HUMANITIES 110
REED COLLEGE
Fall 2008
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)
Euripides, Euripides III: Hecuba, Andromache, The Trojan Women, Ion, 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 Ann Delehanty, chair of Hum 110, Vollum 318. 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 17th from 9:00-9:50 a.m. in Vollum Lecture Hall. A four-hour final examination for the fall semester will be given Thursday, December 18th, 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 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).
Wed. 3 Sept.
Homer, The Iliad
Lecture: “The Beginning” / Jan Mieszkowski
Fri. 5 Sept.
Homer, The Iliad
Lecture: “Oral Tradition in Homer: Giving Form to Action” / Nathalia King
Mon. 8 Sept.
Homer, The Iliad; Martin, Ancient Greece, chs. 2 and 33 (pp. 16-50)
Lecture: “Divine and Human Morality in the Iliad” / Ann Delehanty
Wed. 10 Sept.
Homer, The Iliad; Osborne, Archaic and Classical Greek Art, ch. 2chapter 2 (pp.
23-41)
Lecture: "The Agonistic Exchange of Wealth and Praise in Homeric Greece" / Christopher
Roberts
Fri. 12 Sept.
Homer, The Iliad; Miller, Greek Lyric: Theognis & Anacreon (pp. 82-94 & 99-103)
Lecture: “Love
Is a Battlefield” / Jay Dickson
Mon. 15 Sept.
Hesiod, Theogony; Vernant, "Feminine
Figures of Death" in Essays
Lecture: “The
Undying Liver” / Sonia Sabnis
Wed. 17 Sept.
Hesiod, Works
and Days
Lecture: “The Epic of Toil: Hesiod's Works
and Days" / Lena Lencek
Fri. 19 Sept.
Osborne, Archaic
and Classical Greek Art, chapters 3, 4, 5 and 7 (pp. 43-85, pp. 117-131)
Lecture: “The
Aesthetics of Urn Burial”/ Robert Knapp
FIRST PAPER DUE Saturday, September 20th at 5 p.m., in your conference leader's Eliot mailbox
Mon. 22 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. 22 Sept.
Musical
performance, DE ORGANOGRAPHIA, 7-8 p.m. in VLH
Wed. 24 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. 26 Sept.
PreSocratics
Reader (pp. 1-16, 25-60, 79-92)
Lecture: “The
Problem With Nature” / Ralph Drayton
Mon. 29 Sept.
Herodotus, The
Histories, Bk/Ch. 1.1-1.170; 1.201-216; Martin, Ancient Greece, chapter 6 (pp.
94-123)
Lecture: “Oracular History and Athenian Empire"/Margot Minardi
Wed. 1 Oct.
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. 3 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
Lecture: "Herodotus
and/or the Rest of Us" / Robert Knapp
Mon. 6 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. 8 Oct.
Zaidman
and Patel, Religion in the Ancient Greek City (selections) in Essays
Lecture: “Goddess
and Polis” / Laura Leibman
Fri. 10 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 11th, 5 p.m.
Mon. 13 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. 15 Oct.
Sophocles, Antigone
Lecture: “A
Tale of Two Cities” / Ariadna Garcia-Bryce
Fri. 17 Oct.
MID-TERM
EXAM: 9:00-9:50 a.m. in VLH
OCTOBER 18 – OCTOBER 26: FALL BREAK
Mon. 27 Oct.
Osborne, Archaic
and Classical Greek Art, chapters 9 and 10 (pp. 157-203); Connelly, "Parthenon and Parthenoi" in Essays
NOTE: Change
in lecture time -- Lecture at 7 p.m. in Vollum Lecture Hall: “The
Uses of the Past on the Periklean Acropolis," Jeffrey Hurwit, University of Oregon,
Wed. 29 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
Fri 31 Oct.
Thucydides, Bk/Ch. 2.1-2.65; Ps-Xenophon, “The
Constitution of the Athenians” in Essays
Lecture: “Thucydides,
the Sophists, and the Problem of Athens” / Walter Englert
Mon. 3 Nov.
Sophocles, Oedipus
the King
Lecture: “Oedipus Tyrannos: Tragic
Form and Function” /Robert Knapp
Wed. 5 Nov.
Thucydides, Bk/Ch 3.1-3.85, 5.13-5.24, 5.83-5.116
Lecture: “Thucydidean
Thought” / Peter Steinberger
Fri. 7 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
Mon. 10 Nov.
Euripides, The
Trojan Women
Lecture: “Euripides,
Democracy and Myth” / Michael Faletra
Wed. 12 Nov.
Euripides, The
Bacchae; Martin, Ancient Greece, ch. 8 (pp. 147-173)
Lecture: “The
Wild Side” / Jay Dickson
Fri. 14 Nov.
Plato, Euthyphro, Apology and Crito in The
Trial and Death of Socrates
Lecture: “A
Kind of Gadfly” / Pancho Savery
THIRD PAPER DUE Saturday, November 15th, 5 p.m.
Mon. 17 Nov.
Aristophanes, The Clouds; Pre-Socratics Reader, pp. 99-104
Lecture: “The
Cultural Work of Comedy” / Laura Leibman
Wed. 19 Nov.
Plato, The
Republic
Lecture: “On
the Virtues of Socratic Aporia” / Ellen Stauder
Fri. 21 Nov.
Plato, The
Republic
Lecture: “Sex,
Gender and the Power of Philosophy"/ Tamara Metz
Mon. 24 Nov.
Plato, The
Republic
Lecture: “Platonic
Metaphysics in The Republic” / Margaret Scharle
Wed. 26 Nov.
Plato, The
Republic
Lecture: “The
Republic: ‘There is nothing like this’”/ Robert Knapp
NOVEMBER 27 – NOVEMBER 30: THANKSGIVING VACATION
Mon. 1 Dec.
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. 3 Dec.
Aristotle, Nicomachean
Ethics, book 1; Martin, Ancient Greece, chapter 9 (pp. 174-197)
Lecture: “The
Function Argument in Nicomachean Ethics 1.7” / Margaret Scharle,
Fri. 5 Dec.
Aristotle, Nicomachean
Ethics, books 2 and 3
Lecture: “Acting Justly or Just Acting?: Assessing Aristotle’s Model
of Virtue” / Ann Delehanty
FOURTH PAPER DUE Saturday, December 6th, 5 p.m.
Mon. 8 Dec.
Aristotle, Nicomachean
Ethics; and Politics, selections in Essays.
Lecture: “ Justice:
Virtue of a Political Animal” / Tamara Metz
Wed. 10 Dec.
Aristotle, Nicomachean
Ethics
Lecture: “Contemplation
and the Honor Principle” / Margaret Scharle
FINAL EXAM: Thursday, December 18th, 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. in VLH