Programme in
Classical Studies
Humanities 2100 9,0
|
Loredana
Kun 251
Vanier College 416-736-5158 loredanak@hotmail.com |
Paul Swarney 244 416-736-5158 |
Required Texts:
Books required for purchase
from the University Bookstore:
Plutarch, The Age of Alexander, translated by Ian Scott-Kilvert,
Penguin ISBN
0-14-044286-3
Greek
Tragedies Volume 1, edited by David Greene and Richmond Lattimore,
Greek
Tragedies Volume I1, edited by David Greene and Richmond Lattimore,
Greek
Tragedies Volume II1, edited by David Greene and Richmond Lattimore,
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, translated by Rex
Warner, Penguin, ISBN 0-14-0044039-9
Plato's
Republic, translated by G.
M. A. Grube, Hackett Publishing Co. Inc. ISBN
0-915144-03-4
Plato: The
Trial and Death of Socrates, translated by G.M.A Grube,
Hackett Publishing Co. Inc. ISBN 0-915144-15-8
Aristophanes:
Lysistrata / The Acharnians / The Clouds, translated by Alan H. Sommerstein,
Penguin, ISBN
0-14-044287-1
Josephus: The Jewish War, translated G.A.
Williamson as revised by E. Mary Smallwood, Penguin, ISBN 0-14-044420-3
Hesiod and Theogonis, translated by Dorthea
Wender, Penguin, ISBN 0-14-044283-9
LECTURES AND ASSIGNMENTS: WINTER TERM 2003
January 8 The Joys of Killing your
Hellenic Enemies and Friends II
Euripides Troades
Plato Apology
Thucydides 5-7
First essay assigned
Terms for today: polemon arete theos Nicias Achilles
polis moira eidos Alcibiades Helen
15 Syracuse
Plutarch Dion
Plato Republic 1-2
Terms: Dionysius Polemarchos Cephalas
22
Shadows in a Cave
Republic 3-6
Terms: arete politeia phylax to agathon
29
politeia and poiesis
politeia 7-9
Terms: poiesis poietes phylax to dikaion
February 5 Mythos and to
dikaion
Hesiod Theogony and Works and Days
Aeschylus Prometheus
Terms: theos Pandora Prometheus time geras ate
12 First Examination Curtis Lecture Hall-A
17-21
26 The Accomplishments of Judeans, Romans
and the Guys from
Josephus Jewish Wars 1-3
Claudius Letter to the Alexandrians
Paulos First
Letter to Corinthians
Philodemus Poetry
Terms: Roman Euangelistes Ioudaios Neopolis Cynic
charis Hellenes elpis ekklesia
March 5 polis and the Poetics of
tragodeia
Sophocles Oedipus at Colonus
Euripides Bacchae
Hippolytus
Terms: choros orchestra parodos exodus choral lyric skene
Euripides Troades
Josephus Jewish Wars 4-7
Luke
Terms: kyrios katoikistes strategos Xerxes Themistocles demos demokratia
19 polis
and oikos
Aristophanes Acharnians
Lysistrata
Plutarch Demosthenes
Terms: tyrannos nomos oikos Creon kyrios eros
Thucydides, 2-3
Lysias, On the Murder of Eratosthenes
Terms: stasis politai Pericles Euphiletos Oë
April 2 Final Assignment 08:30 in Curtis Lecture Hall-A
ESSAYS AND EXAMINATIONS: WINTER TERM 2003
ESSAYS
Several assignments
will be given in the Winter term on a wide variety of
topics. The first of these will be graded but will not be included in the term
evaluation. All subsequent assignments will be carefully read and evaluated.. Some of the term assignments will require working in
groups. Performance in essays will constitute 50% of the term evaluation.
PLEASE NOTE THAT ESSAYS ARE DUE IN CLASS ON THE
ASSIGNED DATE. ANY ESSAY HANDED IN AFTER THE DUE DATE WILL HAVE ONE GRADE
SUBTRACTED FROM ITS EVALUATION FOR EACH CLASS BY WHICH IT IS OVERDUE; E.G. AN AA@ ESSAY HANDED IN ONE CLASS LATE WILL BE GRADED AB@ ETC.
