Week 2-4 Schedule for Athenian Democracy

 

Monday: finish Aristotle, hand in papers

Tuesday: Aeschylus, Oresteia—Agamemnon, summary of Choephoroi, Eumenides

Wednesday: Antigone and Oedipus the King

    Tonight 7:30: Lecture by Clifford Orwin (Toronto, author of The Humanitiy of Thucydides (1994): "Nietzsche's Critique of Compassion", Gaylord Hall.

Thursday: Thucydides chapters 1-2

Friday: Euripides, Medea;  write a paper over the weekend

 

Week 3 Schedule for Athenian Democracy

Monday: Thucydides chapter 3-7

Tuesday: Euripides Trojan Women

Wednesday: Aristophanes Frogs

Thursday-Friday: research days—Cramer office hours mornings

 

Week 4 Schedule for Athenian Democracy

Monday: 10:30 am--short class, research reports

Tuesday: 10:30 am--short class, research reports

Wednesday: hand in final papers