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HUMANITIES 110
REED COLLEGE, SPRING 2004
REQUIRED TEXTS:
Apuleius, trans. Lindsay, The Golden Ass (Indiana University Press)
Athanasius, Life of St. Antony the Great (Eastern Orthodox)
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, The Rise of Rome, Books 1-5 (Oxford)
Lucretius, On the Nature of Things, trans. W. Englert (Focus Philosophical Library)
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, 4th ed. (McGraw)
Hacker, A Writer's Reference, 5th ed. (Bedford)
Williams, Style: Toward Clarity and Grace (Chicago)
All texts may be purchased at the Reed College Bookstore; a limited number of each is 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 in completed forms to Gail Sherman, Hum 110 Chair, in Lib. 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, March 12 from 9:00-9:50 a.m. in Vollum Lecture Hall. A final examination for the spring term will be given in finals week Wednesday, May 12, 8:00 a.m.- 12:00 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). Also, there are several readings this semester that will be accessible only on e-reserves. You will be given a password that will enable you to access these readings.
SCHEDULE OF READINGS AND LECTURES
Week 1
Jan. 26 Charles Freeman, Egypt, Greece and Rome, chapters16 to 20
Lecture: Observing Imperialism: Alexander, Hellenism and the Rise of the Roman Machine/Pancho Savery
Jan. 28 Livy, The Rise of Rome, pp. 3-70
Lecture: Livy and the Re-Creation of Rome/Walter Englert
Jan. 30 Livy, The Rise of Rome, pp. 105-180, 374-402
Lecture: Livy and Roman Virtue/Tony Iaccarino
Week 2
Feb. 2 Augustus, The Accomplishments of Augustus; Suetonius' "Augustus" from The Twelve Caesars (both in Readings); Freeman, chapters 21 and 22.
Lecture: From Octavian to Augustus/Ellen Millender
Feb. 4 Holliday, "Time, History, and Ritual on the Ara Pacis Augustae"; Galinsky,"Art and Architecture" (both in Readings); Freeman, chapters 23 and 24.
Lecture: Contexts for the Ara Pacis/William Diebold
Feb 6 Garnsey and Saller, The Roman Empire, Chapters 2, 6-9, Conclusion (in Readings).
Lecture: "My So-Called Roman Life"/ Laura Leibman
Week 3
Feb. 9 Virgil, Aeneid, Books 1-4
Lecture: Eros and Empire/Michael Faletra
Feb. 11 Virgil, Aeneid, Books 5-8
Lecture: Ekphrasis and the Representation of Empire in Virgil/ Ellen Stauder
Feb. 13 Virgil, Aeneid, Books 9-12
Lecture: The Ending of the Aeneid/Walter Englert
First Paper Due Saturday, Feb. 14th 5 p.m.
Week 4
Feb. 16 Ovid, Metamorphoses, Books 1-3
Lecture: Erring by Design/Jay Dickson
Tuesday Feb 17 "The Roman Arena," video presentation, 8:00-9:00 pm, Vollum Lecture Hall
Feb. 18 Ovid, Metamorphoses, Books 4-6, 15
Lecture: Meta-Metamorphoses/Ann Delehanty
Feb. 20 Tacitus, Annals, pp. 31-60, 90-99, 104-128
Lecture: Of Empire and Emperors: Tacitus and The Writing of History/Alex Nice
Saturday Feb. 21 "I, Claudius" ("Family Matters," "Poison is Queen"), video presentation, 7:00-9:00 pm, Psychology 105
Week 5
Feb. 23 Tacitus, Annals, pp. 157-255
Lecture: Representations of the Emperor/William Diebold
Tuesday Feb. 24 "I, Claudius" ("Zeus! By Jove," "A God in Colchester"), video presentation, 7:00-9:00 pm, Psychology 105
Feb. 25 Tacitus, Annals, pp. 275-324, 335-397
Lecture: Gossip/Jay Dickson
Feb. 27 Seneca, The Stoic Philosophy of Seneca: On Providence, On the Tranquillity of the Mind, and Letters, 47, 65, 70
Lecture: Seneca and Roman Stoicism/Walter Englert
Week 6
March 1 Lucretius, The Way Things Are (De Rerum Natura), Books 1 and 3
