the story of civilization will durant volume 1

The Age of Faith (Volume 4): Over 1,000 years, we meet the Christian ascetics and martyrs, including Simeon Stylites, who sat atop a pillar for 30 years, exposed to rain, sun, and snow, and rejoiced as worms ate his rotting flesh the saints, including Augustine, the most influential philosopher of his age Mohammed, the desert merchant who founded a religion that conquered one-third of the known world in two centuries and the Italian poet Dante, whose sensibility marks the transition to the Renaissance.

The Life of Greece (Volume 2): Will Durant's survey of ancient Greece shows us the origins of democracy and the political legacy to the Western world the golden age of Athens, its architecture, poetry, drama, sculpture and Olympic contests the blossoming of philosophical thought amid a society still rooted in slavery and barbarism and the mysterious lost island of Crete, land of the Minotaur and the Labyrinth.Ĭaesar and Christ (Volume 3): Spanning a millenium in Roman history, the third volume in the Durants' series shows us a world-conquering Roman army, undefeated, unafraid and.vegeterian Hannibal, who transported an army of elephants over the Alps to invade Rome Julius Caesar, who brought Western Europe under Roman rule the life and Passion of Christ and the struggle of the rising church. Our Oriental Heritage (Volume 1): Will Durant opens his massive survey of civilized history with a sweeping look at the Orient: the Egyptians, who perfected monumental architecture, medicine and mummification the Babylonians, who developed astronomy and physics the Judeans, who preserved their culture in the immortal books of the Old Testament and the Persians, who ruled the largest empire in recorded history before Rome. So the Durants embarked on an encyclopedic survey of all civilization, ancient and modern, Occidental and Oriental.

This is the classic reference on world history, recognized as the most comprehensive general history ever written, the result of four decades of work by Will and Ariel Durant - a set that The New York Times called 'a splendid, broad panorama of hereditary culture in words and images that the layman can fully understand.' This series began as an effort to write a history on the nineteenth century, an undertaking that Will Durant realized could only be understood in terms of what had come before.

The story of civilization will durant volume 1