Brian Fahey: Aristotle's collection of 'constitutions'
(almost all of which is lost)
Aidan Hull: Financing tragedies in Athens
March 20
Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics 8
March 23, 25, 27
March 23
Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics 9
March 25
Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics 10
March 27
Thucydides: Pericles' Funeral Oration (Peloponnesian War
2.34-46).
Aristotle Politics 1
March 30, April. 1, 3
March 30
Aristotle Politics 2
MARCH 31: LATIN DAY: VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
April 1
Aristotle Politics 3
April 3
Aristotle Politics 4
April 6, 8, 10
April 6
Aristotle Politics 5
2nd Presentation:
April 8
Aristotle Politics 6
2nd Presentation:
Keith Brown: READING: Sortition
in Ancient Athens: what offices or other things was it
used for (in addition to jury duty: we saw that jury
selecting stone which is part of sortition) and how did it
work?
April 10
Aristotle Politics 7
2nd Presentation:
Jackson: Cicero De Republica: what is it, in
general, and how did we come to have this text (Cardinal
Mai, etc.)
Ebsco
reading (Jackson rates this as 2nd after the
wikipedia article above)
Charlotte: Ephialtes'
reforms: what are the major sources that tell us
about it, what are their possible biases/limitations?
April 13, 15, 17
April 13
Aristotle Politics 8
April 15
3rd Monthly Test
April 17 Rome:
2nd Presentation:
April 20, 22, 24
HOMER-A-THON: out front of Howe 10-2 every day this week (I
hope)
READING FOR THIS WEEK Polybius: Book VI (the Roman
Constitution, and more)
April 20
2nd Presentation:
Anna Calcaterra: Ostracism
in Athens: how did it work, how do we know about it,
what are the sources and what are their
strengths/limits/concerns? Veda: how
and why we have the particular works of Aristotle that
we do have: how were those texts preserved for us
from Aristotle's writing them to the point where they got
printed in Greek Symaira: Aristotle's
'published' works, the ones that are now lost but
were meant for public consumption at the time (as opposed
to the 'lecture note' style works we do have): what were
they like? what do we know about them? How do we know
about them?
April 22
Assignment: come to Homerathon!
April 24
2nd Presentation:
Noor: the institution called 'euthynia' in Athens
(holding office-holders to account): how do we know what
we think we know about it? What are the sources and how
good are they as sources?
Liv: Reading:
was there an idea of "natural law" in antiquity: look in
Cicero's 'de legibus', but also in any of the works we
have read (Aristotle?) or anywhere in antiquity. Aidan: the Twelve Tables in Rome: how do we know
about them? From what sources? are they reliable sources?
why? etc.
April 27, 29, May 1
April 27
Cicero De Republica
BrianFahey: what is the Roman Cursus
Honorum : also, what is a "new man" in Rome and who
were famous "new men"
Ashley Golden: Proscriptions in Rome (and
Athens?)
Finn Carothers: Dating Cicero's Philosophical
works: what is the evidence used to date them?