Course Cites
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Note: The cites given below are in Chicago citation style. You may use any citation style as long as the necessary information—author, title, year, publisher, plus journal and page range for articles—is included.
Assigned Texts
IMPORTANT
The textbook, Pomeroy’s Ancient Greece: A Political, Social, and Cultural History, is a tertiary source and may not be used in any written assignment for this course.
| Bibliography | West, Thomas G., Grace Starry West, Plato, and Aristophanes. 1998. Four texts on Socrates: Plato’s Euthyphro, Apology, and Crito, and Aristophanes’ Clouds. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. | ||||||||||
| Footnote | West et al., [page number] or
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Readings from Hellas
Note: Rather than using the brief and edited down excerpts in the Reader, students should find a good, recent translation of the original source and read the passage in context.
| Bibliography | Wilson, Mark B. 2013. Readings from Hellas: Sources for the Exploration of Ancient Greece, 2d Ed. Createspace. |
| Footnote | See list below. |
| Homer / Agamemnon’s Insult | Homer, Iliad 1.1-240 |
| Homer / Nausicaa and the Stranger | Homer, Odyssey 6.48-315 |
| Homer / Odysseus and the Suitors | Homer, Odyssey 22.1-85 |
| Homer / The Death of Patroclos | Homer, Iliad 16.20-865 |
| Herodotus and Strabo / The Founding of Cyrene | Herodotos 4.140-159; Strabo, Geographia 8.3 |
| Hesiod / On Labor | Hesiod, Works and Days 293-705 [ise specific line numbers shown in the text for the passages you are using] |
| Hesiod / The Beginnings of Things | Hesiod, Works and Days 105-264 |
| Various Writers / Accounts of Religious Beliefs | Homer, Iliad 2.404-430; Lysias, Against Nichomachos 17-18; Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 1.1079; Plutarch, Life of Aristides 21; Plutarch, Life of Theseos 23; Plutarch, Life of Alcibiades 18 |
| Sappho / Selected Poems | Sappho, [poem name] |
| Aristotle / On the Spartan Constitution | Aristotle, Politics 2.1269a-1271b |
| Herodotos / The Spartan Way of Living | Herodotos 7.101-105 |
| Plutarch / The Great Rhetra of Sparta | Plutarch, Life of Lycurgos 6 |
| Xenophon / The Spartan Polity | Xenophon, Lacedaemonion Politeia |
| Solon / The Rule of Law | Solon, Fragments 2-31 |
| Aeschylus / from The Persians | Aeschylos, The Persians 65-139, 787-844 |
| Herodotus / The Tyranny at Corinth | Herodotus 5.92 |
| Various / Documents on Greek Slavery | Hesiod, Works and Days 405; Strabo, Geographia 8.6.20; Antiphon, On the Choreutes 6.4; Demosthenes, Against Timocrates 167; Aristotle, Politics 1.1253b-1255a |
| Various / Accounts of the Hellenic Games | Pindar, Olympian Odes 9-13; Thucydides 1.6; Xenophon, Hellenica; Strabo, Geographia; Pausanias, Description of Greece 2.138 |
| Herodotus / The Battle of Thermopylae | Herodotos 7.208-226 |
| Euripides / from Medea | Euripides, Medea 1175-1274 |
| Antiphon / Arguments in an Accidental Homicide | Antiphon, Speeches 2 |
| pseudo-Xenophon / On the Athenian Constitution | Pseudo-Xenophon, Athenian Constitution |
| Thucydides / Civil War in Corcyra | Thucydides 3.82-83 |
| Thucydides / Perikles’s Funeral Oration | Thucydides 2.35-46 |
| Thucydides / The Plague at Athens | Thucydides 2.47-55 |
| Thucydides / The Melian Dialog | Thucydides 5.84–116 |
| Plato / The Death of Socrates | Plato, Apology 38c-42a; Plato, Phaedo 115b-118a |
| Plato / The Allegory of the Cave | Plato, Republic 514a–520a |
| Andocides / A Charge of Sacrilege | Andocides, On the Mysteries 10-30 |
| Demosthenes / Athenian Bankers | Demosthenes, For Phormio |
| Xenophon / The Battle of Leuctra | Xenophon, Hellenica 6 |
| Demosthenes / The First Philippic | Demosthenes, First Philippic |
| Demosthenes / The Last Stand | Demosthenes, Third Philippic |
| Isocrates / Address to Philip | Isocrates, To Philip |
| Plutarch / The Murder of Philip II | Plutarch, Alexander 9-10 |
| Aristotle / The Ideal State | Aristotle, Politics 1252a-1253a |
| Arrian / Speech of Alexander the Great | Arrian, Campaigns of Alexander |
| Plutarch / On Alexander | Plutarch, Alexander 6-7, 11, 16 |
| Athenaeus / The Procession of Ptolemy II | Athenaeus 5 |
| Polybius / The Destruction of Corinth | Polybius 38 |