VOLUME I: Primary Sources for Ancient History

Topics include the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Sargonid Dynasty, the Law Code of Hammurabi, the Egyptian Book of the Dead, the treaty between the Egyptians and Hittites, Rameses III and the Sea Peoples, the veiling of women in ancient Assyria, Sennacherib’s siege of Jerusalem, the Old Testament, Cyrus the Great, Homeric society, Greek colonization, the Spartan state, Aristotle on early Athens, early Greek lyric poetry, Herodotus and Xerxes’s invasion of Greece, the workings of the Athenian empire, Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War, the 30 tyrants of Athens, Philip of Macedon, and Alexander the Great.