Introduction to Humanities
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2022
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The emphasis in Introduction to Humanities is on the “big picture,” so that you will be able to follow the larger flow of cultural history and understand the place of individual works of art and literature in it. When appropriate, this is accompanied by close readings of key passages and detailed analyses of works of art, so that you can see how to appreciate this material. When you are finished, you will be familiar with many of the works that educated people have known and discussed for centuries. But you should also be able to see why these works have endured, as art and literature that encourages you to look within yourself and live your best life.
Introduction
Part I Premodern
Chapter 1 Homeric Greece
Section A Iliad
Section B Odyssey
Chapter 2 Fifth Century Greece
Section A Early Classical
Section B High Classical
Section C Late Classical
Chapter 3 Hellenistic Culture
Chapter 4 Rome
Section A Virgil’s Aeneid I
Section B Virgil’s Aeneid II
Chapter 5 Middle Ages
Section A From Late Antiquity to Romanesque
Section B Gothic
Chapter 6 Africa, Asia, and the Americas I
Part II Early Modern to Postmodern
Chapter 7 Renaissance
Section A Petrarch, Boccaccio, and the Rise of Realism
Section B Rhetoric and the Organization of Cultural Space
Chapter 8 Mannerism and Baroque
Section A Mannerism
Section B Baroque
Chapter 9 Neoclassicism
Chapter 10 Romanticism
Chapter 11 Roads to Modernity
Chapter 12 Modernism to Postmodernism
Chapter 13 Africa, Asia, and the Americas II
Conclusion
Appendix: Chapter Outlines