Course Calendar with Readings and Assignments (subject to modification)

Readings are to be completed before class on the day for which they are assigned.
Please print out the online readings and bring them to lecture and discussion.
Week 1 (begins Wed Sept. 5) M: Introduction
• Start next week’s reading

PART I: ORIGINS: WARRIORS AND CIVILIZATION

Week 2
M 9/10: Near Eastern Origins
W 9/12: Background to Gilgamesh, continued
• Reading (i.e. to be completed before Wednesday’s class): Epic of Gilgamesh

Week 3
M 9/17: Gilgamesh: Transmission and themes (Nature and Civilization)
W 9/19: The World of the Iliad
• Reading : Iliad, books 1-8; Roberts, Book 1, ch. 1 “Bedrock.”

Week 4
M 9/24: The authorship of the Iliad
• Reading: Iliad, books 9-16
W 9/26: The Iliad, continued

Week 5 *no discussion sections this week*
M 10/1: The Iliad, continued
• Reading: Iliad, books 17-24
W 10/3: TEST 1

Week 6 (Monday class schedule will be followed on Tuesday 10/9)
T 10/9: Intro. to Classical Greece and Greek tragedy
• Reading: Aeschylus, Oresteia;
Roberts, Book 1, ch. 2, “Ancient Greece.”
W 10/11: Conflicting loyalties in the Oresteia
Movie (time and place T.B.A.): The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

PART II: THE CLASSICAL WORLD: GODS, FAMILY, AND STATE
Week 7: The Classical age of Athens
M 10/15: The Bacchae, Nature and Civilization
• Reading: Euripides’ Bacchae
W 10/17: Greek Philosophy
• Reading: Plato, Republic, Book 7 (http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/republic.8.vii.html)
Movie (time and place T.B.A.): The Matrix

Week 8: Roman piety and its discontents
M 10/22: Founding the state: Livy, Virgil, and Rome’s Golden Ages
• Reading: Livy on Lucretia (http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/ancient/livy-rape.html);
Horatius and Mucius (http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/txt/ah/Livy/Livy02.html) scroll to the appropriate section 2.10 -13); Roberts, Book 1, ch. 3 “Making of the Roman World.”
W 10/24: Christianity and the empire
• Reading: Passion of Perpetua (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/perpetua.html) and start on Apuleius, Golden Ass for next week

Week 9
M 10/29: Intro to Apuleius
• Reading: Apuleius, Golden Ass, Books 1-6;
Roberts, Book 1, chapter 4 “Imperial Rome and World History.”
W 10/31: Lucius the hero?

Week 10 – *no discussion sections this week*
M 11/5: Gods and religion in the Golden Ass
• Reading: Apuleius, Golden Ass, Books 7-11
W 11/7: TEST 2

PART III: LATE ANTIQUITY AND THE MIDDLE AGES: SAINTS, AND MONKS

Week 11 *no class Monday*
W 11/14: Augustine and Late Antiquity
• Reading: Augustine, Confessions Books 3: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/augustine/Pusey/book03;
and Book 8 http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/augustine/Pusey/book08;
Roberts, Book 2, ch. 1 “Re-definition.”

Week 12 *no discussion sections this week (Thanksgiving)*
M 11/19: The Middle Ages: Medieval monasticism and reform movements: Franciscans and Dominicans
• Reading: Thomas of Celano, Lives of Saint Francis, http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/stfran-lives.html
Roberts, Book 2, ch. 2 “Re-shaping Of the West.”
W 11/21: Monasticism and reform, continued.
• reading Abelard’s Historia Calamitatum, introduction (pp. 9-55 in my edition)

PART IV: RENAISSANCES AND THE REFORMATION

Week 13
M 11/26: The Twelfth Century Renaissance?
W 11/28: Abelard and the rise of the individual?
• Reading: Abelard, Historia Calamitatum, (pp. 57-106) and Letter 1 (pp. 109-18); Roberts, Book 2, ch. 5 “Civilization of the Middle Ages”
Movie (time and place T.B.A.): The Name of the Rose

Week 14
M 12/3: Abelard and Heloise, continued
W 12/5: Renaissance in Florence: Petrarch and the creation of the Middle Ages
• Reading: Petrarch, Ascent of Mount Ventoux, http://history.hanover.edu/texts/petrarch/pet17.html
Letter to Cicero http://history.hanover.edu/texts/petrarch/pet09.html;
Roberts, Book 2, ch. 6 “New Prospects.”

Week 15 *no discussion section this week*
M 12/10: Epilogue: The Reformation
• Reading: Martin Luther, Address to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation (1520) (http://history.hanover.edu/texts/luthad.html)
Letter to Pope Leo on the Freedom of a Christian (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/luther-freedomchristian.html);
Roberts, Book 3, chapter 2 “Society and Belief.”
W 12/12: review and wrap up



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