Classics 10A Fall 2008: Lecture Outlines
Outlines will normally be posted by 5 pm the day before each lecture, if not earlier.
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WEEK 1
August 27: overview of course; modern traces of Greek civilization
August 29: Geographical and Chronological Bearings; Minoan and Mycenaean Civilizations
WEEK 2
September 3: The begining of the Iliad
September 5: Trojan War Myth; Epic Poetry
WEEK 3
September 8: Homer's Iliad; Agamemnon and Achilles
September 10: Achilles; Hector; the final books of Homer's Iliad
September 12: History and Homeric Epic
WEEK 4
September 15: The Greek Gods and Greek Religion
September 17: Archaic Age: Geometric Art (vases, sculpture, the early temple)
September 19: Archaic Age: Archaic Art (the temple, sculpture, vases)
WEEK 5
September 22: Archaic Age: 8th-century developments; 7th-6th centuries (colonies, hoplites, tyranny)
September 24: Archaic Age: archaic poetry
September 26: Sappho (guest lecturer: Prof. Leslie Kurke)
WEEK 6
September 29: Sparta and Athens in the Archaic Age: Sparta
October 1: Sparta and Athens in the Archaic Age: Athens
October 3: Herodotus and the Persian Wars
WEEK 7
October 6: Herodotus and the Persian Wars (continued)
October 8: Women, family, and society
October 10: Marriage, dowry, and ritual roles
WEEK 8
October 13:Tragedy and Polis; Aeschylus' Oresteia
October 15: Aeschylus' Oresteia
October 17: Aeschylus' Oresteia; video excerpts
WEEK 9
October 22: Sophocles, Antigone
October 24: Euripides, Medea
WEEK 10
October 27: political conflict in the 5th century B.C.E.
October 29: political conflict; Thucydides
October 31: Speeches in the History of Thucydides
WEEK 11
November 3: Old Comedy; Aristophanes, Acharnians
November 5:The Periclean Building Program on the Athenian Acropolis, and Classical Art
November 7: The Periclean Building Program on the Athenian Acropolis, and Classical Art
WEEK 12
November 10: Intellectual ferment and the Sophists
November 12: Aristophanes, Clouds
November 14: Sophocles, Philoctetes
WEEK 13
November 17: Socrates; the trial of Socrates
November 19: Plato's Defence of Socrates; Plato
November 21: Plato's Symposium
WEEK 14
November 24: Sculpture of the 5th and 4th centuries
WEEK 15
December 1: Greek Oratory and Selected Orations
December 3: Greek New Comedy
December 5: The Hellenistic World