Monday, Wednesday, and Friday 10:30 - 11:20 (block 4), Eaton 333
Dr. Anne Mahoney
Office:  Perseus Project, Eaton 124, 627-3830;  office hours for students Monday and Friday 11:30 - 1:00 and by appointment.  I can always be reached by email:  amahoney@perseus.tufts.edu

Resources
Goals
Workload
Schedule
Policies
Assignments by class
Bibliography
Additional on-line resources
 

Required texts and suggested translations:
Iliad, Homer, translated by M. Reck ($20)
Theogony, Hesiod, translated by M. Caldwell ($10)
Lyric poetry by Sappho, Archilochus, and Pindar;  translations by M. West, G. Davenport, C. Ruck available in the Classics Department office
History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides, translated by R. Warner ($10)
Oresteia, Aeschylus, translated by R. Fagles ($15)
Plays of Sophocles, translations edited by D. Grene and R. Lattimore (2 volumes, $15 each)
Medea, Hippolytus, Electra, Helen, Euripides, translated by J. Morwood ($15)
Bacchae, Euripides, translated by S. Esposito ($10)
Acharnians, Clouds, Lysistrata, Aristophanes, translated by J. Henderson ($10)
The Last Days of Socrates, Plato, translated by H. Tredennick ($10)

The suggested translations are available in the University Bookstore.  Additional translations of all these works, except the poems of Sappho and Archilochus, are available in the Perseus Digital Library (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu).  These or other translations are also available in the Tisch Library;  see below.  You are not required to read the specific translations recommended here:  other editions are acceptable.

Other resources:
Course web page, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/~amahoney/cl31_f00.html
Class mailing list, managed by CourseInfo

Goals for the semester:
"Always to be the best and be pre-eminent among the others":  this is the heroic code as stated by characters in Homer’s Iliad.  What kind of society is built on such a code?  Is this ideal compatible with a participatory democracy, in which every citizen has a voice and a vote?  Is there a place for heroes in the world of the city?

We will survey the literature of ancient Greece from the Bronze Age to the threshold of the Hellenistic period, with particular emphasis on the development of Western concepts of heroism, individualism, virtue, and law;  on the literary genres of epic, tragedy, comedy, history, and philosophy;  and on the development of theories of government, especially democracy.  We will take Achilles, Ajax, and Socrates as primary examples of heroic individuals;  observation of how these figures are treated in Greek literature will give us some insight into the changing values of ancient Greek society.

The readings are primary texts, in English translation.  Knowledge of Ancient Greek is neither required nor assumed, but students who have completed Greek 2 or equivalent are encouraged to read selected texts in their original language.

Students will use the resources of the Perseus Digital Library to supplement the texts.

Workload and grading:
There will be two in-class exams, one hour each, and a two-hour final.  Each exam will cover material since the last one.  You will have several short written assignments (300-500 words).  You will have reading assignments for each class.

The grades will be computed as follows:
 
 

Schedule
The two hour exams will be
 
 

	Wednesday, 11 October
and	Wednesday, 8 November

The final exam will be Thursday, 14 December, 12:00 - 2:00.

Make-up exams will be given only in exceptional circumstances, and only if you make arrangements at least 24 hours before the scheduled time of the exam.

Written assignments are due in class on Monday 25 September, Wednesday 18 October, Monday 13 November, and Friday 8 December.  Late papers will not be accepted.

General policies:
You should complete the reading assigned for each class before that day’s class.  You need not bring the text to class, though you may find it helpful;  you probably will want to bring your notes on the reading assignments.

Attendance in class is strongly encouraged.  Since Ancient Greece is a foreign culture, despite its significant influence on the modern Western world, you will need the explanations and discussions in class to reach a full understanding of this culture’s literature.  On the other hand, if you must occasionally miss class for a legitimate reason, I will assume you can keep up with the work.

I call your attention to University policy against plagiarism and other forms of cheating.  Please refer to the Bulletin of Tufts University, p. 40-41, for details.

