REED COLLEGE, FALL 2001
REQUIRED TEXTS:
RECOMMENDED TEXTS:
All texts may be purchased at the Reed College Bookstore; a limited number of each are on reserve in the Library. Also on reserve (and very useful): Oxford Classical Dictionary; Oxford Companion to Classical Literature; Penguin Atlas of Ancient History; Richard Lanham, Revising Prose.
TEXTS ON RESERVE:
A limited number of copies of all the texts required for this course are on reserve in the library. Multiple copies of The Landmark Thucydides, with a copious apparatus of maps, datelines, and essays, are also on reserve.
CONFERENCE ASSIGNMENTS:
The Registrar makes initial assignments to conferences in the course. Students who subsequently find it necessary to change conferences must petition the Humanities staff (forms for this purpose may be obtained from the Registrar or from Kathleen Stackhouse, C 303). Return completed forms to Kathleen Stackhouse, C 303. Nigel Nicholson, Hum 110 Chair, will let you know by e-mail if and when your request is approved. No conference changes will be allowed after the second week of the semester.
PAPERS, WRITING ASSIGNMENTS, AND EXAMINATIONS:
Four course-wide papers will be assigned, due at the times designated below on the schedule of readings and lectures. A mid-term examination will be given on Friday, October 12 from 9:00 to 9:50 in Vollum Lecture Hall. A final examination for the fall term will be given in finals week in Vollum Lecture Hall. Rescheduling of the mid-term or final exam will be allowed only for medical reasons.
Electronic access:
An archive of course materials for Humanities 110 is available on the course's web page. It includes the syllabus, paper topics, and many of the lecture handouts from this year and last year, as well as some pages designed to help students to tap Internet resources on course-related subjects. The web page can be reached through Reed's main page via Academic Life and Departments, or directly at: http://academic.reed.edu/Humanities/Hum110. Many of the course materials are also archived in Microsoft Word format on the Courses Server (via the Chooser in the zone Academic Servers).
Week 1
Mon 27 Aug Homer, The Iliad.
Lecture: Homeric Thought / Peter Steinberger
Wed 29 Aug Homer, The Iliad; Murray, Early Greece, chs. 1 and 3.
Lecture: Homeric Similes / Gail Sherman
Fri 31 Aug Homer, The Iliad; Geertz, "Religion as a Cultural System" in Essays on
Ancient Greece.
Lecture: Divine and Human Morality in The Iliad / Ann Delehanty
Week 2
Mon 3 Sept LABOR DAY--No School
Wed 5 Sept Homer, The Iliad.
Lecture: Gods, Mortals, and Fate / Noa Latham
Fri 7 Sept Homer, The Iliad.
Lecture: May the Best Man Win / Nigel Nicholson
Week 3
Mon 10 Sept Hesiod, Theogony; Vernant, "Feminine Figures of Death in Greece" in Essays on Ancient Greece.
Lecture: Hesiod and Cultural Memory / Ellen Stauder
Wed 12 Sept Hesiod, Works and Days; Murray, Early Greece, chs. 4-7.
Lecture: Farms, Markets and the Idea of Citizenship / Nigel Nicholson
Fri 14 Sept Curd, A Presocratics Reader, pp. 25-51; Freeman, Egypt, Greece, and Rome, pp. 140-149.
Lecture: The Pre-socratics: The Birth of Reason? / Kenneth Wolfe
FIRST PAPER DUE Saturday, September 15th, 5 p.m., in your conference leader's Eliot mail box
Week 4
Mon 17 Sept Gombrich, "Reflections on the Greek Revolution" in Essay; consult images in Freeman, V, VIII-IX, XXV, and Pollitt, pp. 106-160 (bring all these texts to conference).
Lecture: Greek Sculpture: The Body as Metaphor / Ben David
Wed 19 Sept Miller, Greek Lyric, Archilochus, Semonides, Alcman, Solon, Xenophanes, pp. 1-12, 22-26, 31-37, 64-76, 107-111; Murray, Early Greece, chs. 8, 9, & 11.
Lecture: The lyric "I" / Nigel Nicholson
Fri 21 Sept Miller, Greek Lyric, Alcaeus, Sappho, Theognis, Anacreon, pp. 38-63, 82-94, 99-103; Murray, Early Greece, ch. 12; Judith Hallett, "Sappho in Her Social Context: Sense and Sensuality" in Essays.
Lecture: The Unspeakable Vice of the Greeks / Jay Dickson
Week 5
Mon 24 Sept Herodotus, The Histories, Bk/Ch. 1.1-1.170; 1.201-216.
Lecture: Herodotus and the Historian’s Craft / Michael Breen
Wed 26 Sept Herodotus, The Histories, Bk/Ch. 2.1-64, 2.113-120, 2.164-182, 3.1-38; Bernal and Lefkowitz in Essays.
