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. Agamemnon’s Insult: Homer
    (Present on Tuesday, September 13)
  2. Nausicaa and the Stranger: Homer
    (Present on Tuesday, September 13)
  3. Odysseus and the Suitors: Homer
    (Present on Tuesday, September 13)
  4. The Death of Patroclos: Homer
    (Present on Tuesday, September 13)
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  6. The Founding of Cyrene: Herodotus and Strabo
    (Present on Tuesday, September 20)
  7. On Labor: Hesiod
    (Present on Tuesday, September 20)
  8. The Beginnings of Things: Hesiod
    (Present on Tuesday, September 20)
  9. Selected Poems: Sappho
    (Present on Tuesday, September 20)
  10. Accounts of Religious Beliefs: Various Writers
    (Present on Tuesday, September 20)
  11.  
  12. On the Spartan Constitution: Aristotle
    (Present on Tuesday, October 11)
  13. The Spartan Way of Living: Herodotos
    (Present on Tuesday, October 11)
  14. The Great Rhetra of Sparta: Plutarch
    (Present on Tuesday, October 11)
  15. The Spartan Polity: Xenophon
    (Present on Tuesday, October 11)
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  17. from The Persians: Aeschylus
    (Present on Tuesday, October 18)
  18. The Tyranny at Corinth: Herodotus
    (Present on Tuesday, October 18)
  19. The Rule of Law: Solon
    (Present on Tuesday, October 18)
  20. Accounts of the Hellenic Games: Various
    (Present on Tuesday, October 18)
  21. Documents on Greek Slavery: Various
    (Present on Tuesday, October 18)
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  23. Arguments in an Accidental Homicide: Antiphon
    (Present on Tuesday, October 25)
  24. from Medea: Euripides
    (Present on Tuesday, October 25)
  25. The Battle of Thermopylae: Herodotus
    (Present on Tuesday, October 25)
  26. On the Athenian Constitution: Pseudo-Xenophon
    (Present on Tuesday, October 25)
  27.  
  1. Civil War in Corcyra: Thucydides
    (Present on Tuesday, November 22)
  2. Perikles’s Funeral Oration: Thucydides
    (Present on Tuesday, November 22)
  3. The Melian Dialog: Thucydides
    (Present on Tuesday, November 22)
  4. The Plague at Athens: Thucydides
    (Present on Tuesday, November 22)
  5.  
  6. A Charge of Sacrilege: Andocides
    (Present on Tuesday, November 29)
  7. The Allegory of the Cave: Plato
    (Present on Tuesday, November 29)
  8. The Death of Socrates: Plato
    (Present on Tuesday, November 29)
  9. Athenian Bankers: Unknown
    (Present on Tuesday, November 29)
  10. The Battle of Leuctra: Xenophon
    (Present on Tuesday, November 29)
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  12. The First Philippic: Demosthenes
    (Present on Tuesday, December 6)
  13. The Last Stand: Demosthenes
    (Present on Tuesday, December 6)
  14. Address to Philip: Isocrates
    (Present on Tuesday, December 6)
  15. The Murder of Philip II: Plutarch
    (Present on Tuesday, December 6)
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  17. The Ideal State: Aristotle
    (Present on Tuesday, December 13)
  18. Speech of Alexander the Great: Arrian
    (Present on Tuesday, December 13)
  19. The Procession of Ptolemy II: Athenaeus
    (Present on Tuesday, December 13)
  20. On Alexander: Plutarch
    (Present on Tuesday, December 13)
  21. The Destruction of Corinth: Polybius
    (Present on Tuesday, December 13)