HIST 101: Western Civilization
Fall, 2007
John Nicols

Sourcebook 1: Ancient Near East and Greece

Bible Old Testament

• Genesis 1 - 3
• Genesis 6 - 9
• Exodus 1 - 22
• Code of Assura
• Amos
• On omens and signs in the Ancient Near East

• Book 1 (excerpt from introduction)
• Book 6

• Texts on Greek Constitution and Legal Matters
• The Hoplite Reform and the Greek Polis
• Solon and Croessus on the values of the citizen

• The Pre-Socratic Philosopher/Physicists
• Herodotus, Book 2, 19 - 3- (On the inundation of theNile)

• Book I, 21 - 23 (on historiography)
• Book II, 34 - 36 (funeral oration of Pericles)
• Book II, 46 - 55(plague at Athens)
• Book III, 69 - 85(sedition at Corcyra

• Crito

• Astronomy
• Geology
• Hippocratic Oath
• Medical texts