I Samuel 8 - II Samuel 13 Read for discussion on King David.
Chapter 1
The Enuma Elish - a Mesopotamian creation myth
The Epic of Gilgamesh - The Story of the Flood
Accounts of the Campaign of Sennacherib 701 BC
Ruth 1 (compare with Deuteronomy 23:1-6 and Nehemiah 13:1-3)
I Samuel 8 - II Samuel 13 Read for discussion on King David.
Chapter 2
Homer - Illiad Books I and XXII
Aristotle -
The Polis
Pericles -
Funeral Oration
Thucydides -
The Melian Dialogue
Sophocles - Oedipus the King (In three parts divided by line numbers.
Read all three parts; lines 1-1584.)
Chapter 3
Aristotle - The Poetics
Alexander -
Speech to Soldiers
Epicurus - Principle
Doctrines
Cleanthes - Prayer to Zeus
Chapter 4
Quintus Cicero -
The
Roman Candidate
Extra -
Slave Revolt Accounts
(Also of interest:
Slavery in Roman Republic)
Chapter 5
Strabo -
The Grandeur of Rome
Juvenal -
Satire
III: On the City of Rome
Chapter 6
Diocletian and Constantine -
Efforts to Stabilize the Economy
The
Passion of Perpetua
Chapter 7
Liudprand of Cremona - Embassy to Constantinople
Qu'ran -
Surahs
1 and 47
Ibn Fadlan -
Risala
Gregory of Tours - The Conversion of Clovis
Chapter 8
Einhard - Life of Charlemagne
Frederick II -
Statute in Favor of the Princes
Three Summonses to the Parliament of 1295
Urban II - Speech at Clermont
Chapter 9
Adelard of Bath - The Impact of Muslim Science
Chapters 10 and 11
Jean de Venette -
The Plague in
Paris
Chaucer -
General Prologue and
Wife of Bath
Chapters 12 and 13
Petrarch -
Letter to
Posterity
Machiavelli -
The Prince
Chapter 14
Martin Luther - On the Freedom of a Christian
Council of Trent -
Decree on
Justification
Council of Trent -
Decree on Saints and Images
Chapter 15
John of Monte Corvino -
Report
from China
Christopher Columbus -
Letter
to King and Queen of Spain
Chapter 16
Domat - On Divine Right
Locke - Second Treatise on Government
Galileo - Letter to Grand Duchess of Tuscany
Chapters 17 and 18
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