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Ancient Greece C C 301 (28450)/C C 342 (28530)SYLLABUS |
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Ancient Greece C C 301 (28450)/C C 342 (28530)SYLLABUS |
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Course Description: This course is a survey of Greek civilization from its earliest beginnings to the Hellenistic period. We will look at political history, social history, and literature. There are no prerequisites for this course. This course may be used to fulfill the university wide humanities/fine artsrequirement and the Area D requirement in the Arts and Sciences, or it can be taken as an elective.
Class Format: Lectures, often with slide presentations.
Assignments: On average, there is 40 pages of reading per class (100-150 pages of reading per week).
Tests/Quizzes/Grading: There will be two quizzes, each worth 150 points. The format will be multiple choice. The mid-term will be worth 300 points. The format will be multiple choice and a choice of essay questions. The Final Exam will be worth 400 points. the format will be multiple choice and a choice of essay questions. Test questions will be based on the readings and lectures. If you miss a class it is your responsibility to get the notes from a class member.
Upper Division CC 342. In addition to the four tests, one paper, about five to seven pages, is required. Due April 20.
Final Exam: May 9, 7-10pm
The University of Texas at Austin provides upon request appropriate academic accommodations for qualified students with disabilities. For more information, contact the Office of the Dean of Students at 471-6259, 471-4641 TTY.
The following lecture schedule includes links to the class notes which you may wish to refer to. It also provides a current list of the reading assignments. Please note that the assigned readings should ideally be read in preparation for, that is BEFORE, the lecture.
Key to Syllabus
Books: The primary course text book is:
1. Pomeroy, S., S. Burstein, et. al. 1999. Ancient Greece: A Political, Social, and Cultural History. Oxford. It is abbreviated in the syllabus as AG.
Books Available at Bevo's and the coop. If you already own translations of Homer, Sophocles, Plato etc. you do not need to buy the official copy.
2. Lombardo, S. (trans.) 2000. Homer. Odyssey. Cambridge = Odyssey.
3. Carey, C. 1997. Trials from Classical Athens. London. It is abbreviated in the syllabus as Trials.
4. Carey, C. 2000. Aeschines. The Oratory of Classical Greece. Austin.
5. Menander. 1988. Plays and Fragments. Norma Miller (Translator).
6. Sophocles. The Complete Plays.
7. Aristophanes. The Complete Plays.
8. Plutarch. The Rise and Fall of Athens.
9. Plutarch. The Age of Alexander.
10. Four Texts on Socrates : Plato's Euthyphro, Apology, and Crito and Aristophanes' Clouds.
Assignments. There will be about forty pages of reading that should be read in preparation for, that is BEFORE, the lecture. On class days for which there is no assigned reading you may wish to read ahead.
Links to websites relevant to the course
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Week 1 - images (Minoan and Mycenaean Civilizations) |
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1/17 (W) |
Organizational |
no reading |
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1/19 (F) Lecture 1 |
Early Greece and the Bronze Age |
AG 1-37 |
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Week 2 - images (dark age and archaic greece) |
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1/22 (M) Lecture 2 |
The Dark Age |
AG 41-81 |
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1/24 (W) Lecture 3 |
Archaic Greece |
AG 82-127 Odyssey Bks 1-4 |
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1/26 (F) Lecture 4 |
Introduction to Homer |
Odyssey Bks 1-4
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Week 3 images (scenes from Homer ) |
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1/29 (M) Lecture 5 |
Homer |
Odyssey Bks. 9-12
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1/31 (W) Lecture 6 |
Archaic Greece |
Odyssey Bks 18-24.
