HUMANITIES 110
REED COLLEGE
FALL 2004

REQUIRED TEXTS:
Aeschylus, The Oresteia, trans. Fagles (Penguin)
Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics, trans. Ross (Oxford)
Euripides, Phoenician Women, The Bacchae, ed. Grene and Lattimore (Chicago)
Freeman, Egypt, Greece, and Rome: Civilizations of the Ancient Mediterranean (Oxford)
Harvey, The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing (Hackett)
Herodotus, The History, trans. de Selincourt (Penguin)
Hesiod, Theogony, Works and Days, and Shield, trans. Lombardo (Hackett)
Homer, The Iliad, trans. Lattimore (Chicago)
Hurwit, The Art and Culture of Early Greece (Cornell)
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)
Williams and Colomb, The Craft of Argument (Concise edition) (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 Kennedy, Chem 303). Return completed forms to Nathalia King, chair of Hum 110 (Vollum 305). 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 15 from 9:00-9:50 a.m. in Vollum Lecture Hall. A four-hour final examination for the fall semester will be given Tuesday, December 14 from 6:00-10:00 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://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
Mon 30 Aug Homer, The Iliad
Lecture: Introduction to Greece, Homer, and Humanities / Walter Englert

Wed 1 Sept Homer, The Iliad; Hurwit, chapter 1 (pp. 15-32)
Lecture: Oral Tradition in Homer: Giving Form to Action / Nathalia King

Fri 3 Sept Homer, The Iliad; Murray, chapters 3 and 4 (pp. 35-68)
Lecture: Homeric Society and the Construction of a Heroic Past / David Garrett

Week 2
Monday September 6 - Labor Day

Wed 8 Sept Homer, The Iliad; Murray, chapters 4 and 5 (pp. 57-74)
Lecture: Homer as a Historical Source / Ellen Millender

Fri 10 Sept Homer, The Iliad; Hurwit, chapters 2 and 3 (pp. 33-124)
Lecture: The Shield of Achilles / William Diebold

Week 3
Mon 13 Sept Hesiod, Theogony; Freeman, Egypt, Greece, and Rome (pp. 58-75)
Lecture: Why This Talk of God? / Kambiz GhaneaBassiri

Wed 15 Sept Hesiod, Works and Days; Murray, Early Greece, chapter 7 (pp. 102-123).
Lecture: Farms, Markets and the Idea of Citizenship / Nigel Nicholson

Fri 17 Sept Miller, Greek Lyric, Archilochus, Solon, et al. TBA, (pp. 1-12, 64-76); Murray, Early Greece, chapter 8 & 11 (pp. 120-131, 173-191)
Lecture: The "Lyric" Age of Greece: "Counterbalanced against the iron is the sweet
lyre-playing" / Elizabeth Drumm

FIRST PAPER DUE Saturday, September 18th 5 p.m., in your conference leader's Eliot mail box

Week 4
Mon 20 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: The Unspeakable Vice of the Greeks / Jay Dickson

Tues 21 Sept Visiting Speaker Lecture - Prof. Matthew Waters (University of Wisconsin), Psych. 105 - 7:30 p.m.
Title: "Cyrus and Darius: New Perspectives on an Ancient Empire"

Wed 22 Sept Hurwit, chapters 4 and 5 (pp. 125-272); Vernant, "Feminine Figures of Death" in Essays.
Lecture: Death in Archaic Art / William Diebold

Fri 24 Sept PreSocratics Reader: Selected Fragments and Testimoni, 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 27 Sept Herodotus, The Histories, Bk/Ch. 1.1-1.170; 1.201-216.
Lecture: Herodotus and the Historian’s Craft / Michael Breen

Tues 28 Sept Video and Discussion: "Black Athena," VLH, 7:00 p.m.

Wed 29 Sept Herodotus, The Histories, Bk/Ch. 2.1-64, 2.113-120, 2.164-182; Bernal and Lefkowitz in Essays.
Lecture: Black Athena / Pancho Savery

Fri 1 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's World / Tony Iaccarino

Week 6
Mon 4 Oct Herodotus, The Histories, Bk/Ch. 7.1-153, 7.172-8.103, 9.114-122.
Lecture: Herodotus: History and Narrative Form / Maureen Harkin

Wed 6 Oct Aeschylus, The Oresteia, Agamemnon
Lecture: The Beginnings of Tragedy / Jay Dickson

Fri 8 Oct Aeschylus, The Oresteia, Libation Bearers.
Lecture: Verbal and Visual Oresteias / William Diebold

SECOND PAPER DUE Saturday, October 9th, 5 p.m.

