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Discover the Ancients in Their Own Words. Experience the earliest civilizations, the rise and fall of Greece and Rome, and early Christendom through fascinating inscriptions, eyewitness accounts and primary source documents, including treaties, speeches, plays, poems and letters foundational to Western Civilization. Encounter Babylonian conquerors, Greek philosophers, Roman emperors and early Church fathers, all through their own words or the early historians who studied them. Meet Pharoah Pepi, Hammurabi, Lycurgus, Socrates, Caesar, Pliny, Athanasius, Quintillian and more. Tackle unabridged excerpts of original works by historians Herodotus, Thucidydes and Plutarch, all in an easy-to-read narrative format. This Reader has also been illustrated with beautiful full-color classic paintings to bring the ancient world to life. As with all Nourished Upon Ideas titles, the art has been carefully selected to be suitable for readers of all ages.

In this Reader, students will read selections from:
Livy's Early History of Rome
Plutarch's Life of Alcibiades
Xenophon's Spartan Constitution
Aristotle's Politics
Thucydides' Funeral Oration of Pericles
Aristophanes' Comedies
Plato's Allegory of the Cave
Pliny's letters to Roman Emperors
Augustine's Confessions and much more!

This Reader is a part of History & Humanities Cycle I.

History & Humanities is a Charlotte Mason-inspired curriculum for high school and middle school-aged students, covering History, Literature, Language Arts and Writing as its core subjects in each cycle. In addition, woven beautifully throughout are threads of Citizenship, Bible, Philosophy, Worldview, Government and Economics. Using living books, written narration, dictation, picture study and more, this curriculum is a delightful feast of learning. History & Humanities is also customizable for varying grade levels, making education simplified for home educating families with multiple ages learning together, and for teachers with multiple grades.