The Schlager Anthology of the Ancient World
A Student's Guide to Essential Primary Sources
Author(s):
Eric Cunningham
Collection:
Schlager Anthologies Series
Publication Date
Available in all formats
Publisher: Schlager Group Inc
You don't have access to this content. Please try to log in with your institution. Sign In
Description
Table of contents
Chapters
This volume in the "Schlager Anthologies" series offers an essential starting point for historical research. It covers nearly 100 primary documents from the Ancient World, taking a global perspective that includes Egypt and Early Africa, the Hittite Empire in Anatolia, the Ancient Near East (Mesopotamia, Sumer, Assyria and Levant), Persia, India, East Asia (China and Japan), Archaic and Early Classical Greece, Late Classical and Hellenistic Greece, the Roman Republic, and the Roman Empire. The volume is organized into broad subject areas, each accompanied by a helpful introductory article and detailed list of Further Reading sources. The entries within each area include the primary document, an Overview section, and Questions for Further Study.
Description
This volume in the "Schlager Anthologies" series offers an essential starting point for historical research. It covers nearly 100 primary documents from the Ancient World, taking a global perspective that includes Egypt and Early Africa, the Hittite Empire in Anatolia, the Ancient Near East (Mesopotamia, Sumer, Assyria and Levant), Persia, India, East Asia (China and Japan), Archaic and Early Classical Greece, Late Classical and Hellenistic Greece, the Roman Republic, and the Roman Empire. The volume is organized into broad subject areas, each accompanied by a helpful introductory article and detailed list of Further Reading sources. The entries within each area include the primary document, an Overview section, and Questions for Further Study.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Reader’s Guide
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Egypt and Early Africa
- Pyramid Texts
- “Instructions of Ptahhotep”
- “Hymn to the Nile”
- Egyptian Book of the Dead
- Nebmare-nakht: A Scribal Schoolbook (Papyrus Lansing)
- Divine Birth and Coronation Inscriptions of Hatshepsut
- “Great Hymn to the Aten”
- Egyptian-Hittite Peace Treaty
- Victory Stela of Piankhi
- Inscription of Ezana
- Chapter 2 The Hittite Empire in Anatolia
- Anitta Text
- Date
- Author
- Type
- Significance
- Hittite Laws
- Deeds of Suppiluliuma
- Mursili II: Plague Prayers
- Hattusili III: Apology
- Anitta Text
- Chapter 3 Near East
- Instructions of Shuruppag
- Reform Edict of Urukagina
- “Sargon’s Defeat of Lugalzagesi”
- Enheduanna: Hymns to Inana
- Victory Inscription of Utu-hegal
- Curse of Agade
- Letter of Shulgi to Ishbi-Erra
- Hymn of the Righteous Sufferer
- Code of Hammurabi
- Epic of Gilgamesh
- Enuma Elish
- Bible: Genesis
- Bible: Exodus
- Middle Assyrian Laws
- Bible: Deuteronomy
- Bible: Jeremiah
- Bible: 1 Samuel
- Neo-Babylonian Chronicle 3
- Book of Enoch
- Chapter 4 Persia
- Verse Account of Nabonidus
- Cyrus Cylinder
- Darius the Great: Behistun Inscription
- Darius the Great: Tomb Inscriptions
- Xerxes I: Daiva Inscription
- Contract of Mibtahiah’s Third Marriage
- Zend Avesta
- Chapter 5 India
- Rig Veda
- Valmiki: Ramayana
- Upanishads
- Jain Sutras
- Yoga Sutras of Patañjali
- Kautilya: Arthashastra
- Rock and Pillar Edicts of Asoka
- Ashvamedha Parva
- Bhagavad Gita
- Laws of Manu
- Lotus Sutra
- Heart Sutra
- Chapter 6 East Asia
- Classic of Poetry: Chinese Agricultural Calendar
- Noble Eightfold Path
- Sun Tzu: The Art of War
- Analects of Confucius
- Mandate of Heaven
- Canon of Filial Piety
- Han Feizi
- Classic of Rites
- Sima Qian on His Own Castration
- Sima Qian: Biography of Ji An
- Huan Kuan: Discourses on Salt and Iron
- Ban Gu: “Treatise on Food and Money”
- Ban Zhao: Lessons for a Woman
- Kojiki
- Nihongi
- Chapter 7 Archaic and Early Classical Greece
- Homer: Iliad
- Hesiod: Theogony
- Herodotus: “On Libya”
- Herodotus: “On Darius”
- Funeral Oration of Pericles
- Orphic Tablets and Hymns
- Aristotle: Constitution of Sparta
- Aristotle: “The Nature, End, and Origin of the States”
- Aristotle: Athenian Constitution
- Aristotle: Constitution of Carthage
- Chapter 8 Late Classical and Hellenistic Greece
- Hippocratic Oath
- Plato: Meno
- Plato: “Of Wealth, Justice, Moderation, and Their Opposites”
- Plato: “Allegory of the Cave”
- Aristotle: Metaphysics
- Cleanthes: “Hymn to Zeus”
- Polybius: The Histories
- Pseudo-Sibylline Oracles
- Chapter 9 The Roman Republic
- Marcos Cato (the Elder): On Agriculture
- Lucretius: On the Nature of Things
- Cicero: On the Laws
- Law of Caesar on Municipalities
- Virgil: Aeneid
- Chapter 10 The Roman Empire
- Deeds of the Divine Augustus
- Plutarch: “Life of Alexander”
- Pliny the Elder: “An Account of the World and the Elements”
- Tacitus: Germania
- Juvenal: The Satires
- Arrian: The Campaigns of Alexander
- Marcus Aurelius: Meditations
- Laws Ending Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire
- Theodosian Code
- Sozomen: Ecclesiastical History
- List of Documents by Category
- Artifacts
- Essays, Reports, Manifestos, and Narratives
- Legal
- Royal Edicts and Proclamations
- Index
Chapters
