Humanitas: Ancient Greece

A forthcoming index for Humanitas Ancient Greece Books 1 and 2 will be available at no cost on the Support tab of this product page.  Rooted in the Renaissance humanists’ clarion call to return ad fontes, this brand-new upper school humanities curriculum promises to bring students “back to the sources.” Geared towards history, humanities, and humane letters courses, the Humanitas series offers a continuous, unfolding narrative of Western Civilization through a series of carefully curated primary source documents that trace the founding and beginnings of the American experiment. Beginning with the mythic past and moving into the concrete particulars of history, Humanitas Ancient Greece Book 1 will take the reader to the origins of the ancient Greeks. Homer and Hesiod help shape the Greek consciousness, offering later generations of Greeks, distinct notions of what it means to be Greek. But the mythic vision of the cosmos is challenged in the Archaic Era as distinct political identitie