REQUIRED TEXTS:

Aeschylus, The Oresteia, trans. Fagles

Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics, trans. Ross

Euripides, Phoenician Women, The Bacchae, ed. Grene and Lattimore (Chicago)

Freeman, Egypt, Greece, and Rome: Civilizations of the Ancient Mediterranean (Oxford)

Herodotus, The History, trans. de Selincourt (Penguin)

Hesiod, Theogony, Works and Days, and Shield, trans. Lombardo (Hackett)

Homer, The Iliad, trans. Lattimore (Chicago)

Miller, Greek Lyric: An Anthology in Translation (Hackett)

Murray, Early Greece, 2nd ed. (Harvard)

Plato, The Trial and Death of Socrates, trans. Grube (Hackett)

Plato, Plato's Republic, 2nd ed., trans. Grube/Reeve (Hackett)

Presocractics Reader: Selected Fragments and Testimonia, ed. Curd, trans. McKirahan (Hackett)

Rhodes, Architecture and Meaning on the Athenian Acropolis (Cambridge)

Sophocles, Sophocles I: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone, ed. Grene and Lattimore (Chicago)

Thucydides, The Peloponnesian Wars, Warner (Penguin)

Essays on Ancient Greece (Pamphlet / Bookstore)

RECOMMENDED TEXTS:

Homer, The Odyssey, trans. Fagles (Penguin)

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; limited numbers of each are on reserve in the Library. Also on reserve or in the reference section: 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 Gail Sherman, Hum 110 Chair, in L.388. No conference changes will be permitted after the second week of the term.

PAPERS, WRITING ASSIGNMENTS, AND EXAMINATIONS:

Four 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, October 17 from 9:00-9:50 a.m. in Vollum Lecture Hall. A four-hour final examination for the fall semester will be given during the examination period Monday, December 15, to Thursday, December 18, 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://web.reed.edu/academic/departments/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
Wed 3 Sept Homer, The Iliad

Lecture: Introduction to Greece, Homer, and Humanities / Walter Englert

Fri 5 Sept Homer, The Iliad; Vernant, "Feminine Figures of Death in Greece" in Essays on Ancient Greece

Lecture: Homeric Similes / Gail Sherman

Week 2
Mon 8 Sept Homer, The Iliad; Murray, Early Greece, chs. 1 and 3

Lecture: Oral Tradition in Homer: Giving Form to Action / Nathalia King

Wed 10 Sept Homer, The Iliad

Lecture: Divine and Human Morality in The Iliad / Ann Delehanty

Fri12 Sept Homer, The Iliad; Murray, chs. 4-5

Lecture: The Shield of Achilles / William Diebold

Week 3
Mon 15 Sept Gombrich, "Reflections on the Greek Revolution" in Essays; Murray ch.6

Lecture: Death in Archaic Art / William Diebold

Wed 17 Sept Hesiod, Theogony; Geertz, "Religion as a Cultural System" in Essays on

Ancient Greece, Freeman, Egypt, Greece, and Rome, pp. 58-75

Lecture: What is a God? / Steve Wasserstrom

Fri 19 Sept Hesiod, Works and Days; Murray, Early Greece, chs. 7-8.

Lecture: Farms, Markets and the Idea of Citizenship / Nigel Nicholson

FIRST PAPER DUE Saturday, September 20th 5 p.m., in your conference leader's Eliot mail box

Week 4
Mon 22 Sept Miller, Greek Lyric, Archilochus, Solon, et al. TBA, pp. 1-12, 64-76; Murray, Early Greece, chs. 9 & 11

Lecture: The "Lyric" Age of Greece:"Counterbalanced against the iron is the sweet lyre-playing"/ Elizabeth Drumm

Wed 24 Sept Miller, Greek Lyric, Sappho, et al. TBA; pp. 51-63; Murray, Early Greece, ch. 12; Judith Hallett, "Sappho in Her Social Context: Sense and Sensuality" in Essays.

Lecture: Defining Eros / Nathalia King

Fri 26 Sept PreSocratics Reader: Selected Fragments and Testimonia, ed.Curd, trans. McKirahan (Hackett), pp. 1-16, 25-60, 79-92.

Lecture: Parmenides and the Roots of Western Philosophy / Paul Hovda

Week 5
Mon 29 Sept Herodotus, The Histories, Bk/Ch. 1.1-1.170; 1.201-216.

Lecture: The Structure of a World and a Story / Michael Foat

Wed 1 Oct Herodotus, The Histories, Bk/Ch. 2.1-64, 2.113-120, 2.164-182; Bernal and Lefkowitz in Essays.

Lecture: Black Athena / Pancho Savery

Thur 2 Oct Video and Discussion: "Black Athena," VLH, 7:00 p.m.

