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CHAPTER 1
The Code of Hammurabi (The Code of Hammurabi) 11
OPPOSING VIEWPOINTS: The Great Flood: Two Versions (The Epic of Gilgamesh and Genesis 6:11–15, 17–19; 7:24; 8:3, 13–21) 15
Akhenaten’s Hymn to Aten (Hymn to Aten) 21 A Father’s Advice (The Instruction of the Vizier
Ptah-hotep) 23 CHAPTER 2
The Covenant and the Law: The Book of Exodus (Exodus 19:1–8 and 20:1–17) 33
The Hebrew Prophets: Micah, Isaiah, and Amos (Micah 6:9–16; Isaiah 10:1–6; and Amos 3:1–2) 35
OPPOSING VIEWPOINTS: The Governing of Empires: Two Approaches (King Sennacherib Describes His Siege of Jerusalem; King Ashurbanipal Describes His Treatment of Conquered Babylon; and The Cyrus Cylinder) 39
The Customs of the Persians (Herodotus, The Persian Wars) 41
CHAPTER 3
Homer’s Ideal of Excellence (Homer, Iliad) 53 The Lycurgan Reforms (Plutarch, Lycurgus) 57
Athenian Democracy: The Funeral Oration of Pericles (Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War) 61
OPPOSING VIEWPOINTS: Women in Athens and Sparta (Xenophon, Oeconomicus; Xenophon, Constitution of the Spartans; Aristotle, Politics; and Plutarch, Lycurgus) 69
CHAPTER 4
OPPOSING VIEWPOINTS: Demosthenes and Isocrates Address Philip of Macedonia (Demosthenes, The Third Philippic, and Isocrates, Address to Philip) 75
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Alexander Meets an Indian King (Arrian, The Campaigns of Alexander) 78
Relations Between Greeks and Non-Greeks (Letter to Zenon and Letter to Dionysios) 84
A New Autonomy for Women? (Letter from Isias to Hephaistion and Letter from Ktesikles to King Ptolemy) 86
CHAPTER 5
Cincinnatus Saves Rome: A Roman Morality Tale (Livy, The Early History of Rome) 100
Cato the Elder on Women (Livy, The History of Rome) 108
The Twelve Tables (Selections from the Twelve Tables) 110
OPPOSING VIEWPOINTS: The End of the Republic: Three Views (Sallust, The War with Catiline; Caesar, The Civil Wars; and Cicero, Letter to
Atticus) 114
CHAPTER 6
The Achievements of Augustus (Augustus, Res Gestae) 123
The Daily Life of an Upper-Class Roman (Pliny, Letter to Fuscus Salinator) 130
Ovid and the Art of Love (Ovid, The Art of Love) 131
OPPOSING VIEWPOINTS: Roman Authorities and a Christian on Christianity (An Exchange Between Pliny and Trajan) 140
CHAPTER 7
OPPOSING VIEWPOINTS: Two Views of the Huns (Ammianus Marcellinus, The Later Roman Empire and Priscus, An Account of the Court of Attila the
Hun) 151
Germanic Customary Law: The Ordeal (Gregory of Tours, ‘‘An Ordeal of Hot Water’’) 155
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