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Durant Will

Heroes of history : a brief history of civilization from ancient times to the dawn of the modern age - New York Simon & Schuster 2001 - 348 p

Ch 1. What is civilization?
Ch 2. Confucius and the banished angel
Ch 3. India : from Buddha to Indira Gandhi
Ch 4. From the pyramids to Ikhnaton
Ch 5. Philosophy and poetry in the Old Testament
Ch 6. The road to Pericles
Ch 7. The Golden Age of Athens
Ch 8. From Plato to Alexander
Ch 9. The Roman Republic
Ch 10. The Roman Revolution
Ch 11 The Roman Empire (27 B.C.-A.D. 180)
Ch 12 Nero and Aurelius
Ch 13. The human Christ
Ch 14. The growth of the Church
Ch 15.The Renaissance I : around Leonardo
Ch 16. The Renaissance II : Rome
Ch 17. The Renaissance III : Venetian sunset
Ch 18. The Reformation I : Wyclif and Erasmus
Ch 19. The Reformation II (1517-55) : Luther and the communists
Ch 20. The Catholic Reformation (1517-63)
Ch 21. Shakespeare and Bacon

ISBN: 9780743235945

LC Class. No.: CB69