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CLAS 115B Course Syllabus: Spring 2006
Professor Cheryl L. Walker
Office: Rabb 138, tel. (781)-736-2190 (voicemail)
Department Office: Rabb 140, x6-2180
Email: cwalker@brandeis.edu
Office Hours: Tuesdays and Fridays 12:00 - 2:00 p.m., Thursdays 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m., and by appointment.
Class Meets: Block H, Tuesdays and Fridays, 10:40 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
If you are a student with a documented disability on record at Brandeis University and wish to have a reasonable accommodation made for you in this class, please see me immediately.
READING SCHEDULE
JANUARY
17 Introduction
20 Cultural Hellenism: Iliad 22-24
20 Ungraded exercise #1
24 Governmental theory and practice: Aristotle, Politics 1
27 Greeks abroad: map and ungraded exercise #2
31 Greeks and Persians: Herodotus 5
FEBRUARY
3 Greeks and Persian: Plutarch, Themistocles
3 Ungraded exercise #3
7 The Peloponnesian War: Aristophanes, The Acharnians
10 Thucydides (selections)
10 PAPER 1 DUE
14 Xenophon, The Persian Expedition 1,3
17 The Fourth Century: Plato (choice of dialogue)
************SPRING BREAK************
28 Philip and Macedon
MARCH
3 Arrian, Campaigns of Alexander 1-2
7 Arrian, Campaigns of Alexander 3-4
10 Arrian, Campaigns of Alexander 3-4
14 Arrian, Campaigns of Alexander 5-7
17 Arrian, Campaigns of Alexander 5-7
21 Arrian, Campaigns of Alexander 5-7
21 PAPER 2 DUE
24 Plutarch, Alexander
28 Plutarch, Alexander
31 Plutarch, Alexander
APRIL
4 Quintus Curtius Rufus, History of Alexander 9-10
11 Greek Alexander Romance 2-3
************PASSOVER BREAK************
25 Ferdowski, Shah-Nama (selections)
28 PAPER 3 DUE
MAY
2 Conclusion
TEXTS
Texts will be available on reserve; some are also available in the Brandeis B&N bookstore, as well as from online resources such as Perseus. I am not unduly concerned about particular translations or editions, but that will necessitate complete citation of whatever versions you in fact use. If you do have discretionary funds, I would recommend purchase of whatever Penguins you can afford; while they are not usually artistic, they do tend to be accurate, cheap and easy to locate.
Because this is a writing-intensive course, the reading is relatively spare; nevertheless, because I expect considerable class participation, I recommend reading the texts in advance of class discussion.
Photograph: The 'Delos' Alexander, The Louvre Museum, Paris, from: http://www.livius.org/aj-al/
alexander/alexander_pic/alexander_pics.html.
To report broken links, please contact Janet Barry at jbarry@brandeis.edu or x6-2180.
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