Texts:

Wheelwright, Philip, ed.  The Presocratics.  Indianapolis: Odyssey Press, 1966.

Allen, Reginald E., ed.  Greek Philosophy: Thales to Aristotle.  3rd ed.  New York: Free Press, 1985.

Xenophon.  Conversations of Socrates.  Trans. Hugh Tredennick and Robin Waterfield.  London: Penguin Books, 1990.

Saunders, Jason L., ed.  Greek and Roman Philosophy afterAristotle.  New York: Free Press, 1966.

Lucretius.  On the Nature of the Universe.  Trans. Ronald Latham.  London: Penguin Books, 1951.

Th 8/30

Introduction

Historical and cultural setting

Archaeology of ideas

Tu 9/4

Nature of the evidence, pp. 275-77, p. 16 (in Wheelwright)

Map of birthplaces of philosophers (handout)

Thales, pp. 44-52

Anaximander, pp. 54-59

Anaximenes, pp. 60-63

Th 9/6

Solon's poem addressed to the Muses (handout)

Xenophanes, pp. 32-39

Pythagoreans, pp. 211-34

Pythagorean system of planets (handout)

Cicero on Pythagoras and Leon (handout)

Tu 9/11

Heraclitus, pp. 69-89

Th 9/13

Parmenides, pp. 95-105

Zeno, pp. 107-12

Melissus, pp. 113-19

Tu 9/18

Empedocles, pp. 126-54

Anaxagoras, pp. 160-74

 Th 9/20

Leucippus, pp. 178-81

Democritus, pp. 182-99

Archelaus (handout)

Alcmaeon (handout)

Medical texts, pp. 265-74

Hippocratic text (handout)

Tu 9/25

Sophists:

Protagoras, pp. 239-48

Gorgias, pp. 248-58

Gorgias' Defense of Helen (handout)

Prodicus, p. 258

Prodicus' Choice of Heracles (in Penguin Xenophon, pp. 106-09)

Antiphon, pp. 259-60

Callicles (handout from Plato's Gorgias)

Thrasymachus, p. 259 in Allen, and handout from Plato's Republic

Hippias: beginning of Plato's longer Hippias (handout)

Critias, p. 260

Fragment from Critias' Sisyphus (handout)

Th 9/27

Socrates:

Xenophon's Memorabilia 1.4, 4.3 (pp. 89-93, 190-95 in Penguin)

Plato's Euthyphro (pp. 57-73 in Allen)

Tu 10/2

Socrates:

Xenophon's Memorabilia 1.1, 1.2, 4.7 (pp. 68-85, 211-14 in Penguin)

Plato's Apology (pp. 74-97 in Allen)

Th 10/4

Plato:

Meno (pp. 110-41 in Allen)

Tu 10/9

Plato:

Phaedo 57-76, 91-107 (pp. 155-93 in Allen)

Phaedo 107a-115a (handout)

Phaedo 115-118 (pp. 193-96 in Allen)

Th 10/11

Xenophon:

Memorabilia 1.5, 4.5 (pp. 93-95, 202-05 in Penguin)

Handout from Republic 2: ring of Gyges

Plato:

Republic (in part), pp. 197-245 in Allen

Diagram of Plato's divided line (handout)

Drawing of Plato's cave (handout)

Handout from Republic 10: myth of Er

Tu 10/16

Eros:

Handout on symposium and on homo-eroticism

Xenophon's Memorabilia 1.3.5-15 (pp. 87-89 in Penguin)

Xenophon's Symposium 1, 5, 8 (pp. 227-28, 252-54, 257-65 in Penguin)

Plato's Phaedrus (in part), pp. 246-56 in Allen

Plato's Symposium (in part), pp. 142-54

Th 10/18

Plato's Parmenides (in part), pp. 257-69

Plato's Timaeus (in part), pp. 270-81

Tu 10/30

Mid-term examination

Th 11/1

Aristotle:

Metaphysics I, pp. 307-11 in Allen

Physics II, pp. 413-21, 427-32

Tu 11/6

Aristotle:

Metaphysics I, pp. 311-320

Metaphysics IV, pp. 323-40

Th 11/8

Aristotle:

Metaphysics VII, pp. 345-46

Categories, pp. 285-91

Metaphysics IX, pp. 357-69

Tu 11/13

Aristotle:

Metaphysics XII, pp. 369-83

On the Soul III, pp. 292-306

Th 11/15

Aristotle:

Nicomachean Ethics I, pp. 384-96

Herodotus on Solon and Croesus (handout)

Handout on status-symbols

Tu 11/20

Aristotle:

Nicomachean Ethics II, pp. 396-408

Politics I: 409-12

Aristotelian fragment from the Bodleian (handout)

Tu 11/27

Cynics, Cyrenaics

Dio of Prusa on Diogenes (handout)

Diogenes Laertius on Hipparchia (handout)

Passage from Isocrates' Helen (handout)

Stoics, pp. 101-110, 133-48 (in Saunders)

Cleanthes’ Hymn to Zeus (handout)

Th 11/29

Epicurus, pp. 47-57 (in Saunders)

Lucretius, 1.1 - 2.293, 2.582-1174 (in Penguin Lucretius)

(N.b.: these are line-numbers, not page-numbers.)

Tu 12/4

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)

Th 12/6

Sceptics, pp. 152-82

Tu 12/11

Philo, pp. 199-227

Plotinus, pp. 249-75, 230-39

Th 12/13

Early Christian writers, pp. 290-96, 305-11, (311-27 optional), 343-57

Minucius Felix, pp. 297-304

Lucian, pp. 183-97

Fr 12/21

Essay examination, 2:00–4:00 P.M.

Grading:

Preparation for class

20%

Three short papers

5% each

One longer paper

25%

Two examinations, written essay or viva voce

20% each