History of Ancient Greece

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Reply in the comments below with the presentation you want to take. Specify by number so it’s clear. Make sure the one you’re signing up for is not already taken by someone else. Everyone must sign up for one presentation. As always I'm grateful to those who sign up for the earlier ones!

  • Presentations will be given in the discussion that class meeting’s weekly page. Discussion area presentations are due the night before the class meeting day, so they are already there for people to read and respond to.
  • You also need to submit a Word or PDF version as an essay assignment on BlackBoard.
  • Your written presentation must meet the write-up requirements in the syllabus in terms of length (the length of a 2-3 page essay = ~500-750 words) and expected content (reactive and analytical).

Pick one, then scroll down and post a comment claiming the one you want. If there's a name in bold in front of the reading name, that one's already been picked by another student.

  1. (Lourdes) Homer / Agamemnon’s Insult
     (Post in the Week 3 discussion area & on BlackBoard before Sep 9)
  2.   Homer / Nausicaa and the Stranger
     (Post in the Week 3 discussion area & on BlackBoard before Sep 9)
  3.   Homer / Odysseus and the Suitors
     (Post in the Week 3 discussion area & on BlackBoard before Sep 9)
  4.   Homer / The Death of Patroclos
     (Post in the Week 3 discussion area & on BlackBoard before Sep 9)
  5. (Jason) Herodotus and Strabo / The Founding of Cyrene
     (Post in the Week 4 discussion area & on BlackBoard before Sep 23)
  6. (Anabel) Hesiod / On Labor
     (Post in the Week 4 discussion area & on BlackBoard before Sep 23)
  7.   Hesiod / The Beginnings of Things
     (Post in the Week 4 discussion area & on BlackBoard before Sep 23)
  8. (Samantha) Various Writers / Accounts of Religious Beliefs
     (Post in the Week 4 discussion area & on BlackBoard before Sep 23)
  9.   Sappho / Selected Poems
     (Post in the Week 4 discussion area & on BlackBoard before Sep 23)
  10.   Aristotle / On the Spartan Constitution
     (Post in the Week 5 discussion area & on BlackBoard before Sep 30)
  11. (Abigail) Herodotos / The Spartan Way of Living
     (Post in the Week 5 discussion area & on BlackBoard before Sep 30)
  12.   Plutarch / The Great Rhetra of Sparta
     (Post in the Week 5 discussion area & on BlackBoard before Sep 30)
  13.   Xenophon / The Spartan Polity
     (Post in the Week 5 discussion area & on BlackBoard before Sep 30)
  14.   Solon / The Rule of Law
     (Post in the Week 6 discussion area & on BlackBoard before Oct 7)
  15.   Aeschylus / from The Persians
     (Post in the Week 6 discussion area & on BlackBoard before Oct 7)
  16.   Herodotus / The Tyranny at Corinth
     (Post in the Week 6 discussion area & on BlackBoard before Oct 7)
  17. (Ayla) Various / Documents on Greek Slavery
     (Post in the Week 6 discussion area & on BlackBoard before Oct 7)
  18. (Joshua) Various / Accounts of the Hellenic Games
     (Post in the Week 6 discussion area & on BlackBoard before Oct 7)
  19. (Jada) Herodotus / The Battle of Thermopylae
     (Post in the Week 7 discussion area & on BlackBoard before Oct 14)
  20. (Anastasya) Euripides / from Medea
     (Post in the Week 7 discussion area & on BlackBoard before Oct 14)
  21. (Emanuel) Antiphon / Arguments in an Accidental Homicide
     (Post in the Week 7 discussion area & on BlackBoard before Oct 14)
  22. (Bhishmi) pseudo-Xenophon / On the Athenian Constitution
     (Post in the Week 7 discussion area & on BlackBoard before Oct 14)
  1. (Tyler) Thucydides / Civil War in Corcyra
     (Post in the Week 10 discussion area & on BlackBoard before Nov 4)
  2.   Thucydides / Perikles’s Funeral Oration
     (Post in the Week 10 discussion area & on BlackBoard before Nov 4)
  3. (Edith) Thucydides / The Plague at Athens
     (Post in the Week 10 discussion area & on BlackBoard before Nov 4)
  4. (Jean) Thucydides / The Melian Dialog
     (Post in the Week 10 discussion area & on BlackBoard before Nov 4)
  5. (Alexa) Plato / The Death of Socrates
     (Post in the Week 11 discussion area & on BlackBoard before Nov 11)
  6. (Nicole) Plato / The Allegory of the Cave
     (Post in the Week 11 discussion area & on BlackBoard before Nov 11)
  7.   Andocides / A Charge of Sacrilege
     (Post in the Week 11 discussion area & on BlackBoard before Nov 11)
  8.   Unknown / Athenian Bankers
     (Post in the Week 11 discussion area & on BlackBoard before Nov 11)
  9. (Benjamin) Xenophon / The Battle of Leuctra
     (Post in the Week 11 discussion area & on BlackBoard before Nov 11)
  10.   Demosthenes / The First Philippic
     (Post in the Week 12 discussion area & on BlackBoard before Nov 18)
  11.   Demosthenes / The Last Stand
     (Post in the Week 12 discussion area & on BlackBoard before Nov 18)
  12. (Jayson) Isocrates / Address to Philip
     (Post in the Week 12 discussion area & on BlackBoard before Nov 18)
  13. (Isamar) Plutarch / The Murder of Philip II
     (Post in the Week 12 discussion area & on BlackBoard before Nov 18)
  14. (Jeffrey) Aristotle / The Ideal State
     (Post in the Week 13 discussion area & on BlackBoard before Dec 2)
  15. (Cesar) Arrian / Speech of Alexander the Great
     (Post in the Week 13 discussion area & on BlackBoard before Dec 2)
  16. (Estefania) Plutarch / On Alexander
     (Post in the Week 13 discussion area & on BlackBoard before Dec 2)
  17.   Athenaeus / The Procession of Ptolemy II
     (Post in the Week 14 discussion area & on BlackBoard before Dec 9)
  18.   Polybius / The Destruction of Corinth
     (Post in the Week 14 discussion area & on BlackBoard before Dec 9)

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