History 510:301 Early Greece Fall 2003
Prof. Jack Cargill Lectures MW 4 (1:10-2:30 PM), Scott 203
Cargill’s office & hours: Van Dyck 103, Friday 10:30-11:30 & by appt.
Cargill’s e-mail: jcargill@rci.Rutgers.edu
Website: http://intranet.Rutgers.edu/~jcargill
BOOKS: The following books have been ordered from (only) New Jersey Books:
HB = J. Cargill, HANDBOOK FOR ANCIENT HISTORY CLASSES (Paige Press)
Fitton = J.L. Fitton, DISCOVERY OF THE GREEK BRONZE AGE (Harvard)
Murray = O. Murray, EARLY GREECE, 2nd ed. (Stanford)
Stanton = G.R. Stanton, ATHENIAN POLITICS c. 800-500 BC (Routledge)
LYR. = R. Lattimore (trans.), GREEK LYRICS, rev. ed. (Chicago)
ODY. = R. Fitzgerald (trans.), THE ODYSSEY OF HOMER (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Hdt. = A. Waterfield (trans.), HERODOTUS: THE HISTORIES (Oxford)
HB is for general reference and class rules; read it all; bring to class M Oct. 13.
Fitton is assigned by page numbers: Fitton 9-46, etc.
Murray is assigned by chapters and pages: Murray ch. 15 (top281–287), etc.
Stanton is assigned by item numbers (read intros. & notes also): Stanton #4, etc.
LYR. is assigned by page numbers, with authors/selections identified: LYR. 33-6 (Alkman), etc.
ODY. is assigned by complete books: ODY. Bks. 1-8, etc.
Hdt. is assigned by ancient books and chapters (see notes too): Hdt. 2.45-56; 3.2, etc.
In addition, you will be expected to read ONLINE several of Plutarch’s LIVES, works by Hesiod, Xenophon, and Aeschylus, and some chapters of Thucydides. Online translations exist at:
Pers. = http://www.perseus.org/cache/perscoll_Greco-Roman.html (texts -- in translation or in Greek – of most Greek authors, employing ancient subdivisions, but awkward to use for longer assignments, since the very extensive annotation allows little of the text to appear onscreen at once)
MIT = http://classics.mit.edu (older translations – without ancient subdivisions – of the more popular Greek authors, but many items in the index only refer the reader to the Pers. text)
If you already have them, or find them available and cheap, it is OK to use different hard-copy translations of Homer’s ODYSSEY and/or Herodotus’ HISTORIES (=HISTORY=PERSIAN WARS). Online versions of ODY. are not recommended, since both Pers. And MIT use the same outdated prose translation. Hdt. is usable in Pers., but not in MIT (which has entire books, but no chapter divisions). Conversely, only a few of Plutarch’s LIVES exist in Pers., while all the relevant ones appear in MIT.
Grades will be based on a mid-term exam, a final exam, and a fairly short (7-12 pages) paper based primarily on the assigned readings, with enough additional research to show your ability to do it; suggested topics will be distributed in class. The final will be of the same length and in the same format as the mid-term; both will be all-essay if the size of the class permits, but I reserve the right to modify the type of test if the class is large.
W Sep. 3 INTRODUCTION, COURSE ORGANIZATION, GRADES, ATTENDANCE
I. BRONZE AGE GREECE (3 lectures):
M Sep. 8 THE LOST GREEK BRONZE AGE
Murray ch. 1 (5-15)
Fitton 9-46
Hdt. 1.94, 171-3; 2.102-7, 148; 4.189, 191; 7.129; 8.55
W Sep. 10 SCHLIEMANN, EVANS, & THE GREAT PIONEERS
Fitton 48-148
M Sep. 15 AFTER ARCHAEOLOGY’S HEROIC AGE
Fitton 150-205
II. DARK AGE, RE-AWAKENING, HOMER (4 lectures):
W Sep. 17 DIMLY REMEMBERED
Murray Prefaces & ch. 2-4 (1-3, 16-68)
Hdt. 1.1-5, 56-8, 142-51; 2.49-58, 113-20; 4.29, 36-45, 76-80, 145-9, 177, 179; 5.22, 76; 6.52-5, 137-9; 7.161, 171, 189, 204; 8.43-8, 73, 137-9; 9.26-7, 45, 73, 116
LYR. 36-7 (Stesichoros)
Hesiod, WORKS AND DAYS (online: Pers.)
