Arts & Ideas
cultivates reading skills
by sharing concerns and sensibilities
of people within specific cultures
at specific times. Arts and Ideas
complements a course by that
title
at the
Syllabus
Telling Stories
I Fighting Trojans
Homer: The Iliad
Gods The Trojan War
Time Line Bullfinch Britannica Durant
II Building
Tragedy
Aeschylus: The Agamemnon
Aristotle: Poetics
History
Herodotus: Gyges Croesus
Thucydides: Pericles
Plutarch: Pericles Lycurgus Solon
Philosophy
Aristotle: Pride Magnanimity
Metaphysics Poetics
Plato: The Symposium Light
The Parable of the Cave The Divided Line
Heraclitus: Fragments Zeno:
Paradoxes
III Illuminating
Love
Medieval Lyrics
Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde
Middle English Troilus and Criseyde
Capellanus: The Art of
Courtly Love
St Augustine: Confessions
Innocent III: On Misery
IV Distinguishing
Perspectives
Pico della Mirandola:
On Dignity
Machiavelli: The Prince
Botticelli's Florence
Titian's Venice
Shakespeare: Othello
V Mapping
Directions
Bacon: The New Organon
Galileo: The Starry Messenger
Harvey: The Motion of the Heart
Darwin: Evolution
VI Creating Self
& Society
Blake
Songs of Innocence
Songs of Experience
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Goya