CC200 Classical World

Date	Topic	Lecturer	Reading

Unit 1: Introductions
1/21	Introduction	Arnush
1/23	What does an historian do?	Arnush	Homer Od. 1-3

1/26	What does a philologist do?	Curley, Murray, Porter	Homer Od. 4-6
1/28	What does an archaeologist do?	Mechem	Homer Od. 7-9
Unit 2: Homeric world
1/30	Art & archaeology	Mechem	Homer Od. 10-12

2/2	History: archaic Greece Mediterranean Greece	Arnush	Homer Od. 13-15 Timeline Miller/Varley 300
2/4	Guest-friendship	Curley	Homer Od. 16-18
2/6	Fathers & sons	Murray	Homer Od. 19-21

2/9	Men & women	Murray	Homer Od. 22-24
2/11	Discussion: Homeric world	Arnush
Unit 3: Periclean age
2/13	History: the first historians Timeline	Arnush	Herodotus & Thucydides (excerpts) First paper due

2/16	Theater	Mechem
2/18	Aeschylus	Porter	Aeschylus Agamemnon; timeline
2/20	Sophocles	Porter	Sophocles Oedipus Tyrannos; Thucydides on the plague

2/23	Parthenon	Mechem	Hurwit (2004), chapter 1: "The Rock and the Goddess"
2/25	Euripides & Thucydides	Porter, Arnush	Euripides Trojan Women & Thucydides' Melian Dialogue Four clips from the Harvard Westlake School's 2007 production of an original opera, The Trojan Women, including an aria by Ellie, a member of our class: Hecuba Cassandra Trojan Women (w. Ellie's aria) Helen
	*Come to class prepared to represent and defend one of the two positions presented by Thucydides in his Melian Dialogue.* If your surname begins with "A" to "M," you will be an Athenian. If your surname begins with "N" to "Z," you will be a Melian.
2/27	Aristophanes & comedy	Curley	Aristophanes Clouds
	Based on your reading of Aristophanes and the tragedians, how does comedy resemble tragedy? How do the two genres differ? Think not only in terms of themes but also in terms of structure. When Aristophanes (via the Chorus) extols the virtues of his brand of comedy (around line 520 or so), do you believe him? Why or why not? Today's class will involve obscene gestures and sexually explicit language.

3/2	Plato	Ostrow	Plato Symposium 1-44
3/4	Plato	Ostrow	Plato Symposium 45-end
3/6	Discussion: Periclean age	Arnush	Second paper: take-home midterm due

3/9-3/13	Spring Break

See *Euripides' Bacchae* in NYC in August at the Public Theater site (courtesy of Katie)!!!**

Unit 3: Hellenistic age
3/16	History: Alexander to Cleopatra	Arnush	The dawn of the Hellenistic age: documents from the age of Philip and Alexander
3/18	Hellenistic literature	Murray	Callimachus Aetia Prologue Theocritus Idyll 2 Theocritus Idyll 3 Theocritus Idyll 17 Herodas Dedications & Sacrifices to Asclepios
3/19	Classical World Lecture: Prof. Hans Friedrich-Mueller, Union College, on "Debt-Bondage and Roman History," Davis Auditorium, 5.30pm
3/20	Transition to Rome	Arnush	Excerpts from Livy, Polybius and Phintys (?)

Unit 4: Roman republic
3/23	History: Cicero's epistolary lens	Arnush	Cicero Correspondence (pp. 58-100)
3/25	Cicero & rhetoric	Arnush	Cicero Second Philippic against Antony (pp. 101-153)
	What is the tone of this speech? What sections of the speech do you find especially effective or exciting? What are Cicero's main points against Antony? How does Cicero feel about freedom, tyranny, and Republican political values? Can you detect these rhetorical devices? asyndeton: short, choppy sentences parataxis: the arrangement side-by-side of phrases or clauses that are similar in content or style hypophora: a rhetorical question asked and answered by the speaker metaphor: a word or phrase used to designate one thing that stands in for another (e.g., “All the world’s a stage”) simile: a comparison of two unlike things invective: an attack that employs insulting, abusive language praeteritio: to say things you claim you won’t say
	Homerathon! Spa Saratoga Room, 7pm-???
3/27	Cicero & philosophy	Mechem	Cicero On Old Age

3/30	Republican art	Mechem
4/1	Discussion: Roman republic	Arnush	Third paper due Assignment of Met Museum objects to teams
4/3	Preparation for Met trip	Mechem	Prep Met Museum object Visit Tang Museum
4/4	Trip to Metropolitan Museum		Depart 7.30am, Case Center Parking Lot Team presentations & the Roman domus

Unit 5: Roman empire
4/6	History: the Augustan vision	Arnush	Augustus Achievements of the divine Augustus Historians and poets consider the emperor Timeline for the life and career of Augustus
4/8	Art & archaeology	Mechem	Vergil Aeneid 1-3
4/10	Vergil	Murray	Vergil Aeneid 4-6

4/13	Vergil	Wiesmann	Vergil Aeneid 7-9
4/15	Vergil	Curley	Vergil Aeneid 10-12
4/17	Preparation for Monday group presentations		Reading packet (handout)

4/20	Roman daily life - part 1	Arnush	Reading packet (handout): required
4/22	Roman daily life - part 2 Discussion: Roman empire	Arnush	Petronius Satyricon: recommended Work on fourth paper
4/24	Elegy	Curley	Ovid, Heroides 1 and Heroides 7 Review Odyssey 19 and Aeneid 4
	What seems especially Homeric and Vergilian in Heroides 1 and 7 ? What details, characterizations, themes, or images has Ovid retained from his poetic predecessors? Be prepared to cite one specific example from each poem. What innovations has Ovid made in the stories of these heroines? What's new here? Again, please be prepared to cite one example from each poem.

4/27	Manuscript tradition	Copans	Pohndorff Room, Scribner Library 3rd floor Fourth paper due
4/29	Discussion: Classical world Greek & Roman Timelines	Arnush

Academic Festival *Ancient History: 10.45am-12.00pm, Emerson Auditorium - Amanda Paret (Homer and Troy); Ross Jaffe (Herodotus); Jim Ryan (Catullus)* Women's Theater Collective: 1.30-2.30pm, Studio A - Claire Saxe Dead Serious: 2.30-3.30pm, Ladd 307 - Wyatt Erchak Den of Antiquities: 4.00-5.00pm, Ladd 206 - Katie Painter, Bryn Schockmel

5/7	Final exam		1.30-4.30pm
	Bring all of your primary sources - you may use anything under the Readings column on this page		Aspects of the Augustan age Values Community Comparison between Greece & Rome Genres of literature Artistic representations Values Community