Humanities 110

Mon. 31 Jan.

Aristophanes, The Frogs

Lecture: "The Comic City" / Nigel Nicholson

Wed. 2 Feb.

The Trial and Death of Socrates

Additional Resource: Lecture Handout

Lecture: "A Kind of Gadfly" / Pancho Savery

Fri. 4 Feb.

Plato, Republic, Books 1 and 2

Additional Resource: Lecture Handout

Lecture: "The City – Soul Analogy in the Republic" / Steve Arkonovich

Mon. 7 Feb.

Plato, Republic, Books 3 – 5

Additional Resource: Lecture Handout

Lecture: "Sex, Gender and the Power of Philosophy" / Tamara Metz

Wed. 9 Feb.

Plato, Republic, Books 6 and 7

Lecture: "Platonic Metaphysics" / Walter Englert

Fri. 11 Feb.

Plato, Republic, Books 8 – 10

Study these Image Galleries before lecture and conference:
http://cdm-workspace.reed.edu/gallery/1720
http://cdm-workspace.reed.edu/gallery/790
http://cdm-workspace.reed.edu/gallery/616

Additional Resource: Lecture Handout

Lecture: "Defining Art in the Kallipolis" / Ann Delehanty

Mon. 14 Feb.

Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Books 1 and 2

Additional Resource: Lecture Handout

Lecture: "Aristotle, Happiness, and the Human Good" / Steve Arkonovich

Wed. 16 Feb.

Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Books 3 and 6

Additional Resource: Lecture Handout

Lecture: "Acting Virtuously or Just Acting? On Becoming Virtuous" / Ann Delehanty

Fri. 18 Feb.

Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Books 8:9, 9:9-12 and 10:6-10; Politics, Book 1

Lecture: "The Virtue of Political Science" / Tamara Metz

Mon. 21 Feb.

Aristotle, Politics, Books 1, 2:1-5, 3, 4:1-3 and 5:1-4

Lecture: "Aristotle's Political Science: Theory and Implications" / Nicholas Smith (Lewis & Clark)

Wed. 23 Feb.

Empereur, "Ancient Alexandria" and selected appendices, Alexandria: Jewel of the Nile, pp. 13-49, 130-31 (on e-reserve);
Venit, "The Monumental Tombs of Ancient Alexandria: Setting the Scene" and "The Tombs of Pharos Island: Cultural Interplay and Ethnic Identity," Monumental Tombs of Ancient Alexandria, pp. 7-21, 65-95 (on e-reserve)

Study this Image Gallery before lecture and conference:
http://cdm-workspace.reed.edu/gallery/1837

Additional Resource: Lecture Handout

Lecture: "The Hellenistic City: Alexandria" / Laura Leibman

Fri. 25 Feb.

The Hellenistic Statue

Study these websites before lecture and conference:
http://www.secondpage.de/pergamonaltar/gigantomachie.html
http://www.secondpage.de/pergamonaltar/telephosfries.html

Stewart, "Looking Forward: After Alexander," Art, Desire, and the Body in Ancient Greece, pp 205-230 (on e-reserve);
Stewart, "Narration and Allusion in the Hellenistic Baroque," Narrative and Event in Ancient Art, pp 130-137 and 153-174 (on e-reserve)

Additional Resource: Lecture Handout

Lecture: "The Hellenistic Art of Pergamon in Context" / William Diebold

Mon. 28 Feb.

Theocritus, 1-7, 11, 13, 15, 17

Study this Image Gallery before lecture and conference:
http://cdm-workspace.reed.edu/gallery/1784

Lecture: "Country Matters" / Robert Knapp

Wed. 2 March

Daniel, Jewish Study Bible

Lecture: "Israel After Esther: Jewish Identity in the Hellenistic Period and the Books of Daniel" / Nigel Nicholson

Fri. 4 March

Maccabees, Oxford Annotated Bible, ch. 1-6:1-17, ch. 8-9:1-22, ch. 14

Additional Resource: Lecture Handout

Lecture: "Maccabees I: History, Narrative, Jewishness" / Marat Grinberg

Mon. 7 March

Polybius, Histories, Book 6, sections 1-39, 50-58 (on e-reserve)

Additional Resource: Lecture Powerpoint

Additional Resource: Lecture Handout

Lecture: "Greece Meets Rome: Polybius and the Phenomenon of Rome’s Rise to Power" / Ellen Millender

Wed. 9 March

Plautus, Miles Gloriosus

Additional Resource: Lecture Handout

Lecture: "Romans Making Fun of Greeks Making Fun of Romans" / Sonia Sabnis

Fri. 11 March

Lucretius, On the Nature of Things (De Rerum Natura), Book 1 (lines 1-637, 921-1117), Book 2 (lines 1-293), and Book 3 (all);
Garnsey & Saller, The Roman Empire, chapter 9 (on e-reserve)

