Simon Fraser University
Engaging the World

Course Outlines

Fall 2017 - HUM 302W J100

The Golden Age of Greece: An Integrated Society (4)

Class Number: 5696

Delivery Method: In Person

Overview

  • Course Times + Location:

    Sep 5 – Dec 4, 2017: Tue, 5:30–9:20 p.m.
    Vancouver

  • Exam Times + Location:

    Dec 12, 2017
    Tue, 7:00–10:00 p.m.
    Vancouver

  • Prerequisites:

    45 units.

Description

CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:

The study of Athenian society in the 5th century BC, a period unique in the record of human achievement during which virtually all the major humanistic fields were either initiated or received significant new impetus. Students with credit for HUM 302 may not take this course for further credit. Writing/Breadth-Humanities.

COURSE DETAILS:

The humanities have traditionally included the study of history, philosophy, literature and later on, the arts, fields of human study that were developed or defined in the Golden Age of Greece, 5th century BC. Greek philosophers asked questions still debated today; literary studies still refer back to categories elaborated in the fifth century. Our first historiographers were the Greeks who explained the past in terms of human agency rather than myth. Greek art remains for many the ideal expression of creative endeavor. We will read primary sources in these disciplines and measure the distance we have travelled since, recognizing similarities but also differences in the ways we see the world. We will study and view works of art with the help of slides, video and film.

Grading

  • Presentation and class participation 20%
  • Three papers 30%
  • Midterm exam 25%
  • Final exam 25%

Materials

REQUIRED READING:

Aeschylus, The Oresteia, translator Robert Fagles, Toronto: Bantam Books, 1982

Aristophanes, Lysistrata and other Plays, London: Penguin Classics.

Aristotle, Poetics, http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/poetics.html
 
Euripides, The Bacchae and other plays. Penguin.

M.I. Finley, ed., The Portable Greek Historians. Penguin Books.

Plato, The Apology, The Symposium, in Benjamin Jowett, trans, Six Great Dialogues: Thrift Edition.

Sophocles, Oedipus Rex in The Theban Plays, 2000, trans. R. Fagles: Penguin Classics.

John Boardman, Greek Art, Fifth edition, Thames and Hudson.

RECOMMENDED READING:

Jean Pierre Vernant, The Origins of Greek Thought, 1982, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell - University Pomeroy.

Burstein, Donlan, Roberts, A Brief History of Ancient Greece, Oxford University Press.

Registrar Notes:

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