M Sep. 22 Homer’s ODYSSEY Bks. 1-8
W Sep. 24 Homer’s ODYSSEY Bks. 9-16
M Sep. 29 Homer’s ODYSSEY Bks. 17-24
III. PRECLASSICAL SPARTA, PELOPONNESOS & ISTHMUS, DORIAN ISLANDS, ITALY & SICILY (3 lectures):
W Oct. 1 NON-SPARTAN DORIANS & WESTERNERS
Murray ch. 7 & 9 (102-23, 137-58)
LYR. 24-6 (Xenophanes), 26-31 (Theognis), 32 (inscriptions nos. 1 & 7), 36-7 (Stesichoros), 37-8 (Ibykos), 48-9 (Hybrias), 49 (Praxilla), 70-8 (Bacchylides nos. 3 & 4)
Hdt. 1.20, 23-4; 3.48-53; 5.92; 6.89 (Korinth); 5.67-8; 6.126-31 (Sikyon); 5.80-9; 6.49-50, 73, 85, 87-94, 127; 8.93; (Epidauros, Argos, Aigina); 4.147-64 (Thera); 5.42-7; 6.21; 7.153-6, 164-71 (Italy & Sicily)
M Oct. 6 “LYKOURGOS” & EUNOMIA
Murray ch. 10 (159-80)
Hdt. 1.65; 6.51-60; 7.3; 9.33-5
Plutarch, LYKOURGOS; AGIS; KLEOMENES (online: MIT)
Xenophon, CONSTITUTION OF THE LAKEDAIMONIANS (online: Pers., under “Minor Works”)
W Oct. 8 SPARTAN POWER, IMAGE & MIRAGE, KLEOMENES I
Murray ch. 8 & 15 (124-36, 262-mid268 only)
Hdt. 1.66-70, 82-3; 3.39, 45-7, 54-6; 4.77; 5.39-42, 48-51, 63-5, 70, 72-6, 90-1, 93, 97; 6.50-1, 61-84, 86; 7.101-4, 133-6, 139, 159-61, 208-9, 220, 226-32, 234, 239; 9.48, 64
LYR. 13-6 (Tyrtaios), 33 (Terpandros), 33-6 (Alkman), 56 (Simonides nos. 9 & 10), 61 (Pindar no. 8)
M Oct. 13 Preparation Session for Mid-Term Exam; DISCUSS PAPER WRITING
HB: Review all and bring to class
All assigned books: Survey editors’ and translators’ materials at front and back; know what is there and know who wrote it, in case you should want to cite such materials for your paper.
W Oct. 15 ***MID-TERM
EXAM***
Reminder: Monday Oct.
27 is the deadline for dropping with a “W”; you will know your Mid-Term Exam
grade by that date.
IV. CENTRAL GREECE, NON-DORIAN ISLANDERS, IONIANS (2 lectures):
M Oct. 20 EUBOIAN & BOIOTIAN TRADITIONS
Murray ch. 5 & 6 (69-101)
Hdt. 2.49; 5.57-61, 74, 77, 79-81; 9.86-7
LYR. 50-3 (Korinna), 57-63 (Pindaros)
Hesiod, THEOGONY (online: Pers.)
W Oct. 22 SAMIANS & OTHER ISLANDERS & IONIANS
Murray, review in ch. 7 & 9 (106-7, 137, 141, 155-8)
Hdt. 3.39-47, 54-60, 120-5, 131, 139-49; 4.95-6, 152, 162-3; 5.95; 6.22-25
LYR. 1-6 (Archilochos), 8-12 (Semonides), 32 (inscription no. 4), 38-42 (Sappho), 42-5 (Alkaios), 45-7 (Anakreon), 50 (anonymous lyrics), 53-6 (Simonides), 78-82 (Bacchylides no. 5)
V. PRECLASSICAL ATHENS (4 lectures)
M Oct. 27 PRE-SOLONIAN ATTIKE
Stanton #1-16 (#8 includes Hdt. passage)
LYR. 32 (inscription nos. 2, 3, 5, 6), 64-9 (Bacchylides nos. 1 & 2)
Plutarch, THESEUS (online: MIT or Pers.)
