Required Texts:

Aeschylus, The Oresteia, trans. Lloyd-Jones (California)

Aristophanes, Clouds, trans. Arrowsmith (Chicago)

Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics, trans. Ross (Oxford)

Essays on Ancient Greece (Pamphlet / Bookstore)

Euripides, Euripides V: Electra, The Phoenician Women, The Bacchae, ed. Grene and Lattimore (Chicago)

Herodotus, The History, trans. de Selincourt (Penguin)

Hesiod, Theogony, Works and Days, and Shield, trans. Athanassakis (Johns Hopkins)

Homer, The Iliad, trans. Lattimore (Chicago)

Miller, Greek Lyric: An Anthology in Translation (Hackett)

Murray, Oswyn, Early Greece, 2nd ed. (Harvard)

Osborne, Archaic and Classical Greek Art (Oxford)

Plato, The Trial and Death of Socrates, trans. Grube (Hackett)

Plato, Plato's Republic, trans. Grube/Reeve (Hackett)

Sophocles, Sophocles I: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone, ed. Grene and Lattimore (Chicago)

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, trans. Warner (Penguin)

Vernant, The Origins of Greek Thought (Cornell)

Recommended Texts:

Homer, The Odyssey, trans. Fitzgerald (Doubleday)

Marius, A Writer's Companion, 3rd ed. (McGraw)

J.A.C.T., The World of Athens (Cambridge)

Hacker, A Writer's Reference, 3rd ed. (Bedford)

Thucydides, The Landmark Thucydides, trans. Everyman (Simon and Schuster)

Williams, Style: Toward Style and Grace (Chicago)

All texts may be purchased at the Reed College Bookstore; a limited number of each are on reserve in the Library. Also on reserve (and very useful): Oxford Classical Dictionary; Oxford Companion to Classical Literature; Penguin Atlas of Ancient History; Richard Lanham, Revising Prose.

CONFERENCE ASSIGNMENTS:

The Registrar makes initial assignments to conferences in the course. 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 Karen Bondaruk, CC 308). Turn completed forms into Karen Bondaruk, CC 308. Nathalia King, Hum 110 Chair, CC 305, will let you know by e-mail if and when your request is approved. No conference changes will be permitted after the second week of the semester.

PAPERS, WRITING ASSIGNMENTS, AND EXAMINATIONS:

Four course-wide papers will be assigned, due at the times designated below on the schedule of readings and lectures. A mid-term examination will be given on Friday, October 15 from 9:00 to 9:50 a.m. in Vollum Lecture Hall. A final examination for the fall term will be given Wednesday, December 15 from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 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, schedule of videos, and many of the lecture handouts from this year and last year, as well as some new pages designed to help students to tap Internet resources on course-related subjects. The web page may be reached through Reed's main page via Academic Life and Course Materials, or directly at this address: <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).

Week 1

Mon 30 Aug Homer, The Iliad

Lecture: Introduction to Greece, Homer, and the Humanities / Walter Englert

Wed 1 Sept Homer, The Iliad; Murray, Early Greece, chs. 1 and 3

Lecture: Homer and the Oral Tradition / Nathalia King

Fri 3 Sept Homer, The Iliad; Geertz, "Religion as a Cultural System" in Essays on Ancient Greece

Lecture: The Religion of the Iliad / Michael Foat

Week 2

Mon 6 Sept LABOR DAY--No School

Wed 8 Sept Homer, The Iliad ; Osborne, Archaic and Classical Greek Art, chs. 1 and 2

Lecture: The Shield of Achilles / William Diebold

Fri 10 Sept Homer, The Iliad

Lecture: The Ending of the Iliad / Walter Englert

Week 3

Mon 13 Sept Hesiod, Theogony; Murray, Early Greece, ch. 6; Vernant, "Feminine Figures of Death in Greece" in Essays on Ancient Greece

Lecture: Hesiod's Theogony / Nathalia King

Wed 15 Sept Hesiod, Works and Days; Murray, Early Greece, chs. 4 & 7; Miller, Greek Lyric, Tyrtaeus, pp. 13-19

Lecture: The Emergence of the Polis / Ray Kierstead

Fri 17 Sept Miller, Greek Lyric , Archilochus, Semonides, Alcman, Solon, Xenophanes, pp. 1-12, 22-26, 31-37, 64-76, 107-111; Murray, Early Greece, chs. 8 & 9

Lecture: The "Lyric Age" of Greece: "Counterbalanced against the iron is the sweet lyre- playing" / Elizabeth Drumm

FIRST PAPER DUE Saturday, September 18 in your conference leader's Eliot mail box

Week 4

Mon 20 Sept Miller, Greek Lyric, Alcaeus, Sappho, Theognis, Anacreon, pp. 38-63, 82-94, 99-103; Murray, Early Greece, ch. 12; Judith Hallett, "Sappho in Her Social Context: Sense and Sensuality" in Essays

Lecture: Defining Eros / Nathalia King

Wed 22 Sept "Early Greek Philosophy" and "Fragments from Heraclitus" (Sections IV and V) in Essays; Vernant, The Origins of Greek Thought, pp. 69-132

