Penguin Custom Editions, The Western World, Volume I, for Exploring the Humanities, Volume 1

Author:   Laurie Schneider Adams
Publisher:   Pearson Education (US)
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9780132388290


Pages:   400
Publication Date:   13 March 2006
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Laurie Schneider Adams
Publisher:   Pearson Education (US)
Imprint:   Pearson
Dimensions:   Width: 15.10cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 21.40cm
Weight:   0.484kg
ISBN:  

9780132388290


ISBN 10:   0132388294
Pages:   400
Publication Date:   13 March 2006
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained

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Table of Contents The Myth of Atlantis Plato The Shield of Achilles Homer In the Land of the Dead Homer Odysseus Fools the Cyclops Homer A Faithful Dog Homer Thermopylae: Last Stand of the Spartans Herodotus Soul, the Prisoner of the Body Plato Cosmic Love Plato Know Thyself Plato The Myth of Er Plato The Simile of the Cave Plato The Hippocratic Oath Hippocratic Writings Pericles' Funeral Oration and the Plague Thucydides Pericles Last Speech Thucydides Cutting the Gordian Knot Arrian Alexander Conquers the Indians Arrian The Political Animal Aristotle Analyzing the Epic Aristotle Marry a Poor Wife Plautus The Value of Literature Cicero How to Write Poetry Horace Romulus and Remus Livy Where to Find Women Ovid Caesar Becomes a God Ovid Nero and the Burning of Rome Tacitus The Life of Augustus Suetonius Should a Philosopher Withdraw from the World? Seneca Sex-Crazed Women Juvenal An Extravagant Banquet Petronius The Source of True Beauty Plotinus Religious Parties in Roman Judea Josephus A Miracle Worker Gregory the Great Augustine Describes His Conversion St. Augustine of Hippo The Two Cities St. Augustine of Hippo Wheel of Fortune Boethius Byzantium Meets the Crusaders Anna Comnena Theodora's Scandalous Origins Procopius Sexual Harassment in Ancient Rome Justinian The Believer's Duties The Koran Women The Koran Jews and Christians The Koran The Life of Clovis Gregory of Tours The Emperor Charlemagne Einhard The Death of Roland Anonymous Augustine of Canterbury Bede King Arthur Geoffrey of Monmouth Arthur Becomes King Sir Thomas Malory The Norse Discovery of America Anonymous Monastic Decadence Bernard of Clairvaux In Praise of God's Creation Francis of Assisi Woman Is More Bitter than Death Heloise Forbidden Love and Its Punishment Abelard Thomas Aquinas on Natural Law Thomas Aquinas Lanval and Les Deus Amanz Marie de France Heaven and Hell The Koran Dante Begins His Journey through Hell Dante Alighieri The Gates of Hell Dante Alighieri Paolo and Francesca Dante Alighieri A Group of Medieval Pilgrims Geoffrey Chaucer In Defense of Women Christine de Pizan The Scholar-Poet and His Love Francesco Petrarch The Inquisition Ridiculed Giovanni Boccaccio Nuns in Heat Giovanni Boccaccio In Defense of Liberal Studies Coluccio Salutati The Dignity of Man Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Portrait of a Renaissance Artist Leonardo da Vinci The Prince, the Nobility, and the People Niccolo Machiavelli Whether It Is Better to Be Loved than Feared Niccolo Machiavelli The Ideal Courtier and the Ideal Court Baldesar Castiglione What Women Want Baldesar Castiglione

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