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 —