INTRO GREEK CIV

Classics 10A Section 1 (4 units)

GRIFFITH, M

Fulfills the L&S breadth requirements in Arts and Literature, Historical Studies and Philosophy and Values.

Study of the major developments, achievements, and contradictions in Greek culture from the Bronze Age to the 4th century BCE. Key works of literature, history, and philosophy (read in English translation) will be examined in their political and social context, and in relation both to other ancient Mediterranean cultures and to subsequent developments in Western civilization.

Texts

Title

Author

Ed./Trans

Publisher

ISBN
The Iliad
 Homer Lattimore Chicago University Press
 9780226470498
Aechylus II
 Aeschylus Grene, Lattimore, Griffith, Most Chicago University Press
 9780226311463
Sophocles II
 Sophocles Grene, Lattimore, Griffith, Most Chicago University Press
 9780226311555
Euripides I
 Euripides Grene, Lattimore, Griffith, Most Chicago University Press
 9780226308807
Euripides V Euripides Grene, Lattimore, Griffith, Most Chicago University Press
 9780226308982
Histories Herodotus de Selincourt
 Penguin Group
 9780140449082
History of Peloponnesian War
 Thucydides ed. Finley / trans. Warner Penguin Group
 9780140440393
Lysistrata and other plays
 Aristophanes Sommerstein Penguin Group
 9780140448146
Last days of Socrates
 Plato Tredennick Penguin Group
 9780140449280
Symposium Plato Gill Penguin Group
 9780140449273

Location: 2040 VALLEY LSB
Times: MWF 1000 - 1100A

section times and locations in the Schedule of Classes