Schedule of Assignments.
Syllabus here. Dates stated below are due dates for assignments. All assignments are due on or before the stated date/time. Readings and SWAs (short writing assignments) are to be done by the beginning of class, not during class or just after, on the due date in question. Papers, annotated bibliographies, and PowerPoints assigned for submission are due by midnight on the stated date. For online submission of assignments, go to Brightspace.
PART ONE | |
Introduction to Course | |
19-Aug | No assignment. Introduction to course. |
21-Aug | Plato Gorgias pt. 1. Web reading plus Short Writing Assignment.
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26-Aug | Gorgias pt. 2. Sections 481b-527e. Review the Study Guide; from which access the reading. Do the Gorgias 2 SWA. Brightspace assignment as per 21-Aug assignment.
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Theory 1 | |
28-Aug | Modern theory and related. Access the SWA 3 prompt and assigned reading links via the Study Guide. |
2-Sep | No class Mon classes meet. Add/drop deadline |
Peithō: From Panhellenic Myth to Athenian Reality, part 1 | |
4-Sep | Persuasion reified, personified in cult, myth, art. Access to readings via Study Guide, which also read. Complete SWA 4. |
Research Session | |
9-Sep | Class meets in the Library Classroom, LN 1305, in the Innovation Lab, just across from the Tower Cafe. ASSIGNMENT: Read carefully the
No SWA this time. |
Interlude. Oral Presentation 1. Gorgias paper pitch | |
Before undertaking presentation 1, students will need to read the Oral Presentations page carefully. Ignoring directions will affect the presentation 1 grade, as will late submission. | |
11-Sep | Paper pitch in-class presentation day 1.
Day 1 presenters: By 12pm, submit (upload) your PowerPoint and presentation as separate docs via the appropriate BrightSpace Assignments link. |
16-Sep | Paper pitch in-class presentation day 2.
Day 2 presenters: By 12pm, submit (upload) your PowerPoint and presentation as separate docs via the appropriate BrightSpace Assignments link. |
18-Sep | Paper pitch in-class presentation day 3.
Day 3 presenters: By 12pm, submit (upload) your PowerPoint and presentation as separate docs via the appropriate BrightSpace Assignments link. |
23-Sep | No class. Rosh Hashana. |
Peithō: From Panhellenic Myth to Athenian Reality, part 2 | |
25-Sep | Aeschylus' Agamemnon (Fagles, Penguin). Study Guide. |
30-Sep | Read:
When you're done with the reading, do the SWA as per Eumenides Study Guide |
2-Oct | No class. Yom Kippur. |
7-Oct | Early Political Theory and Practice. Click here for Study Guide with access online to readings. |
9-Oct | TWO THINGS:
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12-Oct | Paper 1 due via BrightSpace by midnight. |
14-Oct | Thucydides. Study Guide and access to readings. |
16-Oct | Plutarch's Pericles (Penguin). Study Guide. |
PART TWO | |
Democracy and its Discontents: Peitho in Crisis | |
21-Oct | Theory 2. Carugati and Ober on Democratic Collapse and Recovery in Ancient Athens. Study Guide with text access. |
23-Oct | Readings in the sophists. Study Guide with readings access. |
28-Oct | Political oratory. Access via Study Guide. |
30-Oct | Aristophanes' Clouds (Focus). Study Guide. |
30-Oct | EVENING. Epideixis (oral presentation 2) topic proposals due via email. For instance:
For more on everything related to the epideixis, including topic restrictions, see the Oral Presentations page > Second Presentation. Epideixis |
Week of 3-7 Nov or earlier. Schedule ½-hour meeting with me to discuss/brainstorm Paper 2 topic. For what's needed for the Paper 2 topic as well as for everything else relating to Paper 2 and to papers generally, see the bingdev Papers page.
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4-Nov | Aristophanes' Knights (penguin) Study Guide. |
9-Nov | Aristophanes' Lysistrata (Focus) Study Guide. |
12-Nov | EVENING. Paper 2 topic proposals due via email. For what I need in that email as well as for everything else relating to Paper 2 and to papers generally, see the bingdev Papers page. |
11-Nov | Plutarch's Alcibiades (Penguin). + quiz #2 (on readings 2-Mar through 30-Mar). Study Guides: |
13-Nov | Epideixis day 1. You must attend class to deliver and / or hear speeches.
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18-Nov | Epideixis day 2. You must attend class to deliver and / or hear speeches.
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20-Nov | Epideixis day 3. You must attend class to deliver and / or hear speeches.
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25-Nov | No class. |
27-Nov | No class. Thanksgiving. |
2-Dec | Plato Phaedrus.
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4-Dec | Final class, reflections |