Humanities 110

Assignment

• Introduction
• Gilgamesh, Tablets 1-11 (pp. 1-100, trans. George)
• Students should read the whole of Gilgamesh prior to the first day of class. 

Assignment

• Introduction
• Gilgamesh, Tablets 1-11, pp. 1-100

Assignment

• Introduction
• Gilgamesh, Tablets 1-11, pp. 1-100
  

Assignment

• Introduction
• Christina Riggs, “Forty Centuries,” in Egypt: Lost Civilizations (London: Reaktion Books, 2017), pp. 33-57, 191-192.
• Christina Riggs, excerpt from “Four Little Words,” in Ancient Egyptian Art and Architecture: A Very Short Introduction (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 3-18
• Gallery: Narmer Palette and Great Pyramid (Gallery images should be carefully studied before conference)

Assignment

• Introduction
• “The Tale of Sinuhe,” in The Tale of Sinuhe and Other Ancient Egyptian Poems, ed. Parkinson, pp. 21-53

Assignment

• Introduction
• Gilgamesh, Tablets 1-11 (pp. 1-100, trans. George)
• Students should read the whole of Gilgamesh prior to the first day of class. 

Assignment

• Introduction
• Gilgamesh, Tablets 1-11, pp. 1-100

Assignment

• Introduction
• Gilgamesh, Tablets 1-11, pp. 1-100
  

Assignment

• Introduction
• Christina Riggs, “Forty Centuries,” in Egypt: Lost Civilizations (London: Reaktion Books, 2017), pp. 33-57, 191-192.
• Christina Riggs, excerpt from “Four Little Words,” in Ancient Egyptian Art and Architecture: A Very Short Introduction (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 3-18
• Gallery: Narmer Palette and Great Pyramid (Gallery images should be carefully studied before conference)

Assignment

• Introduction
• “The Tale of Sinuhe,” in The Tale of Sinuhe and Other Ancient Egyptian Poems, ed. Parkinson, pp. 21-53

Assignment

• Introduction
• “The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant,” in The Tale of Sinuhe and Other Ancient Egyptian Poems, ed. Parkinson, pp. 54-88
• Charles Freeman, “Egypt, the Gift of the Nile, 3200-1500 BC,” in Egypt, Greece and Rome: Civilizations of the Ancient Mediterranean, second ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004), pp. 40-62

Assignment

• Introduction
• Selections from Love Lyrics of Ancient Egypt, trans. Barbara Hughes Fowler (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994), pp. xiii-xv, 6-9, 17, 38-41, 57-58, 66-67 (e-reserves)
• Selections from Love Songs of the New Kingdom, trans. John Foster (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1974), front matter, pp. 67, 70-73, 102-103. (e-reserves)

Assignment

• Introduction
• Genesis, chapters 1-20 (focus on 1-11), plus introduction to Genesis, in The Jewish Study Bible, eds. Berlin and Brettler
• Martin S. Jaffee, excerpts from Early Judaism: Religious Worlds of the First Judaic Millennium, second ed. (Bethesda:  University Press of Maryland, 2006), pp. 1-28. (e-reserves)

Assignment

• Introduction
• Genesis, chapters 21-50 (focus on 21-22), in The Jewish Study Bible, eds. Berlin and Brettler
• Martin S. Jaffee, excerpts from Early Judaism: Religious Worlds of the First Judaic Millennium, second ed. (Bethesda:  University Press of Maryland, 2006), pp. 50-67, 86-87. (e-reserves)

Assignment

• Introduction
• Hesiod, Theogony (trans. Lombardo)

Assignment

• Introduction
• Hesiod, Works and Days, lines 1-128, 430-500 (pp. 23-6, 35-7, trans. Lombardo)
• Anaximander (all), Anaximenes (21, 23, and 24), Xenophanes (all), Heraclitus (all), and Parmenides (all), in A Presocratics Reader, ed. Patricia Curd, pp. 16-20, 31-65

Assignment

• Introduction
• Exodus, chapters 1-15, plus introduction to Exodus, in The Jewish Study Bible, eds. Berlin and Brettler

Assignment

• Introduction
• Exodus, chapters 15-25, 32-37, 40 (The Jewish Study Bible, eds. Berlin and
  Brettler)

