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March 13th:
Class is cancelled tonight. I've been trying to send an email but it's not going through....
There will be no coursepack this year (2007 / 2008) as more and more of the readings are available online. There will, however, be some library reserve readings and required readings here will be marked by asterisks (**). This page is not yet finished. Look for the 2k7. Soon...Soon...
General
links about mythology and the Ancient Near East
Exploring
Ancient World Cultures University of Evansville
The Electronic
Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature University of Oxford
The Holy
Bible King James Version (Bartleby)
The Skeptic's
Annotated Bible
Archaeology
Magazine
KMT:
A Modern Journal of Ancient Egypt
Map
of Ancient Near Eastern Archaeological Sites
The Oriental
Institute Museum (Chicago)
Abzu:
The Oriental Institute's guide to the study of the Ancient Near East
Archaeology
Links of Professor Wm. Clay Poe
The History
of Herodotus translated by George Rawlinson (Internet Classics
Archive)
Rutgers
University Virtual Religion Links
A New
Sense of the Sacred: Carl Sagan's Cosmic Connection by Anne Druyan
Biblical Archaeology Society
Odyssey (an ancient history site primarily intended for young people, but worth
a look for us as well)
Metropolitan
Museum of Art Timeline of Art History
Internet Ancient History Sourcebook
Diotima Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World
Encyclopedia Mythica
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Readings marked ** are required. Everything else is highly recommended.
Some additional readings may be added closer to the day of the lecture. Look for the 2k7
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Lec 1 Introductions and Focus
Overheads
2k7
**Ancient History Wikipedia
**Why Study Ancient World Cultures? Bill Hemminger EAWC
Lec 2 Digging up the Past
Overheads
The Rosetta Stone The British Museum
**Jean-Francois Champollion KMT Magazine Giants of Egyptology
Mummies
in the Niagara Falls Museum and Here
Quick
little story about Napoleon in Egypt
Howard
Carter's Diary part 1 Oct. 28 to Dec. 31, 1922
Howard Carter and the Curse of the Mummy the Unmuseum
Kent Weeks and the Tombs of Ramses II's Sons
Q& A with Professor Kent Weeks Discovery Channel
Theban Mapping Project
**Ozymandias Percy Bysshe Shelley
**The Behistun Inscription
Assurbanipal as a Bilbiomaniac
Assurbanipal's Library Web Page
**Herodotus on Babylon (Paragraphs 178 to 183)
Woolley and the Great Flood McClung Museum
**Archaeology Wikipedia
**What is Archaeology?
Lec 3 Background to Ancient History
Overheads
**Carl Sagan's Cosmic Calendar: Read the introduction and the timelines (click on the arrow marked 'search inside' and read through the pages). The timelines themselves are also here and here .
**Human Evolution BBC Science and Nature
Hominid Species Timeline
Neandertals: a Cyber Perspective
Neanderthals on Trial PBS Television
The Cave
of Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc
Virtual
tour of Vallon-Pont d'Arc Harcourt
The
Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük
Interactive 3D images of
Çatalhöyük University of Minnesota
A student's
Neolithic Revolution site
God is
Alive, Magic is Afoot... (Leonard Cohen and Buffy Saint Marie)
Lecture
4 Early Mesopotamia: Sumer
Overheads
**Reforms of Urukagina
**Sargon the Great
**Sargon of Akkad Wikipedia
**Enheduanna Wikipedia
**Enheduanna's Hymn to the Goddess Inanna
Inanna, From the Myths of Ancient Sumer (look inside the book)
**A Praise Poem of Shulgi
**A Lullaby for a Son of Šhulgi
**Mesopotamia Timeline
Marsh Arabs -- Inheritors of ancient Sumerian culture?
Lecture
5 Religious and Intellectual Outlook in Sumer
Overheads
**The Debate between Winter and Summer
**Lament for Ur
**Shamash Hymn
**Creation of the Pickaxe
Mesopotamia
Resources
**Mesopotamia: The Sumerians
Sumerian Beer (Including a link to the Hymn to Ninkasi) by Professor Miguel Civil
The Anchor Brewing Comany's Sumerian Beer Project
An article on Sumerian Beer by Solomon Katz and Fritz Maytag from Archaeology Magazine (June/July 1991)
Ziggurat of Ur Iraq Heritage Program
Lecture
6 Later Mesopotamia: Babylon and Assyria
Overheads 2k7 (with final addition)
**The Seige
of Lachish (slide show)
**Hammurabi selections for class
Iraq
and the Bible
Ur
in the Age of Hammurabi
**Hammurabi's
Code of Laws EAWC (read the introduction and have a little browse...)