Lecture: Lucretius On What You Are and Why It Matters /Paul Hovda
March 3 Lucretius, The Way Things Are (De Rerum Natura), Books 5 and 6
Lecture: How to Live Like an Epicurean God/Walter Englert
March 5 Tacitus, Germania in The Agricola and the Germania; Tacitus, Histories 5. 1-10 (in Readings);
Lecture: Two Cities: Identity and Alterity/Nathalia King
Week 7
March 8 Genesis: 1-21; Kugel and Greer, "The Rise of Scripture" (in Readings)
Lecture: Back to Basics/Jay Dickson
March 10 Genesis 21-50; Nancy Jay, "The Logic of Sacrifice" and "Sacrifice and Descent" (in Readings)
Lecture: Sacrifices and Stories/Gail Sherman
March 12 MID-TERM EXAM: 9-9:50 a.m., in VLH
13-21 MARCH: SPRING BREAK
Week 8
March 22 Exodus 1-7:19; 11-24; 32-40
Lecture: The Jewish Temple: Presence and Absence/Steve Wasserstrom
March 24 Isaiah 40-55; Daniel; Amos; Fishbane, "Biblical Prophecy as a Religious Phenomenon" (in Readings)
Lecture: Hebrew Prophecy: Universality and Particularity/Steve Wasserstrom
March 26 Josephus, The Jewish War, pp. 27-31, 133-48, and 287-408.
Lecture: Varieties of Heroic Experience/Nathalia King
Second Paper Due Saturday, March 27th, 5 p.m.
Week 9
March 29 Gospel of Matthew; Gospel of Thomas (in Readings)
Lecture: Genre, Audience, and Tradition in the Gospel of Matthew/Gail Sherman
March 31 The Tractate Avot (The Ethics of the Fathers); Cohen, "The Emergence of Rabbinic Judaism"; "The Rule of the Community" (all in Readings); Boccaccini, Beyond the Essene Hypothesis, 1-7, 53-67 (on e-reserve only).
Lecture: Tractate Avot and Rabbinic Law/ Steve Wasserstrom
April 2 Revelation
Lecture: The End of the World as They Knew It/Laura Leibman
Week 10
April 5 Paul, Romans; Acts 9-19; Frend, "Paul and the First Expansion 30-65" (in Readings)
Lecture: "The Soul's Daily Bread"/Ann Delehanty
Tuesday April 6 "From Jesus to Christ," video presentation, 7:00-9:00 pm, Bio 19
April 7 Gospel of John
Lecture: Between Jew and Hellene: the Emerging Christian Community of the Gospel of John/Ellen Stauder
Thursday April 8 "From Jesus to Christ," video presentation, 7:00-9:00 pm, Psychology 105
April 9 Wharton, Refiguring the Post Classical City (in Readings)
Lecture: Jews and Christians in Dura-Europos/ William Diebold
Week 11
April 12 Apuleius, Golden Ass
Lecture: Telling Stories/Gail Sherman
April 14 Apuleius, Golden Ass
Lecture: A Serious Joke: The Golden Ass between Religion and Philosophy/Steve Wasserstrom
April 16 Athanasius, Life of St. Anthony; Anthony (i.e., Antony), Letter #6 (on e-reserve only)
Lecture: Holy Bodies /Ray Kierstead
Week 12
April 19 The Martyrdom of Saints Perpetua and Felicitas (in Readings); Brown, The World of Late Antiquity, pp. 1-112
Lecture: The Martyrdom of Perpetua/Nathalia King
April 21 Plotinus, I.6 ("Beauty"), pp. 33-44; V.9, ("The Intelligence, The Ideas and Being"), pp. 45-58; III,8 ("Contemplation,"), pp. 162-176.
Lecture: The Way of Contemplation/Steve Wasserstrom
April 23 Augustine, Confessions
Lecture: Augustine and the Art of Transformation/Laura Leibman
Third Paper Due Saturday, April 24th, 5 p.m.
Week 13
April 26 Augustine, Confessions
Lecture: Augustine and Ambrose in Milan/William Diebold
April 28 Augustine, Confessions
Lecture: The Infinite Text or The Recesses of Memory/Ariadna Garcia-Bryce
April 30 Augustine, Confessions
Lecture: The End/Jan Mieszkowski
Wednesday May 12 FINAL EXAM, 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon, Vollum Lecture Hall
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