COURSE INTRODUCTION

Required Texts:

Humanities: From Ancient Mesopotamia to the Renaissance in England

Julius Caesar

Hamlet

 

List of Films:

Old Testament:

 The Ten Commandments (1956)

David and Goliath (1960)

 Greece:

The Fury of Achilles (1962)

 Ulysses (1954)

The Giant of Marathon (1960)

Rome: 

 Hero of Rome (1964)

Spartacus (1960)

Julius Caesar (1953)

Middle Ages:

 The Name of the Rose (1986)

Additional Films:

300 (2007)

Fellini Satyricon (1969)

Romeo and Juliet (1968)

Elizabeth (1998)

Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007) 

Shakespeare in Love (1998)

Henry V (1944)

Hamlet (1996)

Doctor Faustus (1967)

 

References:

Encyclopedia Britannica

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

World History Encyclopedia

Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Writing Basics

Purdue Owl MLA Formatting and Style Guide  

Texts:

Internet Sacred Text Archive

More:

Philosophy

Ethics

Fantasy Worlds

Western Philosophy Timeline

 

MESOPOTAMIA AND EGYPT

Flood Story from the Epic of Gilgamesh  (2100 b.c.e.)

Prose Translation                                                       

Verse Translation                                                     

Assyro-Babylonian Cosmogony

Enuma Elish (1750 b.c.e.)   Article at World History Encyclopedia                                 

Babylonian Law

The Code of Hammurabi    (1700 b.c.e.)                                                    

Egyptian Cosmogony

Legend of the Creation   

GREECE AND MACEDON

Hesiod (fl. c. 700 b.c.e.)

From Theogony                                              

From Works and Days                                                        

Homer (fl. 8th or 9th century b.c.e.)

From The Iliad, Book 1.1-52                                            

From The Iliad, Book 18.202-214                         

From The Iliad, Book 18.462-616            

From The Odyssey, Book 11                     

Aeschylus (525/4-456 b.c.e.)

Selections                                                    

Sophocles (496-406 b.c.e.)

Selections                                                           

Thucydides (c. 495-429 b.c.e.)

From The Peloponnesian Wars: Pericles’ Funeral Oration      

Aristophanes (c. 445-c. 380 b.c.e.)

Selections                                                                                    

Parabasis from Clouds                                                   

Plato (427-347 b.c.e.)

From The Timæus                                                           

Xenophon (c. 450-354 b.c.e.)

From Anabasis (The Persian Expedition)                             

Aristotle (384-322 b.c.e.)

Learning and “Metaphysics”                                     

Friendship and Love                                                 

Aesthetics                          

Ethics and Eudemonia                       

Political Philosophy                                     

Alexander the Great (356-323 b.c.e.)

Speech at Opis, In Ancient Greek

Map showing the Greek world during the Greco-Persian Wars (ca. 500–479 BC).

Greece, Asia Minor and Sicily during the Peloponnesian Wars. Source.

The Empire of Alexander

OLD TESTAMENT

In the Beginning…

Genesis Ch. 1-2 : 4a, Ch. 2 : 4b-25

Noah and the Noahide Laws

Genesis: Ch. 5-9                                         

The Ten Commandments

Exodus 19-20                                         

Civil Law

Exodus 21                        

Psalms 23, 144

Old Testament in Five Minutes

ca. 1000 - 962 BCE

2 Kings 24:20 "For because of the anger of the LORD this happened in Jerusalem
and Judah, that He finally cast them out from His presence"

Charlton Heston in The Ten Commandments (1956)

Jonah Under His Gourd by Maarten van Heemskerck (1498-1574)

The Flood Story: Genesis and Gilgamesh

	Genesis	Gilgamesh
Extent of flood	Global	Global
Cause	Man's wickedness	Man's sins
Intended for whom?	All mankind	One city & all mankind
Sender	Yahweh	Assembly of "gods"
Name of hero	Noah	Utnapishtim
Hero's character	Righteous	Righteous
Means of announcement	Direct from God	In a dream
Ordered to build boat?	Yes	Yes
Did hero complain?	Yes	Yes
Height of boat	Several stories (3)	Several stories (6)
Compartments inside?	Many	Many
Doors	One	One
Windows	At least one	At least one
Outside coating	Pitch	Pitch
Shape of boat	Rectangular	Square
Human passengers	Family members only	Family & few others
Other passengers	All species of animals	All species of animals
Means of flood	Ground water & heavy rain	Heavy rain
Duration of flood	Long (40 days & nights plus)	Short (6 days & nights)
Test to find land	Release of birds	Release of birds
Types of birds	Raven & three doves	Dove, swallow, raven
Ark landing spot	Mountain -- Mt. Ararat	Mountain -- Mt. Nisir
Sacrificed after flood?	Yes, by Noah	Yes, by Utnapishtim
Blessed after flood?	Yes	Yes

  Source: Lorey, Frank.  “The Flood of Genesis and the Flood of Gilgamesh”