Please note that except in the most extraordinary circumstances, I will not give "incomplete" grades.  As you know, an Incomplete means that you did not complete the work of the course, and it is the policy of the College of Arts, Sciences, and Technology that incomplete work must be completed within six weeks of the beginning of the next semester (by 28 February 2001).

No extra credit work is permitted, and grades in this course are not "curved."

Topics and reading assignments by class:
Links are to the assigned texts in Perseus.

1.  Wednesday, 6 September:  introduction.  Chronological framework.  The Greek alphabet.  Introduction to Perseus.
2.  Friday, 8 September:  The Iliad and the Trojan war.  Read:  Homer, Iliad books 1-4.
3.  Monday, 11 September:  Heroes and legends.  Formulaic language.  Read:  Homer, Iliad books 5-8.
4.  Wednesday, 13 September:  The wrath of Achilles.  Read:  Homer, Iliad books 9-12.
5.  Friday, 15 September:  The will of Zeus.  Read:  Homer, Iliad books 13-16.
6.  Monday, 18 September:  What gets lost in translation.  Read:  Homer, Iliad books 17-20.
7.  Wednesday, 20 September:  Achilles and Hector.  Read:  Homer, Iliad books 21-24.
8.  Friday, 22 September:  Summary discusion of the Iliad.
9.  Monday, 25 September:  Assignment 1 due.  Gods and myth.  Read:  Hesiod, Theogony.
10.  Wednesday, 27 September:  Archaic lyric 1.  Read:  selections from Sappho.
11.  Friday, 29 September:  Archaic lyric 2.  Read:  selections from Archilochus.
12.  Monday, 2 October:  Archaic lyric 3.  Read:  Pindar Olympian 1, Pythian 4, Pythian 9.
13.  Wednesday, 4 October:  Ajax and Achilles in Pindar and Homer.  Read: Pindar Olympian 2, Pythian 8, Nemean 6, Nemean 7.
14.  Friday, 6 October:  Introduction to the fifth century.
15.  Tuesday, 10 October (Monday schedule):  History, philosophy, and the scientific world view.
16.  Wednesday, 11 October:  first exam
17.  Friday, 13 October:  The Peloponnesian war and the Athenian empire.  Read:  Thucydides 1.1-22, 2.34-54, 3.1-50, 3.81-85, 4.1-41, 5.16-26.
18.  Monday, 16 October:  The end of the war.  Read: Thucydides 5.40-51, 5.84-116, 6.1-31, 6.53-61, 6.89-92, 7.27-28, 7.60-87, 8.1, 8.45-88
19.  Wednesday, 18 October:  Assignment 2 due.  Introduction to Greek drama.  Read:  introductions to translations.
20.  Friday, 20 October:  The House of Atreus.  Read: Aeschylus, Agamemnon.
21.  Monday, 23 October:  The next generation.  Read:  Aeschylus, Choephori.
22.  Wednesday, 25 October:  The rule of law.  Read: Aeschylus, Eumenides.
23.  Friday, 27 October:  Ajax and Achilles in Sophocles.  Read:  Sophocles, Ajax.
24.  Monday, 30 October:  The Matter of Thebes.  Read:  Sophocles, Oedipus the King.
25.  Wednesday, 1 November:  The gods and the state.  Read:  Sophocles, Antigone.
26.  Friday, 3 November:  Let the weeping cease.  Read: Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus.
27.  Monday, 6 November:  Alternate versions 1.  Read: Sophocles, Electra.
28.  Wednesday, 8 November (Friday schedule):  second exam
29.  Monday, 13 November:  Assignment 3 due.  Alternate versions 2.  Read: Euripides, Electra.
30.  Wednesday, 15 November:  Euripides and women.  Read:  Euripides, Medea.
31.  Friday, 17 November:  Dionysus.  Read:  Euripides, Bacchae.
32.  Monday, 20 November (Wednesday schedule):  Introduction to comedy.
33.  Monday, 27 November:  Aristophanes and women.  Read:  Aristophanes, Lysistrata.
34.  Wednesday, 29 November:  Aristophanes and intellectuals.  Read:  Aristophanes, Clouds.
35.  Friday, 1 December:  Plato and Socrates.  Read: Plato, Apology.
36.  Monday, 4 December:  Plato and later philosophy.
37.  Wednesday, 6 December:  Eyewitness accounts.  Read: Xenophon, Apology, available in Perseus or in the library
38.  Friday, 8 December:  Assignment 4 due.  The end of the classical age.
39.  Monday, 11 December:  Review and summary.
40.  Thursday 14 December:  final exam.
 

