Classics 158 (Greco-Roman Politics)
Cross-listed with Philosophy 195 and Political Science 195

Lafayette 102
MWF 3:35-4:25

NOTES:

• GREECE
  
• Introduction: Why Greece, Why Rome, Why Greco-Roman?
• Homeric Code and Equality: The Case of Thersites (Excerpts from Stuurman's Article)
• Background Information about Greek Political Thought
  
• Herodotus
  
• General Notes on Herodotus
• Herodotus' Constitutional Debate
• Thucydides
  
• General Notes on Thucydides
• Text of Pericles' Funeral Oration
• Thucydides' Assessment of Pericles
  
• Thucydides: Mytilenian Debate Outlined
• Tragedy
• Tragedy and Political Thought
• Sophists:
• Sophists
  
• Plato
• Crito Notes
• Protagoras Notes
• Gorgias Notes
• Republic
• Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies
  
• Chapters 1-3
• Chapter 4
• Chapter 5
• Chapter 6
• Bernard Williams on the City-Soul Analogy in the Republic
• Optional material for those students who are interested in Juctice for an individual in the Republic: more introductory remarks
  
• Taylor's Remarks about Popper
• A Final Overview
• Aristotle
• Some useful things to know as you read the Politics
• Introductory overview of some facets of the Politics
• Background Information: Aristotelian Ethics
• Justice
• Justice in the Nicomachean Ethics
• Further Thoughts on Justice
• Politics Book I
  
• Politics Book III
• Aristotle on practical politics
• ROME
• Background Info
  
• Polybius VI
• Cicero de Re Publica book I
• Cicero de Re Publica book II
• General Notes on Cicero
• Seneca and the de Clementia