Lecture: The Origins of Greek Thought / Nathalia King

Fri 24 Sept Gombrich, "Reflections on the Greek Revolution" in Essays; Osborne, Archaic and Classical Greek Art, chs. 3-5

Lecture: Death in Archaic Art / William Diebold

Week 5

Mon 27 Sept Herodotus, The Histories, Bk/Ch. 1.1-1.216

Lecture: Herodotus and the Invention of History / Ray Kierstead

Wed 29 Sept Herodotus, The Histories, Bk/Ch. 2. 1-64, 113-120, 164-182

Lecture: Black Athena / Pancho Savery

Thur 30 Sept Video and Discussion: "Black Athena," VLH, 7:00 p.m.

Fri 1 Oct Herodotus, The Histories, Bk/Ch. 3.61-3.97, 5.55-7.171; Bernal and Lefkowitz in Essays

Lecture: The Structure of a World and a Story / Michael Foat

Week 6

Mon 4 Oct Herodotus, The Histories, Bk/Ch. 7.172-8.103, 9.114-9.122; Finley, "Was Greek Civilization Based on Slavery?" in Essays

Lecture: The Problem of Greek Freedom and Slavery / David Sacks

Wed 6 Oct Aeschylus, The Oresteia

Lecture: Trial - and/or Error? / Tom Gillcrist

Fri 8 Oct Aeschylus, The Oresteia

Lecture: Fate and Motivation in Aeschylus' The Libation Bearers / Carl Anderson

SECOND PAPER DUE Saturday, October 9

Week 7

Mon 11 Oct Aeschylus, The Oresteia; 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 13 Oct Sophocles, Antigone

Lecture: The Cultural Work of Tragedy / Laura Arnold

Fri 15 Oct MID-TERM EXAM: 9:00-9:50 a.m. in VLH

16-24 OCTOBER: FALL BREAK

Week 8

Mon 25 Oct Robert F. Sutton, "Pornography and Persuasion in Attic Pottery"; Sarah Pomeroy, "The Family in Classical Greece and in the Oeconomicus" and "The Domestic Economy"; both in Essays; Osborne, Archaic and Classical Greek Art, ch. 6

Lecture: Representation and Gender in Athenian Vase Painting / Ellen Stauder

Wed 27 Oct Osborne, Archaic and Classical Greek Art, chs. 7-9

Lecture: The Parthenon / William Diebold

Fri 29 Oct Osborne, Archaic and Classical Greek Art, chs. 10-13

Lecture: The Uses of Classicism / William Diebold

Week 9

Mon 1 Nov Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, Intro., Bk/Ch. 1.1-1.146

Lecture: Thucydides and the Purpose of History / Walter Englert

Wed 3 Nov Thucydides, Bk/Ch. 2.1-2.65; Jones, "Athenian Democracy and its Critics" in Essays

Lecture: Pericles and Athenian Democracy / David Sacks

Fri 5 Nov Thucydides, Bk/Ch 3.1-3.85, 5.13-5.24; Davies, Democracy and Classical Greece, ch. 6 in Essays

Lecture: Thucydides on Human Nature / C.D.C. Reeve

Week 10

Mon 8 Nov Thucydides, Ch/Bk 5.83-6.41, 6.105-7.87

Lecture: Tragedy and Democracy / Thomas Gillcrist

Wed 10 Nov Euripides, The Bacchae

Lecture: God and Theatre in The Bacchae / Thomas Gillcrist

Fri 12 Nov Plato, Euthyphro, Apology and Crito in The Trial and Death of Socrates

Lecture: Why Was Socrates Put to Death? / Carl Anderson

THIRD PAPER DUE Saturday, November 13

Week 11

Mon 15 Nov Plato, The Republic

Lecture: The Challenge of Thrasymachus / Carl Anderson

Wed 17 Nov Plato, The Republic

Lecture: Was Plato a Communist? / William Peck

Fri 19 Nov Plato, The Republic

Lecture: Plato's Metaphysics / C.D.C. Reeve

Week 12

Mon 22 Nov Plato, The Republic

Lecture: Mimesis / David Mandell

Tues 23 Nov Dramatic Reading of the Clouds by Theatre 110 students, VLH, 7:00 pm

Wed 24 Nov Aristophanes, Clouds

Lecture: The Cultural Work of Comedy / Laura Arnold

NOVEMBER 25-28: THANKSGIVING VACATION

Week 13

Mon 29 Nov Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics

Lecture: Aristotle on How to Live / C.D.C. Reeve

Wed 1 Dec Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics

Lecture: Straightening Bent Sticks: Aristotle's Doctrine of the Mean / Nigel Nicholson

Fri 3 Dec Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics

Lecture: The Contemplative Life / Bill Peck

FOURTH PAPER DUE Saturday, December 4

Week 14

Mon 6 Dec Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics

DE ORGANOGRAPHIA

Wed 8 Dec Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics

Lecture: God / Michael Foat

Finals Week

Wed 15 Dec FINAL EXAM: 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. in VLH

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