Arts & Ideas Assignments

 
Reading Assignments
complete by given date

I  The Classical Heritage

. . . Greeks bearing gifts

29 August

Telling Stories
Seeing Events

Judging Paris
Approaching Homer
The Greek Anthology
Discussion Forums

5 September

Homer, The Iliad, Bks I-VI, IX-X
Forum I

12 September

Homer, The Iliad, Bks XII-XV, XVI-XIX
Forum II

19 September

Homer, The Iliad, Bks XX-XXIV
Forum III

26 September
-- Iliad Paper --

3 October

Exploring Athens
Thucydides, Pericles, Plague
Aeschylus, Agamemnon, Thucydides, Histories
Forum IV

10 October

Approaching Greek Philosophy
Heraclitus Fragments, Zeno Paradoxes
Aristotle, Poetics, Pride, Magnanimity, Metaphysics

Plato, Divided Line, Parable of the Cave
Forum V

17 October

Plato, "The Symposium"

Forum VI

24 October
-- Greek Exam --

II  Medieval Illumination

In the beginning was the Word . . .

31 October

Engaging Love

Medieval Lyrics
Capellanus, The Art of Courtly Love
Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde I-III
Forum VII

7 November

Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde IV-V

Augustine, Stolen Fruit
Mary of Burgundy
Cathedrals

Innocent, On Misery
Forum VIII

III  Renaissance Perspective

What a piece of work is a man . . .

14 November

Developing Perspectives
Pico, On the Dignity of Man
Machiavelli, The Prince
Jardin, Epilogue to Worldly Goods
Forum IX

21 November

Shakespeare, Othello
Greenblatt, The Circulation of Power

Forum X

IV  Distinguishing Perspectives

Rather give you an appetite than offend with satiety

28 November
Mapping Worlds
Vesalius, The Human Body

Galileo, The Starry Messenger
Darwin, The Survival of the Fittest

Bacon, The Four Idols
Peirce, The Fixation of Belief

Forum XI

V  Modern Progress

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times

5 December
Creating Company
Blake, Songs

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

Forum XII

12 December

 -- Final Exam, Final Paper --