CLAS-C 101 ANCIENT GREEK CULTURE (3 CR)
Classical Studies C101 is an introductory survey of ancient Greek
culture from the Bronze Age (c. 1200) to the beginning of the
Hellenistic period (c. 323 BC). We will analyze aspects of
literature, art, architecture, society, and religion of ancient
Greece. In doing so, we will gain a better understanding of ancient
Greece as a fascinating culture in its own right, as well as of
their profound influence on the civic, artistic, and intellectual
environment of the modern world. Classes consist of two lectures a
week, followed by discussion sections on Fridays. Most of the
reading and analysis are based on primary sources (all read in
translation). Slides are an important component of the course and
will be shown in most lectures. This course fulfills the Art and
Humanities - Literature and the Arts (AHLA) requirement and the
Culture Studies - List A (CSA) requirement. There is no prerequisite
for this course.


Required texts:
Homer, Iliad (trans. Fagles), Penguin 1998
Homer, Odyssey (trans. Fagles), Penguin 1999
Aeschylus, Oresteia (trans. Meineck), Hackett 1998
Euripides V: Electra, Phoenician Woman, Bacchae (trans. Greene and
Lattimore), Chicago 1969
Plato, Symposium (trans. Griffith), Berkeley 1993
Aristophanes, Clouds (trans. Henderson), Focus Publishing 1993
Thomas Martin, Ancient Greece, Yale 2000
Robin Osborne, Archaic and Classical Greek Art, Oxford 1998


Course Grade:
Section participation, including short written assignments (20%)
Two quizzes (5%)
Two 4-6 pp. papers (15% each)
Hour exam (20%)
Cumulative final exam (25%)