Tentative Schedule of Readings for CLST 1003: Fall, 2009
Professor Daniel B. Levine
Illusration: Coin of the Delphic Amphictyony. Apollo seated on the Omphalos (Navel
Stone), with laurel crown and laurel branch, kithahra, and tripod in the
background.
Before the first class, please fill out the Student
Information Form and send it by email to Ms. Merced. Thanks!
Students will read the assignments and bring to class the appropriate
typewritten work as outlined on the READING
REACTION AND STUDY QUESTIONS pages.
Week 1
August 24 Monday. Introduction and Welcome to CLST 1003. (Hand
in Student Information Sheet.)
August 26 Wednesday. Biers Chapter 1: Archaeology in Greece (Study Questions Due).
August 28 Friday. Biers Chapter 2: Who were the Minoans? (Study
Questions Due).
Week 2
August 31 Monday. Biers Chapter 3: Who were the Mycenaeans? (Study Questions Due).
September 02 Wednesday. Biers Chapter 4. What were the Dark Ages? (Study Questions Due).
September 04 Friday. Iliad 1-4. Achilles’ wrath against Agamemnon.
Zeus’ Plan. Catalog of the Ships. Duel of Paris and Menelaus. Helen’s relationship
with Priam, Paris, and Aphrodite. Menelaus’ Wound. Agamemnon rallies the
Achaeans. READING REACTION Due.
Week 3
September 07 Monday. LABOR DAY. No class. Read the Iliad!
September 09 Wednesday. Iliad 5-8: Diomedes’ aristeia.
Trading gold armor for bronze. Hector’s Farewell to Andromache. Hector’s
duel with Ajax. Hera and Athena try to interfere in the battle. READING REACTION Due.
September 11 Friday. Iliad 9-12: Achilles rejects the embassy
from Agamemnon. Night raid by Odysseus and Diomedes and death of Dolon.
Agamemnon’s aristeia. Nestor’s mighty wine cup. Battle at the Achaean
wall. READING REACTION Due.
Week 4
September 14 Monday. Biers, Chapter 5: The Geometric Period. What we
can learn from stick figures on giant amphorae? (Study
Questions Due.)
September 16 Wednesday. Iliad 13-16: Battle at the ships. Hera
seduces Zeus. Trojans get the upper hand. Zeus cries bloody tears for Sarpedon.
Hector kills Patroclus. READING
REACTION Due.
September 18 Friday. Iliad 17-20: Achilles Mourns and Rages. Thetis
gets her son divine arms. Agamemnon’s confession. Aeneas escapes Achilles.
READING REACTION Due.
Week 5
September 21 Monday. Iliad 21-24: Bizarre battle with river Xanthus.
Gods Fight Gods (Divine Comedy). Hector flees Achilles and dies. Ghost of
Patroclus and his funeral games. Priam ransoms his son’s body. Hector’s
funeral. READING REACTION Due.
September 23 Wednesday. Review. No regular class. Honors section meets.
September 25 Friday. Examination #1. Iliad and Archaeology.
Week 6
September 28 Monday. NO CLASS. (YOM KIPPUR). Work on Iliad Paper.
September 30 Wednesday. Iliad
Essays Due (to Kimpel Hall 425, Dr. Levine’s mail box, by 3:30 pm.
No late essays will be accepted. No regular class. Honors section
meets.
October 02 Friday. Biers, Chapter 6: What was the “Orientalizing
Period”? What does a Greek Temple look like? STUDY
QUESTIONS DUE.
Week 7
October 05 Monday. Biers Chapter 7: Greek Art of the Archaic Period.
What made it special? (part 1) STUDY
QUESTIONS DUE.
October 07 Wednesday. Biers Chapter 7: Greek Art of the Archaic Period.
What made it special? (part 2) STUDY
QUESTIONS DUE.
October 09 Friday. Herodotus, Histories Book 1. Persia vs. Greece:
Origins of the East-West Conflict. READING
REACTION Due.
Week 8
October 12. Monday. Herodotus Histories Book 2. Egypt. What really
happened to Helen. READING REACTION
Due.
October 14 Wednesday. Herodotus Histories Book 4. Darius vs. the
Scythians. Herodotus’ Anthropology. READING
REACTION Due.
October 16 Friday. Herodotus, Histories Book 5 (sections 49-125)
The Ionian revolt. Book 6 (sections 94-140) The battle of Marathon. READING REACTION Due.
Week 9
October 19 Monday. Herodotus Histories Book 7: The 300 Spartans
die defending the pass at Thermopylae. READING
REACTION Due.
October 21 Wednesday. Herodotus Histories Books 8 and 9 (sections
58-83). The Persians burn Athens but lose their fleet at Salamis. Greeks
Triumph at Plataia. READING REACTION
Due.
October 23 Friday. Honors student presentations on the Iliad
and Art. No writing assignment due.
Week 10
October 26 Monday. Biers Chapter 8: Greek Art of the Fifth Century. The
Classical Period. (PART 1). STUDY QUESTIONS
due.
October 28 Wednesday. Biers Chapter 8: Greek Art of the Fifth Century.
The Classical Period. (PART 2). STUDY
QUESTIONS due.
October 30 Friday. Thucydides Peloponnesian War Book 1: Origins of the
Athens-Sparta Conflict. Sections 1-23, and 66-145. READING
REACTION due.
Week 11
November 02 Monday. Thucydides Peloponnesian War Book 2: First War Years;
Pericles’ Funeral Oration; the Plague. Sections 1-78. READING
REACTION due.
November 04 Wednesday. Thucydides Peloponnesian War Book 3, Revolt of
Mytilene, Stasis on Corcyra. Sections 1-84, and 104. READING
REACTION due.
November 06 Friday. Thucydides Peloponnesian War Books 4 and 5: Athenians
capture Spartans alive on Pylos. Book 4 Sections 1-48, Book 5: Death of
Brasidas. Peace Treaty. Athens Crushes Melos. Book 5 sections 1-26, and
84-116. READING REACTION due.
Week 12
November 09 Monday. Thucydides Peloponnesian War. Books 6, 7: Athens
sends fleet to Sicily and suffers disaster.
Book 6 Sections 6.1-61, and 6.88-105, Book 7 sections 1-17, 42-56, and
71-87, Book 8: Aftermath of Sicilian Expedition, sections 1-2. READING REACTION due.
November 11 Wednesday. Iliad and Art Report (Honors Presentation).
No Writing Assignment. Possible Quizlet on Thucydides.
Friday, November 13 Friday. Tragedy: Aeschylus, Agamemnon. READING REACTION due.
Week 13
November 16 Monday. Tragedy: Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers.
READING REACTION due.
November 18 Wednesday. Tragedy: Aeschylus, The Furies. READING REACTION due.
November 20 Friday. Comedy: Aristophanes, Birds. READING
REACTION due.
Week 14
November 23 Monday. Comedy: Aristophanes: Lysistrata. READING REACTION due.
November 25 Wednesday. NO CLASS. Fall Break
November 27 Friday. NO CLASS. Fall Break
Week 15
November 30 Monday. Comedy: Aristophanes Women at the Thesmophoria.
READING REACTION due. CLICK
HERE FOR SOME PICTURES AND NOTES RELEVANT TO WOMEN AT THE THESMOPHORIA.
December 02 Wednesday. Comedy in Performance. No Writing Assignment.
Possible Quizlet on Tragedy/Comedy.
December 04 Friday. Honors student presentations on Iliad and
Art. No writing assignments due.
Week 16
December 7 Monday. Examination #2.
Monday, 14 December, 2009. Deadline for Honors
Section papers.
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