Selected bibliography:
All of these books are available in Tisch Library.  You are encouraged to browse the stacks in the vicinity of any of these call numbers:  there are many more useful and interesting books than can be listed here.

Texts and alternate translations:
Homer, Iliad, translated by Michael Reck.  New York:  1994.  PA4025.A2 R37 1994
–––––––––––––––, translated by Robert Fagles.  New York:  1990.  PA4025.A2 F33 1990
–––––––––––––––, translated by Robert Fitzgerald.  Garden City:  1974.  PA4025.A2 F5
–––––––––––––––, translated by Richmond Lattimore.  Chicago:  1962.  PA4025.A2 L35 1962
Hesiod, Theogony, translated by Richmond Lattimore.  Ann Arbor:  1959.  PA4010.E5 O6 1959
–––––––––––––––, translated by H. G. Evelyn-White.   Cambridge, London, New York:  1929.  PA3162.H6c
Archilochus, Sappho, Alcman, translated by Guy Davenport.  Berkeley:  1980.  PA3622 .D38
Sappho, translated by Mary Barnard.  Berkeley:  1957.  PA4408.E5 B3
Pindar, Selected Odes, translated by Carl A. P. Ruck and William H. Matheson.  Ann Arbor:  1968.  PA4275.E5 R8
Thucydides, translated by Rex Warner.  Harmondsworth:  1975.  DF229.T5 J6 1975
–––––––––––––––, translated by Richard Crawley.  New York:  1934.  DF229.T5 C7
The Landmark Thucydides, translated by Richard Crawley, edited by Robert B. Strassler.  New York:  1996.  DF229.T55 C7 1996
Aeschylus, The Oresteia, translated by Peter Meineck.  Indianapolis:  1998.  PA3827.A7 M45 1998
–––––––––––––––, translated by Ted Hughes.  New York:  1999.  PA3827.A7 H84 1999
Sophocles, The Oedipus Cycle, translated by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald.  New York:  1969.  PA4414.A2 F5 1969
Sophocles, The Theban Plays, translated by David Grene.  New York:  1994.  PA4414 .A2 1994
Sophocles, Ajax, translated by Herbert Golder and Richard Pevear.  Oxford:  1999.  PA4414.A5 G65 1999
Sophocles, translated by Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones.  Cambridge:  1994.  PA4414.A1 L56 1994
Euripides, Medea, Hippolytus, Electra, translated by James Morwood.  Oxford:  1997.  PA3975 .A2 1997
Women on the Edge, plays by Euripides, translated by Ruby Blondell.  New York:  1999.  PA3975 .A2 1998c (includes Medea)
Euripides, Bacchae, translated by Stephen Esposito.  Newburyport:  1998.  PA3975.B2 E86 1998
Three Plays by Aristophanes:  Staging Women, translated by Jeffrey Henderson.  New York:  1996.  PA3877 .A2 1996 (includes Lysistrata)
Aristophanes, Acharnians, Clouds, Lysistrata, translated by Alan Sommerstein.  Harmondsworth:  1973  PA3875.A28 S6 1973
The Last Days of Socrates, translated by Hugh Tredennick.  Harmondsworth:  1969.  B358 .T7 1969
Four Texts on Socrates, translated by Thomas G. West and Grace Starry West.  Ithaca:  1998 B316 .F68 1998
Xenophon, The Shorter Socratic Writings, translated by Robert C. Bartlett.  Ithaca:  1996. B316.X5 B37 1996