Stolen
Stones: The Modern Sack of Nineveh
Chronology of the Middle East (5,000--300 BCE)
Ruben's painting of the Destruction of Sennacherib
Lord Byron's Poem: The Destruction of Sennacherib
**Theories of Imperialism
Imperialism The Columbia Encyclopedia
Lecture
7 Egypt
Overheads 2k7 (cosmetic changes only (in case you've already printed...))
Pyramids: The Inside Story Nova Online
Chronology of Ancient Egypt (doesn't seem to be working)
**Ancient Egypt Timeline
Saving the Egyptian Antiquities of Luxor University of Missouri
Mysteries of Egypt Canadian Museum of Civilization
**Akhenaten and the Hymn to the Aten
**Psalm 104 (for comparison to the Hymn to the Aten)
The History of Ancient Egypt (recommended: a wealth of information arranged in short articles)
Ancient History: Egyptians BBC
**The Private Lives of the Pyramid Builders (8 pages) BBC
**Health Hazards and Cures of Ancient Egypt BBC
Childbirth and Children in Ancient Egypt
Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt BBC
The Decipherment of Hieroglyphs BBC
Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pharaohs Metropolitan Museum of Art (read the introduction and subpages)
**Mummies: Death and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt Bowers Museum (click through the exhibit)
World
History Compass Ancient Egypt Links
Amarna
3D
Akhenaten City PLC
Ancient Egyptian Mathematics
Duke
University Papyrus Archive
**The
Papyrus of Ani The Egyptian Book of the Dead (read selections to gain some familiarity)
**Illustrations and explanation of the Papyrus of Ani
**The Papyrus of Ipuwer
Lecture
8 Israel and Hebrew Monotheism
Overheads 2k7
An
Anthropologist looks at the Judeo-Christian Scriptures
Catholic
Encyclopedia: Monotheism
**The Babylonian Captivity Wikipedia
**Archaeology
and the Bible Finkelstein and Silberman
Israel's
Archaeological Treasures Israel Ministry of Foreign
Affairs
Canaan and Ancient Israel University of Pennsylvania Museum
The Cyrus Cylinder
The Semitic
Museum at Harvard University
Why Dig
Megiddo?
Lecture
9 India and China
Overheads 2k7
Ancient India The British Museum
**India and China The Student's Friend (meant for a younger crowd perhaps, but still worthwhile)
**A Walk Through Mohenjo-Daro
Around The Indus in 90 Slides
The Ancient Indus Valley
Ancient India Chronology
Mark Felten's Harappa Pages
Religious Thought in Ancient India
The Life of Buddha A lecture by Karen Armstrong
The Illustrated Life of the Buddha
The Life of Gotama Buddha from The Teaching of Buddha: The Buddhist Bible
The Life of Buddha in Legend and Art (a popularization, but entertaining)
Hymns from the Rig Veda
China: Exploring Ancient World Cultures (Evansville)
**Lao Tzu: The Tao Te Ching
The Tao Te Ching Introduction and Translation
Art and Images of China (oracle bones and terra cotta army etc.)
