CLASSICS 181, FALL 2011 FINAL EXAM READINGS


 

READINGS FOR Nov. 1-3:

On-line Lectures: Tyranny in Athens, Rise of the Athenian Empire; Radical Democracy in Athens

PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS: Plutarch's Life of Pericles.

 

 

READINGS FOR Nov. 8-10:

On-line Lectures: Pottery Forms and the Greek Male Symposium; Greek Gender Relations and Sexuality; The Development of Greek Rational Thought; The Decline of Greece & Rise of the Hellenistic World;

PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS:

Aristophanes, Lysistrata.


READINGS FOR Nov. 15-17:

On-line Lectures: Classical China; On-line Lectures: Archaic Rome; The Roman Constitution;  The Roman Aristocratic Ethos;

PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS: Confucius Readings (Read 2 or 3 pages of each): The Commonwealth State; the Lun Yu; the Analects;

 

READINGS FOR Nov. 22:

On-line Lectures: Roman Imperialism;

PRIMARY SOURCE READINGS: Plautus, The Braggart Warrior (Miles Gloriosus)

 

Thanksgiving Break, Nov. 24

 

QUIZ 2, IN CLASS, TUESDAY DEC. 1, IN CLASS

 


READINGS FOR Nov. 29-Dec. 1:
On-line Lectures: The Fall of the Roman Republic; Dictators and Emperors;

 

 

 

READINGS FOR Dec. 6-8:

On-line Lectures: The Pax Romana; Late Philosophical Developments;   Ancient Africa

 

 

FINAL EXAM, TBA