Arts & Ideas Assignments
Reading
Assignments
complete by given
date
I Pursuing Fame
. .
. Greeks bearing gifts
29
Jan
Telling Stories & Seeing Events
Judging Paris
Approaching Homer
The Greek Anthology
31 January
Homer, The Iliad,
Bks I-IV
5 Feb & 7 Feb
Homer, The Iliad, Bks V-VI, IX-X
Homer, The Iliad, Bks XII-XV
12 Feb & 14 Feb
Homer, The Iliad, Bks XVI-XIX
Homer, The Iliad, Bks XX-XXIV
Monday 19
February
— Iliad
Paper —
II Building Athens
Our city is an education to Greece
21 Feb
Exploring Athens
Aeschylus, Agamemnon
26 Feb
Aeschylus, Agamemnon
Thucydides, History
28 Feb
Approaching Philosophy
Aristotle, Poetics, Pride & Magnanimity
Heraclitus Fragments,
Zeno Paradoxes
5 March
Plato, Divided Line, Parable of the Cave
7 March
Plato, The Symposium
12March
Plato, The Symposium
14 March
— Greek
Exam —
19 March & 21 March
— Spring Break
—
III
Illuminating Readings
In
the beginning was the Word . . .
31 October
Engaging Love
Medieval Lyrics
Capellanus, The Art of Courtly Love
28 March
Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde I & II
2 April
Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde III-V
4 April
Augustine, Stolen Fruit
Innocent III, On Misery
Mary of Burgundy
Cathedrals
Monday 9 April
— Chaucer
Paper —
IV
Distinguishing Perspectives
What a
piece of work is a man . . .
11 April
Developing Perspectives
Pico, On the Dignity of Man
Jardin, Epilogue to Worldly Goods
16 April
Machiavelli, The Prince, I-XI
18 April
Machiavelli, The
Prince, XII-XXVII
Renaissance People
23 April
Shakespeare, Othello, I & II
25 April
Shakespeare, Othello,
III-V
Greenblatt, The Circulation of Power
V Mapping Worlds
Rather give you an appetite than offend with satiety
30 April
Vesalius, The Human Body
Galileo, The Starry Messenger
2 May
Darwin, The Survival of the Fittest
Bacon, The Four Idols
Peirce,
The Fixation of Belief
VI Creating
Community
It
was the best of times, it was the worst of times
7 May
Blake, Songs
9 May
Blake, Songs, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
14 May
— Final
Exam, Final Paper —
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