Paper 1: Gilgamesh, Presocratics and Sophists, Herodotus, ThucydidesPaper 2: Sophocles (Antigone or Oedipus the King), Euripides (Hippolytus), Aristophanes (Clouds), Plato (Euthyphro, Apology), Xenophon (Apology), Demosthenes, Polybius
Paper 3: Cicero, Livy, Seneca, Tacitus, Marcus Aurelius, Gospel of Nicodemus, Ammianus Marcellinus, Symmachus, Ambrose, Athanasius, Augustine, Gregory of Tours, Abelard
Please go to this link and read paragraph A12.
Length: 5-8 pages
Due by the end of business, i.e., 5:00 p.m., on the dates stated. You may deliver them to my mailbox (first floor, 481 Main Street) or to my office (room 301, 481 Main Street), or hand them in early in class. Late papers lose 10 percentage points per weekday.
Drafts are not required but encouraged. You may rewrite any of the first two papers and turn it back in within a week of the day that I have the papers ready to be returned in class.