REFORMATION John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion (excerpt) William Shakespeare, Hamlet William Shakespeare, Sonnet 2: “When forty winters shall besiege thy brow,” William Shakespeare, Sonnet 12: “When I do count the clock that tell the time,” www.mcgrawhillcreate/traditions 1 Traditions Spring 2011 William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18: “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” William Shakespeare, Sonnet 20: “A woman’s face with nature’s
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