《英文大學人文經典教材:西方人文讀本(注釋版)(第6版)》作者是美國大學西方人文史專業的教授，把西方人文歷史放到國際互動的大背景下進行介紹和評價，細緻入微地介紹了西方文明的起源、發展、演變，以及在這個過程中對其他地區人文成就的吸收與融合。
基本介紹
- 書名：英文大學人文經典教材:西方人文讀本
- 作者：羅伊•T•馬修斯 (Matthews R.T.)
- 出版日期：2013年4月1日
- 語種：簡體中文, 英語
- ISBN：9787544349550
- 品牌：海南出版社
- 外文名：The Western Humanities,6e
- 出版社：海南出版社
- 頁數：750頁
- 開本：16
- 定價：158.00
基本介紹,內容簡介,作者簡介,圖書目錄,
基本介紹
內容簡介
《英文大學人文經典教材:西方人文讀本(注釋版)(第6版)》自2003年問世以來，一直受到大學教師和學生的歡迎，不斷再版。書中把整個西方歷史從人文成就的角度進行了重新梳理和展示。書中將西方的經濟、社會、政治、軍事的歷史與文學藝術、科學、哲學、宗教等知識的發展融會貫通，從巨觀和微觀角度對西方人文史進行立體的把握。
作者簡介
作者：（美國）羅伊·T.馬修斯（Matthews R.T.） （美國）德維特·普拉特（Platt F.D.）
圖書目錄
PREFACE 1
INTRODUCTION:Why Study Cultural History? 15
A HUMANITIES PRIMER:How to Understand the Arts 20
The Assyrians 29
The Medes 30
The Persians 30
THE LEGACY OF EARLY NEAR EASTERN CIVILIZATIONS 33
KEY CULTURAL TERMS 33
SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING 33
1 PREHISTORY AND NEAR EASTERN CIVILIZATIONS 1
PREHISTORY AND EARLY CULTURES 2
Paleolithic Period 2
Neolithic Period 3
Technology in Early Cultures 5
Stone Age Technology 6
Bronze Age Technology 7
Iron Age Technology 8
THE CIVILIZATIONS OF THE TIGRIS AND EUPHRATES RIVER VALLEY: MESOPOTAMIA 7
The Sumerian, Akkadian, and Babylonian Kingdoms 7
The Cradle of Civilization 8
Writing 9
Religion 9
ENCOUNTER The Phoenicians and the Alphabet 10
Literature 11
Law 12
SLICE OF LIFE "A Sumerian Father Lectures His Son" Anonymous, from clay tablets 13
Science, Mathematics, and Medicine 13
Art and Architecture 14
THE CWILIZATION OF THE NILE RIVER VALLEY: EGYPT 17
Continuity and Change over Three Thousand Years 18
A Quest for Eternal Cultural Values 20
Religion 20
Writing and Literature 21
Science and Medicine 21
SLICE OF LIFE Life's Instruction Book for Egyptians Anonymous, from A Papyrus Text 22
Architecture 22
Sculpture, Painting, and Minor Arts 23
HEIRS TO THE MESOPOTAMIAN AND EGYPTIAN EMPIRES 29
The Hittites 29
2 AEGEAN CIVILIZATIONS The Minoans, the Mycenaeans, and the Greeks of the Archaic Age 35
PRELUDE: MINOAN CMLIZATION, 3000-1100 B.C.E. 36
BEGINNINGS: MYCENAEAN CWILIZATION, 1900-1100 B.C.E. 39
Technology in Minoan Crete and Mycenae 42
INTERLUDE: THE DARK AGES, 1100-800 B.C.E. 42
THE ARCHAIC AGE, 800-479 B.C.E. 42
Political, Economic, and Social Structures 43
The Greek Polls: Sparta and Athens 44
Technology in Archaic Greece 45
The Persian Wars 46
THE EMERGENCE OF GREEK GENIUS: THE MASTERY OF FORM 46
Religion 46
Literature 48
Epic Poetry 48
Lyric Poetry 48
ENCOUNTER Near Eastern Art and Greek Pottery 50
Philosophy, Science, and Medicine 52
Natural Philosophy 52
SLICE OF LIFE The Worlds of Women and Men in Ancient Greece Sappho, "He Seems to Be a God" and Alcaeus, "Longingfor Home" 53
Medicine 54
Architecture 54
Sculpture 56
THE LEGACY OF ARCHAIC GREEK CWILIZATION 60
KEY CULTURAL TERMS 61
SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING 61
3 CLASSICAL GREEK CIVILIZATION The Hellenic Age 63
GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF HELLENIC CIVILIZATION 63
DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS: WAR, PEACL AND THE TRIUMPH OF MACEDONIA 66
Phases of the Hellenic Age 66
Technology 68
Shipbuilding 69
Warfare 70
THE PERFECTION OF THE TRADITION: THE GLC OF HELLENIC GREECE 69
ENCOUNTER "The Representation of Blacks in Greek Art" 70
Theater: Tragedy 71
Features of the Tragic Theater 71
Tragic Drama 72
Aeschylus 73
Sophocles 74
Euripides 74
Theater: Comedy 75
Music 75
History 76
Philosophy, Science, and Medicine 76
The Pre-Socratics 77
The Sophists 77
The Socra Revolution 77
Plato 79
Aristotle 79
Medicine 80
Architecture 81
Sanctuaries 81
The Temple: The Perfection of the Form 81
SLICE OF LIFE Xenophon, "Secrets of a Successful Marriage in Ancient Greece" Xenophon, from Oeconomicus 83
Sculpture 84
KEY CULTURAL TERMS 90
THE LEGACY OF HELLENIC CMLIZATION 91
SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING 91
4 CLASSICAL GREEK CIVILIZATION The Hellenistic Age 93
THE STAGES OF HELLENISTIC HISTORY 94
The End of the Empire and the Rise of the States 95
The Arrival and Triumph of Rome 95
URBAN LIFE IN THE HELLENISTIC AGE 95
Pergamum 97
Alexandria in Egypt 97
THE ELABORATION OF THE GREEK TRADITION: THE SPREAD OF CLASSICISM TO THE HELLENISTIC WORLD 98
SLICE OF LIFE Street Scene in Hellenistic Egypt Theocritus, from Idylls 99
Drama and Literature 99
Philosophy and Religion 101
Cynicism 101
Skepticism 102
Epicureanism 102
Stoicism 104
Fate and the Mystery Cults 104
Science and Medicine 106
Architecture 106
The Corinthian Temple 106
The Altar 107
ENCOUNTER "The Invention of Parchment and the Birth of the Secular Library" 108
Sculpture 109
Late Hellenistic Style: Rhodes 113
THE LEGACY OF HELLENISTIC WORLD 116
KEY CULTURAL TERMS 117
SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING 118
5 ROMAN CIVILIZATION The Pre-Christian Centuries 119
THE COLOSSUS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD 119
General Characteristics of Roman Civilization 120
Technology 122
Warfare 122
Construction 123
The Etruscan and Greek Connections 123
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6 JUDAISM AND THE RISE OF CHRISTIANITY 155
7 THE CIVILIZATIONS OF LATE ROME, BYZANTIUM, AND THE EARLY MEDIEVAL WEST 183
8 THE WORLD OF ISLAM 630-1517 221
9 THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES The Christian Centuries 247
10 THE LATE MIDDLE AGES 1300-1500 285
11 THE EARLY RENAISSANCE Return to Classical Roots 1400-1494 321
12 THE HIGH RENAISSANCE AND EARLY MANNERISM, 1494-1564 351
13 NORTHERN HUMANISM, NORTHERN RENAISSANCE, RELIGIOUS REFORMATIONS, AND LATE MANNERISM 1500-1603 385
14 THE BAROQUE AGE Glamour and Grandiosity 1600-1715 419
15 THE BAROQUE AGE II Revolutions in Scientific and Political Thought 1600-1715 455
16 THE AGE OF REASON 1700-1789 479
17 REVOLUTION, REACTION,AND CULTURAL RESPONSE 1760-1830 511
