Hum 110 | Reed Classics | Reed Library | Reed | Perseus
HUMANITIES 110
REED COLLEGE, FALL 2002
REQUIRED TEXTS:
Aeschylus, The Oresteia, trans. Lloyd-Jones (California)
Aristophanes, Lysistrata , trans. Jeffrey Henderson (Focus)
Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics, trans. Irwin (Hackett)
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)
Pollitt, Art and Experience in Classical Greece (Yale)
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:
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, October 18 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 16, to Thursday, December 19, 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
Weds 4 Sept Homer, The Iliad
Lecture: Introduction to Greece, Homer, and Humanities / Walter Englert
Fri 6 Sept Homer, The Iliad
Lecture: Homeric Similes / Gail Sherman
Week 2
Mon 9 Sept Homer, The Iliad; Murray, Early Greece, chs. 1 and 3
Lecture: Oral Tradition in Homer: Giving Form to Action / Nathalia King
Wed 11 Sept Homer, The Iliad; Geertz, "Religion as a Cultural System" in Essays on Ancient Greece
Lecture: Divine and Human Morality in The Iliad / Ann Delehanty
Fri 13 Sept Homer, The Iliad; Murray, chs. 4-5
Lecture: The Shield of Achilles / William Diebold
Week 3
Mon 16 Sept Gombrich, "Reflections on the Greek Revolution" in Essays; Pollitt, Art and Experience in Classical Greece, prologue and ch. 1; Murray ch.6
Lecture: Death in Archaic Art / William Diebold
Wed 18 Sept Hesiod, Theogony; Vernant, "Feminine Figures of Death in Greece" in Essays on Ancient Greece; Freeman, Egypt, Greece, and Rome, pp. 58-75
Lecture: What is a God? / Steve Wasserstrom
Fri 20 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 21st 5 p.m., in your conference leader's Eliot mail box
Week 4
Mon 23 Sept Miller, Greek Lyric, Sappho, Stesichorus, Ibycus, Anacreon pp. 51-63, 77-81, 95-103; Murray, Early Greece, ch. 12; Judith Hallett, "Sappho in Her Social Context: Sense and Sensuality" in Essays.
Lecture: Defining Eros / Nathalia King
Wed 25 Sept Miller, Greek Lyric, Archilochus, Semonides, Alcaeus, Solon, Theognis, Xenophanes, pp. 1-12, 22-26, 38-50, 64-76, 82-94, 107-11; Murray, Early Greece, chs. 9 & 11
Lecture: The Unspeakable Vice of the Greeks / Jay Dickson
Fri 27 Sept Herodotus, The Histories, Bk/Ch. 1.1-1.170; 1.201-216.
Lecture: Herodotus and the Historian’s Craft / Michael Breen
Week 5
Mon 30 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
Tues 1 Oct Video and Discussion: "Black Athena," VLH, 7:00 p.m.
Wed 2 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.
No Lecture
Fri 4 Oct Herodotus, The Histories, Bk/Ch. 7.1-153, 7.172-8.103, 9.114-122.
No Lecture: "Look to the Ending" / Jay Dickson
Week 6
Mon 7 Oct Aeschylus, The Oresteia, Agamemnon.
Lecture: Drama Queens / Jan Mieszkowski
Wed 9 Oct Aeschylus, The Oresteia, Libation Bearers.
Lecture: Verbal and Visual Oresteias / William Diebold
Fri 11 Oct Aeschylus, The Oresteia, Eumenides.
Lecture: Justice and Gender in the Oresteia / Gail Sherman
SECOND PAPER DUE Saturday, October 12th, 5 p.m.
Week 7
Mon 14 Oct Sophocles, Antigone. Gould, "Law, Custom and Myth: Aspects of the Social Position of Women in Classical Athens" in Essays.
Lecture: Sophocles' Antigone: A Tale of Two Cities / Ariadna Garcia-Bryce
Wed 16 Oct Sophocles, Oedipus.
Lecture: Greek Family Values / Jan Mieszkowski
Fri 18 Oct MID-TERM EXAM: 9:00-9:50 a.m. in VLH
19-27 OCTOBER: FALL BREAK
Week 8
Mon 28 Oct Robert F. Sutton, "Pornography and Persuasion in Attic Pottery"; Xenophon, Oeconomicus §§ 6-11, both in Essays; Pollitt, Art and Experience in Classical Greece, ch. 2.
Lecture: Athenian Vase Painting / Ellen Stauder
Wed 30 Oct Pollitt, Art and Experience in Classical Greece, ch. 3; Connelly, "Parthenon and Parthenoi" in Essays.
Lecture: The Parthenon / William Diebold
Fri 1 Nov Strassler apparatus in Essays (read this first); Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, Introduction, Bk/Ch. 1.1-1.146.
Lecture: Spartan Torpor versus Athenian Dynamism: National Character in Thucydides / Ellen Millender
Week 9
Mon 4 Nov Thucydides, Bk/Ch. 2.1-2.65; Ps-Xenophon, "The Constitution of the Athenians," in Essays.
Lecture: Law, Virtue and the Perils of Popular Government / Michael Breen
Wed 6 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
Fri 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: Whose Empire: Nicias or Alcibiades? / Nathalia King
Week 10
Mon 11 Nov Pollitt, Art and Experience in Classical Greece, chs. 4 and 5, and epilogue.
Lecture: The Uses of Classicism / William Diebold
Wed 13 Nov Aristophanes, Lysistrata.
Lecture: The Comic City / Nigel Nicholson
Fri 15 Nov Euripides, The Bacchae.
Lecture: The Wild Side / Jay Dickson
THIRD PAPER DUE Saturday, November 16th, 5 p.m.
Week 11
Mon 18 Nov Plato, Euthyphro, Apology and Crito in The Trial and Death of Socrates.
Lecture: A Kind of Gadfly / Pancho Savery
Wed 20 Nov Plato, The Republic.
Lecture: On the Virtues of Socratic Aporia / Ellen Stauder
Fri 22 Nov Plato, The Republic.
Lecture: Plato's City/Soul Analogy / Steve Arkonovich
Week 12
Mon 25 Nov Plato, The Republic.
Lecture: Platonic Metaphysics / Walter Englert
Wed 27 Nov Plato, The Republic.
Lecture: What's Wrong with Democracy? / David Mandell
NOVEMBER 28-DECEMBER 1: THANKSGIVING VACATION
Week 13
Mon 2 Dec Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
Lecture: The Function Argument / Steven Arkonovich
Wed 4 Dec Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
Lecture: Acting Justly or Just Acting? Assessing Aristotelian Virtue / Ann Delehanty
Fri 6 Dec Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
Lecture: Egoism, Altruism and Friendship / Steven Arkonovich
FOURTH PAPER DUE Saturday, December 7th, 5 p.m.
Week 14
Mon 9 Dec Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics.
Lecture: God / Michael Foat
Wed 11 Dec Plutarch, On Music §§ 14-44, in Essays
Performance: Greek music by DE ORGANOGRAPHIA.
FINAL EXAM, Vollum Lecture Hall, examination week, Monday, December 16, to Thursday, December 19.
Hum 110 | Reed Classics | Reed Library | Reed | Perseus