西方人文读本

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION：

Why Study Cultural History?

A HUMANITIES PRIMER：

How to Understand the Arts

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PREHISTORY AND

NEAR EASTERN

CIVILIZATIONS

PREHISTORY AND EARLY CULTURES

Paleolithic Period

Neolithic Period

Technology in Early Cultures

Stone Age Technology Bronze Age Technology

Iron Age Technology

THE CIVILIZATIONS OF THE TIGRIS AND

EUPHRATES RIVER VALLEY： MESOPOTAMIA

The Sumerian， Akkadian， and Babylonian Kingdoms

The Cradle of Civilization

Writing Religion

ENCOUNTER The Phoenicians and the Alphabet

Literature Law

SLICE OF LIFE “A Sumerian Father Lectures His Son”

Anonymous， from clay tablets

Science， Mathematics， and Medicine Art and

Architecture

THE CIVILIZATION OF THE NILE RIVER VALLEY：

EGYPT

Continuity and Change over Three Thousand Years

A Quest for Eternal Cultural Values

Religion Writing and Literature Science and Medicine

SLICE OF LIFE Life's Instruction Book for Egyptians

Anonymous， from A Papyrus Text

Architecture ~ Sculpture， Painting， and Minor

Arts

HEIRS TO THE MESOPOTAMIAN AND EGYPTIAN

EMPIRES

The Hittites

The Assyrians

The Medes

The Persians

THE LEGACY OF EARLY NEAR EASTERN

CIVILIZATIONS

KEY CULTURAL TERMS

SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING

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AEGEAN CIVILIZATIONS

The Minoans， the Mycenaeans，

and the Greeks of the Archaic

Age

PRELUDE： MINOAN CIVILIZATION，

3000-1100 B.C.E.

BEGINNINGS： MYCENAEAN CWILIZATION，

1900-1100 KC.E.

Technology in Minoan Crete and Mycenae

INTERLUDE： THE DARK AGES， 1100-800 B.C.E.

THE ARCHAIC AGE， 800-479 B.C.E.

Political， Economic， and Social Structures

The Greek PolLs： Sparta and Athens

Technology in Archaic Greece

The Persian Wars

THE EMERGENCE OF GREEK GENIUS： THE

MASTERY OF FORM

Religion

Literature

Epic Poetry Lyric Poetry

ENCOUNTER Near Eastern Art and Greek Pottery

Philosophy， Science， and Medicine

Natural Philosophy

SLICE OF LIFE The Worlds of Women and Men in Ancient

Greece Sappho， “He Seems to Be a God” and Alcaeus，

“Longing for Home”

Medicine

Architecture

Sculpture

THE LEGACY OF ARCHAIC GREEK

CWILIZATION

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