Aspects of Western Civilization: Problems and Sources in History, Volume 1

7. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-0-205-70833-8
Verlag: Pearson

Buch, Englisch, 408 Seiten, Format (B × H): 187 mm x 232 mm, Gewicht: 733 g

This reader is appropriate as a main text or a supplementary text for introductory-level survey courses in Western Civilization and European History and Civilization.

: , challenges students with basic questions regarding historical development, human nature, moral action, and practical necessity. This collection of diverse primary sources explores a wide variety of issues and is organized around seven major themes: the Power Structure, Social and Spiritual Values, the Institution and the Individual, Imperialism, Revolution and Historical Transition, the Varieties of Truth, and Women in History.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rogers

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PREFACE Chapter 1: Civilization in the Ancient Near East: Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Israel Mesopotamian Civilization The Reign of Sargon The Code of Hammurabi The Epic of Gilgamesh The Biblical Flood Egyptian Civilization Building the Pyramids Herodotus Mummification Herodotus Ramses the Great The Artistic Vision: The Great Pyramids Instructions of Kagemni The Pyramid Texts The Book of the Dead: Negative Confession Against the Grain: The Amarna Revolution Akhenaten Hebrew Civilization The Creation of the World Paradise and the Fall from Grace The Hebrew Bondage The Burning Bush The Mission of Moses The Departure of the Israelites The Ten Commandments The Covenant Code Job: Clothed In Fearful Splendor Psalm 104: All Creatures Depend On You Amos: Let Justice Flow Like Water Yahweh: There Is No God Except Me Isaiah's Vision of Everlasting Peace The Reflection in the Mirror: The New Covenant of Jeremiah Deep Within Them, I Shall Plant My Law Chapter 2: Legend and History: The World of Early Greece The Trojan War: Homer's The Wrath of Achilles Homer The Death of Hector Homer Homecoming: The of Homer The Adventure of the Cyclops Homer Odysseus in the Underworld Homer The Return of Odysseus Homer Early Greek Literature (700-500 B.C.E.) Pandora's Box of Evil Hesiod : Advice for the Wise Hesiod Greek Love Poetry Sappho The Celebration of Athletic Glory Pindar Chapter 3: Democracy and Empire: The Golden Age of Athens The Greek Polis: Two Ways of Life Man Is a Political Animal Aristotle The City-State of Sparta: Reforms of Lycurgus Plutarch Spartan Discipline Plutarch Happiness Depends on Being Free, and Freedom Depends on Courage: The Funeral Oration of Pericles (430 B.C.E.) Thucydides The Historian at Work Herodotus As Rich as Croesus: The Happiest of Men? The Persian Wars and the Defense of Greece (490480 B.C.E.) The Spartans Will Fight Herodotus The 300 Spartans at Thermopylae (480 B.C.E.) Herodotus Greek Tragedy (480-430 B.C.E.) (430 B.C.E.) Sophocles (441 B.C.E.) Sophocles The Athenian Empire, War, and Decline (480404 B.C.E.) The Historian at Work: Thucydides Bloodbath at Corcyra The Mytilenian Debate (427 B.C.E.) Thucydides The Melian Dialogue (416 B.C.E.) Thucydides The Reflection in the Mirror Hubris: The Conceit of Power (415 B.C.E.) Euripides The Sicilian Disaster (413 B.C.E.) Thucydides Women and War: (411 B.C.E.) Aristophanes Against the Grain The Trial of Socrates You Will Not Easily Find Another Like Me Plato Chapter 4: The Age of Alexander the Great The Rise of Macedon and the Fall of Greece The First Philippic (351 B.C.E.) Demosthenes They Speak of Nothing But Your Power (346 B.C.E.) Isocrates On the Crown (330 B.C.E.) Demosthenes Alexander the Great? Carve Out a Kingdom Worthy of Yourself! Plutarch The Destruction of Persepolis Diodorus Siculus The Character and Leadership of Alexander Arrian Making Humankind a Single People Plutarch The Thought of the Age The Unenlightened Majority Plato Allegory of the Cave Plato The Equality of Women in the State Plato Virtue and Moderation: The Doctrine of the Mean Aristotle The Status of Women Aristotle Chapter 5: The Roman Republic: Origins, Breakdown, and Rebirth Roman Virtues in the Early and Middle Republic (753-150 B.C.E.) The Historian at Work: Titus Livy The Power of the Past The