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Reading Schedule
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Civilization Sequence Program
CVSP 201: READING AND LECTURE SCHEDULE Spring 2012-13
Bathish Auditorium, West Hall, TUESDAYS, 12:30 pm |
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Lecture |
Reading assignment for class discussions |
Jan. 28- Feb. 1 |
Introduction |
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Penguin, trans. Sanders), pp. 61-119. |
Feb. 4 – 8 |
Gilgamesh |
The Epic of Gilgamesh (continued) |
Feb. 11 – 15 |
Odyssey I |
The Odyssey of Homer (Harper, trans. Lattimore), Books I, V, VI, VIII (line 445-end), IX, XI, XII (lines 1-126). |
Feb. 18 – 22 |
Odyssey II |
The Odyssey of Homer, Books XIII, XIV (lines 1-190, 360-456), XVI (lines 1-320), XIX, XXI (lines 1-142, 269-434), XXII, XXIII, XXIV (lines 453-548). |
Feb. 25 – Mar. 1 |
Sophocles |
“Oedipus the King” in The Three Theban Plays (Penguin, trans. Fagles), pp. 155-251. |
Mar. 4 – 8 |
Thucydides |
History of the Peloponnesian War (Penguin, trans. Warner)
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Required reading
“Introduction”
“Debate at Sparta”
“Pericles’ Funeral Oration”
“The Plague”
“The Civil War in Corcyra”
“The so-called second Introduction”
“The Melian Dialogue” |
Book
I
I
II
II
III
V
V |
¶
1-23
66-88
34-54
47-54
69-85
25-26
84-116 |
Pages
pp. 35-49
pp. 72-87
pp. 143-150
pp. 151-156
pp. 236-245
pp. 363-364
pp. 400-408 |
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Optional reading
“The Policy of Pericles”
“The Mytilenian Debate”
“An Armistice”
“The Peace of Nicias”
“The Destruction of the Athenian Expedition” |
Book
II
III
IV
V
VII |
¶
15-23
36-50
59-65
13-24
72-87 |
Pages
pp. 158-164
pp. 212-223
pp. 273-277
pp. 356-363
pp. 525-537 |
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Mar. 11 – 15 |
[No Lecture] |
“Thucydides” (continued) |
Mar. 18 – 22 |
Plato I |
The Republic (Penguin, trans. Lee, 2nd ed. revised), 357a-375a and 427d-457b. |
Mar. 26 – 28 |
Plato II |
The Republic, 471c-487a and 502c-521b. |
Mar. 29 – Apr. 1 |
LATIN EASTER VACATION |
Apr. 2 – 5 |
Aristotle |
The Nicomachean Ethics (Penguin, trans. Thomson/Tredennick), Books I (i-ix; xii-xiii), II, and X (vii-ix) Optional: Book III |
Apr. 8 – 12 |
[No lecture] |
Aristotle (continued) |
Apr. 15 – 19 |
Lucretius |
The Nature of Things (Penguin, trans. Stallings), Book I (lines 1-158, 266-343), II (lines 1-332, 1024-end), III (lines 1-94, 179-258, 417-473, 830-end), IV (lines 469-521, 877-907, 1037-1287), V (lines 1-90, 771-1241), VI (1089-end). |
Apr. 22 – 26 |
[no lecture] |
Lucretius (continued) |
Apr. 29 – May 2 |
Virgil |
The Aeneid: A New Prose Translation, (Penguin, tr. West), Books I, II, IV, V (line 507-end), VI (lines 268-478 and 560-902), VII (to line 641), XII. |
May 3 – 6 |
GREEK ORTHODOX EASTER VACATION |
May 7 – 10 |
[No Lecture] |
“Virgil” (continued) |
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