Humanities

 

Syllabus


Ancient Greece

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Titans and Olympians

Battle of Thermopylae

Allegory of the Cave

Classicism -- The Greek Legacy

Hesiod: Theogony (Reading)

Plato: The Republic – Allegory of the Cave. (Reading)

300 (film)

 

Ancient Rome

Chapter 4

Cicero: De amicitia (On Friendship) Reading

De Amicitia Study Guide

Gladiator (film)

Power and Glory of Rome

Roman History Timeline

 

Ancient India and China

Chapter 5

Siddhartha Gautama: The Buddha

The First Sermon (Reading)

On Friendship (Reading)

Hinduism Vocabulary

 

Early Christianity

Chapter 6

The Sermon on the Mount: Matthew 5-7:27 (Reading)

Sermon on the Mount Study Guide

 

Byzantium

Chapter 7

Saint Augustine: The City of God - Book XIX. (Reading)

Islam

Chapter 8

The Koran (Sura 5) (Reading)

Abrahamic Religions Pretest

 

Charlemagne and the Rise of Medieval Culture

Chapter 9 and Song of Roland

Song of Roland excerpts (Reading)

 

High Middle Ages

Chapter 10

Abelard and Heloise (Reading)

Courtly Love

Chivalry

Medieval Legend of Tristan and Isolde (N/A Spring 2013)

Tristan and Isolde (film) (N/A Spring 2013)

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (film) (N/A Spring 2013)

 

14th Century

Chapter 11

Dante Alighieri: Divine Comedy, Inferno (Readings)

Canto I

Canto II

Canto III

Canto IV

Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales, The Prioress's Tale  (Reading) (N/A Spring 2013)

The Name of the Rose (film)

Inferno Study Guide

 

Early Renaissance

Chapter 12

 

High Renaissance in Italy

Chapter 13 (N/A Spring 2013)

Machiavelli: The Prince excerpt

 

Northern Renaissance

Chapter 14 (N/A Spring 2013)

Othello (film)

 

Misc.

Liberal Arts and Humanism


Movies

Movie Guide

Movie Worksheet (blank)

Movie Worksheet (Gladiator) -- example of how to fill out a movie worksheet


Art Galleries

Classicism

Battle of Thermopylae

Ara Pacis Augustae

Islamic Art

Hindu and Buddhist Art