Rising to Life The Terra Cotta Army National Geographic
The Anyang Project
The China Experience: The China Culture Index
Ancient India and China
Lecture 10 Persia and Zoroastrianism
Overheads
**Zoroastrianism Wikipedia
Zoroastrianism: A modern interpretation
**Cyrus the Great Wikipedia
Persepolis and Ancient Iran U of Chicago's Oriental Institute
Persepolis 3D
Lecture
11 The Bible and the Ancient Near East
Overheads
**Who wrote the Bible The Straight Dope
Documentary Hypothesis Wikipedia
**Documentary Hypothesis Religious Tolerance.org
**What is the Documentary Theory?
**Authors of the Book of Genesis Introduction and chapters 1 and 2 of Genesis
Lecture
12 Midterm
Midterm Review: helpful overviews
Overview, Basic Concepts, Prehistory
Ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt
Middle Eastern Timeline
Lecture
13 Comparative Mythology Types of Myth
Overheads 2k7 (only the date and label have changed, so don't print a second time)
**What is myth?...asking Google
**The DNA of Fairy Tales: Their Origin and Meaning
Mythology Wikipedia
World Myths and Legends in Art
Lecture 14 Creation
Overheads (not quite complete and somewhat out of order...sorry...no time)
**Ptah
of Memphis and the Memphite Theology
Egyptian
mythology
**Enuma
Elish The Epic of Creation click here
for a useful synopsis
**The
Bible Genesis Chapters 1, 2, and 3
The Hebrew Creation Narrative Genesis 1-3
**What does a creation myth do?
Lecture 15 The Flood
Overheads
**The
Bible Genesis Chapters 6,7, and 8
Ovid's
Metamorphoses Book 1 The Deluge
The Truth Behind Noah's Flood PBS
Ryan and Pitman's Theory The Earth Institute at Columbia University
A Possible Source for the Stories of Noah's Flood Religioustolerance.org
A Christian interpretation of the Flood Bible.org
The Smithsonian's Statement on the historicity of the Biblical Flood
Evidence for a Flood Smithsonian Magazine April 2000
Comparison of Two Flood Stories Religioustolerance.org
Lecture 16 The Birth of the Hero
Overheads
Infancy Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew The Gnostic Society Library
**Joseph Campbell Wikipedia
Joseph Campbell Foundation
Joseph Campbell and Star Wars
Myth Perceptions Joseph Campbell's Power of Deceit (one Christian View) (not currently working)
Lecture 17 Death and the Afterlife
Overheads
**Inanna's Descent (edited and condensed)
The Descent of Inanna Translation by Wolkstein and Kramer
Gilgamesh, Enkidu and the Nether World
The Osiris Legend and the Precession for the mathies
The Legend of Osiris A charming modern retelling
When it Rained in Egypt (just for fun)
Osiris 2,000 BC -- a dying, resurrected savior (a comparison between Osiris and Jesus)
The Book of Daniel KJV
The Book of Daniel Wikipedia
The Book of Daniel The Columbia Encyclopedia
Lectures 18 and 19 Gilgamesh
Overheads
** One of the following three translations is required reading. The Danny Jackson is preferred, but if you have trouble, read one of the others.
*The Danny Jackson Gilgamesh on line This isn't complete....
*Gilgamesh translation of the Standard Akkadian Edition (with some older interpolations)
*Gilgamesh translated by Maureen Kovacs (doesn't seem to be working at the moment)
Gilgamesh: the world's oldest story -- and astronomical textbook
Gilgamesh Summary
**Storytelling, the meaning of life and Gilgamesh
**Professor Steve Muhlberger's introduction to Gilgamesh
Gilgamesh: a musical interpretation by Tony Garone
BBC News: Gilgamesh tomb believed found
Another class's links and notes on Gilgamesh
Gilgamesh: a spiritual biography
Sparknotes Guide to Gilgamesh
Gilgamesh Study Guide (courtesy of an English class)
Other Gilgamesh texts
Lecture 20 Job and Wisdom Literature
Overheads
**The Book of Job Holy Bible King James Version
Blake's Illustrations for the Book of Job (down at the bottom of the page)
The Precepts of Ptah-Hotep, c. 2200 BCE Ancient History Sourcebook
The Wisdom of Ptah-Hotep (Excerpts)
Egyptian Wisdom Literature (Sacred Texts)
Poem of the Righteous Sufferer
Lecture 21 March 13th.....tonight's class has been cancelled.....
Lecture 22 Student Presentations
Lecture 23 The Ancient World in the Modern World
Overheads
Joseph Campbell Mythos and Logos
Monomyth Website UC Berkeley (further to the hero myth)
Carl Jung Wikipedia
Lecture
24 Final exam
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These are the links for an extra lecture which we don't always have time for...
Lecture Art and Music of the ANE
Art of the Ancient World Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Ancient Art The Detroit Institute of Arts
The Ancient World The Walters Art Museum
Timeline of Art History Metropolitan Museum of Art
Neanderthal Flute
Neanderthal Jam The Music of Sound
Evidence of Harmony in Ancient Music Robert Fink
Music of the Ancient Near East
Art History Resources on the Web |
