History of Ancient Greece

Primary Source Sign-up

Everyone must sign up for one presentation on a primary source.

  • 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.
  1. Homer: Agamemnon’s Insult
    (Present on Tuesday, September 13)
  2. Homer: Nausicaa and the Stranger
    (Present on Tuesday, September 13)
  3. Homer: Odysseus and the Suitors
    (Present on Tuesday, September 13)
  4. Homer: The Death of Patroclos
    (Present on Tuesday, September 13)
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  6. Herodotus and Strabo: The Founding of Cyrene
    (Present on Tuesday, September 20)
  7. Hesiod: On Labor
    (Present on Tuesday, September 20)
  8. Hesiod: The Beginnings of Things
    (Present on Tuesday, September 20)
  9. Sappho: Selected Poems
    (Present on Tuesday, September 20)
  10. Various Writers: Accounts of Religious Beliefs
    (Present on Tuesday, September 20)
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  12. Aristotle: On the Spartan Constitution
    (Present on Tuesday, October 11)
  13. Herodotos: The Spartan Way of Living
    (Present on Tuesday, October 11)
  14. Plutarch: The Great Rhetra of Sparta
    (Present on Tuesday, October 11)
  15. Xenophon: The Spartan Polity
    (Present on Tuesday, October 11)
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  17. Aeschylus: from The Persians
    (Present on Tuesday, October 18)
  18. Herodotus: The Tyranny at Corinth
    (Present on Tuesday, October 18)
  19. Solon: The Rule of Law
    (Present on Tuesday, October 18)
  20. Various: Accounts of the Hellenic Games
    (Present on Tuesday, October 18)
  21. Various: Documents on Greek Slavery
    (Present on Tuesday, October 18)
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  23. Antiphon: Arguments in an Accidental Homicide
    (Present on Tuesday, October 25)
  24. Euripides: from Medea
    (Present on Tuesday, October 25)
  25. Herodotus: The Battle of Thermopylae
    (Present on Tuesday, October 25)
  26. pseudo-Xenophon: On the Athenian Constitution
    (Present on Tuesday, October 25)
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  1. Thucydides: Civil War in Corcyra
    (Present on Tuesday, November 22)
  2. Thucydides: Perikles’s Funeral Oration
    (Present on Tuesday, November 22)
  3. Thucydides: The Melian Dialog
    (Present on Tuesday, November 22)
  4. Thucydides: The Plague at Athens
    (Present on Tuesday, November 22)
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  6. Andocides: A Charge of Sacrilege
    (Present on Tuesday, November 29)
  7. Plato: The Allegory of the Cave
    (Present on Tuesday, November 29)
  8. Plato: The Death of Socrates
    (Present on Tuesday, November 29)
  9. Unknown: Athenian Bankers
    (Present on Tuesday, November 29)
  10. Xenophon: The Battle of Leuctra
    (Present on Tuesday, November 29)
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  12. Demosthenes: The First Philippic
    (Present on Tuesday, December 6)
  13. Demosthenes: The Last Stand
    (Present on Tuesday, December 6)
  14. Isocrates: Address to Philip
    (Present on Tuesday, December 6)
  15. Plutarch: The Murder of Philip II
    (Present on Tuesday, December 6)
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  17. Aristotle: The Ideal State
    (Present on Tuesday, December 13)
  18. Arrian: Speech of Alexander the Great
    (Present on Tuesday, December 13)
  19. Athenaeus: The Procession of Ptolemy II
    (Present on Tuesday, December 13)
  20. Plutarch: On Alexander
    (Present on Tuesday, December 13)
  21. Polybius: The Destruction of Corinth
    (Present on Tuesday, December 13)