Other books:
W. S. Allen, Vox Graeca.  London:  1968.  PA267 .A4
Mary Beard and John Henderson, Classics:  a Very Short Introduction.  Oxford:  1995.  PA3009 .B4 1995
John Boardman, Greek Art.  London:  1996.  N5630 .B58 1996
––––––––––, Jasper Griffin, Oswyn Murray, The Oxford History of the Classical World.  Oxford:  1986.  DE59 .O94 1986
Eric Csapo and William Slater,  The Context of Ancient Drama.  Ann Arbor:  1995.  PA3024 .C75 1995
Andrew Dalby, Siren Feasts:  a History of Food and Gastronomy in Greece.  London:  1996.  TX641 .D34 1996
James Davidson, Courtesans and Fishcakes.  New York:  1998.  DF275 .D23 1998
Kenneth Dover, The Greeks.  Austin:  1981.  DF77 .D68 1981
John H. Finley, Pindar and Aeschylus.  Cambridge:  1955. PA4276 .F55
Moses Finley, The Ancient Economy.  Berkeley:  1973.  HC31 .F5
Michael Grant, Atlas of Ancient History.  New York:  1994.  G1033 .G65 1994 (reference)
Jasper Griffin, Homer on Life and Death.  Oxford:  1980.  PA4037 .G74
Victor Davis Hanson and John Heath, Who Killed Homer?  New York:  1998.  PA78.U6 H36 1998
Gilbert Highet, The Classical Tradition.  New York:  1949.  PN883 .H5
Simon Hornblower and Anthony Spawforth, The Oxford Classical Dictionary.  New York:  1966.  DE5 .O9 1996
Albert Lord, The Singer of Tales.  Cambridge:  1960.  PN1303 .L62
Douglas MacDowell, Aristophanes & Athens.  New York, Oxford:  1995.  PA3879 .M23 1995
Thomas Martin, Ancient Greece from Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times.  New Haven:  1996.  DF77 .M3 1996
Gregory Nagy, The Best of the Achaeans.  Baltimore:  1999. PA3015.H43 N34 1999
J. J. Pollitt, Art and Experience in Classical Greece.  Cambridge, UK:  1972.  N5630 .P54
Kenneth Reckford, Aristophanes’ Old-and-New Comedy.  Chapel Hill:  1987. PA3879 .R4 1987
L. D. Reynolds and Nigel Wilson,  Scribes and Scholars.  Oxford:  1974.  Z40 .R4 1974
Stephen Scully, Homer and the Sacred City.  Ithaca:  1990.  PA4037 .S4215 1990
George Steiner, Antigones.  New York:  1984.  PA4413.A7 S76 1984
––––––––––, Homer in English.  New York:  1996.  PA4025.A15 S74 1996
Cedric Whitman, Aristophanes and the Comic Hero.  Cambridge:  1964.  PA3879 .W5
––––––––––, Homer and the Heroic Tradition.  Cambridge:  1958.  PA4037 .W66
––––––––––, Sophocles:  a Study of Heroic Humanism.  Cambridge:  1951.  PA4417 .W5

On-line resources:
Introduction to the fifth century BC
Perseus:  a digital library with an extensive collection on Ancient Greece
Diotima:   Women and Gender in the Ancient World
Suda On Line:  a 10th-century Greek encyclopedia of classical antiquity, being translated into English by a team of scholars
Ancient Medicine/Medicina Antiqua:  an extensive site on medicine in the ancient world
Ancient Greece in Fiction:  a bibliography of novels and short stories set in the ancient world
Fragment of a Greek Tragedy:  a well-known parody by A. E. Housman (yes, the poet:  he was also a classical scholar)
Voice of the Shuttle:  the best gateway site for humanities research
American Philological Association (APA):  the professional association for classicists in the US
Classical Association of New England (CANE):  the professional association for classicists in New England
Tufts University Classics Department:  course descriptions and faculty listing