Week 1: August 30 - Sept. 3 

Gilgamesh, Arts and Culture (hereafter, AC) 12-14, 19-32 (background reading), 32-5 (text), 'Mesopotamian Protest Against Death" in Blue Book of Readings (hereafter, BB), "The Return" (BB) 
 
  Week 2: Sept. 6 - 10 

Bible: AC 206-225 (background), 225-9 (text), 
Genesis: 12, 22 (BB), Exodus: 20 Ten Commandments (BB) 
 

Week 3: Sept. 13 - 17 

Bible: Sermon on the Mount, Letters of Paul AC 233-7 (text) 
PAPER #1--FIRST DRAFT DUE--SEPT. 13 
 
 

Week 4: Sept. 20 - 24 

Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism: AC 274-89, 294-303 (background); "The Hymn of Man," "The Song of Creation," "The Laws of Manu," "Bhagavad Gita" (BB); "Enlightenment of Buddha," "Sermon at the Deer Park" (BB); selections from Mencius (BB) 
 

Week 5: Sept. 27 - Oct. 1 

Plato: AC 98-128 (background), Euthyphro, Apology 
PAPER #1--FINAL DRAFT DUE--SEPT. 27 
 

Week 6: Oct. 4 - 8 

Plato: Apology (cont'd), Thucydides: "Pericles' Funeral Oration": AC 131-113 
PAPER #2--ASSIGNED--OCT. 4 
 

Week 7: Oct. 11 - 15 

Aristotle, AC: 155-7, Politics (BB); Ethics (BB); 
Song of Roland: AC 358-60, secs. 161-76 (BB); Marie de 
France, The Nightingale: AC 360-1 
PAPER #2--FIRST DRAFT DUE--OCT. 11 
 

Week 8: Oct. 18 - 22 

Dante, The Divine Comedy: AC 397-404 (Introductory Canto 
I, Inferno : Cantos III, V, VJI), 412-6 (Inferno: Cantos 
XXXIII, XXXIV), 416-7 (Purgatorio: Canto I), 423-6 
(Paradiso: Canto XXXII, XXXIII) 
PAPER #2--FINAL DRAFT DUE--OCT. 18
 

Week 9: Oct. 27 - 29 

Diaz, The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico (BB); 
The Broken Spears (BB); "The Spaniards Arrive in 
Tenochtitlan" (BB); Montaigne, "0f Cannibals" 
(BB) ; AC 314-21, 328-9. 
 

Week 10: Nov. 1 - 5 

Equiano in Gates: 11-50, 66-96, 166-78
PAPER #3--ASSIGNED--NOV. 1 
 

Week 11: Nov. 8 - 12 

Shakespeare, Tempest 
PAPER #3--FIRST DRAFT DUE--NOV. 8