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Reed College Humanities Course

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Author	Book	Archive Links
Williams and Colomb	The Craft of Argument	None
Williams and Colomb	The Craft of Research	v1 v2 v3
Harvey	The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing	None
Richard Lanham	Revising Prose	v1
Oxford	Oxford Classical Dictionary	v1 v2
Oxford	Oxford Companion to Classical Literature	v1
Atlas	Anchor Atlas of World History, Volume 1	None
Hum110	Basic Chronology of the Ancient World	link
Danielle Allen	“Aims of Education” address, University of Chicago, 2001	link
Penguin	Epic of Gilgamesh, transl. George	v1 v2 v3 v4 v5
Hammurabi	The Code of Hammurabi	v1
Empereur	Discoveries: Alexandria: Jewel of Egypt	v1
Marjorie Susan Venit	The Monumental Tombs of Ancient Alexandria: The Theater of the Dead	None
~	Venit, "The Monumental Tombs of Ancient Alexandria: Setting the Scene"	v1
Lichtheim	Ancient Egyptian Literature - Vol. 1 - "Pyramid Texts", "Coffin Texts" Vol. 2 "The Great Hymn to Osiris", "Horus and Seth", "The Book of the Dead", "Harper Songs", "The Judgement of the Dead" - Volume 3	v1
Simpson	The Literature of Ancient Egypt -> "Coffin Text 148"	v1
Lloyd	A Companion To Ancient Egypt, 2 Vols. -> "Chronology" (pp. xxxii-xlv), Frood: "Social Structure and Daily Life: Pharaonic" (pp. 469-89), Spencer: "Priests and Temples: Pharaonic," (pp. 255-73)	vol.1
Salima Ikram	Ancient Egypt: An Introduction, pp. 68-115	None
Mark Lehner	The Complete Pyramids, pp. 106-119	v1
Oxford	The Tale of Sinuhe and Other Ancient Egyptian Poems, 1940-1640 BC, transl. R. B. Parkinson -> "The Tale of Sinuhe", "The Dialogue of a Man and His Soul", "The Teachings of Khety", "The Teaching For King Merikare"	None
Edwards, ed.	Treasures of Tutankhamun -> The discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb / Tom Buckley; Catalogue / I.E.S. Edwards	v1
~	David Silverman, “Prologue” and “Tutankhamun and the Return to the Tradition”	Can't find this book
Oxford	Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt -> "Karnak"	None
Fowler	Love Lyrics of Ancient Egypt	v1
~	Finley, "Was Greek Civilization Based on Slavery?"	Sci-Hub
Foster	Ancient Egyptian Literature: An Anthology	None
Foster	Love Songs of the New Kingdom	v1
Charles Freeman	Egypt, Greece, and Rome	v1
Homer	The Iliad, trans. Lattimore	v1 v2 v3
Homer	The Odyssey, trans. Fagles	v1
Martin	Ancient Greece From Pre-Historic to Hellenistic Times	v1 v2
Miller	Greek Lyric: An Anthology in Translation	None
Hesiod	Theogony, Works and Days, and Shield, trans. Lombardo	v1 v2
Neer	Style and Politics in Athenian Vase-Painting: The Craft of Democracy, circa 530-470 BCE	None
Hurwit	The Art and Culture of Early Greece	v1
Blackwell	Blackwell Companion to Archaic Greece -> Hall, "Ethnicity and Cultural Exchange" (chapter 31, sections 1,2,3)	v1
Sappho	transl. Mary Barnard	v1 v2
