GREEK CIVILIZATION (01:190:205:01)

T. Corey Brennan (Department of Classics).

Ruth Adams Building 005; tel. 732.932.9493; email = tcbr@rci.rutgers.edu.

Office hours = MW 1-2 PM

Required/recommended texts are all in RU Bookstore

Any translation of Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides will do; recommended versions are in RU Bookstore; Sophocles OT may be read on-line at http://books.mirror.org/gb.sophocles.html

No substitute can be found for:

Soranus, Gynecology trans. O . Temkin

S.G. Miller, Arete (3^rd edition) [but 2^nd edition is acceptable]

T. Perrottet, The Naked Olympics

Useful websites:

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu[Perseus Project].

--Note especially http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Olympics/ [general Olympics]

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbook.html [Internet Ancient History Sourcebook]

http://classics.mit.edu [Internet Classics Archive] [441 Classical texts, but in some disarray]

http://www.sms.org/mdl-indx/internet.htm [internet resources for Classics in

general]

http://socrates.berkeley.edu/%7Ecls180/index.html [S.G. Miller site for athletics]

Basis for grading: 

Paper I = 25%, Midterm = 25%, Paper II = 25%, Final 25%. Papers are 5-7 pages. Cheating, plagiarism, and associated offenses are serious matters for which I will follow University disciplinary procedures.

Grading equivalents: 59 or below = F; 60-69 = D; 70-75 = C; 76-79 = C+; 80-85 = B; 86-89 = B+; 90 or above = A.

Schedule of lectures and readings:

		MONDAY	WEDNESDAY
I	1 SEP		Introduction
II	8 SEP	Naked Olympics 1-91 Miller, Arete pp. 16-22 [athletic nudity]*	Naked Olympics 92-185 Miller, Arete pp. 23-62 [events]**
III	13 + 15 SEP	Miller, Arete pp. 89-119, 126-152***	Soranus Books I-II
IV	20 + 22 SEP	Homer, Odyssey 1, 5-8
V	27 SEP + 29 SEP	Homer, Odyssey 9-12
VI	4 + 6 OCT	Homer, Odyssey 17-20
VII	11 + 13 OCT	Homer, Odyssey 21-24	PAPER I DUE (topic on sports, Soranus, or Odyssey)
VIII	18 + 20 OCT	Homer, Iliad 1-3, 6, 9
IX	25 + 27 OCT	Homer, Iliad 16-20
X	1 + 3 NOV	Homer, Iliad 21-24	MIDTERM
XI	8 + 10 NOV	Herodotus I.94-215, III.80-160
XII	15 + 17 NOV	Herodotus VII.1-59, 176-238
XIII	22 NOV	Thucydides II.1-55, 65
XIV	29 NOV + 1 DEC	Sophocles, Oedipus the King
XV	6 + 8 DEC	Thucydides III.1-86
XV	13 DEC	Thucydides VI.16-20, 89-end PAPER II DUE	PAPER II is open topic
	THURSDAY 16 DEC 8.00 AM	FINAL EXAM.	Will not be administered to any student arriving more than 30 minutes late.

* = Miller, Arete 2^nd edition pp. 17-20 [athletic nudity and equipment]

** = Miller, Arete 2^nd edition pp. 21-62

*** = Miller, Arete 2^nd edition pp. 85-113, 121-150