HUMANITIES 110
REED COLLEGE
Fall 2006
Aeschylus, The Oresteia, trans. Fagles (Penguin)
Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics, trans. Crisp (Cambridge)
Euripides, Euripides V: Electra, The Phoenician Women, The Bacchae, ed. Grene and Lattimore (Chicago)
Harvey, The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing (Hackett)
Herodotus, The History, trans. Selincourt (Penguin)
Hesiod, Theogony, Works and Days, and Shield, trans. Lombardo (Hackett)
Homer, The Iliad, trans. Lattimore (Chicago)
Martin, Ancient Greece From Pre-Historic to Hellenistic Times (Yale)
Miller, Greek Lyric: An Anthology in Translation (Hackett)
Osborne, Archaic and Classical Greek Art (Oxford)
Plato, The Trial and Death of Socrates, trans. Grube (Hackett)
Plato, Plato’s Republic, 2nd ed., trans. Grube and Reeve (Hackett)
Presocratics Reader: Selected Fragments and Testimonia, ed. Curd, trans. McKirahan (Hackett)
Sophocles, Sophocles I: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone, ed. Grene and Lattimore (Chicago)
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian Wars, trans. Warner (Penguin)
Essays on Ancient Greece (Pamphlet / Bookstore)
Homer, The Odyssey, trans. Fagles (Penguin)
Williams and Colomb, The Craft of Argument (Concise Edition) (Chicago)
Hurwit, The Art and Culture of Early Greece (Cornell)
Murray, Early Greece, 2nd ed. (Harvard)
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.
The Registrar makes initial assignments to conferences in this course that 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 Michael Breen, chair of Hum 110, Vollum 235. No conference changes will be permitted after the second week of the term.
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 13 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 11, to Thursday, December 14, in Vollum Lecture Hall. Rescheduling of the mid-term or final exam will be allowed only for medical reasons.
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).
Mon 28 Aug
Homer, The Iliad
Lecture: Introduction to Greece, Homer, and Humanities / Walter Englert
Wed 30 Aug
Homer, The Iliad
Lecture: Oral Tradition in Homer: Giving Form to Action / Nathalia King
Fri 1 Sept
Homer, The Iliad; Martin, Ancient Greece, chapters 2 and 3 (pp. 16-50)
Lecture: Homeric Similes / Gail Sherman
Mon 4 Sept
Labor Day—no lecture or classes
Wed 6 Sept
Homer, The Iliad; Osborne, Archaic and Classical Greek Art, chapter 2 (pp. 23-41)
Lecture: The Shield of Achilles / William Diebold
Fri 8 Sept
Homer, The Iliad
Lecture: Homer on Fate, Moral Merit, and Moral Luck; Or, Why We Are Strange / Edward
Cushman
Mon 11 Sept
Hesiod, Theogony; Vernant, "Feminine Figures of Death" in Essays
Lecture: Hesiod’s Theogony / Nathalia King
Wed 13 Sept
Hesiod, Works and Days
Lecture: The Political Economy of Ancient Greece / David Garrett
Fri 15 Sept
Miller, Greek Lyric: Archilochus, Tyrtaeus, Alcman, Solon, Stesichorus, Xenophanes (pp. 1-19, 31-38, 64-81, 107-111); Martin, Ancient Greece, chapters 4 and 5 (pp. 51-93)
Lecture: The "Lyric" Age of Greece: "Counterbalanced against the iron is the sweet
lyre-playing" / Elizabeth Drumm
FIRST PAPER DUE Saturday, September 16th 5 p.m., in your conference leader's Eliot mail box
Mon 18 Sept
Miller, Greek Lyric: Semonides, Sappho, Theognis, Ibycus, Anacreon (pp. 22-26, 51-63, 82-103); Hallett, "Sappho in Her Social Context: Sense and Sensuality" (Available through JSTOR at http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0097-9740%28197921%294%3A3%3C447%3ASAHSCS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-%23)
Lecture: Defining Eros / Nathalia King
Mon 18 Sept
