HUMANITIES 110
REED COLLEGE, SPRING 2002
REQUIRED TEXTS:
Apuleius, trans. Lindsay, The Golden Ass (Indiana University Press)
Athanasius, Life of St. Anthony the Great (Eastern)
Augustine, Confessions (Oxford University Press)
The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha/ New Revised Standard Version: College Edition (Oxford University Press)
Brown, World of Late Antiquity (W. W. Norton)
Freeman, Egypt, Greece, and Rome: Civilizations of the Ancient Mediterranean (Oxford)
Josephus, The Jewish War (Penguin USA)
Livy, Early History of Rome (Penguin USA)
Lucretius, The Way Things Are (De Rerum Natura) (Indiana University Press)
Ovid, Metamorphoses (Oxford World Classics)
The Essential Plotinus, ed. E. O'Brien (Hackett).
Seneca, The Stoic Philosophy of Seneca (W. W. Norton)
Tacitus, The Agricola and the Germania (Penguin USA)
Tacitus, The Annals of Imperial Rome (Penguin USA)
Virgil, The Aeneid (Bantam Doubleday Dell Publications)
Readings on the Roman World (Pamphlet / Bookstore)
RECOMMENDED TEXTS:
Marius, A Writer’s Companion, 3rd ed. (McGraw)
Hacker, A Writer's Reference, 3rd ed. (Bedford)
Williams, Style: Toward Clarity and Grace (Chicago)
All texts may be purchased at the Reed College Bookstore; a limited number of each are on reserve in the Library. Also on reserve: Oxford Classical Dictionary; Oxford Companion to Classical Literature; Anchor Atlas of World History, Volume I; Richard Lanham, Revising Prose.
CONFERENCE ASSIGNMENTS:
The Registrar makes initial assignments to conferences in this course which continue through the year. 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 Kathy Stackhouse, Chem 303). Turn completed forms into Nigel Nicholson, Hum 110 Chair, in Voll. 123. No conference changes will be permitted after the second week of the term.
PAPERS, WRITING ASSIGNMENTS, AND EXAMINATIONS:
Three course-wide papers will be assigned, due at the times designated on the schedule of readings and lectures. A mid-term examination will be given on Friday, March 8 from 9:00-9:50 a.m. in Vollum Lecture Hall. A final examination for the spring term will be given in finals week Monday, May 6, 6 - 10 p.m., 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 tap Internet resources on course-related subjects. The web page may 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).
SCHEDULE OF READINGS AND LECTURES
Week 1
Jan. 21 Charles Freeman, Egypt, Greece and Rome, chapters 16 to 20
Lecture: Observing Imperialism: Alexander, Hellenism and the Rise of the Roman Machine / Pancho Savery
Jan. 23 Livy, Early History of Rome, pp. 33-101
Lecture: Mobs and Masses / Jan Mieszkowski
Jan. 25 Livy, Early History of Rome, pp. 105-180, 374-402
Lecture: Livy and Roman Virtue / Tony Iaccarino
Week 2
Jan. 28 Propertius, Book 1 (in Readings)
Lecture: In the Name of Love / Nigel Nicholson
Jan. 30 Augustus, The Accomplishments of Augustus; Suetonius' "Augustus" from The Twelve Caesars (both in Readings); Freeman, chapters 21 and 22.
Lecture: The Amaranthine Republic / Carl Anderson
Feb. 1 Holliday, "Time, History, and Ritual on the Ara Pacis Augustae"; Galinsky,"Art and Architecture" (both in Readings); Freeman, chapters 23 and 24. For images, see: http://academic.reed.edu/humanities/110Tech/Rome_gateway.html
Lecture: The Ara Pacis and the Art of Empire / Nick Cofod
Week 3
Feb. 4 Virgil, Aeneid, Books 1-4
Lecture: Eros and Empire / Michael Faletra
Feb. 6 Virgil, Aeneid, Books 5-8
Lecture: Ekphrasis in the Aeneid / Ellen Stauder
Feb. 8 Virgil, Aeneid, Books 9-12
Lecture: Why the Aeneid Ends as it Does / Tom Gillcrist
Week 4
Feb. 11 Garnsey and Saller, The Roman Empire, Chapters 6-9, Conclusion (in Readings)
Lecture: My So-Called Roman Life / Laura Arnold
Feb. 13 Ovid, Metamorphoses, Books 1-3
Lecture: Erring by Design / Jay Dickson
Feb 14 "The Roman Arena," video presentation, 8:00-9:00 pm, Vollum Lecture Hall
Feb. 15 Ovid, Metamorphoses, Books 4-6, 15
Lecture: Silver Latin / Nigel Nicholson
First Paper Due Saturday, Feb. 16th, 5 p.m.
Week 5
Feb. 18 Tacitus, Annals, pp. 31-60, 90-99, 104-128
Lecture: Moralizing History / Ken Wolfe
Feb. 19 "I, Claudius" ("Family Matters," "Poison is Queen"), video presentation, 7:00-9:00 pm, Psychology 105
Feb. 20 Tacitus, Annals, pp. 157-255
Lecture: Treason and Emperorship in Tacitus' Annals / Michael Breen
Feb. 20 "I, Claudius" ("Zeus! By Jove," "A God in Colchester"), video presentation, 7:00-9:00 pm, Psychology 105
Feb. 22 Tacitus, Annals, pp. 275-324, 335-397
Lecture: "At that repulsive gathering, his had been merely a female part" (Tac. Ann. XI.36): Gender Boundaries in Ancient Rome / Nigel Nicholson
Week 6
Feb. 25 Seneca, The Stoic Philosophy of Seneca: On Providence, On the Tranquillity of the Mind, and Letters, 47, 65, 70
Lecture: New World Order / Jan Mieszkowski
Feb. 27 Lucretius, The Way Things Are (De Rerum Natura), Books 1 and 3
Lecture: The Trouble with Being Dead / Steve Arkonovich
March 1 Tacitus, Germania in The Agricola and the Germania; Tacitus, Histories 5. 1-10 (in Readings); recommended reading: Josephus, The Jewish War, pp. 27-65.
