History 21.4: Ancient Greece

Fall 2007 -- TF 10:50 AM-12:05 PM

Professor M. L. King:  king@brooklyn.cuny.edu

Schedule

Description  * Requirements * Bibliography * Contact me * MLKHome

1. Homeric hymn: To Earth, Mother of All
2. Hesiod, Theogony, ll. 104-206: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/Hesiod/theogony.html
3. Homer, Iliad, from book VIII, excerpt

1. Tyrtaeus and Archilochus: http://www.msu.edu/~tyrrell/hoplite.htm
2. Other hoplite documents:   http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/hoplite_rev.html

1. Thucydides on early Greece:  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/thuc-hellenes.html

2. Herodotus and Strabo on the founding of Cyrene:  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/630cyrene.html

Plutarch, Lycurgus, entire; excerpts

Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, Section 1: http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/athenian_const.html

Aeschylus, The Oresteia, 1: Agamemnon [BB or purchase] -- first half (to line 780 approximately): Agamemnon's entry

Aeschylus, Agamemnon, second half

Aeschylus, The Oresteia, 2: Libation Bearers and 3: Eumenides

Herodotus, The Persian Wars, excerpts:  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/herodotus-xerxes.html

1. The "Old Oligarch": http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/424pol-athens.html
2. Pericles' Funeral Oration, by Thucydides: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/pericles-funeralspeech.html; also in Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War [online or purchase], 2:34-46.

1. Aristotle: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/greek_wives.html
2. Xenophon: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/xenophon-genderroles.html  
3. Semonides: http://www.stoa.org/diotima/anthology/sem_7.shtml s.html

4. On slaves: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/greek_slave

Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War [BB or purchase], 3.25-28 & 35-50: Mytilnean debate; 3:70-85: Corcyrean revolution; 5:17: Melian dialogue

Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War [BB or purchase], 7, all: the Sicilian expeditionl

1. Anaxagoras: http://history.hanover.edu/texts/presoc/anaxagor.htm
2. Xenophanes, http://history.hanover.edu/texts/presoc/Xenophan.html
3. Parmenides:http://history.hanover.edu/texts/presoc/Parmends.html
4. Timeline of Greek Poets and Thinkers

1. Gorgias, Encomium of Helen:  http://www.phil.vt.edu/mgifford/phil2115/Helen.htm
2. Aristophanes, Clouds, excerpt: History21.4.Sess21.Aristophanes
3. Plato, Meno, 82-86

Plato, Phaedo

Aristotle, Politics, excerpts: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/aristotle-politics1.html

Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, excerpts: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/aristotle-ethics1.html

1. Justin, History, excerpt: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/justin_philip.html
2. Demosthenes, First Philippic:  http://www.4literature.net/Demosthenes/First_Philippic/

Plutarch, Alexander: http://www.e-classics.com/ALEXANDER.htm

1. Theocritus, Idyll 15: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ankcient/250theocritus15.html
2. Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers, on Diogenes the Cynic:   http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/diogeneslaertius-book6-cynics.html#Diogenes

1. The Hippocratic Oath:  http://duke.usask.ca/~porterj/DeptTransls/HippOath.html
2. Archimedes, from Plutarch, Marcellus: http://www.math.nyu.edu/~crorres/Archimedes/Siege/Plutarch.html