Classics 10A Fall 2011: Lecture Outlines


Outlines will normally be posted by 5 pm the day before each lecture, if not earlier.
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WEEK 0

August 26: overview of course; modern traces of Greek civilization

WEEK 1

August 29: Geographical and Chronological Bearings; Minoan and Mycenaean Civilizations
August 31: The begining of the Iliad; key themes of the poem
September 2: Trojan War Myth; Epic Poetry

WEEK 2

September 7: Agamemnon and Achilles
September 9: Hector; The final books of Homer's Iliad; History and Homeric Epic

WEEK 3

September 12: The Greek Gods and Greek Religion
September 14: Greek Religion; Art of the Archaic Age: Geometric Art (vases, sculpture, the early temple: 8th century)
September 16: Art of the Archaic Age: Archaic Art (the temple, sculpture, vases: 7th and 6th centuries)

WEEK 4

September 19: Archaic Age: 8th-century developments;
September 21: Archaic Age: 7th-6th centuries (colonies, hoplites, tyranny)
September 23: Archaic Poetry

WEEK 5

September 26: Sparta and Athens in the Archaic Age:
September 28: Sparta and Athens in the Archaic Age: Athens (concluded); Herodotus and the Persian Wars
September 30: Herodotus and the Persian Wars

WEEK 6

October 3: Women in ancient Greece; Sappho
October 5: Marriage and dowry
October 7: Segregation and seclusion; two Attic court cases about family issues

WEEK 7

October 10:Tragedy and Polis; Aeschylus' Oresteia
October 12: Aeschylus' Oresteia
October 14: Aeschylus' Oresteia

WEEK 8

October 19: Sophocles, Antigone
October 21: Euripides, Medea

WEEK 9

October 24: political conflict in the 5th century B.C.E.
October 26: political conflict; Thucydides
October 28: Speeches in the History of Thucydides

WEEK 10

October 31: Old Comedy; Aristophanes, Acharnians
November 2:The Periclean Building Program on the Athenian Acropolis, and Classical Art
November 4: The Periclean Building Program on the Athenian Acropolis, and Classical Art

WEEK 11

November 7: Intellectual ferment and the Sophists
November 9: Aristophanes, Clouds

WEEK 12

November 14: Sophocles, Philoctetes
November 16: Socrates; the trial of Socrates; Plato's Defence of Socrates
November 18: Plato; Plato's Symposium

WEEK 13

November 21: Sculpture and vase painting of the 5th and 4th centuries

WEEK 14

November 28: New Comedy and Menander
November 30: Athens and Macedon; Demosthenes and Phillip; Alexander the Great
December 2: The Hellenistic World and After

WEEK 15

December 5: Final exam information; review
December 7: review and question session