HUMANITIES 110
REED COLLEGE
Fall 2007
Aeschylus, The Oresteia, trans. Fagles (Penguin)
Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics, trans. Crisp (Cambridge)
Aristophanes, Three Comedies: The Birds, The Clouds, The Wasps, ed. Arrowsmith (Chicago)
Curd, ed., Presocratics Reader: Selected Fragments and Testimonia, trans. McKirahan (Hackett)
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, Republic, trans. Reeve (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)
All texts may be purchased at the Reed College Bookstore; limited numbers of each are on reserve in Hauser 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 Jay Dickson, chair of Hum 110, ETC 218. 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 12th 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 12th from 1:00-5:00 p.m. 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 Academics > 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 Finder in Network > Academic Servers).
Mon 27 Aug
Homer, The Iliad
Lecture: “The Beginning” / Jan Mieszkowski
Wed 29 Aug
Homer, The Iliad
Lecture: “Oral Tradition in Homer: Giving Form to Action” / Nathalia King
Fri 31 Aug
Homer, The Iliad; Martin, Ancient Greece, chapters 2 and 3 (pp. 16-50)
Lecture: “Homeric Similes” / Gail Sherman
Mon 3 Sept
Labor Day—no lecture or classes
Wed 5 Sept
Homer, The Iliad; Osborne, Archaic and Classical Greek Art, chapter 2 (pp. 23-41)
Lecture: “The Shield of Achilles” / William Diebold
Fri 7 Sept
Homer, The Iliad; Miller, Greek Lyric: Theognis & Anacreon (pp. 82-94 & 99-103)
Lecture: “Love Is a Battlefield” / Jay Dickson
Mon 10 Sept
Hesiod, Theogony; Vernant, "Feminine Figures of Death" in Essays
Lecture: “The Undying Liver” / Sonia Sabnis
Wed 12 Sept
Hesiod, Works and Days
Lecture: “The Political Economy of Ancient Greece” / David Garrett
Fri 14 Sept
Osborne, Archaic and Classical Greek Art, chapters 3, 4, and 5 (pp. 43-85)
Lecture: “Archaic Art” / Maureen Harkin
FIRST PAPER DUE Saturday, September 15th 5 p.m., in your conference leader's Eliot mailbox
Mon 17 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: “How to Read Poetry and Why” / Marat Grinberg
Mon 17 Sept
Musical performance, DE ORGANOGRAPHIA, 7-8 p.m. in VLH
Wed 19 Sept
Miller, Greek Lyric: Sappho (pp. 51-63) and re-read Theognis & Anacreon (pp. 82-94 & 99-103); Anne Carson, Eros the Bittersweet (selections), in Essays; 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: “Sappho and the Eros of Translation” / Ellen Stauder
Fri 21 Sept
PreSocratics Reader (pp. 1-16, 25-60, 79-92)
Lecture: “Parmenides and the Roots of Western Philosophy” / Paul Hovda
Mon 24 Sept
Herodotus, The Histories, Bk/Ch. 1.1-1.170; 1.201-216; Martin, Ancient Greece, chapter 6
(pp. 94-123)
Lecture: “History and Narrative Form” / Maureen Harkin
Wed 26 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 Burstein, “A Contested History: Egypt, Greece and Afrocentrism,” both in Essays; Barbara Fowler, Love Lyrics of Ancient Egypt (selections) in Essays
Lecture: “Black Athena” / Pancho Savery
Fri 28 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, Slavery, and Greek Politics” / David Garrett
Mon 1 Oct
Herodotus, The Histories, Bk/Ch. 7.1-153, 7.172-8.103, 9.114-122
Lecture: "'Bound by a single fate': Explorations of the Concept of Equality” / Nathalia King
Wed 3 Oct
Zaidman and Patel, Religion in the Ancient Greek City (selections) in Essays
Lecture: “Goddess and Polis” / Laura Leibman
Fri 5 Oct
Aeschylus, The Oresteia: Agamemnon; Martin, Ancient Greece, chapter 7 (pp. 124-146)
Lecture: “Representation and Gender in Agamemnon” / Michael Faletra
SECOND PAPER DUE Saturday, October 6th, 5 p.m.
Mon 8 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
Wed 10 Oct
Sophocles, Antigone
Lecture: “Burying, Repeating, and Working-Through” / Michael Mirabile
Fri 12 Oct MID-TERM EXAM: 9:00-9:50 a.m. in VLH
OCTOBER 13 – OCTOBER 21: FALL BREAK
Mon 22 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 24 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 26 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” / Ellen Millender
Mon 29 Oct
Thucydides, Bk/Ch. 2.1-2.65; Ps-Xenophon, “The Constitution of the Athenians” in Essays
Lecture: “Athenian Democracy: Its Form, Its History, and Its Critics” / David Garrett
Wed 31 Oct
Sophocles, Oedipus the King
Lecture: “Greek Family Values” / Jan Mieszkowski
Fri 2 Nov
Thucydides, Bk/Ch 3.1-3.85, 5.13-5.24, 5.83-5.116
Lecture: “Thucydidean Thought” / Peter Steinberger
Mon 5 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 7 Nov
Aristophanes, The Clouds; Pre-Socratics Reader, pp. 99-104
Lecture: “The Cultural Work of Comedy” / Laura Leibman
Fri 9 Nov
Euripides, The Bacchae; Martin, Ancient Greece, ch. 8 (pp. 147-173)
Lecture: “The Wild Side” / Jay Dickson
THIRD PAPER DUE Saturday, November 10th, 5 p.m.
Mon 12 Nov
Plato, Euthyphro, Apology and Crito in The Trial and Death of Socrates
Lecture: “A Kind of Gadfly” / Pancho Savery
Wed 14 Nov
Plato, The Republic
Lecture: “On the Virtues of Socratic Aporia” / Ellen Stauder
Fri 16 Nov
Plato, The Republic
Lecture: “Plato's City/Soul Analogy” / Steve Arkonovich
Mon 19 Nov
Plato, The Republic
Lecture: “Platonic Metaphysics in The Republic” / Margaret Scharle
Wed 21 Nov
Plato, The Republic
Lecture: “The Republic: ‘There is nothing like this’”/ Robert Knapp
NOVEMBER 22 – NOVEMBER 25: THANKSGIVING VACATION
Mon 26 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 28 Nov
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, books 1 and 2; Martin, Ancient Greece, chapter 9 (pp. 174-
197)
Lecture: “The Function Argument in Nicomachean Ethics 1.7” / Margaret Scharle,
Fri 30 Nov
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, books 3 and 5
Lecture: “Understanding Aristotle’s Virtues” / Tamara Metz
FOURTH PAPER DUE Saturday, December 1st, 5 p.m.
Mon 3 Dec
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, books 8 and 9
Lecture: “Egoism, Altruism, and Friendship” / Steven Arkonovich
Wed 5 Dec
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, books 6 and 10
Lecture: “Contemplation and the Honor Principle” / Margaret Scharle
FINAL EXAM: Tuesday, December 11th, 1 to 5 p.m. in VLH