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