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- As always I’m grateful to those who sign up for the earlier ones!
- Presentations will be given in the class meeting’s that we discuss that reading.
- 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 reading, then click the button to claim it. If there’s a name in bold in front of the reading name, that one’s already been picked by another student.
- If you want to change the presentation you’ve chosen to a different one, please email me.
- Homer: Agamemnon’s Insult
(Present on Tuesday, September 13) - Homer: Nausicaa and the Stranger
(Present on Tuesday, September 13) - Homer: Odysseus and the Suitors
(Present on Tuesday, September 13) - Homer: The Death of Patroclos
(Present on Tuesday, September 13) - Herodotus and Strabo: The Founding of Cyrene
(Present on Tuesday, September 20) - Hesiod: On Labor
(Present on Tuesday, September 20) - Hesiod: The Beginnings of Things
(Present on Tuesday, September 20) - Sappho: Selected Poems
(Present on Tuesday, September 20) - Various Writers: Accounts of Religious Beliefs
(Present on Tuesday, September 20) - Aristotle: On the Spartan Constitution
(Present on Tuesday, October 11) - Herodotos: The Spartan Way of Living
(Present on Tuesday, October 11) - Plutarch: The Great Rhetra of Sparta
(Present on Tuesday, October 11) - Xenophon: The Spartan Polity
(Present on Tuesday, October 11) - Aeschylus: from The Persians
(Present on Tuesday, October 18) - Herodotus: The Tyranny at Corinth
(Present on Tuesday, October 18) - Solon: The Rule of Law
(Present on Tuesday, October 18) - Various: Accounts of the Hellenic Games
(Present on Tuesday, October 18) - Various: Documents on Greek Slavery
(Present on Tuesday, October 18) - Antiphon: Arguments in an Accidental Homicide
(Present on Tuesday, October 25) - Euripides: from Medea
(Present on Tuesday, October 25) - Herodotus: The Battle of Thermopylae
(Present on Tuesday, October 25) - pseudo-Xenophon: On the Athenian Constitution
(Present on Tuesday, October 25)
- Thucydides: Civil War in Corcyra
(Present on Tuesday, November 22) - Thucydides: Perikles’s Funeral Oration
(Present on Tuesday, November 22) - Thucydides: The Melian Dialog
(Present on Tuesday, November 22) - Thucydides: The Plague at Athens
(Present on Tuesday, November 22) - Andocides: A Charge of Sacrilege
(Present on Tuesday, November 29) - Plato: The Allegory of the Cave
(Present on Tuesday, November 29) - Plato: The Death of Socrates
(Present on Tuesday, November 29) - Unknown: Athenian Bankers
(Present on Tuesday, November 29) - Xenophon: The Battle of Leuctra
(Present on Tuesday, November 29) - Demosthenes: The First Philippic
(Present on Tuesday, December 6) - Demosthenes: The Last Stand
(Present on Tuesday, December 6) - Isocrates: Address to Philip
(Present on Tuesday, December 6) - Plutarch: The Murder of Philip II
(Present on Tuesday, December 6) - Aristotle: The Ideal State
(Present on Tuesday, December 13) - Arrian: Speech of Alexander the Great
(Present on Tuesday, December 13) - Athenaeus: The Procession of Ptolemy II
(Present on Tuesday, December 13) - Plutarch: On Alexander
(Present on Tuesday, December 13) - Polybius: The Destruction of Corinth
(Present on Tuesday, December 13)