Lecture: Black Athena / Pancho Savery
Thurs 27 Sept Video and Discussion: "Black Athena," VLH, 7:00 p.m.
Fri 28 Sept Herodotus, The Histories, Bk/Ch. 3.61-89, 5.55-6.140; Finley, "Was Greek Civilization Based on Slavery?" in Essays.
Lecture: Greek Slavery and Freedom / Tony Iaccarino
Week 6
Mon 1 Oct Herodotus, The Histories, Bk/Ch. 7.1-153, 7.172-8.103, 9.114-122.
Lecture: What Comes with the Territory / Jay Dickson
Wed 3 Oct Aeschylus, The Oresteia, Agamemenon.
Lecture: Drama Queens / Jan Mieszkowski
Fri 5 Oct Aeschylus, The Oresteia, Libation Bearers and Eumenides.
Lecture: Fate and Motivation in "The Libation Bearers"/ Carl Anderson
SECOND PAPER DUE Saturday, October 6th, 5 p.m.
Week 7
Mon 8 Oct Aeschylus, The Oresteia, Libation Bearers and Eumenides; Gould, "Law, Custom and Myth: Aspects of the Social Position of Women in Classical Athens" in Essays.
Lecture: Trial and/or Error? / Tom Gillcrist
Wed 10 Oct Sophocles, Antigone.
Lecture: The Cultural Work of Tragedy / Laura Arnold
Fri 12 Oct MID-TERM EXAM: 9:00-9:50 a.m. in VLH
13-21 OCTOBER: FALL BREAK
Week 8
Mon 22 Oct Sophocles, Oedipus.
Lecture: Family Values / Jan Mieszkowski
Wed 24 Oct Robert F. Sutton, "Pornography and Persuasion in Attic Pottery"; Sarah Pomeroy, "The Family in Classical Greece and "The Domestic Economy" in the Oeconomicus," both in Essays; Pollitt, Art and Experience in Classical Greece, chs. 1-2.
Lecture: Athenian Vase Painting / Ellen Stauder
Fri 26 Oct Pollitt, Art and Experience in Classical Greece, ch. 3; Connelly, "Parthenon and Parthenoi" in Essays.
Lecture: Goddess and Polis / Laura Arnold
Week 9
Mon 29 Oct Strassler apparatus in Essays (read this first); Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, Introduction, Bk/Ch. 1.1-1.146.
No Lecture
Wed 31 Oct Thucydides, Bk/Ch. 2.1-2.65; Aristotle, "The Athenian Constitution" in Essays.
Lecture: The Theory and Practice of Athenian Democracy / David Mandell
Fri 2 Nov Thucydides, Bk/Ch 3.1-3.85, 5.13-5.24, 5.83-5.116.
No Lecture
Week 10
Mon 5 Nov Thucydides, Bk/Ch 6.1-6.41, 6.105-7.18, 7.49-7.87, 8.65-8.71, 8.96-98.
Lecture: Tragedy and Democracy / Tom Gillcrist
Wed 7 Nov Euripides, The Bacchae.
Lecture: God and Theater in The Bacchae / Tom Gillcrist
Fri 9 Nov Plato, Euthyphro, Apology and Crito in The Trial and Death of Socrates.
Lecture: Why Was Socrates Put to Death? / Carl Anderson
THIRD PAPER DUE Saturday, November 10th, 5 p.m.
Week 11
Mon 12 Nov Plato, The Republic.
Lecture: The Challenge of Thrasymachus / Carl Anderson
Wed 14 Nov Plato, The Republic.
Lecture: Plato's City/Soul Analogy / Steve Arkonovich
Fri 16 Nov Plato, The Republic.
Lecture: What's Wrong with Democracy? / David Mandell
Week 12
Mon 19 Nov Plato, The Republic.
Lecture: Guardians and Philosopher Kings / Peter Steinberger
Tues 20 Nov Dramatic Reading of the Lysistrata by Theatre 110 students, VLH, 7:00 pm
Wed 21 Nov Aristophanes, Lysistrata.
Lecture: The Comic City / Nigel Nicholson
NOVEMBER 22-25: THANKSGIVING VACATION
Week 13
Mon 26 Nov Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
Lecture: The Human Function / Carl Anderson
Wed 28 Nov Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
Lecture: Straightening Bent Sticks: Aristotle's Doctrine of the Mean / Nigel Nicholson
Fri 30 Nov Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
No Lecture
FOURTH PAPER DUE Saturday, December 1st, 5 p.m.
Week 14
Mon 3 Dec Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics.
Lecture: Egoism, Altruism and Friendship/ Steven Arkonovich
Wed 5 Dec Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
Lecture: DE ORGANOGRAPHIA, a performance of Greek lyric by world-renowned musicians
Finals Week
FINAL EXAM, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 8 am - 12 noon, Vollum Lecture Hall