Oath of the Horatii: One of the Great Stories of Ancient Times Livy The Rape of Lucretia Livy The Courage of Mucius Scaevola Livy Hannibal at the Gates! Livy Cracks in the Wall: The Breakdown Begins (150-100 B.C. E.) The Destruction of Carthage (146 B.C.E.) Appian The Growth of the Latifundia Appian The Murder of Tiberius Gracchus (133 B.C.E.) Plutarch Vengeance with Excessive Cruelty Sallust The Fall of the Roman Republic (10031 B.C.E.) The Historian at Work: Appian The Revolt of Spartacus The Die Is Cast: Caesar Crosses the Rubicon Suetonius We Must Trust to the Mercy of the Storm Cicero Caesar's Reforms Suetonius Abuse of Power Suetonius The Assassination of Julius Caesar (44 B.C.E.) Plutarch A Public Prostitute: The Philippic Against Mark Antony Cicero The Murder of Cicero: Antony's Greatest and Bitterest Enemy Appian Against the Grain Cleopatra: Queen of the Nile The Attraction Was Something Bewitching Plutarch She Was No Weak-Kneed Woman Horace The Establishment of the Augustan Principate (31-27 B.C.E.) The Powers and Authority of the Emperor Dio Cassius The Transition from Republic to Principate Tacitus : The Accomplishments of Augustus Augustus The Mission: To Spare the Conquered and Crush the Proud Virgil Chapter 6: Caesar and Christ Roman State Religion and the Mystery Cults The Imperial Cult: The Deification of Augustus Dio Cassius Invasion of the Eastern Cults Minucius Felix Orgiastic Frenzy Apuleius The Message of Jesus The Baptism of Jesus The Sermon on the Mount The Good Samaritan The Mission of Jesus Instructions to the Twelve Disciples Peter: The Rock Suffering, Persecution, and the Son of Man The Final Judgment The Work of Paul Paul's Answer to the Intellectuals Neither Jew Nor Greek, Male Nor Female The Resurrection of Christ Conflict and the Development of the Christian ChurchThe Historian at Work: Flavius Josephus Mass Suicide at Masada The Persecution of Christians Under Nero (64 C.E.) Tacitus The Infection of This Superstition Has Spread Pliny the Younger A Religion of Lust: Anti-Christian Propaganda Minucius Felix The Reflection in the Mirror Christians to the Lions! A Christian Defense Tertullian First Principles of the Early Church (225 C.E.) Origen Saint Augustine Against the Grain Augustine: From Sinner to Saint Saint Augustine The Petrine Theory Pope Leo I Loyalty to the Pope: Oath to Gregory II (723 C.E.) Bishop Boniface Chapter 7:The and the Decline of Rome Strength and Success (14180 C.E.) The Imperial Army Favius Josephus A Roman Triumph Zonaras Imperial Patronage Pliny the Younger Techniques of Roman Control Tacitus The Historian at Work: Tacitus The Murder of Agrippina The Glory of the City Strabo The Artistic Vision: The Roman Aqueduct: Pont du Gard The Magnificence of the Baths Lucian The Bath House Seneca The Dark Side of Rome Juvenal Bread and Circuses Fronto The Give and Take of Death: Gladiatorial Combat Seneca Charming Privacy: The Rural Aristocrat Pliny the Younger Social and Intellectual Aspects of the Subordinate Beauty Valerius Maximus The Funeral Eulogy of Turia Quintus Lucretius Vespillo A Slave Rebellion Pliny the Younger The Proper Treatment of Slaves Seneca Social Mobility: Once a Mere Worm, Now a King Petronius What Is the Principal Thing in Life? Seneca Marcus Aurelius Failure and Decline (180500 C.E.) Empire for Sale (193 C.E.) Dio Cassius News of the Attacks Jerome The Reflection in the Mirror: The Decline of the West Decline and Christianity Edward Gibbon
Chapter 8: Icon, Scimitar, and Cross: E arly Medieval Civilization (500-1100) Byzantine Civilization  

Über Autor(innen)

Perry M. Rogers received his B.A. from San Jose State University, his M.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles, and his Ph.D. from the University of Washington where he specialized in ancient history with fields in medieval history, and Early Modern Europe. He has been a professor of Roman history at the Ohio State University and has held an adjunct position in the Liberal Arts at the Pontifical College Josephinum for several years. He remains Chair of the History Department at Columbus School for Girls, an independent, college preparatory school in Columbus, Ohio. Rogers’s two-volume publications for Pearson/Prentice Hall include (7 edition), , and .