18 THE TRIUMPH OF THE BOURGEOISIE 1830-1871 545
19 THE AGE OF EARLY MODERNISM, 1871-1914 579
20 THE AGE OF THE MASSES AND THE ZENITH OF MODERNISM, 1914-1945 617
21 THE AGE OF ANXIETY AND LATE MODERNISM 1945-1970 657
22 THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD: Globalization, Terror, and Post-Modernism 1970- 695
INTRODUCTION:Why Study Cultural History? 15
A HUMANITIES PRIMER:How to Understand the Arts 20
The Assyrians 29
The Medes 30
The Persians 30
THE LEGACY OF EARLY NEAR EASTERN CIVILIZATIONS 33
KEY CULTURAL TERMS 33
SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING 33
1 PREHISTORY AND NEAR EASTERN CIVILIZATIONS 1
PREHISTORY AND EARLY CULTURES 2
Paleolithic Period 2
Neolithic Period 3
Technology in Early Cultures 5
Stone Age Technology 6
Bronze Age Technology 7
Iron Age Technology 8
THE CIVILIZATIONS OF THE TIGRIS AND EUPHRATES RIVER VALLEY: MESOPOTAMIA 7
The Sumerian, Akkadian, and Babylonian Kingdoms 7
The Cradle of Civilization 8
Writing 9
Religion 9
ENCOUNTER The Phoenicians and the Alphabet 10
Literature 11
Law 12
SLICE OF LIFE "A Sumerian Father Lectures His Son" Anonymous, from clay tablets 13
Science, Mathematics, and Medicine 13
Art and Architecture 14
THE CWILIZATION OF THE NILE RIVER VALLEY: EGYPT 17
Continuity and Change over Three Thousand Years 18
A Quest for Eternal Cultural Values 20
Religion 20
Writing and Literature 21
Science and Medicine 21
SLICE OF LIFE Life's Instruction Book for Egyptians Anonymous, from A Papyrus Text 22
Architecture 22
Sculpture, Painting, and Minor Arts 23
HEIRS TO THE MESOPOTAMIAN AND EGYPTIAN EMPIRES 29
The Hittites 29
2 AEGEAN CIVILIZATIONS The Minoans, the Mycenaeans, and the Greeks of the Archaic Age 35
PRELUDE: MINOAN CMLIZATION, 3000-1100 B.C.E. 36
BEGINNINGS: MYCENAEAN CWILIZATION, 1900-1100 B.C.E. 39
Technology in Minoan Crete and Mycenae 42
INTERLUDE: THE DARK AGES, 1100-800 B.C.E. 42
THE ARCHAIC AGE, 800-479 B.C.E. 42
Political, Economic, and Social Structures 43
The Greek Polls: Sparta and Athens 44
Technology in Archaic Greece 45
The Persian Wars 46
THE EMERGENCE OF GREEK GENIUS: THE MASTERY OF FORM 46
Religion 46
Literature 48
Epic Poetry 48
Lyric Poetry 48
ENCOUNTER Near Eastern Art and Greek Pottery 50
Philosophy, Science, and Medicine 52
Natural Philosophy 52
SLICE OF LIFE The Worlds of Women and Men in Ancient Greece Sappho, "He Seems to Be a God" and Alcaeus, "Longingfor Home" 53
Medicine 54
Architecture 54
Sculpture 56
THE LEGACY OF ARCHAIC GREEK CWILIZATION 60
KEY CULTURAL TERMS 61
SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING 61
3 CLASSICAL GREEK CIVILIZATION The Hellenic Age 63
GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF HELLENIC CIVILIZATION 63
DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS: WAR, PEACL AND THE TRIUMPH OF MACEDONIA 66
Phases of the Hellenic Age 66
Technology 68
Shipbuilding 69
Warfare 70
THE PERFECTION OF THE TRADITION: THE GLC OF HELLENIC GREECE 69
