Readings in Ancient History: Thought and Experience from Gilgamesh to St. AugustineNels M. Bailkey D.C. Heath, 1992 - 507 من الصفحات This primary source reader covers the entire span of ancient history, providing helpful editorial material and carefully selected sources to promote student learning. The selections in this text encourage critical thinking through an examination of parallel developments across ancient civilizations during the same historical periods. |
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Near Eastern Civilizations | 1 |
The Sumerian Heroic Age 43 | 4 |
The Babylonian Noah | 13 |
He established freedom | 18 |
The Babylonian Job | 21 |
All Is Vanity | 25 |
Moral Religion and Social Justice | 27 |
To further the welfare of the people | 30 |
Good and Bad Constitutions | 259 |
Its True Object | 260 |
Education | 262 |
The Best Constitution | 263 |
Causes of Revolution | 265 |
Preserving Constitutions | 266 |
Nationalism | 268 |
Athenians when will you act as becomes you? | 269 |
Early Material Values in Egypt | 39 |
Thought Divorced from Myth | 43 |
A Time of Trouble and Messianism | 46 |
Wine Women and Song | 49 |
The Denial of All Values | 53 |
Moral Religion and a Blessed Hereafter | 56 |
Religious Reform and Monotheism | 58 |
Imperialism and International Diplomacy | 62 |
Hebrew Views on God and on History | 64 |
A Earliest Relations Between Man and God | 65 |
The Patriarchs | 70 |
Bondage and Deliverance | 72 |
The Sinai Covenant | 76 |
So perish all thine enemies O Lord | 81 |
To govern us like all the nations | 85 |
A great name like the name of the great ones of the earth | 86 |
Prophet of the New Covenant | 93 |
Monotheism and Universalism | 97 |
A Perplexed Sufferer | 103 |
Poetry of Love | 105 |
The Meditations of a Skeptic | 109 |
Resurrection of the Dead | 112 |
The Persians Reject Democracy | 115 |
Greek Civilization | 119 |
Changing Times Bring on a Moral Order | 139 |
The Athenian New Deal | 153 |
East Versus West | 171 |
The Failure of Sparta | 185 |
The Statesmans Handbook | 199 |
The Athenians Overthrow Dictatorship | 217 |
Turning the eye of the soul toward the light | 237 |
A state exists for the sake of the good life | 255 |
A Criticism of Communism | 258 |
A champion powerful in action | 273 |
You took the most glorious course in pursuance of my counsels | 278 |
Divinely sent to govern the world | 282 |
The Cynic Counterculture | 288 |
Theocritus | 292 |
Realism | 294 |
Archimedes | 298 |
Roman Civilization | 303 |
The Early Romans | 306 |
The greatest nation in the world | 307 |
Monarchy Abolished | 309 |
A noble piece of work | 314 |
The Constitution of the Roman Republic | 317 |
The Foreign Policy of the Roman Republic | 323 |
Traditional Standards in a New Age | 328 |
The Roman New Deal | 333 |
The Roman New Deal Continued | 341 |
The Roman Republic in Decay | 348 |
The Man and the Statesman | 355 |
Liberty Freedom Tyranny is | 365 |
An eloquent man who loved his country well | 371 |
Romantic Excitements | 388 |
Contrasting Estimates | 404 |
Divergent Views | 416 |
B Emergency Measures to Deal with Depression | 429 |
Either atoms or Providence | 436 |
The Beginnings of Christianity | 444 |
Christianity and GrecoRoman Thought | 466 |
The Persecution of Christians | 480 |
The Reforms of Diocletian | 492 |
The Early Germans | 497 |
Two Views | 503 |
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