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Wheelwright, Philip, ed. The Presocratics. Indianapolis:
Odyssey Press, 1966. |
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Allen, Reginald E., ed. Greek Philosophy: Thales to Aristotle.
3rd ed. New York: Free Press, 1985. |
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Xenophon. Conversations of Socrates. Trans. Hugh Tredennick
and Robin Waterfield. London: Penguin Books, 1990. |
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Saunders, Jason L., ed. Greek and Roman Philosophy after Aristotle.
New York: Free Press, 1966. |
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Lucretius. On the Nature of the Universe. Trans. Ronald
Latham. London: Penguin Books, 1951. |
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Th 8/24 |
Introduction |
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Historical and cultural setting |
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Archaeology of ideas |
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Tu 8/29 |
Nature of the evidence, pp. 275-77, p. 16 (in Wheelwright) |
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Map of birthplaces of philosophers (handout) |
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Thales, pp. 44-52 |
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Anaximander, pp. 54-59 |
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Anaximenes, pp. 60-63 |
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Th 8/31 |
Xenophanes, pp. 32-39 |
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Pythagoreans, pp. 211-34 |
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Pythagorean system of planets (handout) |
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Tu 9/5 |
Heraclitus, pp. 69-89 |
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Th 9/7 |
Parmenides, pp. 95-105 |
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Zeno, pp. 107-12 |
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Melissus, pp. 113-19 |
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Tu 9/12 |
Empedocles, pp. 126-54 |
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Anaxagoras, pp. 160-74 |
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Th 9/14 |
Leucippus, pp. 178-81 |
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Democritus, pp. 182-99 |
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Archelaus (handout) |
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Alcmaeon (handout) |
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Medical texts, pp. 265-74 |
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Hippocratic text (handout) |
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Tu 9/19 |
Sophists: |
Protagoras, pp. 239-48 |
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Gorgias, pp. 248-58 |
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Gorgias' Defense of Helen (handout) |
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Prodicus, p. 258 |
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Prodicus' Choice of Heracles (in Penguin Xenophon, pp.
106-09) |
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Antiphon, pp. 259-60 |
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Callicles (handout from Plato's Gorgias) |
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Thrasymachus, p. 259 in Allen, and handout from Plato's Republic |
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Hippias: beginning of Plato's longer Hippias (handout) |
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Critias, p. 260 |
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Fragment from Critias' Sisyphus (handout) |
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Th 9/21 |
Socrates: |
Xenophon's Memorabilia 1.4, 4.3 (pp. 89-93, 190-95 in
Penguin) |
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Plato's Euthyphro (pp. 57-73 in Allen) |
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Tu 9/26 |
Socrates: |
Xenophon's Memorabilia 1.1, 1.2, 4.7 (pp. 68-85, 211-14
in Penguin) |
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Plato's Apology (pp. 74-97 in Allen) |
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Th 9/28 |
Plato: |
Meno (pp. 110-41 in Allen) |
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Tu 10/3 |
Plato: |
Phaedo (in part), pp. 155-96 |
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Th 10/5 |
Xenophon: Memorabilia 1.5, 4.5 (pp. 93-95, 202-05 in Penguin) |
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Handout from Republic 2: Ring of Gyges |
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Plato: Republic (in part), pp. 197-245 in Allen |
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Diagram of Plato's divided line (handout) |
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Drawing of Plato's cave (handout) |
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Handout from Republic 10: end of the myth of Er |
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Tu 10/10 |
Eros: |
Handout on symposium and on homo-eroticism |
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Xenophon's Memorabilia 1.3.5-15 (pp. 87-89 in Penguin) |
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Xenophon's Symposium 1, 5, 8 (pp. 227-28, 252-54, 257-65
in Penguin) |
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Plato's Phaedrus (in part), pp. 246-56 in Allen |
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Plato's Symposium (in part), pp. 142-54 |
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Th 10/12 |
Plato's Parmenides (in part), pp. 257-69 |
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Plato's Timaeus (in part), pp. 270-81 |
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Tu 10/24 |
Mid-term examination |
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Th 10/26 |
Aristotle: |
Metaphysics I, pp. 307-11 in Allen |
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Physics II, pp. 413-21, 427-32 |
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Tu 10/31 |
Aristotle: |
Metaphysics I, pp. 311-320 |
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Metaphysics IV, pp. 323-40 |
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Th 11/2 |
Aristotle |
Metaphysics VII, pp. 345-46 |
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Categories, pp. 285-91 |
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Metaphysics IX, pp. 357-69 |
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Tu 11/7 |
Aristotle: |
Metaphysics XII, pp. 369-83 |
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On the Soul III, pp. 292-306 |
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Th 11/9 |
Aristotle: |
Nicomachean Ethics I, pp. 384-96 |
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Herodotus on Solon and Croesus (handout) |
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Handout on status-symbols |
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Tu 11/14 |
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Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics II, pp. 396-408 |
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Politics I: 409-12 |
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Aristotelian fragment from the Bodleian (handout) |
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Th 11/16 |
Cynics, Cyrenaics |
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Dio of Prusa on Diogenes (handout) |
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Diogenes Laertius on Hipparchia (handout) |
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Passage from Isocrates' Helen (handout) |
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Stoics, pp. 101-110, 133-48 (in Saunders) |
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Cleanthes’ Hymn to Zeus (handout) |
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Tu 11/21 |
Epicurus, pp. 47-57 (in Saunders) |
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Lucretius, 1.1 - 2.293, 2.582-1174 (in Penguin Lucretius) |
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(N.b.: these are line-numbers, not page-numbers.) |
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Tu 11/28 |
Lucretius, |
3.1-230, 417-1094; 4.1-175, 1037-1287; 5.1-234, 772-837, 925-1240,
1448-57; 6.1-95 (in Penguin) |
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Th 11/30 |
Sceptics, pp. 152-82 |
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Tu 12/5 |
Philo, pp. 199-227 |
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Plotinus, pp. 249-75, 230-39 |
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Th 12/7 |
Early Christian writers, pp. 290-96, 305-11, 343-57 |
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Minucius Felix, pp. 297-304 |
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Lucian, pp. 183-97 |
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Tu 12/12 |
Essay examination, 2:00–4:00 P.M. |
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Grading: |
Preparation for class |
20% |
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Several short papers |
20% |
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One longer paper |
20% |
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Two examinations, written essay or viva voce |
40% |
Preparation for class. Students are expected to have
a thorough knowledge of the assigned texts for each class and
to have made notes from which they can speak to the assigned
topics or questions for the day. In addition, students will be
expected to review and retain the substance of previous classes.
With or without warning, the instructor will call upon students
for their analysis, interpretation, comparison, and criticism
of ancient texts. For most classes a few students will be assigned
to prepare brief oral presentations. Unexcused absence from class
and late arrival to class will be penalized.
Foreign-language option in Greek, Latin, or both, as "plus
2."
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