No Lecture
Week 7
March 4 Genesis: 1-21; Kugel and Greer, "The Rise of Scripture" (in Readings)
Lecture: Back to Basics / Jay Dickson
March 6 Genesis 21-50; Nancy Jay, "The Logic of Sacrifice" and "Sacrifice and Descent" (in Readings)
Lecture: Sacrifices and Stories / Gail Sherman
March 8 MID-TERM EXAM: 9-9:50 a.m., in VLH
9-17 MARCH:SPRING BREAK
Week 8
March 18 Exodus 1-7:19; 11-24; 32-40
Lecture: The Jewish Temple: Presence and Absence / Steve Wasserstrom
March 20 Isaiah 40-55; Daniel; Amos; Fishbane, "Biblical Prophecy as a Religious Phenomenon" (in Readings)
Lecture: Hebrew Prophecy: Universality and Particularity / Steve Wasserstrom
March 22 Gospel of Matthew; Josephus, The Jewish War, pp. 133-48.
Lecture: The Way of Love / Kenneth Wolfe
Week 9
March 25 Josephus, The Jewish War, pp. 27-31 and 287-408.
Lecture: The Enemy Within / Laura Arnold
March 27 The Tractate Avot (The Ethics of the Fathers); Cohen, "The Emergence of Rabbinic Judaism"; "The Rule of the Community" (all in Readings)
Lecture: Tractate Avot and Rabbinic Law / Michael Feener
March 29 Paul, Romans; Acts 9-19; Frend, "Paul and the First Expansion 30-65" (in Readings)
Panel Discussion of Romans: Laura Arnold, Ann Delehanty and Steve Wasserstrom.
Second Paper Due Saturday, March 30th, 5 p.m.
Week 10
April 1 Gospel of John
Lecture: Between Jew and Hellene: the Emerging Christian Community of the Gospel of John / Ellen Stauder
April 2 "From Jesus to Christ," video presentation, 7:00-9:00 pm, Psychology 105
April 3 Revelation
Lecture: The End of the World as They Knew It / Laura Arnold
April 3 "From Jesus to Christ," video presentation, 7:00-9:00 pm, Psychology 105
April 5 Apuleius, Golden Ass
Lecture: Narrative and Repetition / Gail Sherman
Week 11
April 8 Apuleius, Golden Ass
Lecture: A Serious Joke: The Golden Ass between Religion and Philosophy / Steve Wasserstrom
April 10 Plotinus, I.6 ("Beauty"), V.9 ("The Intelligence, The Ideas and Being")
Lecture: Becoming your Higher Self / Ken Wolfe
April 12 Clarke, "Sex and the Body of the Other"; Thèbert, "Private and Public: The Components of the Domus," "How the Domus Worked," and "Conclusion" (all in Readings)
Lecture: On the Roman Art of North Africa / Rebecca Molholt (Columbia)
April 12 Art Exhibition: What is a Man? Changing Images of Masculinity in Late Antique Art, Cooley Gallery. Exhibition opens today and runs through June 17; it is open every day except Monday, noon to 5:00 pm.
April 13 Symposium: What is a Man? Changing Images of Masculinity in Late Antique Art, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm, Vollum Lecture Hall. The symposium will be organized into two panels; each panel will consist of two lectures, commentary on the lectures, and open discussion and questions with the audience. The lectures will be
First panel: Daniel Boyarin, Berkeley, "Who Wrote the "Dominant Fiction"? On the History of the Early Phallus," and Anne McClanan, Portland State University, "Fair Endymion: Passivity and Manhood in Late Antique Art."
Second panel: Elizabeth Anne Castelli, Barnard, "Playing the Man: Self-Mastery and Masculinity in Early Christianity, " and John Elsner, Oxford, "Manliness and Art in Late Antiquity."
Week 12
April 15 The Martyrdom of Saints Perpetua and Felicitas (in Readings); Brown, The World of Late Antiquity, pp. 1-48
Guest Lecture 7:00 pm: "What is a Man?" / Natalie Kampen (Barnard/Columbia)
April 17 Athanasius, Life of Anthony; Anthony (Antony), Letter #6 (in Readings); Brown, The World of Late Antiquity, pp. 49-112
Lecture: On Christian Models of Masculinity / Elizabeth Marlowe (Columbia)
April 19 Augustine, Confessions
Lecture: Augustine and the Art of Transformation / Laura Arnold
THIRD Paper Due Saturday, April 20th, 5 p.m.
Week 13
April 22 Augustine, Confessions
Lecture: "So Tiny a Child, So Many Pages" / Nigel Nicholson
April 24 Augustine, Confessions
Lecture: Augustine and the Pleasure of Conversion / Elizabeth Duquette
April 26 Augustine, Confessions
Lecture: The Search for Absolute Evil / Jan Mieszkowski
May 6 FINAL EXAM, 6 - 10 p.m., Vollum Lecture Hall
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