GREEK CIVILIZATION SYLLABUS
Texts required (See
Vital Information,
'Greek Civilization'
page)
Main Web Sites:
My HomePage:http://pirate.shu.edu/~cottereu/
Greek Civ Pg:
http://pirate.shu.edu/~cottereu/greek.htm
Perseus Home: http://medusa.perseus.tufts.edu/
Relevant Links:http://pirate.shu.edu/~cottereu/classica.htm
I have tried, for your convenience, to:
1. Summarize the
Topics for each Class.
2. indicate the pages of the
various texts which are
most relevant to the class following.
However these pages are
only the minimum,
and you are responsible for all of the text..
Use the
Indices of
each text to find specific
references where no pages are suggested.
The various LINKS placed within the Topics are only samples. Many others
will be found on the Resources page.
If you
put in the time, you will discover that Perseus will
pay quick dividends
in the numbers
of text citations, photos (coins, vases, sculpture, buildings),
maps, ground plans, etc.,
you can make use of.
After we are sure everyone is 'on' E-Mail you will get a set of
'leading' questions to highlight
the important topics.
'Report Topics' & additional background material will also
come that way,
and should be printed by you in the Lab, so few class 'handouts' will be needed.
[Note: The Readings given below usually refer to
(and should be 'done' before)
the next class. As noted in part one of the Syllabus, there may
be brief
quiz
(oral/written)
at the start of any class, based on the reading..
In addition to the readings, you should also search the
Perseus Web
site,
especially the Perseus On-Line Perseus
Encyclopedia and/or
Overview
(e.g., for 'Minoans')
for further useful information on the current topic(s)]
(28 meetings)
SEPTEMBER
5 Introduction:
Overview,
"Greek Civilization";
Perseus Web Resource. (Read) AG 1-15.
(Read) LV 13-22.
Map: Ancient
Greece
Perseus: Art & Archeology
10 Minoans.
LV 22-45. Ck
Perseus:
Atlas Index
12 Mycenaeans.
read AG ix-xii; 16-50.
Map:
Late Bronze Age
Perseus: Texts
& Translations.
17 THE "DARK AGES": Geometric, Orientalizing Periods in art.
Map (interactive): Greeks & Phoenicians 10-6th centuries)
read AG
51-69. HG 1-46;
Perseus: Tools
Perseus
exercise (DUE 9/24).
Perseus:
More Resources
19 THE ARCHAIC AGE.
(Map:Greece
in Archaic Age)
HG
47-79; AG, LV. (use Index)
AG
Gods; LV 47-52 (colonization)
24 ARCHAIC AGE:
History. HG 240-275
(polis).
AG
70-93. LV 53-87. (Sparta)
HG 82-105; AG Myth, Hesiod, (use Index)
(Solon)
Mythology
26
ARCHAIC AGE.
Homer. IL 7-44.
AG,
LV. Ck Perseus?
OCTOBER
1
Homer. Iliad, Read my
ILIAD
OUTLINE & readings as indicated
3 Iliad. Readings as indicated.
8 Iliad. Readings as indicated
10
Read OD xi-l. 31 Read
my
ODYSSEY
OUTLINE
readings
in the Odyssey as
indicated. Ck. Perseus?
15
Odyssey. readings as indicated
17 Odyssey. readings as indicated.
22 Mid-Term Exam.
read HG 107-124 for next
class.
24
Early Greek Philosophy.
HG
142-174; AG (Index). & LV 90-end.
Lyric Poetry. HG 126-140.
& LV 89-111. Ck. Perseus?
29 Classical Period:
History; Historiography:
beginnings.
HG 215-237;
& GH 1-21.
Map
Herodotus:
Histories: Persian Wars. GH 27-->; AG, LV (Indices).
Map
31 Herodotus: Persian Wars. readings as indicated
Map:
Athenian League, Peloponesian War
NOVEMBER
5
Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War.
HG
224-231; GH 217 --->; AG, LV.
7 Thucydides. readings as indicated
HG
330-363. AG, LV.
(11-26 Spring
Pre-Registration)
12
Thucydides. readings as indicated
HG
330-363. AG, LV.
14
Art & Architecture:
Temples -
Athens, Delphi, Sicily, S.
Italy. Read AG, LV.
Map:
Major Temples, Sanctuaries
19 Art & Arch:
sculpture.
Read AG, LV.
21 Art & Architecture: coinage, minor arts.
HG
277-304. AG, LV.
26
Later Philosophy. HG 306-327. AG, LV.
(27-30 Thanksgiving Recess)
DECEMBER
3
Mythology /
Religion.
HG 177-213. GP, General Intro (ix-xxviii) +... .
AG, LV
5
Greek Drama: Read the Introduction in GP
Aeschylus' Agamemnon (GP 33).
Read
the Introductions to the other plays.
10 Drama. Sophocles' Antigone (GP 77).
Sir Richard Jebb.
Commentary on Sophocles: Antigone.
12 Drama. Euripides' Antigone. (GP)
(interactive)