Assignment

• Introduction
• Iliad : books 1, 2, 3 and 6 (trans. Lattimore)
• Summaries of the other books (Summary Handout)

Assignment

• Introduction
• Iliad: books 9, 16, 18, 19

Assignment

• Introduction
• Iliad: books 22, 23, 24

Assignment

• Introduction
• Archilochus 4, 18; Tyrtaeus 7; Alcaeus 4; Sappho 1, 4, 6, 14, 18; Hipponax 1-9 (Greek Lyric, ed. Andrew Miller [Cambridge: Hackett, 1996], pp. 2, 5, 18-19, 40-1, 51-2, 54-6, 59-61, 104-6)

Assignment

• Introduction
• Galleries: Kouroi and Egyptian Sculpture
  Andrew Stewart, Art, Desire, and the Body in Ancient Greece, pp. 3-13, 63-70, 268 (glossary). (e-reserves)

Assignment

• Introduction
• Herodotus, The Histories, Book 1, Sections 0-12, 28-33, 53-54, 71-91, 201-216; Book 2, Sections 1-5, 28-64, 113-120. (Page numbers differ by the edition, but for the most recent de Selincourt edition, this equates to pp. 3-8, 13-16, 23, 32-43, 88-97, 105-121, 138-142.)
• There is also a structural outline on pp. 607-614.

Assignment

• Introduction to Achaemenid Era Inscriptions 
• Achaemenid era inscriptions, from The Persian Empire, vol. I, ed. Amelie Kuhrt (New York: Routledge, 2007), pp. 70-74, 141-158, 492-495, 503-505. (e-reserves)
• Herodotus, The Histories, Book 1, Sections 131-140; Book 3, Sections 37-38, 61-89 (pp. 61-64, 186-187, 197-212)

Assignment

• Introduction
• Gallery: The Apadana, from the University of Chicago Oriental Institute
• Margaret C. Root, "Circles of Artistic Programming: Strategies for Studying Creative Process at Persepolis," in A. C. Gunter (ed.), Investigating Artistic Environments in the Ancient Near East (Washington, DC, 1990), 115-39. (e-reserves)

Assignment

• Introduction
• Gallery: Parthenon 
• Rachel Kousser, “Destruction and Memory on the Athenian Acropolis,” Art Bulletin 91.3 (2009): pp. 263-282 (e-reserves)

Assignment

• Introduction
• Herodotus, Histories, 6.125-130, 7.8-57, 7.101-104, 7.138-144, 7.201-238, 8.40-99, 9.114-122

Assignment

• Introduction
• Esther (The Jewish Study Bible, eds. Berlin and Brettler)

Assignment

• Introduction
• Aeschylus, The Oresteia: “Agamemnon,” (trans. Fagles)

Assignment

• Introduction
• Aeschylus, The Oresteia: “Libation Bearers”

Assignment

• Introduction
• Aeschylus, The Oresteia: “Eumenides” 

Assignment

• Introduction
• Excerpts from Orlando Patterson, Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study
  (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1982), vii-xi [excerpt from
  preface], 1-14 [introduction, “The Constituent Elements of Slavery”], 334-342
  [chapter 12, “Slavery as Human Parasitism”] (e-reserves)
• Image gallery

Assignment

• Introduction
• Bers, V. 2003. Demosthenes, Speeches 50-59, Apollodorus, “Against Neaera,” 151-194.

Assignment

• Introduction
• Aristophanes, Lysistrata

Assignment

• Introduction
• Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, 2.34-65, 3.36-50, 3.69-85 (trans. Warner)

Assignment

• Introduction
• Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War,​​ 6.1-32, 6.88-93, 7.10-18, 7.55-87

Assignment

• Introduction

• Plato, “Apology,” “Euthyphro,” and “Crito,” in Trial and Death of Socrates, pp. 20-42
  (trans. Grube)

Assignment

• Introduction
• Plato, Republic, 327a-417a (=Books 2–3), pp. 36-102 (trans. Reeve)
• For the summary of the whole book, see Reeve, pp. xxx-xxxiii

Assignment

• Introduction
• Plato, Republic, 497a-541a (=part of Book 6 to end of Book 7), pp. 191-237

Assignment

• No reading