Chapter
1: Egypt and Early Africa
Nebmare-nakht: A Scribal
Schoolbook
Pyramid Texts
"Instructions of
Ptahhotep"
"Hymn to the Nile"
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Divine Birth and Coronation
Inscriptions of Hatshepsut
"Great Hymn to the
Aten"
Egyptian-Hittite Peace Treaty
Victory Stela of Piankhi
Inscription of Ezana
Chapter
2: Hittite Empire in Anatolia
Plague Prayers of Mursili II
The Apology of Hattusili III
Anitta Text
Hittite Laws
Deeds of Suppiluliuma
Chapter
3: Near East (Mesopotamia, Sumer, Assyria and Levant)
The Instructions of Shuruppag
Reform Edict of Urukagina
Enheduanna: Hymns to Inana
The Victory Inscription of
Utu-hegal
Curse of Agade
Letter of Shulgi to Ishbi-Erra
Bible: Genesis
Hymn of the Righteous Sufferer
Code of Hammurabi
Sargon's Defeat of Lugalzagesi
Enuma Elish
Epic of Gilgamesh
Bible: Exodus
Middle Assyrian Laws
Bible: 1 Samuel
Bible: Jeremiah
Neo-Babylonian Chronicle 3
Bible: Deuteronomy
Book of Enoch
Chapter
4: Persia
Cyrus Cylinder
Xerxes I: Daiva Inscription
Contract of Mibtahiah's Third
Marriage
Zend Avesta
Verse Account of
Nabonidus
Darius the Great: Tomb
Inscriptions
Darius the Great: Behistun
Inscription
Chapter
5: India
Rig Veda
Jain Sutras
Upanishads
Valmiki: Ramayana
Kautilya: Arthashastra
Rock and Pillar Edicts of
Asoka
Patanjali: Yoga Sutras
Ashvamedha Parva
Bhagavad Gita
Laws of Manu
Lotus Sutra
Heart Sutra
Chapter
6: East Asia (China and Japan)
Classic
of Poetry: Chinese Agricultural Calendar
Noble Eightfold Path
Sun Tzu: The Art of War
Analects of Confucius
Mandate of Heaven
Canon of Filial Piety
Dao De Jing
Han Feizi
Classic of Rites
Sima Qian on His Own
Castration
Sima Qian: Biography of Ji An
Huan Kuan: Discourses on Salt
and Iron
Ban Gu: "Treatise on Food
and Money"
Ban Zhao: Lessons for a Woman
Kojiki
Nihongi
Chapter
7: Archaic and Early Classical Greece
Homer: Iliad
Hesiod: Theogony
Herodotus: "On
Libya"
Herodotus on Darius
Funeral Oration of Pericles
Orphic Tablets and Hymns
Aristotle: Constitution of
Sparta
Aristotle:
"The Nature End and Origin of the States"
Aristotle: Athenian
Constitution
Aristotle: Constitution of
Carthage
Chapter
8: Late Classical and Hellenistic Greece
Aristotle: Metaphysics
Hippocratic Oath
Plato: Meno
Plato:
"Of Wealth Justice Moderation and Their Opposites"
Plato: "Allegory of the
Cave"
Cleanthes: "Hymn to
Zeus"
Polybius: The Histories
Pseudo-Sibylline Oracles
Chapter
9: Roman Republic
Twelve Tables of Roman Law
Marcus Cato (the Elder): On
Agriculture
Lucretius: On the Nature of
Things
Cicero: On the Laws
Law of Caesar on
Municipalities
Virgil: Aeneid
Chapter
10: Roman Empire
Deeds of the Divine Augustus
Plutarch: Life of Alexander
Pliny
the Elder: An Account of the World and the Elements
Tacitus: Germania
Juvenal: Satires
Arrian: The Campaigns of
Alexander
Marcus Aurelius: Meditations
Laws
Ending the Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire
Theodosian Code
Salminius
Hermias
Sozomenus: Ecclesiastical History
