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…)