Week 7
Mon 11 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 13 Oct Sophocles, Antigone.
Lecture: The Cultural Work Tragedy / Laura Leibman

Fri 15 Oct MID-TERM EXAM: 9:00-9:50 a.m. in VLH
16-24 OCTOBER: FALL BREAK

Week 8
Mon 25 Oct Rhodes, Architecture and Meaning on the Athenian Acropolis (pp. 28-144); Connelly, "Parthenon and Parthenoi" in Essays
Lecture: Goddess and Polis / Laura Leibman

Wed 27 Oct Rhodes, Architecture and Meaning on the Athenian Acropolis (pp. 28-144); Connelly, "Parthenon and Parthenoi" in Essays
Lecture: The Uses of Classicism / William Diebold
Wed. 27 Oct Visiting Speaker Lecture - Prof. David Damrosch (Coumbia University), VLH - 7:30 p.m.
Title: "Epic Grief: The Cost of Heroism in Homer and the Ancient Near East"

Fri 29 Oct Strassler apparatus in Essays (read this first); Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, Introduction, Bk/Ch. 1.1-1.146.
Lecture: Spartan Torpor vs. Athenian Dynamism: National Character in Thucydides / Ellen Millender

Week 9
Mon 1 Nov Thucydides, Bk/Ch. 2.1-2.65; Ps-Xenophon, “The Constitution of the Athenians” in Essays.
Lecture: Law, Virtue, and the Problem of Democracy / Michael Breen

Wed 3 Nov Sophocles, Oedipus
Lecture: Oedipus Tyrannus: Tragic Form and Function / Robert Knapp

Fri 5 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 8 Nov Thucydides, Bk/Ch 6.1-6.41, 6.105-7.18, 7.49-7.87, 8.65-8.71, 8.96-98.
Lecture: Thucydides: Tragedian, Historian, and Political Ethicist / Nathalia King

Wed 10 Nov Robert F. Sutton, "Pornography and Persuasion in Attic Pottery"; Xenophon, Oeconomicus, Introduction and §§ 6-11, both in Essays; Hurwit, (pp. 280-292).
Lecture: Representation and Gender in Athenian Vase Painting / Ellen Stauder
Fri 12 Nov Aristophanes, Lysistrata, in Essays.
Lecture: The Comic City / Nigel Nicholson

THIRD PAPER DUE Saturday, November 13th, 5 p.m.

Week 11
Mon 15 Nov Euripides, The Bacchae.
Lecture: Possessed by Bacchus / Elizabeth Drumm

Wed 17 Nov Plato, Euthyphro, Apology and Crito in The Trial and Death of Socrates.
Lecture: A Kind of Gadfly / Pancho Savery

Fri 19 Nov Plato, The Republic.
Lecture: On the Virtues of Socratic Aporia / Ellen Stauder

Week 12
Mon 22 Nov Plato, The Republic.
Lecture: Plato's City/Soul Analogy / Steve Arkonovich

Wed 24 Nov Plato, The Republic.
Lecture: Platonic Metaphysics / Walter Englert

NOVEMBER 25-NOVEMBER 28: THANKSGIVING VACATION

Week 13
Mon 29 Nov Plato, The Republic.
Lecture: Platonic Mythology / Steve Wasserstrom

Wed 1 Dec Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, books 1, 2.
Lecture: The Function Argument of Nicomachean Ethics 1.7 / Margaret Scharle

Fri 3 Dec Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics; 3, 4, 6.
Lecture: Straightening Bent Sticks: Aristotle's Doctrine of the Mean / Nigel Nicholson

FOURTH PAPER DUE Saturday, December 4th, 5 p.m.

Week 14
Mon 6 Dec Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics; 8, 9.
Lecture: Egoism, Altruism, and Friendship / Steven Arkonovich

Wed 8 Dec Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics ,10.
Performance: Greek music by DE ORGANOGRAPHIA.

FINAL EXAM Tuesday, December 14, 6:00 - 10:00 p.m. Vollum Lecture Hall