Hum 2340: THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE

Observation Materials for Portfolio #2

Dr. Bruce A. McDonald

From the Grecian matrix:

Statue of Zeus (or Poseidon)—great bronze statue

Nike of Samothrace (a “headless” woman statue also known as the “Winged Victory”—great!)

Laocoon and his sons (in the Vatican Museum)

Pericles’ funeral oration for dead Athenian heroes

Sophocles: Oedipus Rex (Oedipus the King)

Plato: “Allegory of the Cave” from The Republic (an amazing work on politics)

Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics, Books I and VIII

From the Roman matrix:

Augustus of Primaporta (statue)

Pont du Gard (a phenomenal Roman aqueduct [water carrier] in southern France

Colosseum (Rome)

House of the Vetti in Pompeii (the city destroyed by Vesuvius in AD/CD 79)

Cicero: “On Duty”

Vitruvius: “Principles of Symmetry”

Livy: “The Rape of Lucretia”

St. Paul: selections from Romans

Pliny the Younger: correspondence with the Emperor Trajan

The Suffering (or “Passion”) of Saints Perpetua and Felicity