The Ancient World (HUM 124 - UNC Asheville)/Texts

The textual primary sources are organized by geographical region.

North Africa

 * /Book of the Dead/ - Ancient Egypt
 * The Teaching of Amenemope - Ancient Egypt
 * "The Sayings of the Great Entertainer" (Love Poetry) - Ancient Egypt
 * /Egyptian Magical Spells/

West Africa

 * Why The Sun and Moon Are In The Sky - Ibibio
 * Ifá Divination Poetry - Yoruba

East Africa

 * The Chameleon Finds - Yao

North America

 * /How the World Was Made by James Mooney/ - Cherokee
 * /"How the World Was Made" by Kathi Smith Littlejohn/ - Cherokee
 * "Corn Woman Spirit" by Freeman Owle - Cherokee
 * "Daughter of the Sun" by Freeman Owle - Cherokee
 * Nature Stories by Freeman Owle - Cherokee
 * The Laughing Girl - Tewa (Pueblo)

Mesoamerica

 * Popul Vuh

China

 * Confucius' Analects
 * /Book of Songs/
 * Dao de Ching
 * Han Feizi's The Five Vermin
 * /Qin Law/
 * /Records of the Grand Historian/

India

 * Rig Veda
 * Upanishads
 * Bhagavad Gita
 * Natyasastra
 * Shakuntala
 * Buddhacarita ("Life of the Buddha")
 * Saddharmaratnavaliya (Portraits of Buddhist women)
 * /Cosmic Egg/

Iran

 * /Cyrus Cylinder/
 * Behistun Inscription of Darius I
 * Avesta

Levant

 * Genesis 1-2 (first creation story)
 * Genesis 2-3 (second creation story)
 * Genesis - texts about covenant
 * Genesis 22
 * /Exodus/
 * /Isaiah /
 * /Song of Songs/
 * /Esther/
 * /First Maccabees/
 * /Ephesians/
 * /The Gospel According to Matthew/
 * /The Gospel According to Mark/
 * /The Gospel According to Luke/
 * /The Gospel According to John/

Mesopotamia

 * The Epic of Gilgamesh
 * /The Code of Hammurabi/

Greece

 * Homer's Odyssey
 * /Sappho/
 * Plato's Phaedo
 * Plato's Euthyphro
 * Plato's Apology
 * Aristotle's Politics
 * Epictetus's Enchiridion ("Handbook")

Rome

 * Augustus's Res Gestae