The University of Chicago Readings in Western Civi Irration inine volumes) makes available to students and teachers a unique selection of primary documents. many in new translations. These readings, prepared for the highly praised Western Civilization sequence at the University of Chicago, were chosen by an outstanding group of scholars whose experience teaching that course spans almost four decades. Each volume in cludes rarely anthologized selections as well as standard, more familiar texts; a bibliography of recom mended parallel readings; and introductions providing background for the selections Beginning with Per iclean Athens and concluding with twentieth-century Europe, these source materials enable teactors and students to explore a variety of critical approaches to important events and thomes in Western history.

Individual volumes provide essential background reading for courses covering specific oras and period The complete nine-volume series is ideal for general courses in history and Western civilization sequenc