Additional Resource: Lecture Handout

Lecture: "Epicurean Naturalism" / Paul Hovda

Mon. 14 March

Lucretius, On The Nature of Things (De Rerum Natura). Books 5 and 6

Lecture: "The Mortal Universe: Lucretius on the Plague" / Elizabeth Drumm

Wed. 16 March

Sallust, Catiline's War

Additional Resource: Lecture Handout

Lecture: "The Cesspool That Was Rome" / Ellen Millender

Fri. 18 March

Cicero, Second Philippic

Additional Resource: Lecture Handout

Lecture: "Cicero and the End of the Roman Republic" / Walter Englert

Mon. 28 March

Livy, The Rise of Rome, Preface and Book I

Additional Resource: Lecture Handout

Lecture: "Livy and the Re-Creation of Rome" / Walter Englert

Wed. 30 March

Livy, The Rise of Rome, Book II.1-25, Book III.15-29, pp. 155-171, and Book 5.19-end;
Virgil, Eclogue I (on e-reserve)

Lecture: "Republican Virtue" / Robert Knapp

Fri. 1 April

Augustus, The Accomplishments of Augustus (on e-reserve);
Suetonius, Augustus (on e-reserve)

Lecture: "Caesar Augustus: Hero of the Republic" / Michael Breen

Mon. 4 April

Peter J. Holliday, "Time, History, and Ritual on the Ara Pacis Augustae" (available on JSTOR: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3045761);

Study this Image Gallery before lecture and conference: http://cdm-workspace.reed.edu/slideshow/1040

Browse the Ara Pacis Augustae In-depth Visual Documentation website: http://cdm.reed.edu/ara-pacis/

Additional Resource: Lecture Handout

Lecture: "Picturing Peace: Puzzles of the Ara Pacis Augustae" / Margot Minardi

Wed. 6 April

Virgil, Aeneid, Books 1 – 4

Lecture: "Fathers and Sons:  Gender and the Roman Family in Virgil’s Aeneid" / Christine McBride

Fri. 8 April

Virgil, Aeneid, Books 5 – 8

Lecture: "The Pale Imitation" / Jay Dickson

Mon. 11 April

Virgil, Aeneid, Books 9 – 12

Additional Resource: Lecture Handout

Lecture: "This is the End" / Pancho Savery

Wed. 13 April

Ovid, Metamorphoses, Books 1 – 3

Lecture: "Generic Transformations" / Elizabeth Drumm

Fri. 15 April

Ovid, Metamorphoses, Books 4 – 6, 15

Additional Resource: Lecture Handout

Lecture: "Power and Narrative in Ovid’s Metamorphoses" / Gail Sherman

Mon. 18 April

Roman Statue: Laocoön

Study this Image Gallery before lecture and conference:
http://cdm-workspace.reed.edu/gallery/1801

Winckelmann, "Reflections on the Imitation of Greek Works in Painting and Sculpture," pp. 3-11 and 33-43 (on e-reserve);
Lessing, Laocoön, pp 3-44 (on e-reserve)

Additional Resource: Lecture Handout

Lecture: "A Work to be Preferred to All That The Arts of Painting and Sculpture Have Produced: The Laocoön" / William Diebold

Wed. 20 April

Gospel According to Mark

Additional Resource: Bibliography for Amazing and Astonishing, or Reading the Miracles in the Gospel of Mark

Additional Resource: Lecture Handout

Lecture: "Amazing and Astonishing" / Margot Minardi

Thursday, April 21st – "From Jesus to Christ," Part I, video presentation, 7:00 – 9:00 pm, Psych 105

Fri. 22 April

Paul: 1 Corinthians

Additional Resource: Bibliography for "For now we see in a mirror dimly": Paul before the End Times

Additional Resource: Lecture Handout

Lecture: Gabriele Hayden

Mon. 25 April

Paul: Romans;
Acts of the Apostles, 9-19

Additional Resource: Lecture Slides

Lecture:"Paul: Apostle to the Gentiles" / Robert Knapp

Tuesday, April 26th – "From Jesus to Christ," Part II, video presentation, 7:00 – 9:00 pm, Psych 105

Wed. 27 April

Philo, Embassy to Gaius (on e-reserve)

Additional Resource: Lecture Handout

Lecture: "Imperial Spectacle and the Invisible God" / Michael Faletra

Fri. 29 April

Seneca, On Providence and Letters 70 (Suicide), 76 (The Sole Good), and 92 (The Happy Life)

Lecture: "What Can a Man Desire if He Possesses Everything That is Honorable?" / Paul Hovda

Mon. 2 May

Seneca, On the Tranquility of Mind and Letter 47 (Slaves)

Lecture: "Seneca and Roman Slavery" / Sonia Sabnis

Wed. 4 May

Petronius, Satyricon, pp. 1-73

Lecture: "Metrosexuality" / Jay Dickson

Fri. 6 May

Petronius, Satyricon, pp. 75-152

Lecture: Panel: Walter Englert, Robert Knapp, and Sonia Sabnis