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Assignments and Some Web Resources |
March
1 The Pentecontaetia
Readings: Greeks, pp. 268-286; Plutarch Life of Cimon
6 Town Meeting Day
8 Periclean Athens
Readings: Plutarch Life of Pericles
20 Tragedy
Readings: Greeks, pp. 314-328; Aristotle Poetics chs. 6-18; Sophocles Oedipus Tyrannos; Euripides Bacchae
22 Peloponnesian War I
Readings: Greeks, pp. 334-343; Thucydides 'Funeral Oration' (2.34-46); 'Plague' (2.47-54); 'Melian Dialogue' (5.84-116); 'Stasis at Corcyra' (3.82-83)
Outline of Thucydides Book 3
Alternative translations of the Stasis at Corcyra
27 Peloponnesian War II
Readings: Greeks, pp. 343-359; Thucydides' 'Sicilian Expedition' (selections): Book 6.30-32 and 7.1-17; Plutarch Life of Alcibiades
Parallel Events of the Peloponnesian War period
29 Philosophia: Sophists and Socratics
Readings: Plato Apology, Crito, Phaedo; Greeks, pp. 288-294, 359-362, 390-399
Quiz 3
April
3 Lawcourts: the Litigious Athenians
Readings: Lysias On the Murder of Eratosthenes; Against Simon; Antiphon On the Choreutes; Prosecution of a Stepmother for Poisoning
Note: for texts on the Perseus site, look on the left side of the page where it says "Display text chunked by:" and choose what is appropriate; for orators, choose 'speech' to get the whole text on one page.
5 Satyrs and Comedy; End of the War and End of Comedy
Readings: Greeks, pp. 328-333; Aristophanes Acharnians, Clouds, Frogs
10 Test 2
12 Oikos: Family, Women and the Household
Readings: Greeks pp. 29-41; Aristophanes Lysistrata; Sophocles Antigone; [Demosthenes] Against Neaira
17 Greece in the Fourth Century
Readings: Greeks, pp. 365-380; Plutarch Life of Agesilaus; Xenophon Hellenica 6.5 The Battle of Leuctra
19 Macedonian 'Greeks'
Readings: Greeks, pp. 401-436; Demosthenes, First Philippic
Map of Mainland Greece, Island, and Asia Minor (lots of place names)
Map of the Eastern Mediterranean
Map of Central Greece and the Peloponnesus
Map of Athenian Empire ca. 450 BCE
Nepos Lives of Pelopidas; Agesilaus and Epaminondas
Demosthenes' First Philippic