~	Hallett, "Sappho in Her Social Context: Sense and Sensuality"	Sci-Hub
Curd, ed.	Presocratics Reader: Selected Fragments and Testimonia, trans. McKirahan	v1
Vernant	The Origins of Greek Thought, pp. 102-129	None
Axworthy	"Origins: Zoroaster, the Achaemenids, and the Greeks," A History of Iran, pp. 1-30	v1
Allen	"Royal Capitals," The Persian Empire, pp. 59-85	None
Babaie and Grigor	Persian Kingship and Architecture: Strategies of Power in Iran from the Achaemenids to the Pahlavis -> Achaemenid Imperial Architecture: Performative Porticoes of Persepolis / Margaret Cool Root	None
Kuhrt, ed.	The Persian Empire -> Royal inscriptions (selections), pp. 70-74, 141-158, 492-158, 492-495, 503-505	None
Thomas Harrison, ed.	Greeks and Barbarians -> F. Lissarague, "The Athenian Image of the Foreigner" (pp. 101-24)	None
Aeschylus	The Persians	v1 v2 v3 v4 v5
Herodotus	The History, trans. Selincourt	v1 v2 v3 v4 v5
Stewart	"Looking Forward: After Alexander," Art, Desire, and the Body in Ancient Greece	None
Stewart	"Narration and Allusion in the Hellenistic Baroque," Narrative and Event in Ancient Art	v1
Hamma, ed.	Alexandria and Alexandrianism -> Stewart, Andrew, "The Alexandrian Style: A Mirage?" pp. 231-246	download
Aeschylus	The Oresteia, trans. Fagles	v1 v2 - Lattimore transl. also avail on Archive.org
Sophocles	Sophocles I: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone, ed. Grene and Lattimore	v1 v2
~	Rachel Kousser, "Destruction and Memory on the Athenian Acropolis"	Sci-Hub
Castriota	Myth, Ethos, and Actuality: Official Art in Fifth Century B.C. Athens -> "The Parthenon Frieze, Persia and the Athenian Empire"	None
Lysias	Funeral Oration (pp. 29), Against Pancleon (pp. 504), Against Nicomachus (pp. 609)	v1
J.J. Pollit	Art & Experience in Classical Greece	v1 v2 v3
J.J. Pollit	Art in the Hellenistic Age	None
Thucydides	The Peloponnesian Wars, trans. Warner	v1 v2
Austin, M.M.	The Potter’s Oracle
Theocritus	Idylls	v1
Pseudo-Xenophon	"Constitution of the Athenians"	v1 v2
Euripides	Euripides, Alcestis, Medea, The Heracleidae, Hippolytus, trans. Grene and Lattimore -> Medea	v1 v2 v3 v4
Susan Lape	Race and Citizen Identity in the Classical Athenian Democracy, pp. 1-52	None
Euripides	Euripides V: Electra, The Phoenician Women, The Bacchae, ed. Grene and Lattimore -> The Bacchae	v1 v2 v3
Plato	The Trial and Death of Socrates, trans. Grube	v1 v2
Aristophanes	Lysistrata	v1 v2 v3 v4
Aristophanes	Three Comedies: The Birds, The Clouds, The Wasps, ed. Arrowsmith	v1 v2
Aristophanes	The Frogs	v1
Plato	Republic, trans. Reeve	v1
Vernant	Mortals and Immortals: Collected Essays -"The Birth of Images" (pp. 164), "Feminine Figures of Death" (pp. 95)	None
Aristotle	The Nicomachean Ethics, trans. Irwin	v1
Aristotle	Politics	v1 v2
Denise Eileen McCoskey	Introduction to Race: Antiquity and Its Legacy, pp. 1-34	None
Pseudo-Callisthenes	Alexander Romance 1.1-1.13	v1 v2 v3
King Milinda and Nagasena	The Questions of King Milinda, transl. T.W. Davids	v1