ENCOUNTER "The Representation of Blacks in Greek Art" 70
Theater: Tragedy 71
Features of the Tragic Theater 71
Tragic Drama 72
Aeschylus 73
Sophocles 74
Euripides 74
Theater: Comedy 75
Music 75
History 76
Philosophy, Science, and Medicine 76
The Pre-Socratics 77
The Sophists 77
The Socra Revolution 77
Plato 79
Aristotle 79
Medicine 80
Architecture 81
Sanctuaries 81
The Temple: The Perfection of the Form 81
SLICE OF LIFE Xenophon, "Secrets of a Successful Marriage in Ancient Greece" Xenophon, from Oeconomicus 83
Sculpture 84
KEY CULTURAL TERMS 90
THE LEGACY OF HELLENIC CMLIZATION 91
SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING 91
4 CLASSICAL GREEK CIVILIZATION The Hellenistic Age 93
THE STAGES OF HELLENISTIC HISTORY 94
The End of the Empire and the Rise of the States 95
The Arrival and Triumph of Rome 95
URBAN LIFE IN THE HELLENISTIC AGE 95
Pergamum 97
Alexandria in Egypt 97
THE ELABORATION OF THE GREEK TRADITION: THE SPREAD OF CLASSICISM TO THE HELLENISTIC WORLD 98
SLICE OF LIFE Street Scene in Hellenistic Egypt Theocritus, from Idylls 99
Drama and Literature 99
Philosophy and Religion 101
Cynicism 101
Skepticism 102
Epicureanism 102
Stoicism 104
Fate and the Mystery Cults 104
Science and Medicine 106
Architecture 106
The Corinthian Temple 106
The Altar 107
ENCOUNTER "The Invention of Parchment and the Birth of the Secular Library" 108
Sculpture 109
Late Hellenistic Style: Rhodes 113
THE LEGACY OF HELLENISTIC WORLD 116
KEY CULTURAL TERMS 117
SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING 118
5 ROMAN CIVILIZATION The Pre-Christian Centuries 119
THE COLOSSUS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD 119
General Characteristics of Roman Civilization 120
Technology 122
Warfare 122
Construction 123
The Etruscan and Greek Connections 123
……
6 JUDAISM AND THE RISE OF CHRISTIANITY 155
7 THE CIVILIZATIONS OF LATE ROME, BYZANTIUM, AND THE EARLY MEDIEVAL WEST 183
8 THE WORLD OF ISLAM 630-1517 221
9 THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES The Christian Centuries 247
10 THE LATE MIDDLE AGES 1300-1500 285
11 THE EARLY RENAISSANCE Return to Classical Roots 1400-1494 321
12 THE HIGH RENAISSANCE AND EARLY MANNERISM, 1494-1564 351
13 NORTHERN HUMANISM, NORTHERN RENAISSANCE, RELIGIOUS REFORMATIONS, AND LATE MANNERISM 1500-1603 385
14 THE BAROQUE AGE Glamour and Grandiosity 1600-1715 419
15 THE BAROQUE AGE II Revolutions in Scientific and Political Thought 1600-1715 455
16 THE AGE OF REASON 1700-1789 479
17 REVOLUTION, REACTION,AND CULTURAL RESPONSE 1760-1830 511
18 THE TRIUMPH OF THE BOURGEOISIE 1830-1871 545
19 THE AGE OF EARLY MODERNISM, 1871-1914 579
20 THE AGE OF THE MASSES AND THE ZENITH OF MODERNISM, 1914-1945 617
21 THE AGE OF ANXIETY AND LATE MODERNISM 1945-1970 657
22 THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD: Globalization, Terror, and Post-Modernism 1970- 695
