Robyn Gillam

039 McLaughlin College

416-736-5158

gillam@yorku.ca

Paul Swarney

Vanier College

416-736-5158

pswarney@yorku.ca

Required Texts:

1. Plutarch, Makers of Rome translated by Ian Scott-Kilvert, Pengin, ISBN 0-14-044158-1 MSWord Web Page

2. Miriam Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature: Volume III: The Late Period University of California Press, ISBN 0-520-04020-1

3. Herodotus, The Histories, translated by Robin Waterfield, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-282425-2

4. Genesis and Exodus (available in translations of Bible)

5. Apuleius, The Golden Ass, translated by P. G. Walsh, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-2824p2-9

6. Egypt in the Greek and Roman Mediterranean Volume 7:Selected Readings , translated and edited by Robyn Gillam and Paul Swarney, York University , September 2003

ESSAYS AND EXAMINATIONS: FALL TERM 2003

17 September First Essay Due

1 October Second Essay Due 10%

8 October Bibliography Due 10%

15 October First Examination 15%

12-19 November Book Review 20%

26 November Second Examination 15%

3 December Final Version of Book Review Due 20%

Participation 10 September –– 26 November 10%

PLEASE NOTE THAT ESSAYS ARE DUE IN CLASS ON THE ASSIGNED DATE. ANY ASSIGNMENT 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@ ASSIGNMENT HANDED IN ONE CLASS LATE WILL BE GRADED AB@ ETC. THE ESSAY DUE ON 1 OCTOBER WILL RECEIVE A FAILING GRADE IF NOT PRECEEDED BY THE ESSAY SUBMITTED ON 17 SEPTEMBER.

FORMAT

The class will meet twice weekly, once on Wednesday for a lecture in Stedman Lecture Hall B from 08:30-10:30 and again on Wednesday for tutorial. 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 the Office of the Registrar 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 all the activities of the course will be 10% of the year’s evaluation. It should be noted that students who habitually absent themselves from lectures, tutorials and presentations generally find it impossible to participate in sessions which they do not attend!

ACADEMIC STANDARDS, REGULATIONS AND IMPORTANT DATES:

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 available at: http://www.yorku.ca/secretariat/legislation/senate/acadhone.htm

Important dates for this Academic Year may be found at http://www.registrar.yorku.ca/importantdates/fw03all.htm

Rule # 24 You may no longer eat or drink in class. You must either have breakfast or lunch 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!

LECTURES AND ASSIGNMENTS: FALL TERM 2003

September 10 Cleopatra, Pyramids and Maps.

Plutarch: Antonius

First essay assigned

Terms for today: talents Asiatic consul decies sambuca player Dolabella marriage Lycaea

17 Kleopatra Philopator and Caesar

Plutarch, Antonius

First Essay Due: Stedman Lecture Hall B 08:30

Second Essay assigned

Terms: lupercalia Trebonius drachma

the People veterans Caesar Cicero Republic Hybreas imperator Liburnian

24 Cleopatra, Taimhotep and Dendera

Plan of the Temple at Dendera

Horace, Odes 1, 37

Stela of Taimhotep (British Museum 1 47) Lichtheim pp.59-65

Stela of Psen-Ptah ( British Museum 886)

Terms: stela ka Auletes British Museum High Priest prophets scribe sculptor scholar Memph is

October 1 The Adventures of a Wandering Egyptian

AThe Story of Sinuhe@

Second Essay due 08:30 Stedman Lecture Hall B

Terms: ostracon Ashmolean Tjehenu Byblos Delta-man Asiatic Horus Amun Punt

Third assignment distributed

8 The Adventures of a Wandering Greek

Herodotus 2, 1-92

Naucratis Stela of King Nectanebo I Lichtheim pp.86-89

Third Assigment due 08:30 Stedman Lecture Hall B

Terms: Psammeticus Zeus schoenus Elephantine Assyrians Retinu Helen Nasamonians Isis becos Flood Cheops Thebes

Herodotus’ “Map”

15 First Examination Stedman Lecture Hall B 08:30

Fourth Assignment Distributed

22 Egypt and the Imagination of the rational Greeks

Herodotus 2, 92-182

P. Bib. Nat. 215 verso

P. Sallier 1 BM 10185

Flavius Josephus contra Apion 1, 14-15 (=Manetho, Fragment 42)

Terms: Manetho Flavius HYKSOS Arabians Ioudaia Re

29 The genesis of genesis: the King Ptolemy Version

Genesis, 1-22

APetition to Authorize Elephantine Temple Reconstruction@

Elephantine Papyrus 1, 2, 3 and 4

Terms: Torah nomos LXX Elaphion kyrios

Groups Ptolemaios of Ptolemaios Ge/nesij A

Some Useful Terms

November 5 Going down to Egypt : Joseph, his Brethren

Genesis, 37-50

AThe Tale of Two Brothers@ (=P. D=Orbiney)

"The Famine Stela" (in Lichtheim, pp. 94-103)

Fourth Assignment Due

Terms: Potiphar Potiphar=s Wife Pharaoh

12 Susan Walker, Cleopatra of Egypt: From History to Myth

John Huddleson, ANahum, Nineveh and the Nile: The Description of Thebes in Nahum 3:8-9.@

Barbara Lesko, The Great Goddesses of Egypt

Leaving Egypt for the God: Moses and Wenamun

Exodos, 1-25

P.Moscow 120 (The Report of Wenamun)

P. Bib. Nat. 215 verso Column C

Terms: Amun Aaron Arc

14 Greek Night at the ROM (free after 4:30!)

Lecture: Ancient Olympia: The Olympic Games and the Olympic Spirit 6-7pm

19 Book Reviews

26 Second Examination, 08:30-10:30 Stedman Lecture Hall B

December 3 Final version of book review due 08:30 244 Vanier College

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