Rome

Author	Book	Links
~	Peter Green, "The New Urban Culture: Alexandria, Antioch, Pergamon"	Sci-Hub)
McKenzie	The Architecture of Alexandria and Egypt, c. 300 BC to AD 700, pp 32-35	None
~	Andrew Erskine, "Culture and Power in Ptolemaic Egypt: The Museum and Library of Alexandria	Sci-Hub
Austin, M.M.	The Potter’s Oracle	Can't find what book this is from
Plutarch	Plutarch, “The Life of Alexander,” Sections 1-16, 26-29, 34-56, and 69-74	v1
~	Hugh Liebert, “Alexander the Great and the History of Globalization”	Sci-Hub
Polybius	Rise of the Roman Empire	None
Polybius	Histories, Book 6, sections 1-39,47, 50-58	v1
Terence	The Girl from Andros	v1 v2
Plautus	The Pot of Gold and Other Plays, trans. E.F. Watling - Miles Gloriosus	v1
Lucretius	On the Nature of Things, transl. Walter Englert	None, but many other transl. avail on Archive
Garnsey, Peter & Richard Saller	The Roman Empire: Economy, Society & Culture	None
Sallust	Catiline's War, Jurgurthine War, Histories, trans. AJ. Woodman - read Catiline's War	v1 v2
Cicero	Selected Works, trans. M. Grant -> Second Philippic, On Duties III	v1
Livy	The Rise of Rome, Books 1-5, trans. T.J. Luce	None, but many other transl. avail on Archive (v1 v2)
~	Clifford Geertz, "Religion as a Cultural System"	v1
Augustus	Deeds of the Divine Augustus	v1 v2 v3
Suetonius	Augustus	v1 v2
~	Jas Elsner, "Inventing Imperium: Text and the Propaganda of Monuments in Augustan Rome" in Art and Text in Roman Culture, ed.J. Elsner	v1
Horace	"Cleopatra"	v1
Horace	"The Reign of Augustus"	Can't find what book this is from
~	Peter J. Holliday, "Time, History, and Ritual on the Ara Pacis Augustae"	v1
Virgil	"Eclogue 4"	v1
Virgil	The Aeneid, transl. Allen Mandelbaum	v1 v2 v3
Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper	“Imperial Trajectories,” in Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference	None
Winckelmann	Reflections on the Imitation of Greek Works in Painting and Sculpture	v1 v2
Lessing	Laocoon	v1
Pliny the Younger	Letters 2.17	v1
Pliny the Younger	Letters 6.16	v1
~	"The Humble Townspeople: From the Walls of Pompeii" in Roman Civilization: Selected Readings, Volume 2, eds. Naphtali Lewis, Meyer Reinhold	v1
Ovid	Metamorphoses, transl. Melville	v1 v2
~	Amy Sillman, After Metamorphoses (2015-6. Video animation with iPad drawings, 5 minutes, looped. Music by Wibke Tiarks)	link
Seneca	The Stoic Philosophy of Seneca	v1
Epictetus	The Handbook, trans. Nicholas P. White	v1
Tacitus	The Annals of Imperial Rome	v1 v2
Tacitus	The Agricola and the Germania	v1 (many other transl. avail)
Oxford	The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha/ New Revised Standard Version: College Edition	v1 v2 v3 v4 v5
Jaffee	Early Judaism	None
Berlin, Adele, and Mark Zvi Brettler	The Jewish Study Bible: Tanakh Translation, 2nd ed.	v1
Barbette Stanley Spaeth, ed.	The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Mediterranean Religions -> Kimberly B. Stratton, “Identity” (pp. 220-251)	v1
Philo	Embassy to Gaius	v1
~	Matthew B. Schwartz, "Greek and Jew: Philo and the Alexandrian Riots of 38-41 CE"	Sci-Hub
Josephus	The Jewish War	v1 v2 v3
Petronius	Satyricon, trans. R.B. Branham	None, other transl: v1 v2 v3 v4
Apuleius	The Golden Ass	v1 v2 (many other transl. avail)
~	Alex Nice, "The Goddess Isis and the Roman World"	None
Potter	Emperors of Rome - "Caesars and Their Subjects" and "The Slippery Slope"	None
~	The Tractate Avot (The Ethics of the Fathers)	v1 v2 v3
Annabel Jane Wharton	Refiguring the Post Classical City	None
Brody, ed.	Dura-Europos : crossroads of antiquity -> Theory and methodology: sof identities using archaeological evidence from Dura-Europos / Gail L. Hoffman; The Dura-Europos synagogue: images of a competitive community / Tessa Rajak; A peaceful pluralism: the Durene Mithraeum, synagogue, and Christina building / Patricia Deleeuw	v1
Musurillo, Herbert, tr.	Martyrdom of Saints Perpetua and Felicitas, The acts of the Christian martyrs, pp. 108-131	v1
Athanasius	Life of St. Antony the Great	v1
Peter Brown	The World of Late Antiquity	v1
Plotinus	Enneads - 1.6 ("Beauty") and 5.9, ("The Intelligence, The Ideas and Being")	v1
Augustine	Confessions, transl. Chadwick	None, although other transl. are on Archive

Mexico City

Author	Book	Link

• | Codex Mendoza, ed. Frances F. Berdan and Patricia Rieff Anawalt | v1

Fray Bernardino de Sahagún | “De los Dioses,” Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain, Book 1; “De las Cerimonjas,” Florentine Codex, Book 2, 1-2, 42-46; Story of Huitzilopochtli (Illustrated), in Florentine Codex, Book 3 | None

• | “The Birth of Huitzilopochtli, Patron God of the Aztecs,” Native Mesoamerican Spirituality, ed. Miguel León-Portilla, 220-225 | None

Bernal Díaz | The Conquest of New Spain | v1 Lockhart, James, ed. | We People Here: Nahuatl Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico | None ~ | Barbara E. Mundy, “Mapping the Aztec Capital: The 1524 Nuremberg Map of Tenochtitlan, Its Sources and Meanings| Sci-Hub jstor José de Acosta | Natural and Moral History of the Indies - Table of Contents 250-251 (“Prologue to the subsequent books”), 275-276 (V.11), 278-282 (V. 13-14), 293-296 (V.20), 327-333 (V.31, VI.1-2), 339-342 (VI.7), 368-380 (VI.24-28, VII.1), 392-394 (VII.7) |v1

