HUMANITIES 110
REED COLLEGE
FALL 2005
Aeschylus, The Oresteia, trans. Fagles (Penguin)
Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics, trans. Ross (Oxford)
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)
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/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, 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 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 Jay Dickson, chair of Hum 110 (ETC 128). 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 14 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 13 from 8:00 a.m. - Noon 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 29 Aug
Homer, The Iliad
Lecture: Introduction to Greece, Homer, and Humanities / Walter Englert
Wed 31 Aug
Homer, The Iliad
Lecture: Oral Tradition in Homer: Giving Form to Action / Nathalia King
Fri 2 Sept
Homer, The Iliad; Martin, Ancient Greece, chapters 2 and 3 (pp. 16-50)
Lecture: Homer as a Historical Source / Ellen Millender
Mon 5 Sept
Labor Day—no lecture or classes
Wed 7 Sept
Homer, The Iliad; Osborne, Archaic and Classical Greek Art, chapter 2 (pp. 23-41)
Lecture: The Shield of Achilles / William Diebold
Fri 9 Sept
Homer, The Iliad
Lecture: Fate, Moral Merit, and Moral Responsibility in Homer / Edward Cushman
Mon 12 Sept
Hesiod, Theogony; Freeman, Egypt, Greece, and Rome (pp. 58-75)
Lecture: Why This Talk of Gods? / Kambiz GhaneaBassiri
Wed 14 Sept
Hesiod, Works and Days
Lecture: The Political Economy of Ancient Greece / David Garrett
Fri 16 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 17th 5 p.m., in your conference leader's Eliot mail box
Mon 19
Sept
Miller, Greek Lyric, Semonides, Sappho, Theognis, Ibycus, Anacreon (pp. 22-26, 51-63, 82-103); Judith Hallett, "Sappho in Her Social Context: Sense and Sensuality" in Essays.
Lecture: The Unspeakable Vice of the Greeks / Jay Dickson
Tues. 20 Sept
Visiting Speaker Lecture – Professor Kurt Raaflaub (Brown University), VLH – 7:30 p.m.
Title: “De-Orientalizing Prometheus: The Culture Hero in Mesopotamian Myth and Greek Literature”
Wed 21 Sept
Osborne, Archaic and Classical Greek Art, chapters 3, 4, and 5 (pp. 43-86); Vernant, "Feminine Figures of Death" in Essays.
Lecture: Death in Archaic Art / William Diebold
Fri 23 Sept
PreSocratics Reader (pp. 1-16, 25-60, 79-92)
Lecture: Parmenides and the Roots of Western Philosophy / Paul Hovda
Mon 26 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 28 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
Video and Discussion: "Black Athena," VLH, 7:00 p.m.
Fri 30 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 3 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 5 Oct
Aeschylus, The Oresteia: Agamemnon; Martin, Ancient Greece, chapter 7 (pp. 124-146)
Lecture: The Beginnings of Tragedy / Jay Dickson
Fri 7 Oct
Aeschylus, The Oresteia: Libation Bearers.
Lecture: Verbal and Visual Oresteias / William Diebold
SECOND PAPER DUE Saturday, October 8th, 5 p.m.
Mon 10 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 12 Oct
Sophocles, Antigone.
Lecture: Tragedy, Conflict, Dust / Jan Mieszkowski
Fri 14 Oct
MID-TERM EXAM: 9:00-9:50 a.m. in VLH
Mon 24 Oct
Osborne, Archaic and Classical Greek Art, Introduction, chapters 1 and 7 (pp. 1-2, 9-21, 117-131)
Lecture: The Uses of Classicism / William Diebold
Wed 26 Oct
Osborne, Archaic and Classical Greek Art, chapters 9, 10 (pp. 157-203); Connelly, "Parthenon and Parthenoi" in Essays
Lecture: The Parthenon and its Sculpture / William Diebold
Fri 28 Oct
Pollitt, “The World Under Control” (p. 65-110) in Essays
Lecture: Goddess and Polis / Laura Leibman
Mon 31 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
Wed 2 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
Fri 4 Nov
Sophocles, Oedipus
Lecture: Oedipus Tyrannus: Tragic Form and Function / Robert Knapp
Mon 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
Wed 9 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
Fri 11 Nov
Osborne, Archaic and Classical Greek Art, chapters 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
THIRD PAPER DUE Saturday, November 12th, 5 p.m.
Mon14Nov
Aristophanes, Lysistrata, in Essays.; Martin, Ancient Greece, ch. 8 (pp. 147-173)
Lecture: The Comic City / Nigel Nicholson
Wed 16 Nov
Plato, Euthyphro, Apology and Crito in The Trial and Death of Socrates.
Lecture: A Kind of Gadfly / Pancho Savery
Fri 18 Nov
Plato, The Republic.
Lecture: On the Virtues of Socratic Aporia / Ellen Stauder
Mon 21 Nov
Plato, The Republic.
Lecture: Plato's City/Soul Analogy / Steve Arkonovich
Wed 23 Nov
Plato, The Republic.
Lecture: Platonic Metaphysics / Walter Englert
Mon 28 Nov
Plato, The Republic.
Lecture: Platonic Mythology / Steve Wasserstrom
Wed 30 Nov
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, books 1, 2.; Martin, Ancient Greece, chapter 9 (pp. 174-197)
Lecture: The Function Argument of Nicomachean Ethics 1.7 / Margaret Scharle
Fri 2 Dec
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics; 3, 4, 6.
Lecture: Straightening Bent Sticks: Aristotle's Doctrine of the Mean / Nigel Nicholson
FOURTH PAPER DUE Saturday, December 3rd, 5 p.m.
Mon 5 Dec
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics; 8, 9.
Lecture: Egoism, Altruism, and Friendship / Steven Arkonovich
Wed 7 Dec
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics ,10.
Performance: Greek music by DE ORGANOGRAPHIA.