Overviews
to the Classical Period (read & compare!):
Week
5
Mon 25 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 27 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 Burnstein, “A
Contested History: Egypt, Greece and Afrocentrism” in Essays
Lecture: Black Athena / Pancho SaveryFri 29 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
Nigel
Nicholson's Overview of Herodotus' Histories
Outline
of Herodotus' Histories (D. Silverman)
Logic
Handout: Causal Arguments & Herodotus (L. Leibman)
Reigns
of Kings (L. Leibman)
Study
Questions on Herodotus: Black Athena (L. Leibman)
Hum
110 Tech: Black
Athena (D. Silverman)
Use
of Greek History by White Supremacists Today: Racial
Types in Ancient Greece (from Stormfront's March
of the Titan's--A History of the White Race. Stormfront is "White
Pride" organization.)
Map
of the Persian War
Week
6
Mon 2 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 4 Oct Aeschylus, The Oresteia: Agamemnon; Martin, Ancient Greece,
chapter 7 (pp. 124-146)
Lecture: Theatre and Ritual / Robert Knapp
Fri 6 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
Study
Guide for The Oresteia by Robin Mitchell-Boyak, Department of Classics,
Temple University (http://www.temple.edu/classics/oresteia.html)
Oresteia
Questions (L. Leibman)
Study
Questions for the Oresteia (D. Silverman)
Vase
Images Relating to Comedy & Tragedy (B. McManus)
SECOND
PAPER DUE Saturday, Oct. 7th 5 p.m., VIA
EMAIL.
Self-Evaluation
(M. Scharle).
Paper
Checklist (M. Scharle). FYI. Not required but a good self check.
Turning
Paper Topics Into Questions (J. Williams, A. Hrycak; ed. L.
Leibman)
Questions?
Contact your fearless leader at Leibman@Reed.edu
Online
Paper Help: Doyle
OWL (Reed College's Online Writing Lab)
Want
a Tutor? Check Out Reed's Writing Center
located in ETC 112
Regular Hours: Sun. to Thurs. 7-9 PM
Special Hours before Hum 110 Paper due dates: Thurs. and Fri. 7-10
PM
or email the Writing
Center Staff to request a regular tutor.
Week
7
Mon 9 Oct Sophocles, Antigone
Lecture: Antigone / Michael Mirabile
Wed 11 Oct Zaidman and Patel, Religion in the Ancient Greek City
(selections) in Essays
Lecture: Religion and Polis / Laura Leibman
GODDESS
& POLIS POWER POINT (in html)
Hum
110 Tech: Ancient
Greek Theater (Wally Englert)
Daily
Life: Women's Lives (The
Ancient Greek World, University
of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology)
Ancient
Greek Women's Laments (Women's
Early Music, Abilene Christian University)
Study
Guide for The Oresteia by Robin Mitchell-Boyak, Department of
Classics, Temple University
Oresteia
Questions (L. Leibman)
Outline
of Antigone (D. Silverman)
Antigone
and
the Cultural Work of Tragedy (Hum
110 Lecture 11.3.97; L. Leibman); Lecture
Handout This lecture provides a counter-argument to the one
proposed by Ariadna Garcia-Bryce.
Vase
Images Relating to Comedy & Tragedy (B. McManus)
Fri 13 Oct MID-TERM EXAM: 9:00-9:50
a.m. in VLH
Tips
on Preparing for the Midterm (L. Leibman)
16-24 OCTOBER: FALL BREAK
Week
8
Mon 23 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 25 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 27 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
Reconstruction
of Parthenon (Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada/Perseus)
Drawings
of the sculptural program of the Parthenon and the Temple of Aphaia,
Aegina (Candace Smith/Perseus)
Hum
110 Tech Parthenon Page (D. Silverman)
Full
Parthenon Frieze (Australian National University and ArtServe)
Parthenon
Freize (Columbia University)
The
Nashville Parthenon (Nashville.gov)
"The
Sole Witness": The Periclean Parthenon
(Minott Kerr)
GODDESS
& POLIS POWER POINT (in html)
Week
9
Mon
30 Oct 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
Wed 1 Nov Sophocles, Oedipus the King
Lecture: Oedipus Tyrannus: Tragic Form and Function / Robert Knapp
OEDIPUS
POWER POINT (in
power point) (in
html) Password Protected. Email Laura for Password. Do not copy
or reuse images.
Fri 3 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
Outline
of Oedipus (D. Silverman)
OEDIPUS
POWER POINT (in
power point) (in
html) Password Protected. Email Laura for Password. Do not copy
or reuse images.
Reading
Greek Vases: Study Questions (L. Leibman)
Vase
Images Relating to Comedy & Tragedy (B. McManus)
Map
of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides'
History Summarized and Animated (Marilyn A. Katz, Wesleyan)
Thucydides
I.1-I.146 Study Questions (L. Leibman)
Thucydides
Book 2 Study Questions (L. Leibman)
Thucydides
Books 3 & 5 Study Questions (L. Leibman)
Thucydides
Books 5-7 Study Questions (L. Leibman)
Francis
M. Cornford, Thucydides
Mythistoricus (Perseus)
Thucydides,
the Plague, & Sceince (Perseus)
Herodotus
and Thucydides Through the Lens of Aristotle or The Hippopotami
and the Plague (Tufts University by Prof. Gregory Crane , Perseus)
Week
10
Mon 6 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 8 Nov Aristophanes, Lysistrata, in Essays; Martin, Ancient Greece,
ch. 8 (pp. 147-173)
Lecture: The Comic City / Nigel Nicholson
Fri 10 Nov Euripides, The Bacchae
Lecture: Possessed by Bacchus / Elizabeth Drumm n
THIRD PAPER DUE Saturday, November 11th, 5 p.m.
Week
11
Mon 13 Nov Plato, Euthyphro, Apology and Crito in The Trial and
Death of Socrates
Lecture: A Kind of Gadfly / Pancho Savery
Wed 15 Nov Plato, The Republic
Lecture: On the Virtues of Socratic Aporia / Ellen Stauder
Fri 17 Nov Plato, The Republic
Lecture: Plato's City/Soul Analogy / Steve Arkonovich
Daily
Life: Women's Lives (The
Ancient Greek World, University
of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology)
Aristophanes'
Lysistrata & Greek Drama: Background & Questions (L.
Leibman)
Hum
110 Tech: Ancient
Greek Theater (Wally Englert)
The
Clouds
and the Cultural Work of Comedy (Hum 110 Lecture 11.24.99; L.
Arnold Leibman)
Vase
Images Relating to Comedy & Tragedy (B. McManus)
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