W Oct. 29 SOLON’S CONTEXT & ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Murray ch. 11 (181-200)
Stanton #17-53 (#29, 30, 51 include Hdt. passages)
LYR. 18-23 (Solon)
Plutarch, SOLON (online: MIT or Pers.)
M Nov. 3 PEISISTRATID RISE, RULE, & AFTERMATH
Murray ch. 15 (mid268-bot274 only)
Stanton #54-79 (#54, 60, 66-7, 72, 77 include Hdt. passages)
LYR. 47-8 (anonymous drinking songs)
W Nov. 5 KLEISTHENES, THE ARISTOCRACY, & THE DEMOS
Murray ch. 12 & 15 (201-19, bot274-top281 only)
Stanton #80-111 (#80, 82, 95, 98-9, 102, 108 include Hdt. passages)
VI. HERODOTOS & THE PERSIAN EMPIRE (5 lectures):
M Nov. 10 HERODOTOS: GENRE & ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Introductory material to Hdt., pp. ix-li
Hdt. Bk. 1 (all, with appendixes & notes, pp. 591-614); 2.141-7; 5.52-4; 8.98; 9.107-13
W Nov. 12 PERSIA THROUGH KYROS THE GREAT
Murray ch. 14 (246-bot255 only)
LYR. 76-7 (Bacchylides on Kroisos)
Hdt. Bk. 1 passages on Kyros (review); 2.1; 3.1-38, 61-79; 4.165-6; 9.122
M Nov. 17 KAMBYSES THROUGH DAREIOS THE GREAT
Murray ch. 14 (bot255-261 only)
Hdt. 2.158; 3.80-97, 118-9, 126-30, 132-41, 150-60; 4.1-4, 83-93, 97-8, 102, 118-44, 166-7, 200-5; 5.1-2, 11-5, 17-22
W Nov. 19 EMPIRE: PEOPLES CLOSE TO PERSIANS
Murray ch. 13 (220-45)
Hdt. 7.61-99 (summary); 1.6-22, 25-8, 34-55, 69, 71-81, 84-94 (Lydians); 1.95-104, 106-30 (Medes); 1.131-40 (Persians); 1.178-200; 2.141, 150 (Babylonians & Assyrians); 1.103-6, 201-16; 3.115-7; 4.1-82, 94-6, 99-117; 5.3-10, 16; 8.116 (northern “Barbarians”)
LYR. 7 (Kallinos), 12-3 (Hipponax), 16-7 (Mimnermos), 23-4 (Phokylides) [Greeks]
M Nov. 24 EMPIRE: PEOPLES FAR FROM PERSIANS
Bk. 2 (all) & 4.42 (Egyptians); 2.29-34, 137-9, 152; 3.97, 114; 4.42-3, 168-99 (non-Egyptian Africans); 3.98-106 (Indians); 3.107-13 (Arabians)
W Nov. 26: No Class: THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
VII. GREEK-PERSIAN WARS (4 lectures):
M Dec. 1 IONIAN REVOLT THROUGH MARATHON
Murray ch. 15 (top281-287 only)
Hdt. 4.137-42; 5.23-38, 49-51, 55, 97-126; 6.1-33, 42-9, 94-120, 132-6; 7.1-4, 133
W Dec. 3 INVASION, THERMOPYLAI, ARTEMISION *** WRITING ASSIGNMENT DUE***
Hdt. 7.5-128, 130-3, 138-52, 157-63, 168-9, 172-239; 8.1-26 (Grade penalized for lateness)
M Dec. 8 SALAMIS, PLATAIA, MYKALE
Hdt. 7.139-43, 166; 8.27-136, 140-4; 9.1-25, 28-106, 114-21
LYR. 56 (Simonides no. 11)
Aeschylus, PERSIANS (online: Pers. or MIT)
W Dec. 10 AFTERMATH OF THE PERSIAN WARS
Murray ch. 16 (288-301)
Hdt. 7.33, 106-7, 137, 139, 151; 8.3, 143-4; 9.35, 106
Plutarch, THEMISTOKLES; ARISTEIDES (online: MIT)
Thucydides 1.89-97, 128-38 (online: Pers.)
TUES. Dec. 16 Noon to 1:30 PM (ends at 1:30, not 3:00) ***FINAL EXAM***