LIBERAL STUDIES 210: TOPICS IN WORLD CIVILIZATION -- ANCIENT GREECE
North Island College Winter 201
4Meeting Time:
TH: 1:00 pm - 2:20 pmMeeting
Place: TTB 104Instructor: Dan Hinman-Smith
Office: Village G6
Office Phone: 334-5000, Extension 4024
Home Phone: 250-336-0238
Web- Site for Course:
http://www.misterdann.com/contentsancientgreece.htmE-Mail: dan.hinmansmith@nic.bc.ca
Texts
Eric Cline, Trojan War: A Very Short Introduction (New York: Oxford, 2013)
Euripides, Bacchae And Other Plays (New York: Penguin Classic, 2006).
Jules Cashford, ed., Penguin Classics: Homeric Hymns (New York: Penguin Classics, 2003)
Ann Wroe, Orpheus: The Song Of Life (New York: Overlook, 2012).
Homer, Penguin Classics Odyssey, trans. Robert Fagles (New York: Penguin Classics, 2003).
Oliver Taplin, Greek Fire (London: Atheneum, 1990).
Tom Holland, Persian Fire (New York: Abacus, 2006).
Joan Connelly, Portrait Of A Priestess: Women And Ritual In Ancient Greece (Princeton: Princeton, 2009).
Tentative Seminar Schedule
WEEK1
Thursday, January 9
a) Introduction
b) Discussion: Eric Cline, Trojan War: A Very Short Introduction
WEEK 2
Thursday, January 16
a) Discussion: Euripides, "Iphigenia At Aulis"
Reading Assignment:
WEEK 3
Thursday, January 23
a) Discussion: Penguin Classics: Homeric Hymns
WEEK 4
Thursday, January 30
a) Discussion: Wroe, Orpheus -- The Song Of Life
WEEK 5
Thursday, February 6
a) Video: "Helen Of Troy" (2005) [120 minutes]
WEEK 6
Thursday, February 13
a) Discussion: Homer, Odyssey (Books 1-12)
Reading Break, February 17-21
WEEK
7Thursday, February 27
a) Discussion: Homer, Odyssey (Books 13-24)
WEEK
8Thursday, March 6
a) Discussion: Euripides, "The Bacchae"
b) Video: "The Bacchae," Invitation To World Literature (30 minutes)
Reading Assignment:
WEEK 9
Thursday, March 13
a) Discussion: Taplin, Greek Fire
Optional Viewing:
"Source," Episode 1, Greek Fire:
"Myths," Episode 2, Greek Fire:
"Politics," Episode 3, Greek Fire:
"Sex," Episode 4, Greek Fire:
"Tragedy," Episode 5, Greek Fire:
"Architecture," Episode 6, Greek Fire:
"Science," Episode 7, Greek Fire:
"Art," Episode 8, Greek Fire:
"Ideas," Episode 9, Greek Fire:
"War," Episode 1, Greek Fire:
WEEK 10
Thursday, March 20
a) Video: "The Greek Thing, " Ancient World With Richard Miles [60 minutes]
WEEK 11
Thursday, March 27
a) Discussion: Holland, Persian Fire
WEEK 12:
Thursday, April 3
a) Video: "Athens -- The Dawn Of Democracy, " (2007) [120 minutes]
WEEK 13
Thursday, April 10
a) Discussion: Connelly, Portrait Of A Priestess
