1. CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS I Humanities 101 Fall 2016
Dr. Leyla Kayhan Elbirlik

2. Artes Liberales

3. Artes Liberales Quadrivium Trivium Arithmetic Geometry Astronomy
Music theory
Trivium
Grammar
Logic
Rhetoric 30 40 40

4. Middle Ages Liberal arts were adapted to basic Christian education
Scholarship on the human and art declined
Restricted critical thought 27 21 38 38 28

5. Renaissance
Distinction was made between the Humanities and religious discourse.
Revival of classical literature as the source of humanism
Vernacular language 38 32 47 47 37

6. The Enlightenment
Humanities and the natural sciences as complementary and not contradictory disciplines 45 39 54 54 44

7. Nineteenth and Twentieth Century
Influence of the natural sciences gained prestige 46 40 55 55 45

8. The Flood Tablet, relating part of the Epic of Gilgamesh
From Nineveh, northern Iraq, Neo-Assyrian, 7th century BC

9. Paleolithic cave paintings of the Lascaux Cave in France, ca. 17,000 B
Paleolithic cave paintings of the Lascaux Cave in France, ca. 17,000 B.C.

10. Lascaux 17,000 B.C.

11. Göbekli Tepe, ca. 10,000 B.C.

12. Achilles and Hector
Greek Vase, ca. 490 B.C.

15. Papyrus of Sappho’s “Hymn to Aphrodite” Bodleian Library, Oxford

16. Alcaeus and Sappho, ca. 470 BC. From Akragas (Sicily)

17. Sappho reading to her companions on an Attic vase
c. 435 B.C. National Archaeological Museum, Athens

18. A 19th century depiction of ‘Sappho’s Circle’
“Sappho and Alcaeus”, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1881)

19. Torso of Apollo
Statue of Apollo, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

20. Archaic Torso of Apollo
We cannot know his legendary head with eyes like ripening fruit. And yet his torso is still suffused with brilliance from inside, like a lamp, in which his gaze, now turned to low, gleams in all its power. Otherwise the curved breast could not dazzle you so, nor could a smile run through the placid hips and thighs to that dark center where procreation flared. Otherwise this stone would seem defaced beneath the translucent cascade of the shoulders and would not glisten like a wild beast’s fur: would not, from all the borders of itself, burst like a star: for here there is no place that does not see you. You must change your life.
Rainer Maria Rilke,