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GRK 120B Course Syllabus: Spring 2006
Professor Leonard C. Muellner
Office: Rabb 130, tel. (781)-736-2185 (voicemail)
Department Office: Rabb 140, x6-2180
Email: muellner@brandeis.edu
Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. and by appointment.
Class Meets: Block L, Mondays and Wednesdays, 3:40 p.m. - 5:00 p.m., Rabb 335
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.
TEXTS (in bookstore)
1) C. Carey and R.A. Reid, eds. Demosthenes: Selected Private Speeches, Cambridge University Press, 1985, reprinted 2000 (ISBN: 0521283736).
2) J. Rusten, ed. Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War, Book II, Cambridge University Press, 1989 (ISBN: 0521339294).
REQUIREMENTS
Midterm examination, in-course presentation on an aspect of the Athenian legal or political system, Final paper based on presentation.
CONTENT
We will read two speeches of Demosthenes (Against Konon and Against Dionysodoros) and the Funeral Oration by Perikles in Book II of The Peloponnesian War.
ACADEMIC INTEGRITY
You are expected to be familiar with and to follow the University’s policies on academic integrity (see http://www.brandeis.edu/studentlife/sdje/ai/ ). Faculty will refer any suspected instances of alleged dishonesty to the Office of Student Development and Conduct. Instances of academic dishonesty may result in sanctions including but not limited to failure in the course, failure on the assignment in question, suspension from the University and/or educational programs.
Photographs: [left] Thucydides, mosaic, from: http://www.livius.org/th/thucydides/thucydides00.html and [right]Demosthenes, statue, from: http://www.nndb.com/people/705/000094423/.
Greek text: excerpt from Demosthenes, On the Crown (199-208), from http://www.rhapsodes.fll.vt.edu/demosthenes.htm.
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