NOTE: This schedule is subject to revision.
Numbers in parentheses after “seminar” indicate which group is responsible for response papers for that seminar.
| Mon. 12-3 | Tue. 1-5 | Tue. 6-10 | Thu. 12-5 |
| 3/29: Program introduction
Lecture: Origins of Greece and Rome (Tom) |
3/30: Lecture: Greek Religion (Stephen)
Seminar Read: Kitto, ch’s 1 & 2 |
3/30: Lectures on Classical Mythology (recording) | 4/1: Lecture: The Homeric Age (Tom)
Seminar Read: Odyssey, through Book VIII |
| 4/5: Lecture: The Polis: Athens (Tom)
Read: Kitto, ch’s 3 & 4 |
4/6: Lecture: Presocratic Philosophy (Stephen)
Seminar (1) Read: Odyssey, through Book XVI |
4/6: Lectures on Classical Mythology (recording) | 4/8: Lecture: The Polis: Sparta (Tom)
Seminar (2) Read: Odyssey, to end |
| 4/12: Lecture: Thucydides, Euripides, and the Peloponnesian War (Tom)Read: Kitto, Chs 5-7
Paper on Homer due |
4/13: Lecture: Justice in the Republic (Stephen)
Seminar (2) Read: Republic, Books I-IV |
4/13: Film: Trojan Women | 4/15: Lecture: The Rise of the Roman Republic (Tom)
Seminar (1) Read: Sophocles, Antigone |
| 4/19: Lecture: Alexander the Great and Hellenistic World (Tom)
Read: Kitto, Chs. 8-10 |
4/20: Lecture: The Line, The Cave, and The Forms (Stephen)
Seminar (1) Read: Republic, Books V-VII |
4/20: Film: Rome, 1st season, episodes 1 and 12; 2nd season, episode 1 | 4/22: Workshop on Plato’s Forms
Seminar (2) Read: Euripides, The Bacchae |
| 4/26: Lecture: Roman Expansion and the Punic Wars (Tom)
Read: Kitto, Chs. 11-12 |
4/27: Lecture: Plato’s Project (Stephen)
Seminar (2) Read: Republic, Books VIII-X |
4/27: Film: Rome, 2nd season, episodes 2-4 | 4/29: Lecture: Rome Conquers Greece, Greece Conquers Rome (Tom)
Seminar (1) Read: Aeneid, through Book VI |
| 5/3: Lecture: The Roman Revolution from the Gracchi to Pompey (Tom)
Read: Starr, Chs. 1-3 Paper on Plato due. |
5/4: Lecture: Aristotelian Philosophy (Stephen)
Seminar (1) Read: Nicomachean Ethics, Book I through III, chapter 5 |
5/4: Film: Rome, 2nd season, episodes 5-7 | 5/6: Workshop on Aristotelian Virtue
Seminar (2) Read: Aeneid, to end |
| 5/10: Lecture: Caesar, Cicero and the Roman Revolution (Tom)
Read: Starr, Chs. 4-6 |
5/11:
Special Event: Dr. Sarah Levin-Richardson, “Roman Desire,” Library 1412, 10 a.m. Lecture: Aristotelian Virtue (Stephen) Seminar (2) Read: Nicomachean Ethics, Book III, chapter 6 through Book V |
5/11: Rome, 2nd season, episodes 8-10 | 5/13: Lecture: The Final Civil Conflicts of the Roman Republic and the Augustan Settlement (Tom)
Seminar (1) Read: Plutarch (Pompey, Sulla, Crassus) |
| 5/17: Lecture: Roman Women, Slaves and Plebeans (Tom)
Read: Starr, Chs. 7-9 |
5/18: Lecture:Stoics and Epicureans (Stephen)
Seminar (1) Read: Cicero, On Obligations Book I |
5/18: Film: I Claudius, episodes V and VII | 5/20: Lecture: Caesars and Pax Romana (Tom)
Seminar (2) Read: Plutarch (Caesar, Cicero) |
| 5/24: Lecture: The Era of the Good Emperors (Tom)
Read: Starr, Chs. 10-12 |
5/25: Lecture: Aurelius qua Philosopher (Stephen)
Seminar (2) Read: Aurelius, Meditations Books I-VI |
5/25:
Film: I Claudius, episodes IX and X |
5/27: Lecture: Rome and the Barbarians (Tom)
Seminar (1) Read: Suetonius (Caesar, Augustus) |
| 5/31 No Class | 6/1: Lecture: The Legacy of Ancient Philosophy (Stephen)
Seminar (1 and 2) Read: Aurelius, Meditations Books VII-XII Paper on Roman virtue due — see REVISED Final Essay Assignment |
6/1: Film: Gladiator Lecture: Diocletian, Constantine and Christianity (Tom) | 6/3: Lecture: Decline of the Roman Empire? (Tom)
Seminar (0) Read: Suetonius (Tiberius, Gaius (Caligula), Nero, Vespasian) Critical Review of Gladiator due |