Readings in ancient history thought and experience from Gilgamesh to St. Augustine - Bailkey, Nels M.; Lim, Richard 1963-. (Boston Houghton Mifflin Co., 2002)
Table of Contents: Preface. -- I. Near Eastern Civilizations: 1. The Epic of Gilgamesh: The Sumerian Heroic Age -- 2. The Epic of the Flood: The Babylonian Noah -- 3. The Reforms of Urukagina: "He established freedom."-- 4. The Shamash Hymn: Moral Religion and Social Justice -- 5. The Laws of Hammurabi: "To further the welfare of the people" -- 6. The Instruction of Ptah-hotep: Early Material Values in Egypt -- 7. Unas Pyramid Incantations: The Afterlife of a Pharaoh -- 8. Hymn to the Aton: Religious Reform and Monotheism -- 9. An Egyptian-Hittite Treaty: Imperialism and International Diplomacy -- 10. Sea People's Inscriptions: Egypt and Its Neighbors Under Ramses III -- 11. Work Songs from Ancient Egypt: Voices of Ordinary Men and Women -- 12. Prism of Sennacherib: An Assyrian King's Wars -- 13. The Old Testament: Hebrew Views on God and on History -- 14. A Conquering Messiah: Cyrus the Great and the Persian Empire -- II. Greek Civilization: Ancient Greece: 15. The Greek Heroic Age / Homer -- 16. Changing Times Bring on a Moral Order / Hesiod -- 17. Early Greek Lyric Poetry: Individualism Emergent -- 18. Pindar's Odes to Athletic Victors: The Heroic Ideal -- 19. Economic and Political Reforms at Athens / Solon -- 20. The Rise of Tyranny at Athens / Pisistratus -- 21. The Spartan Military Machine / Lycurgus -- 22. Greece Saved from Persian Conquest / Herodotus -- 23. Pericles' Funeral Oration: An Idealized View of Athenian Democracy and Its Empire -- 24. The Old Oligarch: A Realistic View of Athenian Democracy and Its Empire -- 25. History: The Statesman's Handbook / Thucydides -- 26. The Athenians Overthrow Dictatorship / Xenophon -- 27. Philosophy Shifts from Nature to Man / Socrates -- 28. The Murder of Eratosthenes: An Athenian Woman's Life: ". . . I began to trust her. . . ." / Lysias -- 29. "Turning the eye of the soul toward the light" / Plato -- 30. "The philosophy of human affairs" / Aristotle -- 31. Demosthenes Versus Isocrates: "Nationalism" Versus "Internationalism" -- III. Hellenistic Civilization: 32. History of Alexander the Great: Conqueror and Reformer / Arrian -- 33. A God Among Men / Demetrius -- 34. King and City: Antigonus the One-Eyed and Scepsis -- 35. Sacred History: How Men Became Gods / Euhemerus of Messene -- 36. The Learned Banquet: Hellenistic Pomp and Circumstance / Athenaeus -- 37. Oil Monopoly of Ptolemy II Philadelphus: Toward a Command Economy -- 38. The Life of Antony: The Portrait of Queen Cleopatra / Plutarch -- 39. Hellenistic Philosophy: The Cynic Counterculture -- 40. Hellenistic Science: Archimedes -- IV. The Roman Republic: 41. The Early Romans / Livy -- 42. The Foreign Policy of the Roman Republic / Livy -- 43. The Constitution of the Roman Republic / Polybius -- 44. Traditional Standards in a New Age / Cato the Elder -- 45. How to Get Elected to Public Office in Rome / Pseudo-Cicero. -- 46. The Republic at the Crossroads / Tiberius Gracchus -- 47. The Republic at the Crossroads, Continued / Gaius Gracchus -- 48. The Revolt of Spartacus: The Dangers of a Slave Society -- 49. The Conspiracy of Catiline: The Roman Republic in Decay -- 50. The Man and the Statesman / Julius Caesar -- 51. The Assassination of Julius Caesar: "Liberty! Freedom! Tyranny is Dead!" -- 52. "An Eloquent Man who Loved His Country Well" / Cicero -- 53. Epicurean Philosophy at Rome / Lucretius -- V. The Roman Empire: 54. The Achievements of the Deified Augustus / Augustus. -- 55. Augustus' Reconstruction of the Roman World: Contrasting Estimates -- 56. The Pax Romana: Divergent Views -- 57. Rebels Against Rome -- 58. Aspects of Roman Slavery -- 59. Capitalism in the Early Empire: From Free Enterprise to State Intervention -- 60. The Legal Status of Roman Women -- 61. The Emancipated Women of the Early Empire / Juvenal -- 62. The Early Germans / Tacitus.- 63. "Either atoms or Providence" / Marcus Aurelius -- 64. The Cult of Isis and Religious Syncretism / Apuleius -- VI. Early Christianity and Late Antiquity: 65. The New Testament: The Beginnings of Christianity -- 66. Christianity and Greco-Roman Thought: "Whatever has been uttered aright by any men in any place belongs to us Christians." -- 67. The Persecution of Christians: "Amid the ruins of a falling age, our spirit remains erect." -- 68. The Reforms of Diocletian: "... by whose virtue and foreseeing care all is being reshaped for the better." -- 69. Life of the Emperor Constantine / Eusebius of Caesarea -- 70. The Theodosian Code: Toward a Christian Roman Empire -- 71. City of God: The Unimportance of the Earthly City / Augustine -- 72. On the Governance of God: "Where or in whom are evils so great, except among the Romans?" / Salvian of Marseille.
Includes bibliographical references.
Keywords: History, Ancient -- Sources