Chapter One Greek Culture : Origin of Western Clvilization PART A Greek Culture 1.1.1 General Introduction 1.1.2 Influence of Ancient Greek Culture PART B Greek Literature 1.2.1 Homers Epics in Early Greece 1.2.2 Mythology in Greece 1.2.3 Drama in Greece PART C Greek Philosophy 1.3.1 General Introduction 1.3.2 Famous Philusophers PARTD Greek Art and Science 1.4.1 Art in Greece 1.4.2 Science in Greece Chapter Two Roman Culture PART A History PART B Culture Achievements Chapter Three Jewish Culture and the Old Testament PART A Judaism and the Old Testament PART B The Ancestors and States of Israel PART C Zionism an Its Cultural Connotation PART D Cultural Achievements of the Jews Chapter Four Christian Culture and the New Testament PART A Historical and Cultural Backgrounds PART B The New Testament PART C A Brief History of the Early Church PART D Beyond the New Testament Period Chapter Five The Middle Ages PART A Europe and Its Politics PART B The Church PART C The Crusades PART D Dante and the Divine Comedy PART E Scholasticism: Aquinas and Anselm PART F The Establishment of Banking and Universities Chapter Six Renaissance and Reformation PART A Renaissance PART B Uterature and Art PART C Political and Social Ideology PART D Science and Technology and Philosophy PART E The Religious Reformation Chapter Seven Age of Enlightenment PART A Enlightenment: the Age of Reason PART B Revolutionary Era PART C English Literature PART D Art PART E Music Chapter Eight Passionate Romanticism PART A Ceneral Introduction PART B The Origin of the Romantic Ideological Trend PART C Romantic Philosophy and Social Thought PART D Romantic Poems of Nature and Humanity in English PART E Emotion and Freedom in Romantic Music Chapter Nine The Industrialized Realism PART A General Introduction PART B Realism in Literature PART C Realism in Painting PART D Realism in Architecture and Sculpture Chapter Ten Modernism: New Perspective Denying Tradition PART A Modernist Culture: Surpassing and Innovation PART B Modernist Ideology and Philoeophy PART C Modemist Literature PART D Modernist Achievements References