Ancient Mesopotamia
Gilgamesh
bin
Ninsun
Enkidu
enters the
human
world
Ishtar: a popular
goddess
(Aphrodite,
Venus…)
The Slaying of the Bull of Heaven
Cyclops
State of the art revenge
Deadly seduction - the Sirens
Herodotus – The
Persian Wars
Athens – the Acropolis
The Parthenon – Temple of Athena
Thucydides
Sophocles
Pericles Socrates
Thucydides
The Golden Age of Pericles
Oedipus /
Antigone
Chorus in Greek Tragedy
The Peloponnesian War
(Thucydides)
The ‘legal assassination’ of Socrates
Plato and
Aristotle
(Raphael’s
School of
Athens)
Rome – The Coloseum
Republican Rome – The Senate
The Caesars
(Roman Empire)Julius
Augustus
Julius & Cleopatra (original images)
The slave who became a
philosopher
The Stoa
Lucretius & Epicureanism
Virgil’s Aeneid
Dido (Elissar)
Creation of Adam
(Michelangelo – Sistine Chapel)
Adam &
Eve
no apples, please…
The Flood –
Noah’s Ark
advanced booking
recommended
(CVSP faculty need not apply)
Abraham (the father of Faith)
Moses and
the Law
The Resurrection of
Christ(Reubens)
Pieta
(Michelangelo)
Mount Athos – Greek Orthodoxy
St. Catherine’s–
Greek Orthodoxy
St. Anthony’s Monastery –
Coptic Orthodoxy
Syrian OrthodoxyMar Mattai monastery – Nineveh, Iraq
Armenian ChristianityEchmiadzin/ Armenia (left)
and Cilicia/ Antelias - Leb. (right)
St. Peter’s Basilica – The Vatican
Constantine
(the
christianisation
of the Roman
Empire)
Augustine
Francis
Augustine
Aquinas
IslamThe Holy Quran
IslamThe Prophet
Mount Hira
The
Cave
Mecca / The Ka’ba
El Madina El Monawara
Al Aqsa Mosque
IslamAl Andalus
(Spain)
Al GhazaliIbn Tufayl
Ibn Sina
Ibn Khaldun
Ibn Rushd
Islam
Theology (kalaam)
Philosophy (falsafa)
Mysticism (tasawwuf)
Hallaj
Islam
Sufism
Dante
The Divine Comedy
Luther
The
Reformation
Shakespeare
The Tempest
The
Scientific
Revolution
Descartes
(rationalism) Locke (empiricism;
parliamentary
democracy)
Modern Philosophy
Hobbes
(strong central
government)
Bentham
(Utilitarianism)
Kant
(German
Enlightenment)
Goethe
(Classic-Romantic
synthesis)
Faust &
Mephistopheles
French Enlightenment
and Revolution
Industrial
Revolution
Marx
Mill, On Liberty
Darwin (and I)
Nietzsche
Freud and Couch
Stephen Hawking
Albert Camus
Che
Al
Bill
zizou
Schumi
Brad
Angelina
Liv
Eminem
(aka: Ishtar…)