Overview Chart
Foundations of Western Civilization (Part 1): Creation to Fall of Rome C.S. Lewis Academy High School 2011-2012 Susan A. Buck, Instructor | Title of Work | Literary Form | Author’s Worldview | Main Points | Historical Events/Links | Time Period | Battle for Our Minds, R.C. Spraul | Lecture Series | Christian Worldview | God is with His Creation | Modern World Views | Present | Adam and His Kin, Ruth Beechick | Historical Fiction | Christian Worldview | Living in Sin, decedents of Adam | The Bible | 400 BC | Epic of Gilgamesh. Penguin Classics,1960 | Epic | Ancient Polytheism | The Human Condition | Mesopotamian | Creation-to Abraham | Book of Job/Hebrews | Sacred Historic Narrative | Judaeo-Christian | Monotheism, God is good | The Leviathan | Post Flood | Iliad, by Homer; Alfred J. Church, 2006 | Greek Epic Poem | Greek Myth/Polytheistic | “kleos” (Glory)“time” (Honor) | Trojan Wars | 750 BC | Odyssey,Homer,Fitzg-erald Translation 1961 | Greek Epic Poem | Greek Myth/Poly-theistic | Hearth/Home“Xenia” | Trojan Wars | 750 BC | Walls of Windy Troy, MarjorieBraymer1960 | Biography | Polytheism | Ancient Ruins/Troy | The Life of Heinrich Shiliemann | 1900s | Antigone, Sophocles | Greek Drama | Greek Myth/Poly-theistic | Loyalty/gods/family | Thebes/Greek Drama Begins | 400 BC (Golden Age) | Prometheus Bound, Aeschylus | Greek Drama | Greek Myth/Poly-theistic | Justice/Punishment | Greek Drama cont. | 400 BC (Golden Age) | Andromache, Euripedes | Greek Drama | Greek Myth/Poly-theistic | TragicFlaw/CatharsisPost-Trojan War | Religious/PoliticalDuty/Greek Drama | 400 BC (Golden Age) | The Trial & Death of Socrates, Four Dialogues, by Plato | Greek Philosophy | Greek Reason/P-olytheism | Proper use of Gov’t/Emerging reason | Athens-EmpireGolden Age of Greece | 427-347 BC Democracy defeated | The World in Literature(Vol 1) Chp- Thucydides | Biography | Polytheism | Life/Funeral Speech of Pericles/ Melian