HUM 251Western Humanities I

Catalog

Introduction to major cultures from rise of city-states through the early Roman Christian era. Includes general history of ideas, art, architecture, religion, philosophy, drama, music, and literature from ancient Near Eastern civilizations, and Greek, Roman, and Early Roman Christian civilizations. Also includes readings such as the Epic of Gilgamesh, Homer, Sophocles, Aristophanes, Plato, Aristotle, Virgil's Aeneid, Hebrew and the Christian Scriptures, and St. Augustine.