Course Readings: Coursepack

The Coursepack is required reading and may be purchased in the St. Anselm College Bookstore.

"Enuma Elish" from H. A. Drake and J. W. Leedom, Laws, Gods, and Heroes: Thematic Readings in Early Western History (San Diego: Harcourt Brace College Publishing, 1994), pp. 43-46.

"The Code of Hammurabi" from H. A. Drake and J. W. Leedom, Laws, Gods, and Heroes: Thematic Readings in Early Western History (San Diego: Harcourt Brace College Publishing, 1994), pp. 25-32.

"Hymn to the Nile" from John Foster, Echoes of Egyptian Voices: An Anthology of Ancient Egyptian Poetry (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), pp. 47-52.

"From Amenhotep III's Building Inscription" from ed. James Pritchard, Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969), pp. 375-376.

"Protestation of Guiltlessness" ("Book of the Dead") from ed. James Pritchard, Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969), pp. 34-36.

"Inscription of Tiglath-Pileser I, King of Assyria" from ed. Robert Francis Harper, Assyrian and Babylonian Literature (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1901), pp. 11-16, 23-26.

"Cyrus' Cylinder" from ed. James Pritchard, Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969), pp. 315-316.

Plutarch on Lycurgus from ed. Nels Bailkey, Readings in Ancient History: Thought and Experience from Gilgamesh to St. Augustine (Lexington, MA: D. C. Heath, 1996), pp. 177-185.

Exerpts from Aristotle, The Politics from ed. John Beatty and Oliver Johnson, Heritage of Western Civilization (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1982), pp. 138-152.

Pericles' Funeral Oration from Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War (New York: Penguin Books, 1972), pp. 143-151.

Excerpt from The Republic of Plato (New York: Oxford University Press, 1945), pp. 179-189, 227-233.

"The Manual of Epictetus" from Whtiney Jennings Oates, The Stoic and Epicurean Philosophers (New York: Random House, 1940), pp. 468-484.

"Epicurus: Principal Doctrines" from ed. Jason Saunders, Greek and Roman Philosophy after Aristotle (New York: Free Press, 1966), pp. 53-57.

"Diogenes the Cynic from Diogenes Laertius" from ed. Stylianos Spyridakis and Bradley Nystrom, Ancient Greece: Documentary Perspectives (Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 1985), pp. 103-106.

Excerpts from Polybius, The Rise of the Roman Empire (New York: Penguin Books, 1979), pp. 303-305, 307-310, 312-318.

"The Rape of Lucretia" from Livy, The Early History of Rome (New York: Penguin Books, 1971), pp. 96-101.

Cicero, "Three Forms of Government," "The Mixed Constitution," "Rome Past and Present," "Duties of the Individual to the State," "Apology for Philosophy," and "Qualifications of the Orator," from ed. George Howe and Gustave Adolphus Harrer, Roman Literature in Translation (New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1924), pp. 138-141, 148-154, 225-227, 258-260.

Excerpts from Beowulf: A Prose Translation, Trns. E. Talbot Donaldson (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2002), pp. 4-11, 13-16, 19.

Truce of God issued by the Council of Toulouges (1041).

The Rule of St. Francis (1223).

Summary of Catharist Beliefs from ed. Jeffrey Russell, Religious Dissent in the Middle Ages (New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1971), pp. 57-59.

Charter of Ipswich and Record of Proceedings at Ipswich from ed. Carl Stephenson and Frederick George Marcham, Sources of English Constitutional History (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1937), pp. 96-101.

Excerpts from Boccaccio, The Decameron (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1977), pp. 3-9.

Excerpt from Giovanna Pico della Mirandola, "The Dignity of Man" from ed. James Bruce Ross and Mary Martin McLaughlin, The Portable Renaissance Reader (New York: Viking Press, 1964), pp. 476-479.

Excerpt from Lorenzo Valla, "The Glory of the Latin Language" from ed. James Bruce Ross and Mary Martin McLaughlin, The Portable Renaissance Reader (New York: Viking Press, 1964), pp. 131-135.

Francesco Petrarca, "The Ascent of Mount Ventoux," from ed. Ernst Cassierer, Paul Oskar Kristeller, and John Herman Randall, The Renaissance Philosophy of Man (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1948), pp. 36-46.

Excerpt from Desiderius Erasmus, Paraclesis from Desiderius Erasmus, The Praise of Folly and Other Writings (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1989), pp. 118-127.

John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion.

The Twelve Articles of the Upper Swabian Peasants (1525) from The Radical Reformation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), pp. 231-238.

Venetian Ambassador Alvise Contarini Reports on the Causes of the French Civil Wars (1572) from James Davis, ed., The Pursuit of Power: Venetian Ambassadors' Reports on Turkey, France, and Spain in the Age of Philip II, 1560-1600 (New York: Harper & Row, 1970), pp. 216-229.

Excerpt from Luis Vaz de Camões, The Lusiads (1572) (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), pp. 11-35.