Musical performance, DE ORGANOGRAPHIA, 7PM-8PM
Wed 20 Sept
Osborne, Archaic and Classical Greek Art, chapters 3, 4, and 5 (pp. 43-85)
Lecture: Archaic Art / Maureen Harkin
Fri 22 Sept
PreSocratics Reader (pp. 1-16, 25-60, 79-92)
Lecture: Parmenides and the Roots of Western Philosophy / Paul Hovda
Mon 25 Sept
Herodotus, The Histories, Bk/Ch. 1.1-1.170; 1.201-216; Martin, Ancient Greece, chapter 6 (pp. 94-123)
Lecture: Herodotus and the Historian’s Craft / Michael Breen
Wed 27 Sept
Herodotus, The Histories, Bk/Ch. 2.1-64, 2.113-120, 2.164-182; Bernal, “The Image of Ancient Greece as a Tool for Colonialism and European Hegemony” and Burnstein, “A Contested History: Egypt, Greece and Afrocentrism” in Essays
Lecture: Black Athena / Pancho Savery
Fri 29 Sept
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
Mon 2 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 4 Oct
Aeschylus, The Oresteia: Agamemnon; Martin, Ancient Greece, chapter 7 (pp. 124-146)
Lecture: Theatre and Ritual / Robert Knapp
Fri 6 Oct
Aeschylus, The Oresteia: Libation Bearers; 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
SECOND PAPER DUE Saturday, October 7th, 5 p.m.
Mon 9 Oct
Sophocles, Antigone
Lecture: Antigone / Michael Mirabile
Wed 11 Oct
Zaidman and Patel, Religion in the Ancient Greek City (selections) in Essays
Lecture: Religion and Polis / Laura Leibman
Fri 13 Oct
MID-TERM EXAM: 9:00-9:50 a.m. in VLH
14-22 OCTOBER: FALL BREAK
Mon 23 Oct
Osborne, Archaic and Classical Greek Art, chapters 9 and 10 (pp. 157-203); Connelly, "Parthenon and Parthenoi" in Essays
Lecture: The Parthenon and its Sculpture / William Diebold
Wed 25 Oct
Osborne, Archaic and Classical Greek Art, Introduction and chapters 1 and 7 (pp. 1-2, 9-21, 117-131)
Lecture: The Uses of Classicism / William Diebold
Fri 27 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
Mon 30 Oct
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 1 Nov
Sophocles, Oedipus the King
Lecture: Oedipus Tyrannus: Tragic Form and Function / Robert Knapp
Fri 3 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
Mon 6 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 8 Nov
Aristophanes, Lysistrata, in Essays; Martin, Ancient Greece, ch. 8 (pp. 147-173)
Lecture: The Comic City / Nigel Nicholson
Fri 10 Nov
Euripides, The Bacchae
Lecture: Possessed by Bacchus / Elizabeth Drumm
THIRD PAPER DUE Saturday, November 11th, 5 p.m.
Mon 13 Nov
Plato, Euthyphro, Apology and Crito in The Trial and Death of Socrates
Lecture: A Kind of Gadfly / Pancho Savery
Wed 15 Nov
Plato, The Republic
Lecture: On the Virtues of Socratic Aporia / Ellen Stauder
Fri 17 Nov
Plato, The Republic
Lecture: Plato's City/Soul Analogy / Steve Arkonovich
Mon 20 Nov
Plato, The Republic
Lecture: Platonic Metaphysics / Walter Englert
Wed 22 Nov
Plato, The Republic
Lecture: The Republic / Robert Knapp
NOVEMBER 23-NOVEMBER 26: THANKSGIVING VACATION
Mon 27 Nov
Osborne, Archaic and Classical Greek Art, chapter 6 (pp. 87-115); 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
Wed 29 Nov
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, books 1 and 2; Martin, Ancient Greece, chapter 9 (pp. 174-197)
Lecture: The Function Argument/ Steve Arkonovich
Fri 1 Dec
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, books 3, and 5
Lecture: Aristotle on Virtue/Paul Hovda
FOURTH PAPER DUE Saturday, December 2rd, 5 p.m.
Mon 4 Dec
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, books 8 and 9
Lecture: Egoism, Altruism, and Friendship / Steven Arkonovich
Wed 6 Dec
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, books 6 and 10
Performance: The Nicomachean Ethics, Book 10/ Margaret Scharle