HUM 101.02 : THE ANCIENT GREEK WORLD
Fall Semester, 2006
Gerald
V. Lalonde
1321 Park St., 2nd floor | x 4264 | lalondg@grinnell.edu | Office Hours: Daily by request (e-mail/phone/viva voce) or assignment
And now Zeus who gathers the clouds spoke a word to Apollo:
'Go if you will, beloved Phoibos, and rescue Sarpedon
from under the weapons, wash the dark suffusion of blood from him,
then carry him far away and wash him in a running river,
anoint him in ambrosia, put ambrosial clothing upon him;
then give him into the charge of swift messengers to carry him,
of Sleep and Death, who are twin brothers, and these two shall lay him
down presently within the rich countryside of broad Lykia
where his brothers and countrymen shall give him due burial
with tomb and gravestone. Such is the privilege of those who have
perished.'
| Homer, Iliad, 16.666-675 trans. Richmond Lattimore |
The Euphronios Krater
Attic Red-Figure, ca. 515 B. C.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
(soon to be returned to Italy, whence illicitly acquired)
Humanities 101 offers a foundation for further study of the liberal arts and is devoted to the close reading and discussion of translated works of Greek literature (the Homeric epics, tragic drama, Aristotle's Poetics, Platonic dialogues, and Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War) and to exercises in writing and spoken presentations based on these works. The main goals of the course will be enhanced appreciation of the literature and improvement in the skills of imaginative but disciplined interpretation, speech, and writing. No prerequisites.