Core Text Comparison Chart
| Literature Humanities | Music Humanities | Art Humanities | Contemporary Civilization |
1300 - 500 BCE (Ancient Near Eastern Texts; Archaic Greek Poetry) | Epic of Gilgamesh, c. 13th - 7th Century BCE Genesis c. 10th-5th Century BCE Iliad, Homer c. 8th-7th Century BCE Odyssey, Homer c. 8th-7th Century BCE Hymn to Demeter, c. 7th Century BCE Job c. 6th Century BCE |
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Exodus c. 10th- 5th Century BCE
Isaiah c. 8th-5th Century BCE |
500 - 150 BCE (Classical and Hellenistic Greek; Hebrew Texts) | Oresteia, Aeschylus 458 BCE Medea, Euripides Oedipus, Sophocles 429 BCE The Histories, Herodotus 450-420 BCE Lysistrata, Aristophanes 411 BCE History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides c. 405 BCE Symposium, Plato c. 380 BCE |
| Parthenon 447-432 BCE |
Republic, Plato c. 380 BCE Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle c. 350 BCE Politics, Aristotle c. 350 BCE
Ecclesiates c. 4th-2nd Century BCE Epicurus Readings c. 310 BCE |
150 BCE – 500 CE (New Testament; Latin Literature Under Rome) | Aeneid, Virgil 19 BCE Metamorphoses, Ovid 8 CE Luke, c. 70-100 CE John, c. 90-120 CE Confessions, Augustine 398 CE |
| Romans, Galatians c. 50-60 CE Matthew c. 70-100 CE Handbook, Epictetus c. 130 CE Meditations, Marcus Aurelius c. 170-180 CE*
City of God, Augustine c. 413 CE | |
500 –1400 (Medieval Writings/ Music, Gothic Architecture) | Divine Comedy, Dante 1321 Decameron, Boccaccio 1353 | Gregorian Chant (900’s-1200’s ) Hildegard of Bingen 1098 – 1179 | Amiens Cathedral c. 1220-1288 | Qur’an 610-632 Medieval Rationalism/ |
1400 – 1750 (Renaissance and Baroque Art and Music) | Essays, Montaigne 1580 King Lear, Shakespeare 1606 Don Quixote, Cervantes 1605, 1615 | Josquin des Prez c. 1450 -1521 The Madrigal c. 1500-1600 Montiverdi 1567 – 1643 Handel 1685-1759 Bach 1685-1750 | Raphael 1483-1520 Breugel c. 1525-1569 Bernini 1598-1680 Rembrandt 1606-1669 | Discourses, Machiavelli c. 1517 The Prince, Machiavelli 1532 New World Readings (Vitoria, de las Casas, de Sepulveda) 1500’s Protestant Reformation Readings Letter to the Grand Duchess, Galileo 1615 Discourse on Method, Descartes 1637* Meditations, Descartes 1641 Leviathan, Hobbes 1651 Second Treatise, Locke 1691 Letter on Toleration, Locke 1698 |
1730 - 1900 (Classical and Romantic Music, Romantic and Impressionist Art) | Pride and Prejudice, Austen 1813 Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky 1866 | Haydn 1732- 1809 Mozart 1756- 1791 Beethoven 1770-1827 Schubert 1797- 1828 Chopin 1810- 1849 Berlioz 1803- 1869 Wagner 1813- 1883 Verdi 1813- 1901 | Goya 1746-1828 Monet 1840-1926 | Discourse on Inequality, Rousseau 1751 Enquiry Concerning Principles of Morals OR Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Hume 1751, 1748 Candide, Voltaire 1759* Social Contract, Rousseau 1762 Wealth of Nations, Smith 1776 “What is Enlightenment?”, Kant 1784 Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals, Kant 1785 American Revolution Texts 1770-90 French Revolution Texts (Robespierre, Sieyès) 1780’s Reflections on the Revolution in France, Burke 1790 A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Wollstonecraft 1792 Democracy in America, Tocqueville 1835, 1840 Introduction to the Philosophy of History, Hegel 1840 On Liberty, Mill 1859 Marx Readings Origins of Species, Darwin 1859 Utilitarianism, Mill 1861* Descent of Man, Darwin 1871 On the Genealogy of Morals, Nietzsche 1887 |
20th Century (Modern Works) | To the Lighthouse, Woolf 1927 | Debussy 1862-1918 Stravinsky 1882-1971 Berg 1885-1935 Schoenberg 1874 – 1951 American Composers mid-1900’s Jazz mid/early-1900’s | Picasso 1881-1973 Wright 1867-1959 Le Corbusier 1887-1965 Pollock 1912-1956 Warhol 1928-1987 | The Souls of Black Folk, Dubois 1903 Five Lectures on Psychoanalysis OR Civilization and its Discontents, Freud 1909, 1930 The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy, Schmitt 1923* Three Guineas, Woolf 1939 The Second Sex, de Beauvoir 1949* The Human Condition, Arendt 1958* The Wretched of the Earth, Fanon 1961* The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Kuhn 1962* A Theory of Justice, Rawls 1971* Discipline and Punish, Foucault 1975* Towards a Feminist Theory of State, MacKinnon 1989* |
* Indicates Optional Reading