The Humanities: An Introduction 1
Who's Who in Greek and Roman Myth 8
The Odyssey 21
Greek and Roman Comedy and Satire 32
Greek Philosophy before Socrates and Plato 37
Plato's Republic (selections)
from Book VI (The Line of Cognition) 40
from Book VII (The Allegory of the Cave) 44
from Book X (Poetry, Art and the Ideal State) 46
Plato's Symposium (The Speech of Diotima) 53
Rome: Historical Background 62
Virgil: Aeneid (Book VI) 65
Stoicism: Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius 79
Ántara's Ode 82
Sub-Saharan Africa: The Early History 113
African Roots and Continuities 118
African Survivals in Afro-American Culture 119
Liongo Fumo 123
A Skeletal Outline of Dante's Hell 138
The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale 141
The Renaissance 161
John Donne: A Valediction Forbidding Mourning 171
Pico della Mirandola: Oration on the Dignity of Man 172
Rene Descartes 172
Milton's Paradise Lost and the Baroque 176
Paradise Lost (Book I) 177
Paradise Lost (Book II) 186
Paradise Lost (from Books III and VIII) 198
John Locke 205
David Hume: Of Miracles 206
Alexander Pope: An Introduction 209
Pope: An Essay of Man (Arguments) 210
Some Eighteenth Century Texts 213
Enlightenment Ideas on Good and Evil 218Goethe's Faust, Part II (Introduction) 234
Faust, Part II (Act V, Scenes VI & VII) 237
Darwin: from The Origin of Species 245
Dostoevsky: The Grand Inquisitor 247
The Modern Age and the Postmodern Debate 258
Why Didn't I Get a Better Grade on My Essay? 269
From Enlightenment to Romanticism: Enter the Feminine 273
Special Online Only: The Rabinal Achí
Music
The Elements of Music
Listening Guide 1: Benjamin Britten, Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
Greek and Roman Music
Listening Guide 2: Epitaph of Seikilos
Music of the Early Christian Church
Music in the Middle Ages
Listening Guide 3: Kyrie Eleison
Listening Guide 4: Dies Irae
Listening Guide 5: Leonin, Viderunt omnes
Listening Guide 6: Acun vont -- Amor qui -- Kyrie
Listening Guide 7: Guiot de Dijon, Chanterai por mon corage
Listening Guide 8: Guillaume de Machaut, Messe de Nostre Dame
Listening Guide 9: Guillaume de Machaut, Douce dame jolie
Music of the Renaissance
A Comparison of Medieval and Renaissance Music
Listening Guide 10: Guillaume Dufay, Missa Se la face ay pale
Listening Guide 11: Josquin des Prez, Absalon, fili mi
Listening Guide 12: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Missa brevis
Listening Guide 13: Giovanni Gabrieli, Canzon XIII
Listening Guide 14: Claudio Monteverdi, Si ch'io vorrei morire
Listening Guide 15: Thomas Weelkes, As Vesta was from Latmos hill descending
Music in the Baroque
A Comparison of Renaissance and Baroque Music
Listening Guide 16: Claudio Monteverdi, "Tu se' morta" from Orfeo
Listening Guide 17: Georg Frederic Handel, "For unto us a Child is Born" from Messiah
Listening Guide 18: Johann Sebastian Bach, Cantata no. 80, "Ein' feste Burg is unser Gott"
Listening Guide 19: Arcangelo Corelli, Trio Sonata in C, Op. 4 no. 1
Listening Guide 20: Johann Sebastian Bach, Brandenburg Concerto No. 4
Listening Guide 21: Johann Sebastian Bach, Fugue in G minor
Classicism in Music
A Comparison of Baroque and Classical Music
Listening Guide 22: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphony no. 40 in g, movement 1
Listening Guide 23: Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony no. 5 in c, movement 1
Listening Guide 24: Franz Joseph Haydn, Symphony no. 94 in G, movement 2
Listening Guide 25: Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Sonata in f, op. 2 no. 1, movement 1
Listening Guide 26: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Marriage of Figaro, Act 1 excerpt
Nineteenth-Century Romanticism in Music
A Comparison of Classical and Romantic Music
Listening Guide 27: Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony no. 9 in d, movement 4
Listening Guide 28: Frederic Chopin, Nocturne in E-flat major, op. 9 no. 2
Listening Guide 29: Franz Schubert, Erlkönig
Listening Guide 30: Hector Berlioz, Symphonie fantastique, movement 5
Listening Guide 31: Johannes Brahms, Symphony no. 1 in c, movement 1
Listening Guide 32: Vincenzo Bellini, "Casta diva" from Norma
Listening Guide 33: Guiseppe Verdi, La traviata, Act I excerpt
Listening Guide 34: Richard Wagner, "Walkürenritt" from Die Walküre
Listening Guide 35: Bedrich Smetana, Vltava (The Moldau)
Twentieth-Century Music
A Comparison of Romantic and Early Twentieth-Century Music
Listening Guide 36: Claude Debussy, Prélude à l'après-midi d'une faune
Listening Guide 37: Igor Stravinsky, Rite of Spring, excerpt
Listening Guide 38: Arnold Schoenberg, "Mondestrunken" from Pierrot lunaire
Listening Guide 39: Charles Ives, "Fourth of July" from A Symphony: Holidays
Listening Guide 40: Bela Bartók, Concerto for Orchestra
Listening Guide 41: Aaron Copland, "Hoedown" from Rodeo
Listening Guide 42: Krzysztof Penderecki, Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima
Listening Guide 43: John Cage, "Sonata I" from Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano
Listening Guide 44: Karlheinz Stockhausen, Hymnen
Listening Guide 45: Philip Glass, Modern Love Waltz
Jazz
Listening Guide 46: Robert Johnson, Hellhound on My Trail
Listening Guide 47: Scott Joplin, Maple Leaf Rag
Listening Guide 48: Dixie Jazz Band One-Step
Listening Guide 49: West End Blues
Listening Guide 50: Harlem Airshaft
Listening Guide 51: Shaw Nuff
Listening Guide 52: Surucucu
Visual and Musical Arts of West Africa
Visual Arts
Using Visual Information
Art Terms, Processes and Principles
Diagrams