C/LT 310I                                                                                      6:00-9:45 TTh                                                     Dr. Hood

HIST 310I
 

TEXTS:	Homer	Iliad	Univ. of Chicago
	Aeschylus	Oresteia	Univ. of Chicago
	Barnstone, ed.	Greek Lyric Poetry = GLP	Xerox
	Aristophanes	Lysistrata	Xerox
	Sophocles	Oedipus Cycle	Harbrace
	Pomeroy = P	Brief History of Ancient Greece	Oxford

DATE	LECTURE TOPIC	READING ASSIGNMENT
July 15	Introduction; Chronological Parameters and Interdisciplinary Approaches; Greek Religion; Geography	P 1-22
July 17	Crete; Homer's Iliad	P 22-52; Iliad Books I, III. VI, IX
July 22	Homer's Iliad; Anachronism and the Epic	Iliad Books XVIII, XIX, XXII, XXIV
July 24	Mycenae and the Dorians; Values and Economics; SLIDES; Synthesis: The Heroic Age	P 52-60
July 29	FIRST MID-TERM; Expansion and Colonization; Military and Economic Revolutions; Sparta	P 60-76, 91-109; Bring GLP
July 31	Greek Lyric Poetry; Athens	P 76-90, 110-122; GLP: Kallinos, Tyrtaios, Mimnermos, Archilochos, Alkman, Semonides, Sappho, Alkaios, Anakreon, Ibykos, Solon, Theognis, Simonides, Praxila, Pindar
Aug. 5	The Persian Wars; Agamemnon	P 122-137; Agamemnon (Oresteia)
Aug. 7	Oresteia; Synthesis: City-Consciousness	Libation Bearers, Eumenides (Oresteia)
Aug. 12	SECOND MID-TERM; Periclean Art and Architecture; Athens and Sparta	P 138-199
Aug. 14	Peloponnesian War; Antigone	P 200-224; Antigone
Aug. 19	Lysistrata; SLIDES; Synthesis	Lysistrata
Aug. 21	FINAL EXAMINATION

I will have office hours from 4:30 to 5:30 pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays in FO2-108.

Phone number: (562) 985-4420.

IMPORTANT GREEKS THE ATREIDAI, SONS OF ATREUS: AGAMEMNON MENELAUS = HELEN ACHILLEUS, SON OF PELEUS PATROKLOS, SON OF MENOITIOS ODYSSEUS, SON OF LAERTES AIAS, SON OF TELEMON DOMEDES, SON OF TYDEUS IDOMENEUS, SON OF DEUKALION PHOINIX, SON OF AMYNTOR NESTOR FROM PYLOS GODS FAVORING THE GREEKS HERA ATHENA POSEIDON     RHAPSODE DACTYLIC HEXAMETER DACTYL SPONDEE FORMULAIC EPITHET

IMPORTANT TROJANS PRIAM, KING OF TROY = HEKABE HEKTOR, PRIAM'S SON = ANDROMACHE ASTYANAX, HEKTOR'S INFANT SON PARIS/ALEXANDROS = HELEN = MENELAUS                          GODS FAVORING THE TROJANS APOLLO ARTEMIS ARES APHRODITE SIMILE ARISTEIA ENJAMBMENT IN MEDIA RES

AEOLIANS	DORIANS	CHALCIS
LESBOS	RHODES	ERETRIA
MYTILENE	COS	ISTHMUS
IONIANS	THESSALY	CORINTH
MILETUS	LOCRIS	PELOPONNESUS
SAMOS	PHOCIS	SPARTA
CHIOS	BOEOTIA	ATTICA
APOLLO	THEBES	SARDIS
DELOS		ASSYRIA
		HALYS RIVER

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METICS	HIMATION	PORNAI
CHITON	HETAIRAI

METROPOLIS	RHEGIUM	PYTHAGORAS
BYZANTIUM	SYBARIS	MONARCHY
CHALCEDON	CROTON	ARISTOCRACY
THASOS	GRAIOI	HOPLITE
CHALCIS	GRAECI	PHALANX
CHALCIDICE	SYRACUSE	OLIGARCHY
NAPLES	SICILY	TYRANT
		PITTACUS

