Schedule by week:

UNIT ONE: various readings

1. Aug. 28, 30, Sept. 1
• Primary Reading: Read up to the "catalog of ships" (you will know when you get to it: it's a long list of what city sent what ships under whose command) in Iliad Book 2 online text. Pay special attention to what Thersites says and what happens when he speaks.
• Secondary Reading: Stuurman's article about the origins of ideas of equality in Greece (Siep Stuurman, "The Voice of Thersites: Reflections on the Origins of the Idea of Equality," Journal of the History of Ideas 65.2, 2004, 171-189). If the link does not work, use JSTOR on the library website to find the article.
• Any of you who know little about Greece would be well-advised to read the Encyclopedia Britannica article "Ancient Greek Civilization." If the link does not work, go to the UVM library website and find the Encyclopedia Britannica, then do a search for "Ancient Greek Civilization."  The article is longish, but there is a lot to cover, and it does it compendiously and well.
2. Sept. 6, 8
• Primary Reading: 
• Herodotus: "The Constitutional Debate" (Book 3, chapters 80ff)
  
• Thucydides: "Pericles' Funeral Oration" (Book 2, chapters 35-46: pages 39-46 in Thucydides on Justice, Power, and Human Nature)
• Plato: Menexenus (B. Jowett's translation)
• Secondary Reading: Monoson's article "Remembering Pericles" on Plato's Menexenus (if the link is dead, search for "Monoson" and "Pericles" on JSTOR, found on the UVM library website.
  
• Optional Recommended Background Reading:
  
• The "Introduction" to Thucydides on Justice, Power, and Human Nature.
• An overview of Herodotus (from a course by John Porter).
• Just For Fun: The oldest surviving Greek law code (Gortyn)
  
3. Sept. 11, 13, 15
• Primary Reading:
• Thucydides: "The Mytilenian Debate" (book 3, chapters 37-51: pages 66-76 in Thucydides on Justice, Power, and Human Nature)
• Sophocles' Antigone
• Plato's Crito (MIT Jowett Text) or try Bailly's Copy of the MIT Jowett Text (in case the previous link fails)
  
• Optional Recommended Background Reading:
  
• Woodruff's "Introduction" to Antigone.
• Catherine Holland's article "After Antigone: Women, the Past, and the Future of Feminist Thought" (if the link is dead, a search for "Holland" and "Antigone" on  JSTOR, found on the UVM library website, will turn up the article).
  

UNIT TWO: Plato

1. Sept. 18, 20, 22
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• Primary Reading:
• Plato Protagoras
• Plato Gorgias
2. Sept. 25, 27, 29
• Plato Republic book I-III
  
3. Oct. 2, 4, 6
• DOCUMENT DUE OCTOBER 6th on unit one topic (#2 under "written assignments" on the syllabus)
• Plato Republic book IV-VII
  
4. Oct. 9, 11, 13
• Plato Republic book VIII-X
• MIDTERM OCT. 13th.
  

UNIT THREE: Aristotle

1. Oct. 16, 18 (Prof. Bailly gone on 20th)
• Politics I and II
2. Oct. 23, 25, 27
• Politics III and IV
3. Oct. 30, Nov. 1, 3
• Politics V and VI
4. Nov. 6, 8, 10
• Politics VII and VIII

UNIT FOUR: Rome

Any of you who know little about Rome would be well-advised to read the Encyclopedia Britannica article "Ancient Rome." If the link does not work, go to the UVM library website and find the Encyclopedia Britannica, then do a search for "Ancient Rome."  The article is longish, but there is a lot to cover, and it does it compendiously and well.

1. Nov. 13, 15, 17
• Primary Reading: Polybius 6
• Primary Reading: Cicero de Republica
• An Online English translation (from the 1840's)
  
• Book I
• Book II and III
• Books IV-VI
• Project Gutenberg text
2. Nov. 27, 29, Dec. 1
• Primary Reading: Cicero de Officiis
• An online English translation (from the late 19th century)
• Another online English translation
  
• Dec. 1st: guest lecturer, Walter Roberts from UMASS Amherst.
  
3. Dec. 4, 6
• FINAL PAPER DUE
  
• Primary Reading: Seneca de Clementia
  
4. Final Monday Dec. 11th, 11:45-2:45