Fri 3 Oct Herodotus, The Histories, Bk/Ch. 3.1-38, 3.61-89, 5.55-6.140; Finley, "Was Greek Civilization Based on Slavery?" in Essays.

Lecture: Freedom and Slavery in Herodotus' World / Tony Iaccarino

Week 6
Mon 6 Oct Herodotus, The Histories, Bk/Ch. 7.1-153, 7.172-8.103, 9.114-122.

Lecture: Herodotus: Boundaries between History and Fiction / Maureen Harkin

Wed 8 Oct Aeschylus, The Oresteia, Agamemnon

Lecture: Representation and Gender in Agamemnon / Michael Faletra

Fri 10 Oct Aeschylus, The Oresteia, Libation Bearerss.

Lecture: Verbal and Visual Oresteias / William Diebold

SECOND PAPER DUE Saturday, October 11th, 5 p.m.

Week 7
Mon 13 Oct Aeschylus, The Oresteia, Eumenides; Gould, "Law, Custom and Myth: Aspects of the Social Position of Women in Classical Athens" in Essays.

Lecture: Justice and Gender in the Oresteia / Gail Sherman

Wed 15 Oct Sophocles, Antigone.

Lecture: Sophocles' Antigone: A Tale of Two Cities / Ariadna Garcia-Bryce

Fri 17 Oct MID-TERM EXAM: 9:00-9:50 a.m. in VLH

18-26 OCTOBER: FALL BREAK

Week 8
Mon 27 Oct Rhodes, Architecture and Meaning on the Athenian Acropolis , 28-144.

Lecture: The Parthenon / William Diebold

Wed 29 Oct Connelly, "Parthenon and Parthenoi" in Essays

Lecture: Goddess and Polis / Laura Leibman

Fri 31 Oct Strassler apparatus in Essays (read this first); Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, Introduction, Bk/Ch. 1.1-1.146.

Lecture: Words and Deeds / Tony Iaccarino

Week 9
Mon 3 Nov Thucydides, Bk/Ch. 2.1-2.65; Ps-Xenophon, "The Constitution of the Athenians" in Essays.

Lecture: The Perils and Promise of a Democratic Constitution: Pericles and Athens / David Garrett

Wed 5 Nov Sophocles, Oedipus

Lecture: Greek Family Values / Jan Mieszkowski

Fri 7 Nov Thucydides, Bk/Ch 3.1-3.85, 5.13-5.24, 5.83-5.116.

Lecture: Thucydides, the Sophists, and the Problem of Justice / Walter Englert

Week 10
Mon 10 Nov Thucydides, Bk/Ch 6.1-6.41, 6.105-7.18, 7.49-7.87, 8.65-8.71, 8.96-98.

Lecture: Whose Empire: Nicias's or Alcibiades's? / Nathalia King

Wed 12 Nov Robert F. Sutton, "Pornography and Persuasion in Attic Pottery"; Xenophon, Oeconomicus, Introduction and §§ 6-11, both in Essays.

Lecture: Representation and Gender in Athenian Vase Painting / Ellen Stauder

Fri 14 Nov Aristophanes, Lysistrata.

Lecture: The Comic City / Nigel Nicholson

THIRD PAPER DUE Saturday, November 15th, 5 p.m.

Week 11
Mon 17 Nov Euripides, The Bacchae.

Lecture: The Wild Side / Jay Dickson

Wed 19 Nov Plato, Euthyphro, Apology and Crito in The Trial and Death of Socrates.

Lecture: A Kind of Gadfly / Pancho Savery

Fri 21 Nov Plato, The Republic.

Lecture: On the Virtues of Socratic Aporia / Ellen Stauder

Week 12
Mon 24 Nov Plato, The Republic.

Lecture: Plato's City/Soul Analogy / Steve Arkonovich

Wed 26 Nov Plato, The Republic.

Lecture: Platonic Metaphysics / Walter Englert

NOVEMBER 27-NOVEMBER 30: THANKSGIVING VACATION

Week 13
Mon 1 Dec Plato, The Republic.

Lecture: Platonic Mythology / Steve Wasserstrom

Wed 3 Dec Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, books 1, 2.

Lecture: The Function Argument / Steve Arkonovich

Fri 5 Dec Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics; 3, 6.

Lecture: Acting Justly or Just Acting? Assessing Aristotelian Virtue / Ann Delehanty

FOURTH PAPER DUE Saturday, December 6th, 5 p.m.

Week 14
Mon 8 Dec Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics; 8, 9.

Lecture: Egoism, Altruism, and Friendship / Steven Arkonovich

Wed 10 Dec Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics ,10.

Performance: Greek music by DE ORGANOGRAPHIA.

FINAL EXAM Thursday, December 18, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. Vollum Lecture Hall