Readings in Ancient History: Thought and Experience from Gilgamesh to St. Augustine

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Nels 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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