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HOUSEHOLD MANAGEMENT AND THE ROLE
OF THE ATHENIAN WIFE 95
Reprinted by permission of the publishers and the Trustees of
the Loeb Classical Library from Xenophon: Memorabilia and
Oeconomicus, Volume IV, Loeb Classical Library 168, translated
by E. C. Marchant, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University
Press, 1923. e Loeb Classical Library
®
is a registered
trademark of the President and Fellows of Harvard College.
ALEXANDER MEETS AN INDIAN KING 98
From e Campaigns of Alexander by Arrian, translated by
Aubrey de Selincourt. Viking Press, 1976.
CHAPTER 5
CINCINNATUS SAVES ROME: A ROMAN
MORALITY TALE 108
From e Early History of Rome by Livy, trans. by Aubrey de
Selincourt. Copyright © the Estate of Aubrey de Selincourt 1960.
THE ROMAN FEAR OF SLAVES 118
From e Annals of Imperial Rome by Tacitus, translated by
Michael Grant (Penguin Classics, 1956, Sixth revised edition
1989). Copyright © Michael Grant Publications Ltd, 1956, 1959,
1971, 1989. Reproduced by permission of Penguin Books Ltd.
From Letters of the Younger Pliny translated by Betty Radice
(Penguin Classics, 1963). Copyright © Betty Radice, 1963.
Reproduced by permission of Penguin Books Ltd.
OPPOSING VIEWPOINTS: ROMAN AUTHORITIES
AND A CHRISTIAN ON CHRISTIANITY 123
An Exchange Between Pliny and Trajan. From e Letters of
the Younger Pliny, translated with an introduction by Betty
Radice (Penguin Classics 1963, Reprinted 1969). Copyright
© Betty Radice, 1963, 1969. Reproduced by permission of
Penguin Books Ltd. From Origen, Contra Celsum. Trans. Henry
Chadwick. Copyright © 1953. Reprinted with the permission of
Cambridge University Press.
AN EDICT FROM THE EMPEROR 124
Excerpt from Sources of Chinese Tradition, by William
eodore de Bary. Copyright © 1960 by Columbia University
Press. Reprinted with the permission of the publisher.
CHAPTER 6
THE CREATION OF THE WORLD: A MAYAN VIEW 140
From Popol-Vuh: e Sacred Book of the Ancient Maya,
translated by Adrian Recinos. Copyright © 1950 by the
University of Oklahoma Press. Reprinted by permission.
MARKETS AND MERCHANDISE IN AZTEC MEXICO 144
From e Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Diaz. Copyright
© 1975. (Harmondsworth: Penguin), pp. 232–233.
AZTEC MIDWIFE RITUAL CHANTS 145
From e Florentine Codex : General History of the ings
of New Spain by Bernadino De Sahagun. University of Utah
Press, 1982.
VIRGINS WITH RED CHEEKS 150
From Letter to a King by Guaman Poma de Ayala. Translated
and edited by Christopher Dilke. Published by E. P. Dutton,
New York, 1978.
CHAPTER 7
THE QUR’AN: THE PILGRIMAGE 161
From e Koran, translated by N. J. Dawood (Penguin
Classics, Fi h revised edition 1990) copyright © N. J.
Dawood, 1956, 1959, 1966, 1968, 1974, 1990, 1993, 1997,
1999, 2003. Reproduced by permission of Penguin Books,
Ltd.
OPPOSING VIEWPOINTS: THE SIEGE OF
JERUSALEM: CHRISTIAN AND MUSLIM
PERSPECTIVES 168
Fulcher of Chartres, Chronicle of the First Crusade.
From e First Crusade: e Chronicle of Fulcher of Chartres
and Other Source Materials, 2nd ed. Ed. Edward Peters
(University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998), pp. 90–91. Account
of Ibn al-Athir. From Arab Historians of the Crusades, ed.
and trans. E. J. Costello. Berkeley: University of California
Press, 1969.
SAGE ADVICE FROM FATHER TO SON 171
H. Keller (ed.), Ibn Abi Tahir Kitab Baghdad (Leipzig, 1908),
cited in H. Kennedy, When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World:
e Rise and Fall of Islam’s Greatest Dynasty (Cambridge, MA,
2004), pp. 204–205.
“DRAW THEIR VEILS OVER THEIR BOSOMS” 175
From Women in World History, Volume 1. Readings from
Prehistory to 1500, ed. Sarah Shaver Hughers and Brady
Hughes (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1995), p. 152–153.
Translation copyright © 1995 M. E. Sharpe, Inc. Reprinted
with permission.
CHAPTER 8
BEWARE THE TROGODYTES! 186
Agatharchides of Cnidus, On the Erythraean Sea, trans.
S. Burstein (London, 1989), fragments 62-64, as cited in
S. Burstein (ed.), Ancient African Civilizations: Kush and
Axum (Princeton, 1998), pp. 47–50.
FAULT LINE IN THE DESERT 189
From Western African History, Vol. I by Robert O. Collins
(Princeton, NJ: Markus Weiner Press, 1990), p. 24–26.
THE COAST OF ZANJ 194
From G. S. P. Freeman-Grenville, e East African Coast: Select
Documents, copyright © 1962 by Oxford University Press. Used
with permission of the author.
WOMEN AND ISLAM IN NORTH AFRICA 201
From e History and Description of Africa, by Leo Africanus
(New York: Burt Franklin), pp. 158–159.