University of Michigan

GREAT BOOKS 191

Prof. H.D. Cameron, Department of Classical Studies

Fall 1999

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READING LIST AND SCHEDULE

 

NOTE: You are expected to have read the assignment BEFORE you come to lecture. All Rights Reserved to Mr. Cameron's lectures.

Th Sept. 9

Introduction: The Greeks

Tu Sept. 14

Iliad Books 1-3

Th Sept. 16

Iliad 4-6

Tu Sept. 21

Iliad 7-9

Th Sept. 23

Iliad 10-16

Tu Sept. 28

Iliad 17-24

Th Sept. 30

Odyssey Books 1-6

Tu Oct. 5

Odyssey 7-12

Th Oct. 7

Odyssey 13-16

Tu Oct. 12

Odyssey 17-24

Th Oct. 14

Aeschylus Agamemnon

Tu Oct. 19

Aeschylus Libation Bearers

Th Oct. 21

Aeschylus Eumenides

Tu Oct. 26

MIDTERM (Bring Blue Book)

Th Oct. 28

Herodotus Bk I

Tu Nov. 2

Herodotus Bk VII

Th Nov. 4

Herodotus Bk VIII

Tu Nov. 9

Sophocles Antigone

Th Nov. 11

Thucydides Bk. I, 1-117

Tu Nov. 16

Thucydides Bk. I, 118-146

Th Nov. 18

Thucydides Bk III, 1-85

Tu Nov. 23

Thucydides Bk V, 84-116; VI, 8-93; VII, 72-87

THANKSGIVING RECESS

Tu Nov 30

Aristophanes Acharnians, Lysistrata

Th Dec. 2

Euripides Medea

Tu Dec. 7

Euripides Bacchae

Th Dec. 9

Plato Apology

FINAL EXAMINATION - Monday, Dec. 20, 1:30-3:30 - Bring Blue Book

 

BOOK LIST

Author & Title

Translation

Publisher

Homer ILIAD

R. Lattimore

Chicago

Homer ODYSSEY

R. Lattimore

Harper

Aeschylus ORESTEIA (Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, The Eumenides)

R. Lattimore

Chicago

Aristophanes LYSISTRATA, THE ACARNIANS, THE CLOUDS

A. Sommerstein

Penguin

Herodotus THE HISTORIES

A. de Selincourt

Penguin

Thucydides PELOPONNESIAN WAR

R. Warner

Penguin

Sophocles THREE TRAGEDIES (Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone) (2nd ed.)

D. Grene

Chicago

Euripides EURIPIDES I (Alcestis, Medea, Heracleidae, Hippolytus)

D. Grene

Chicago

Euripides THE BACCHAE AND OTHER PLAYS

P. Vellacott

Penguin

Plato, THE LAST DAYS OF SOCRATES

H. Tredennick

Penguin

Strunk, W. and White, E.B., The Elements of Style, 3rd or 4th ed. (Macmillan).