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Backgrounds
to
Western Literature by Brother Anthony of Taizé
Originally published by Sogang University
Press
Sogang University, Seoul, Korea First edition 1989 Second, expanded edition 2002 Online edition 2021
Sumerian
Culture The First
Assyrian Empire Mesopotamian
Mythology A summary of
Gilgamesh Early
History: The Patriarchs Moses and
the Exodus The
Jerusalem Kingdom Exile and
Return Early Greek
History Crete Mycenae The Dorians,
Ionia, and Heroic Legend The First
Named Poet : Homer The Iliad The
Odyssey Hesiod From the Theogony The
Phoenicians, the Greek Alphabet Greek
Colonies The
City-State Social
Change Sparta Athens The Persians Victory at
Salamis From 480
until the Fall of Athens The Early
Greek Philosophers Quotations
from Xenophanes Quotations
from Heraclitus Quotations
from Parmenides Quotations
from Zenon The Sophists Socrates From
Socrates' Defense The Death of
Socrates Plato Plato's
Teaching Texts from
Plato The Image of
the Cave Diotima's
speech Aristotle Aristotle on
Tragedy Later
Philosophy Quotations
from Epicurus Stoicism Hellenistic
Philosophy Aeschylus Agamemnon Coephori Eumenides Prometheus
Bound Sophocles Oedipus
the King Antigone Euripides Greek Comedy
Aristophanes
Greek Lyric
Poetry Archilochus
Sappho Anacreon Pindar After
Alexander The Culture
of the Hellenistic Age Asia Minor
and Israel The Greek
Novel 8. The
Gods of Greece and Rome Hercules Perseus
& Theseus The Trojan
War The
Argonauts Ovid's Metamorphoses
Daphne Deucalion Pyramus and
Thisbe Baucis and
Philemon Echo and
Narcissus Icarus Pan and
Syrinx Diana and
Actaeon Pygmalion Venus and
Adonis Hero and
Leander Orpheus and
Eurydice Early Roman
History The Civil
War Plutarch :
The Death of Julius Caesar Augustus Literature Cicero's
De Officiis Lucretius:
De Rerum Natura Augustan
Literature From
Virgil's "Pollio" The Aeneid
The Emperors
after Augustus Literary
Figures of the Post-Augustan Period The Later
Empire The Writers
of the Silver Age The Decline
and Fall 11. The
Bible: The Old Testament The Text of
the Old Testament The Books of
the Old Testament Genesis Exodus The Rest of
the Pentateuch Early
History of Israel Kingship Poetry:
Wisdom Literature The Prophets
Isaiah Jeremiah The "Minor"
Prophets The Social
Vision of the Prophets Conclusions
12. The
Bible: The New Testament The Four
Gospels Matthew Mark Luke John The Acts of
the Apostles The Epistles
Revelation English
Translations of the Bible 13.
The Early Christian Church Persecutions
and Martyrdom Early
Christian Thinkers Persecutions
and Victory The Teaching
Church Ambrose and
Augustine Augustine's
Conversion Into the
Middle Ages
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