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2/2 (F) Lecture 7 |
Solon to Cleisthenes |
AG 159-173, Plutarch Solon |
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Week 4 - images (Athens) |
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2/5 (M) Lecture 8 |
The Persian Wars |
AG 179-210 |
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2/7 (W) Lecture 9 |
Athenian Democracy |
AG 174-178, 210-225 |
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2/9 (F) Lecture 10 |
Democracy and Empire |
AG 224-244, Plutarch Cimon, Pericles |
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Week 5 - images (tragic theater, Athens) |
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2/12 (M) Quiz 1 |
Quiz on readings and lectures 1-10 |
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2/14 (W) Lecture 11 |
Introduction to Athenian Tragedy |
Sophocles Ajax |
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2/16 (F) Lecture 12 |
Athenian Tragedy (2) |
Sophocles Oedipus The King |
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Week 6 - Images |
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2/19 (M) Lecture 13 |
The Peloponnesian War (1) |
AG 246-286 |
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2/21 (W) Lecture 14 |
The Peloponnesian War (2) |
AG 287-329 |
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2/23 (F) Lecture 15 |
Introduction to Old Comedy |
Aristophanes Acharnians |
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Week 7 |
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2/26 (M) Lecture 16 |
Old Comedy (2) Comedy and Free Speech |
Aristophanes Knights |
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2/28 (W) Lecture 17 |
Old Comedy (3) Comedy and Democracy |
Aristophanes Women at the Assembly |
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3/2 (F) Lecture 18 |
NO CLASS |
no reading |
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Week 8 |
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3/5 (M) Lecture 19 |
The Trial and Death of Socrates |
Plato, Apology, Crito |
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3/7 (W) Midterm |
Comprehensive Midterm, readings and lectures 1-19 |
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3/9 (F) |
NO CLASS |
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WEEK 9 SPRING BREAK / Week 10 |
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3/19 (M) Lecture 20 |
Athens in the Fourth Century Images 10 (Menander and New Comedy) |
AG 330-370 |
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3/21 (W) Lecture 21 |
Introduction to New Comedy (1) - Menander Mosaics |
Menander The Shield |
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3/23 (F) Lecture 23 |
Introduction to New Comedy (2) |
Menander, The Arbitration |
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3/26 (M) Lecture 24 |
The Law Courts, Murder, and Sexual Offenses |
Lysias 1, On the Killing of Eratosthenes, Antiphon 1, in Carey, Trials |
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3/28 (W) Lecture 25 |
New Comedy (3) (Seduction) |
Menander, The Samia |
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3/30 (F) Lecture 26 |
Prostitution, Slavery |
Demosthenes 59 - Against Neaera, In Carey Trials |
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4/2 (M) Lecture 27 |
Death, Citizenship, and Inheritance |
Isaeus 3 in Carey Trials |
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4/4 (W) Lecture 28 |
Prostitution, Homosexuality, Morality |
Aeschines 1, The Case Against Timarchus, in Carey, Trials |
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4/6 (F) Lecture 29 |
Quiz 2 - Lectures and Reading - 20-28 |
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4/9 (M) Lecture 30 |
Philip the Second and the Rise of Macedon |
AG 371-394 |
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4/11 (W) Lecture 31 |
Philip and Athens |
Aeschines 2, On the False Embassy, p. 88-121, 143-149 |
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4/13 (F) Lecture 32 |
Philip and Athens (2) |
Aeschines 159-173, 218-251 |
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4/16 (M) Lecture 33 |
AG 395-426 | |
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4/18 (W) Lecture 34 |
Alexander (2) |
Plutarch, Life of Alexander |
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4/20 (F) Lecture 35 |
War, Mercenaries, and Pirates |
Menander, The Man She Hated, The Rape of the Locks |
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4/23 (M) Lecture 36 |
Athens under Macedonian Rule - Images |
Plutarch, Life of Phocion |
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4/25 (W) lecture 37 |
Alexander's Successors and Cosmopolis Images Week 15 |
AG 427-446 |
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4/27 (F) Lecture 38 |
Hellenistic Monarchies |
Plutarch, Life of Demetrius |
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4/30 (M) Lecture 39 |
Alexander's Successors and Cosmopolis |
AG 448-470 |
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5/2 (W) Lecture 40 |
Hellenistic Egypt |
no reading |
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5/4 (F) LAST CLASS |
Epilogue |
AG 471-475 |
