by Brother Anthony, of Taizé
Sogang University Press, CPO Box 1142, Seoul 100-611, Korea
Introduction 7
1 Mesopotamia 13
Sumerian
Culture 14
The First Assyrian Empire 15
Mesopotamian Mythology 15
A summary
of Gilgamesh 16
2 Egypt 21
3. Israel 25
Early History:
The Patriarchs 26
Moses and the
Exodus 26
The Jerusalem
Kingdom 27
Exile and Return
28
4 Greek History 31
Early Greek History 32
Crete
33
Mycenae
33
The Dorians,
Ionia, and Heroic Legend 35
The First Named Poet : Homer 36
The Iliad 37
The Odyssey 48
Hesiod 55
From the Theogony 56
The Phoenicians, the Greek Alphabet 58
Greek Colonies 59
The City-State 60
Social Change 61
Sparta 61
Athens 62
The Persians 64
Victory at Salamis 66
From 480 until the Fall of Athens 69
5 Greek Philosophy 73
The Early Greek Philosophers 75
Quotations from Xenophanes 78
Quotations from Heraclitus 80
Quotations from Parmenides 83
Quotations from Zenon 83
The Sophists 85
Socrates 88
From Socrates' Defense 89
The Death of Socrates 91
Plato 93
Plato's Teaching 94
Texts from Plato 95
The Image of the Cave 95
Diotima's speech 97
Aristotle 99
Aristotle on Tragedy 101
Later Philosophy 102
Quotations from Epicurus 102
Stoicism 103
Hellenistic Philosophy 104
6 Greek Drama & Poetry 105
Aeschylus 106
Agamemnon 107
Coephori 113
Eumenides 118
Prometheus Bound 119
Sophocles 125
Oedipus the King 125
Antigone 134
Euripides 136
Greek Comedy 136
Aristophanes 136
Greek Lyric Poetry 138
Archilochus 138
Sappho 139
Anacreon 141
Pindar 142
7 Alexander and Hellenism 145
After Alexander 146
The Culture of the Hellenistic Age 147
Asia Minor and Israel 149
The Greek Novel 151
8 The Gods of Greece and Rome 153
9 Greek Mythology 165
Hercules 167
Perseus & Theseus 169
The Trojan War 170
The Argonauts 173
Ovid's Metamorphoses 175
Daphne 175
Deucalion 176
Pyramus and Thisbe 177
Baucis and Philemon 179
Echo and Narcissus 181
Icarus 182
Pan and Syrinx 183
Diana and Actaeon 184
Pygmalion 185
Venus and Adonis 186
Hero and Leander 186
Orpheus and Eurydice 187
10 Rome and the Roman Empire 189
Early Roman History 189
The Civil War 191
Plutarch : The Death of Julius
Caesar 193
Augustus 195
Literature 196
Cicero's De Officiis 197
Lucretius: De Rerum Natura 199
Augustan Literature 200
From Virgil's "Pollio" 201
The Aeneid 203
The Emperors after Augustus 212
Literary Figures of the Post-Augustan Period 214
The Later Empire 216
The Writers of the Silver Age 217
The Decline and Fall 220
11 The Bible: The Old Testament 223
The Text of the Old Testament 223
The Books of the Old Testament 225
Genesis 226
Exodus 240
The Rest of the Pentateuch 242
Early History of Israel 243
Kingship 243
Poetry: Wisdom Literature 245
The Prophets 253
Isaiah 254
Jeremiah 256
The "Minor" Prophets 257
The Social Vision of the
Prophets 258
Conclusions 260
12 The Bible: The New Testament 263
The Four Gospels 266
Matthew 268
Mark 269
Luke 270
John 280
The Acts of the Apostles 283
The Epistles 285
Revelation 290
English Translations of the Bible 292
13 The Early Christian Church 295
Persecutions and Martyrdom 299
Early Christian Thinkers 303
Persecutions and Victory 304
The Teaching Church 305
Ambrose and Augustine 307
Augustine's Conversion 308
Into the Middle Ages 312
Major Dates 319
Index 325