Contents

Part 1

Ozymandias -- Percy Shelley
Why Study the Humanities?
How Did It All Begin?  Various Cultures Explain
What Type of Universe and Society Do We Have?
The Existential view
The Christian Existentialist
The Orderly Universe
Slavic Roman Spirits and Norse Mythology

Part 2

Hammurabi s Code of Laws
The Megalithic Builders
Ancient Egyptians

Part 3

Greek Myths as Fiction, History, Ritual
Greek Stage Development
Functions of the Chorus
Motifs in Greek Culture and History
Lysistrata and The Frogs
Classicism vs. Romanticism
Some Highlights of Greek History

Part 4

Greek Literature
Aristotle of Stagira
Particular Virtues

Part 5

Shaw vs. Shakespeare:  Views of Julius Caesar, Cleopatra, and Rome
Five Types of Messiahs
Emperor and Slave:  Marcus Aurelius and Epictetus
When in Rome, Do as Caesar Does
Mad Gallop through the Dark and Middle Ages
Five Duties of Islam
The Gothic Cathedrals and Purposes of Medieval Churches
Who's Who in Many Paintings

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