TESTS: WINTER TERM
Two sixty minute
tests on the assigned material and the topics covered in class and discussion
will be set at the start of class on Wednesday 12 February and Wednesday 2 April in CLH-A. Performance in examination will constitute
50% of the term evaluation.
PARTICIPATION
From
-3 to +3 points.
FORMAT
The class will meet
twice weekly, once on Wednesday for a
lecture in Curtis Lecture Hall-A from 08:30-10:20 and again for tutorial either
on Monday in 115 Vanier College from 10:30-12:20 or on Thursday in 106 Farquharson Science from 14:30-16:20 or on Friday in 115
Vanier College from 08:30-10:20. The activities at each meeting will vary, but
will generally comprise analysis and explanation of assigned readings and
source material, and discussion of the topics, events and methodology which
form the foundation of the course. Each
meeting focuses on a specific topic and text and will be the locus of discussion
about essays and other matters in the course.
The potential
litigiousness of a small minority of the undergraduate population and the
precise facts about student attendance demanded by University Offices require
that attendance records be kept for each session. Students should note that participation
in the discussions of topics and analysis of assigned readings is obligatory,
and that reading and preliminary analysis of assigned material should be
completed in advance of the session in which the material is to be employed.
Participation in
the course will add between
‑3 points to +3 points to the term evaluation. It should be
noted that students who habitually absent themselves from lectures and
tutorials generally find it impossible to participate in sessions which they do
not attend!
ACADEMIC STANDARDS AND REGULATIONS
The rules and
regulations concerning plagiarism and other forms of academic dishonesty governing the
course are those of the University and Faculty of Arts. Students will be
expected to have acquainted themselves with these regulations and will be
reminded of disciplinary procedures and penalties should occasion for such
procedures present themselves. Please
review relevant pages in the Undergraduate Calendar.
Rule # 24 You may no longer eat or drink in class. You must either have breakfast before the
lecture or starve. This is a matter of
courtesy to your fellow students and a matter of necessity for one of the
professors who gains significantly in weight merely by looking at food!
THE CRITICAL OBJECTIVES OF THE COURSE
THIS YEAR
1. Textual analysis: macrocosms and microcosms
The course requires students to read and to understand the general plots
of some easy and some very difficult ancient texts in translation. It also requires that each student develop
real skills at reading significance from very small and apparently
insignificant details.
2. Visual analysis: macrocosms and microcosms
The course requires students to develop real skills at understanding and
analyzing a wide variety of visual material from the ancient world. Students are also required to relate when
possible, or even when seemingly impossible, the visual events presented to
them to the textual events that they have read.
Students are further required to develop techniques for understanding
rhetorical convention and practise in textual and visual material and to apply this in turn to their continuing
analysis of both kinds of material. In a
very important way this is at the heart of our critical plan. At the end of the course we hope that each
student will be able to distinguish the unclear lines between rhetorical and
other kinds of events.
4. Developing skills in written analysis
We have planned a series of sessions that flow from lecture to tutorial
about developing students' skills in expressing thoughts and conclusions about the material
and discussions in the course. We have
planned a wide range of written assignments from the trivial to the creative.
5. Asking the critical questions
The aim here, right from the opening lecture, is to zero in on the
priority of formulating questions over
discovering the "right" answer.
Our first and second assignments focus this and set the pace for the
rest of the course.
6. Developing a language about language
A series of topics are to be inserted into appropriate lectures and
tutorials about the way in which people have described how written and oral
language work, that is about the grammar of English and other languages. This is both a practical and topical way to
bring greater understanding to our very foreign texts and pictures and an
excellent method for understanding grammatical and syntactic structures.
7. Developing performance skills
The course requires students to perform publicly in a variety of ways in seminar and in
lecture. These performances include the
presentation of formal papers on assigned topics and the representation of dramatic and
rhetorical events included in the syllabus of required readings.