Birth of the Human
Answer the following question in no more than 1 page. Pick just one of this week′s readings and connect it with one of the reading from the previous weeks (There is a list at the bottom of this week′s readings and an attachment of last week′s readings) QUESTION: 18th- and 19th-century classicists and archaeologists were well aware that their work related to discoveries in biology, anthropology, and other disciplines. On the basis of this week′s readings, and keeping in mind other texts we have discussed recently, please pick one concept and discuss how it links one of this week’s readings to prior ones. Consider, for example, ideas of ruin, or beauty, or race. Compare and contrast how the texts deal with these concepts. This week’s readings: For Monday, please make sure to read [unique_solution]• Genesis 6-9, 11-12. [I will not discuss Genesis in great detail, more how it came to be the subject of debates, and what debates] • J. J. Winckelmann, History of the Art of Antiquity (1764), 71-78, 111-123. • Comte de Volney, The Ruins: A Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires, and specifically the Invocation, chapters 1-3, chapter 6, and chapter 13. If possible, please also skim chapter 11. The pages are small, so this isn′t a long read. • I′ve also added an optional reading, Percy Shelley′s poem Ozymandias (which is also not exactly long) For Wednesday, please read: • Alfred Zimmern, The Greek Commonwealth (1911), 180-199, and skim the preface. • Richard Wagner, The Artwork of the Future (1849), 69-90, 95-99. • Heinrich Schliemann, Mycenae (1878), 333-350.