CLST1003_2021

Fulbright College of Arts
and Sciences. University of Arkansas.

Welcome To Classical Studies 1003: Spring, 2021.

Professor Daniel B. Levine

Click here to see information about this picture (Priam begs Achilles for Hector’s body, from Iliad 24.).

COURSE SYLLABUS

CLASS SCHEDULE AND READING ASSIGNMENTS

CLASSICS IN OUR WORLD Assignments

HONORS SECTION

Tips on THOUGHTFUL THOUGHTS CLICK TO GET SOME HELPFUL POINTERS TO IMPROVE YOUR SLOs.

How to write the Greek Alphabet for this class

Student Information Form to Fill Out AND SEND IN Before Class Begins.


Some Class Resources

EXTRA CREDIT. SECRETS OF THE PARTHENON. WATCH THE 54-MINUTE VIDEO; WRITE A 2-PAGE REACTION WITH THOUGHTFUL THOUGHTS. DUE  ON OR BEFORE MARCH 29, 2021. https://vimeo.com/23914660

What is a Greek?

TWENTY THINGS WE OWE TO GREECE (by Stephen McGinty)

Some Images for Class

Periods in Greek History

Some Fun Class Activities

A Handy Map of Greece

Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos. The Grandeur That Was Greece! (Stan Lee: Marvel Comics)


LINKS for students interested in Classical Studies:

Dumb Classics Jokes

CLASSICAL STUDIES STUDENT EXCUSE PAD

Perseus Project Home Page: Classics texts and pictures galore.


Ancient Greek Eclipses:

Archilochos of Paros (7th century BC):  Poem on a total eclipse (fr. 122).

Anaxagoras (born ca. 500-480 BCE) of Clazomenae (Greek Asia Minor) “was the first to give a correct explanation of eclipses…” Article: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/anaxagoras/

Thales (born ca. 624 BCE) of Miletus (Greek Asia Minor) perhaps predicts the solar eclipse of May 28, 585 BCE (Herodotus Histories 1. 74).  Article:  http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1994JHA….25..275P

Thucydides the Athenian historian states (incorrectly) that solar eclipses occurred during the Peloponnesian War with more frequency than otherwise attested (History of the Peloponnesian War 1.23.3).

Thucydides the Athenian historian records a solar eclipse in the first year  of the Peloponnesian War: August 3, 430 BCE (History of the Peloponnesian War 2.28).

Thucydides the Athenian historian records a solar eclipse in the eighth year of the Peloponnesian War, March 21, 422 BCE (History of the Peloponnesian War 4.52).

The Athenian general Nicias’ disastrous decision in reaction to the lunar eclipse of August 27, 413 BCE, leading to the Athenian defeat in Syracuse (Sicily), as recorded in Thucydides’  History of the Peloponnesian War (7.50). Article: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1995JRASC..89…11M

The Hellenistic Antikythera Mechanism could predict eclipses (ca. 100 BCE). Article: https://www.livescience.com/60144-antikythera-computer-predicted-eclipses.html   

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