Class Syllabus

September 5 . Introduction October 19 Xenophon: Memorabilia (1)
September 7 : Herodotus : Histories October 24 Xenophon : Memorabilia (2)
September 12 Herodotus : Histories October 26 Callimachus : Hymn V (1)
September 14 : Histories October 31 Callimachus : Hymn V (2)
September 19 Thucydides : History November 2
September 21 Thucydides : History November 9 Theocritus : Idyll VII (1)
September 26 Thucydides : History November 14 Theocritus : Idyll VII (2)
September 28 Isocrates: Panegyric November 16 Plutarch : Life of Alexander (1)
October 3 Isocrates : Panegyric November 21 Plutarch : Life of Alexander (2)
October 5 Demosthenes : On the Crown (1) November 28 . Lucian : Icaromenippus (1)
October 10 Demosthenes : On the Crown (2) November 30 : Lucian Icaromenippus (2)
October 12 Plato : Symposium (1) December 5 Longus : Daphnis and Chloe (1)
October 17 Plato : Symposium (2) December 7 Longus : Daphnis and Chloe (2)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  September 5 . Introduction
  Athenian democracy and the birth of historiography and oratory
   
  Secondary Readings : (historical background)
M. Hansen : The Athenian Democracy in the Age of Demosthenes, Oxford 1991
K. Raaflaub, The transformations of Athens in the Fifth Century in Democracy, Empire and the Arts ed. D. Boedeker-K. Raaflaub, Cambridge Mass 1998: 15-41
 
  September 7 : Herodotus : Histories
  Translation Herodotus I.1-33 and 7.1-21
   
  General introduction : the structure of the Histories
  Explanation Prologue 1. 1-6 (1) 9
   
  Secondary Readings :
T. Krischer, ' Herodots Proomion' Hermes 93, 1965 159-167
J. Gould, Herodotus New York 198
 
  September 12 Herodotus : Histories
   
  Explanation The causes of the Persian wars : 7.8 : The speech of Xerxes
   
  September 14 : Histories
   
  Causes of the Persian Wars 7.1-18
Explanation 3 : The causes of the Persian wars : 7.10-18 : Xerxes/Artabanus
   
  Secondary Readings :
H. Immerwahr ,'Aspects of Historical Causation in Herodotus' TAPA LXXXVII, 1956 241-280
R. Van Lieshout "A Dream on a kairos of History' Mnemosyne XXIII 225-249
 
  September 19 Thucydides : History
  Translation 1. 1-23 and 2. 35-46
General introduction : the structure of the History of Peloponnesian War
The aim and the method
   
  Secondary Readings :
A. Andrewes 'Thucydides and the Causes of the War', CQ IX 1959 223 sq
A. Parry, 'Thucydides' Historical Perspective' YCS 22,1972: 47-61
P.J. Rhodes, 'Thucydides on the Causes of Peloponnesian War' Hermes 115, 1987: 145-165
J. de Romilly , 'L'utilit� de l'histoire selon Thucydide' in Histoire et Historiens dans l'antiquit�, Fondation Hardt 4, 1956 : 41-81
   
  September 21 Thucydides : History
   
  Explanation : the Prologue 1.1 and 22-23
 
  September 26 Thucydides : History
   
  Explanation : Funeral oration 2. 37-41
   
  Secondary Readings :
H. Flashar, ' Der Epitaphios des Perikles' SBHAW (Heidelberg) 1969
   
  September 28 Isocrates: Panegyric
  Translation 23-99
General introduction on Isocrates and the structure of the Panegyric
   
  Explanation : Panegyric 23-29
   
  Secondary Readings :
N. Loraux, The Invention of Athens : The Funeral Oration in the Classical City, Cambridge Mass 1986
 
  October 3 Isocrates : Panegyric
   
  Explanation : 45-50
   
  October 5 Demosthenes : On the Crown (1)
  Introduction, structure of the speech
Translation 1-16 and 188-210
   
  Explanation 10-15
   
  Secondary Readings :
Aeschines Against Ctesiphon
G. Rowe, ' The Portrait of Aeschines in the Oration On the Crown' TAPA 97, 1966 397-406
C. Wooten "A few observations on form and content in Demosthenes' Phoenix 1. 1977 258-261
 
  October 10 Demosthenes : On the Crown (2)
   
  Explanation : 192-198
   
  October 12 Plato : Symposium (1)
  Translation 201d-223d
   
  Secondary Readings :
F.M. Cornford, 'The Doctrine of Eros in Plato's Symposium' repr. in Plato II ed.
G. Vlastos, Garden City 1971 : 119-131
P. Friedlander, Plato, Princeton 1969, vol. III: 3-34
G,Vlastos 'The Individual as Object of Love in Plato' in Platonic Studies, Princeton 1981 : 3-42
   
  October 17 Plato : Symposium (2)
 
  October 19 Xenophon: Memorabilia (1)
  Translation 1.2 and 2.1
   
  Secondary Readings :
D.R Morrison ' Xenophon's Socrates as teacher' in The Socratic Movement ed.
P. A. Vander Waerdt, Ithaca 1994 :181-208
W.H. Higgins Xenophon the Athenian Albany 1977
   
  October 24 Xenophon : Memorabilia (2)
   
  October 26 Callimachus : Hymn V (1)
  Translation Hymn 5
   
  Secondary Readings :
P. Parsons, 'Identities in Diversity' in Images and Ideologies ed Bulloch etc, Berkeley 1993: 152-170
A.W. Bulloch, 'The Future of an Hellenistic Illusion: Some Observations on Callimachus and Religion' MH 41, 1984 : 209-230
A.Cameron, Calimachus and his Critics, Princeton 1995
 
  October 31 Callimachus : Hymn V (2)
   
  November 2
   
  November 9 Theocritus : Idyll VII (1)
  Translation Idyll 7
   
  Secondary Readings :
N. Krevans 'Geography and the literary tradition in Theocritus VII' TAPA 113 1983 201-220
R. Hunter, Theocritus and the Archeology of Greek Poetry, Cambridge 1996
   
  November 14 Theocritus : Idyll VII (2)
   
  November 16 Plutarch : Life of Alexander (1)
  Translation 1-23
   
  Secondary Readings :
J.Mossman, "Tragedy and epic in Plutarch's Alexander' JHS 108, 1988 83-93 A.E.Wardman, "Plutarch and Alexander" CQ 5, 1955, 96-107
 
  November 21 Plutarch : Life of Alexander (2)
   
  November 28 . Lucian : Icaromenippus (1)
  Translation 1-34 (all)
   
  Secondary Readings :
R. B. Branham, Unruly Eloquence: Lucian and the Comedy of Tradition, Cambridge Mass. 1989
   
  November 30 : Lucian Icaromenippus (2)
   
  December 5 Longus : Daphnis and Chloe (1)
  Translation 1.1-10 and 2.1-10
   
  Secondary Readings :
L.R, Cresci, 'The Novel of Longus the Sophist and the Pastoral Tradition" in Oxford Readings in Greek Novel ed.
S. Swain, Oxford 1999 : 210-242
T. Pandiri, 'Daphnis and Chloe. The Art of Pastoral play' Ramus 14, 1985, 116-141
S. Sa�d ' Rural Society in Greek novel ' in Oxford Readings in Greek Novel ed.
S. Swain, Oxford 1999: 83-107
 
  December 7 Longus : Daphnis and Chloe (2)