MESSENIA	AGIAD	HOMOIOI
MESSENIAN REVOLT	EURYPONTID	PERIOECI
LYCURGUS	SYSSITIA	HELOTS
GEROUSIA		CRYPTEIA
APELLA
EPHORS

SYNOIKISMOS	ARCHON	SIGEUM
CYLON	SEISACHTHEIA	TROAD
MEGACLES	MT. PANGAEUS	THEBES
ALCMAEONID	STRYMON	PLATAEA
SOLON	THESPIS

PENTACOSIOMEDIMNI		500+
HIPPEIS	KNIGHTS	300-500
ZEUGITAI	HOPLITES	200-300
THETES	WORKERS	0-200

ARCHON EPONYMOS	ECCLESIA
KING ARCHON	HELIAEA
POLEMARCH	CORINTH
BOULE	HARMODIUS & ARISTOGEITON

PLAIN	EUPATRIDS	LYCURGUS
COAST	ALCMAEONIDS	MEGACLES
HILL		PEISISTRATUS HIPPIAS HIPPARCHUS

CLEOMENES

SPARTA
 

SOLONIC SYSTEM	CLEISTHENES
4 IONIC TRIBES	10 IONIC TRIBES
KINSHIP	GEOGRAPHIC
BOULE OF 400	BOULE OF 500

TRIBE
TRITTYS	TRITTYS	TRITTYS
DEMES	DEMES	DEMES

METICS	OSTRACISM	STRATEGOI
ECCLESIA	OSTRACAPHORIA	STRATEGOS AUTOKRATOR
PRYTANY	OSTRACA	CHALCIS
PRYTANEIS	STRATEGIA

PERSIA	NAXOS	ERETRIA
IONIA, TYRANTS	ARTAPHERNES	CARIA
DARIUS	SARDIS	LADÉ
ARISTAGORAS	ATHENS	MARDONIUS
MILETUS

PEISISTRATIDS	PHILIPPIDES	XANTHIPPUS
ALCMAEONIDS	VRANA	PAUSANIAS
EUPATRIDS--MILTIADES	AEGINA	ASOPUS RIVER
PARALI--THEMISTOCLES	XERXES	GARGAPHIA SPRING
ARTAPHERNES	THERMOPYLAE	CITHAERON
HIPPIAS	ARTEMISIUM	MYCALE
CARYSTUS	LEONIDAS	LEOTYCHIDAS
ERETRIA	SALAMIS	SESTOS
PLATAEA	ARISTIDES	ABYDOS

THE STRUCTURE OF TRAGEDY

• PROLOGUE: ACTION BEFORE THE ENTRANCE OF THE CHORUS
• PARADOS: ENTERING DANCE OF THE CHORUS
• EPISODES: ACTION BETWEEN CHORAL ODES OR STASIMA
• STASIMA: METRICALLY RESPONSIVE VERSES (STROPHE, ANTISTROPHE) AND (SOMETIMES) A CONCLUDING STANZA (EPODE)
• EXODOS: ACTION AFTER LAST STASIMON

A FEW METERS:

ANAPESTS (MARCHING ANAPESTS) FOR CHORAL ENTRANCES AND EXITS (PARADOS AND EXODOS, AMONG OTHERS):

short-short-LONG|short-short-LONG [CONTINUES UNTIL ENDED BY] short-short-LONG-LONG

IAMBIC TRIMETER IS USED FOR DIALOGUE:

the-OUS' men AI'TO' TOND' ap-ALL'-a-GEN' poNON'

TROCHAIC TETRAMETER:

DREA'ry GLEAMS' a-THWART' the MOOR'LAND'||FLY'ing OV'er LOCKS'ley HALL'

DOCHMAIC:

the WISE' KANG'aROOS' reSENT' LEA'ther SHOES'

DELOS	MEGARA	CORINTH
ARISTIDES	AEGINA	CORCYRA
MILTIADES	EGYPT	EPIDAMNUS
CIMON	THEBES	SYBOTA
PERICLES	CORONEA

ARCHIDAMUS	MELOS	HERMOCRATES
PERICLES	AGIS II	PLEMMYRIUM
CLEON	SEGESTA	CLEOPHON
NICIAS	SELINUS	CYRUS
DEMOSTHENES	SYRACUSE	LYSANDER
PYLOS	LAMACHUS	CALLICRATIDAS
SPHACTERIA	EPIPOLAE	MYTILENE
MELOS	EURYALUS	ARGINUSAE
BRASIDAS	GYLIPPUS	AEGOSPOTAMI
AMPHIPOLIS	DECELAEA
ALCIBIADES
HYPERBOLUS

PROLOGUE	LYSISTRATA EXPLAINS HER IDEA TO END THE WAR.	3-10
PARADOS	THE ENTRANCE OF THE TWO HALF-CHORUSES.	11-15
EPISODE	A DEBATE BETWEEN THE ATHENIAN PROBOULOS AND LYSISTRATA ENDS IN THE HUMILIATION OF ATHENIAN CONSERVATIVES.	15-18
AGON	A DRAMATIZED DEBATE BETWEEN THE PROBOULOS, LYSISTRATA AND THE TWO CHORUSES ENDS IN THE DEFEAT OF THE MEN.	18-24
PARABASIS	THE TWO CHORUSES CLASH AND EXPRESS THEIR OPPOSING VIEWS.	24-27
EPISODE	LYSISTRATA DEALS WITH DEFECTORS FROM HER RANKS.	27-29
STASIMON	THE TWO CHORUSES CLASH AND SING OF THEIR MUTUAL ANIMOSITY.	29-31
EPISODE	CINESIAS AND MYRRHINE EPITOMIZE THE DIFFICULTIES OF ATHENIAN--AND GREEK--MEN.	31-36
EPISODE	A SPARTAN HERALD COMES TO ATHENS TO MAKE PEACE.	36-37
STASIMON	THE HOSTILE CHORUSES ARE FINALLY RECONCILED.	37-41
EPISODE	RECONCILIATION SCENE BETWEEN ATHENIANS AND SPARTANS IS MODERATED BY LYSISTRATA AND WITNESSED BY THE CHORUSES; LYSISTRATA APPEALS FOR PANHELLENISM.	41-44
KOMOS	REVELRY, SONGS AND DANCING END THE PLAY.	45-47