• | Cantares Mexicanos: Songs of the Aztecs, trans. John Bierhorst -> “Beginning of the Songs,” “A Song of Green Places, an Otomi Song, a Plain One,” and “Another to the Same Tone, a Plain One,” | None
• | “Epic Description of the Besieged City,” in The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico, exp. ed., ed. Miguel León-Portilla | v1 v2 v3 v4

Miguel León-Portilla | “Myths in Pre-Columbian Poetry,” Pre-Columbian Literatures of Mexico, trans. Grace Lobanov and Miguel León-Portilla (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1986), 30-48. | v1

• | “Excerpt from the Nahuatl Story of the Apparition of the Virgin of Guadalupe, 1649” in Mesoamerican Voices: Native-Language Writings from Colonial Mexico, Oaxaca, Yucatan, and Guatemala, ed. Matthew Restall, Lisa Sousa, and Kevin Terraciano | None
• | “Sacrifice of Isaac,” in Nahuatl Theater Volume I: Death and Life in Colonial Nahua Mexico, eds. Barry D. Sell and Louise M. Burkhart, 147-163. | None

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz | Poems, Protest, and a Dream: Selected Writings, trans. Margaret Sayers Peden -> “Loa to the Divine Narcissus", “First I Dream”, “Reply to Sor Filotea”, “Redondilla 92: A Philosophical Satire”, “Sonnet 145: She Attempts to Minimize…” | v1 ~ | Magali M. Carrera, “Locating Race in Late Colonial Mexico| Sci-Hub, DOI: 10.1080/00043249.1998.10791891 Gilbert M. Joseph and Timothy J. Henderson, ed. | The Mexico Reader: History, Culture, Politics -> José Maria Morelos, “Sentiments of the Nation” (1813) pp. 189-191, Agustín de Iturbide, “Plan of Iguala” (1821), Editors of El Tiempo, “A Conservative Profession of Faith” (1846) pp. 220-225, Mariano Otero, “Considerations Relating to the Political and Social Situation of the Mexican Republic in the Year 1847” (1847) pp. 226-238. | v1 Andrés Molina Enríquez | excerpts from The Nation’s Great Problems, in Mexican History: A Primary Source Reader, ed. Nora E. Jaffary, Edward W. Osowski, and Susie E. Porter | None Zapata | “The Plan de Ayala” (1911), in John Womack, Zapata and the Mexican Revolution | v1

• | “Political Constitution of the United States of Mexico” (1917) | link

Nellie Campobello | excerpts from Cartucho, in Cartucho and My Mother’s Hands, trans. Doris Meyer and Irene Matthews | v1

Harlem Renaissance

Author	Book	Link
W.E.B. Du Bois	Souls of Black Folk	v1 v2 v3
W. E. B. Du Bois	“Credo,” “A Litany in Atlanta,” “Religion in the South,” “The Church and the Negro,” “Pontius Pilate,” “The Color Line and the Church,” and “Will the Church Remove the Color Line?” in Du Bois on Religion	v1
Ida B. Wells	Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases, in Southern Horrors and Other Writings: The Anti-Lynching Campaign of Ida B. Wells, 1892-1900	v1
Booker T. Washington	“The Atlanta Exposition Address,” in Up from Slavery	v1 v2
Jacob Lawrence	Migration Series (1940-1941), Phillips Collection	Link
Zora Neale Hurston	“Spirituals and Neo-Spirituals,” in The Sanctified Church	v1
David Levering Lewis, ed.	The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader	v1
Alain Locke, ed.	Survey Graphic; Harlem: Mecca of the New Negro	None
Alain Locke	“The Negro Spirituals,” in The New Negro	v1 v2 v3
Saidiya Hartman	Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval	None
W.E.B. Du Bois	“Credo” and “Souls of White Folk,” in Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil	v1 v2
Universal Negro Improvement Association	“Declaration of the Rights of the Negro Peoples of the World” (1920)	Link
Tony Martin	The Pan-African Connection: From Slavery to Garvey and Beyond	None
Jean Toomer	Cane	v1 v2 v3 v4 v5 v6 v7 v8
Zora Neale Hurston	Their Eyes Were Watching God	v1 v2 v3 v4 v5 v6 v7
Zora Neale Hurston	“What White Publishers Won’t Print,” in I Love Myself When I Am Laughing...And Then Again When I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader	v1
Ralph Ellison	Invisible Man	v1 v2
W. E. B. Du Bois	“The Negro and the Warsaw Ghetto” (1952), in The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois Reader, ed. Eric J. Sundquist	v1