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GREEK CIVILIZATION (190:205)

FALL 2001

Dr. Thomas J. Figueira

Office: LSH #312
Dept. of Classics, Ruth Adams Bldg. DC

Phone: 445-6372 (voice mail) 932-9797 (messages/general information)

Meetings: MW6, CA-A4, CAC Van Dyck 202, CAC

Office Hrs.: M2:40-3:40

E-mail: figueira@rci.rutgers.edu

I. Required Books:

Aristophanes, The Complete Plays of Aristophanes (translated, M. Hadas), Bantam Books, Classics Series (1981)

Euripides, Bacchae and Other Plays (trans., P. Vellacott), Penguin, revised ed. (1954)

Finley, M.I., Portable Greek Historians, Viking/Penguin (for Herodotus and Thucydides)

Grene, D. & Lattimore, R., The Complete Greek Tragedies, vol. 1, University of Chicago, Phoenix Press (for Aeschylus and Sophocles)

Homer, Iliad (trans., R. Lattimore), University of Chicago, Phoenix Press (1961)

Lattimore, R., Greek Lyrics, University of Chicago, Phoenix Press (for archaic and early classical poets)

Plato, Euthyphro, Crito, Apology, and Symposium, Regnery-Gateway

II. Requirements:

1) TEST I (Oct. 10): Test I will be made up of objective, short answer questions (= 30% of the final grade)

2) TEST II (Nov. 12): Test II will include objective questions and some longer answers, testing material after Test I (= 30% of the final grade)

3) FINAL EXAM (Wed., Dec. 19, 8:00-11:00 AM): It will be cumulative, including a take-home essay which will analyse a Greek drama (one not previously assigned) of the student's choice in light of questions circulated by the instructor, and an in-class, short-answer component (= 40% of the final grade)

III. Conduct of the Course:

The format of this course will be primarily instruction by lectures, but the students are expected to be prepared to discuss the assigned readings and to ask questions in class. This course will attempt to familiarize the student with some of the masterpieces by the leading figures of Greek literature (before Alexander the Great). These works will be discussed for what they can tell us about the life of the ancient Greeks and their thought, as well as for their abiding contribution
to Western man's exploration of his nature and his destiny.

IV. Outline of the Lectures:

Sept. 5: Introduction to the course
Sept. 10: Homer, Iliad Book I-II.510
Sept. 12: Homer, Iliad III-IV

Sept. 17: Homer, Iliad IX, XVI
Sept. 19: Homer, Iliad XXII-XXIV
Sept. 24: Greek Lyrics: the selections from Archilochus, Callinus, Semonides, Tyrtaeus, Mimnermus
Sept. 26: Greek Lyrics: the selections from Solon, Xenophanes, Theognis, Alcman, Sappho, Alcaeus
Oct. 1: Greek Lyrics: the selections from Anacreon, Simonides, Pindar, Bacchylides
Oct. 3: Aeschylus, Agamemnon, lines 1-781
Oct. 8: Aeschylus, Agamemnon, lines 782-1673
Oct. 10: TEST I
Oct. 15: Herodotus, Histories Book I, chapters 1-71
Oct. 17: Herodotus, Histories VII.1-238

Oct. 22: Sophocles, Oedipus Rex, lines 1-725
Oct. 24: Sophocles, Oedipus Rex, 726-1530
Oct. 29: Euripides, Bacchae, lines 1-775
Oct. 31: Euripides, Bacchae, 776-1394
Nov. 5: Aristophanes, Lysistrata, through p. 308, the scene between Lysistrata and the Magistrate (ending before the choral ode)
Nov. 7: Aristophanes, Lysistrata, p. 308 through the end of the play
Nov. 12: TEST II
Nov. 14: Thucydides, Histories, Book I, chapters 1-88
Nov. 19: Thucydides, Histories, II.34-55 (Funeral Oration; Plague); III.36-50 (Mytilenean Debate); III.70-83 (Civil War on Corcyra); V.84-116 (Melian Dialogue [on handout])
Nov. 26: Aristophanes, Clouds, through p. 125, the end of the scene between Strepsiades and Socrates (before the entrance of Right Logic and Wrong Logic)
Nov. 28: Aristophanes, Clouds, p. 125 to end of play
Dec. 3: Plato, Apology of Socrates
Dec. 5: Plato, Symposium. Read through Agathon's speech.
Dec. 10: Plato, Symposium. Read the remainder of the work.
Dec. 12: Catch-up and Summation
FINAL EXAM: Wed., Dec. 19, 8:00-11:00 AM