THE CLASSICAL WORLD OF GREECE AND ROME Instructor: J. Mark Sugars, Ph.D. MW 1100-1215 Instructors e-mail address: jsugars@csulb.

edu Office: MHB 611 Campus mailbox: MHB 517 Office hours: MW 1400-1500

Classics 100, Section 02 = Class #9780; Room = LA4-108 Course description: This is a general education course designed to introduce you to the literature, art, history and culture of the ancient Greek and Roman world. We will be looking at and discussing a variety of sources, especially ancient literary texts, to become acquainted with these civilizations; we will also look at how people of later times have interpreted and reinterpreted the cultural heritage of Greece and Rome. We shall explore the ways in which the ancients have influenced our modern world, and we shall consider how our knowledge of them may help us to understand our own times. Required texts: Homer, The Essential Odyssey (translated by Stanley Lombardo); Herodotus, On the War for Greek Freedom; Pomeroy, Burstein et al., A Brief History of Ancient Greece (Oxford, 2004); Loeb Classical Library Reader; several texts available on-line. We may be viewing photos in class, and we might be looking at scenes from several films, including, tentatively: The Western Tradition, The Greek Temple, Gladiators, Alexander the Great, and The 300 Spartans. There are many sites on the Internet devoted to ancient Greek and Roman civilization. Some of your assignments in this class will involve studying specific materials on particular websites, and doing research on the Internet as well as in a conventional library. Grading: Students will be responsible for all material presented in the readings, lectures, and visual presentations, and for participating in class discussion. There will be several opportunities, which I will announce and describe in class, for students to get extra credit this semester. Your grade will be based on: One essay, due November 30: 30% Short in-class quizzes and tests (several, at times to be announced later): 40% Final exam, taken 1015 hrs 1215 hrs, on Monday, December 12: 30% Tests in my class are somewhat cumulative, but emphasizing the most recently-learned material. They will usually take the form of short quizzes, which I will give at the end of class, about every other week. There will be true/false, short answer, quotation-identification and multiplechoice type questions based on reading and lectures; no, you will not need Scan-trons; yes, I will usually warn you when I have planned a quiz for the following class session. From time to time I will post study guides on BeachBoard.

The Universitys Withdrawal Policy: It is the responsibility of the student who wishes to withdraw from a class to do so. Instructors are under no obligation to drop students who do not attend class, and it is not my policy to do so. Withdrawing during the final four weeks of instruction is not permitted except in cases such as accident or serious illness where the circumstances causing the withdrawal are clearly beyond the students control and the assignment of a grade of Incomplete is not practical. Ordinarily, withdrawal in this category will involve total withdrawal from all classes, except that a Credit/No Credit grade or an Incomplete may be assigned for courses in which sufficient work has been completed to permit an evaluation to be made. Request for permission to withdraw under these circumstances must be made in writing on forms available in Enrollment Services. The requests and approvals will state the reasons for the withdrawal. These requests must be approved by the instructor, department chairperson, and dean of the school. Copies of such approvals are kept on file in Enrollment Services.

Tentative schedule of class discussion of assigned texts: Week 1, August 29 31: Brief summary of Greek and Roman history. September 5: Labor Day (Campus closed). Week 2, September 7: Brief History of Ancient Greece, ch. I. Week 3, September 12 - 14: Brief History of Ancient Greece, ch. II; Essential Odyssey, Books 1, 4-6, and 8-12; Homer passage in Loeb Classical Library Reader. Week 4, September 19 - 21: Brief History of Ancient Greece, ch. III; Essential Odyssey, Books 13, 16-19 and 21-24. Week 5, September 26 - 28: Brief History of Ancient Greece, ch. IV. Week 6, October 3 - 5: Brief History of Ancient Greece, ch. V; Hesiod passage in Loeb Classical Library Reader. Week 7, October 10 - 12: Brief History of Ancient Greece, ch. VI; Tyrtaeus selection on BeachBoard; Pindar, Pausanias and Herodotus passages in Loeb Classical Library Reader; 1st selections from Herodotus, On the War for Greek Freedom. Week 8, October 17 - 19: Brief History of Ancient Greece, ch. VII; 2nd selections from Herodotus, On the War for Greek Freedom; Pindar, First Olympian Ode on BeachBoard; Sophocles, Euripides and Thucydides passages in Loeb Classical Library Reader. Week 9, October 24 - 26: Brief History of Ancient Greece, ch. VIII; Aristophanes passage in Loeb Classical Library Reader.

Week 10, October 31 November 2: Brief History of Ancient Greece, ch. IX; Aristophanes Lysistrate, on BeachBoard; Xenophon, Plato, Aristotle and Callimachus passages in Loeb Classical Library Reader. Week 11, November 7 - 9: Brief History of Ancient Greece, ch. X & XI; Josephus, Plutarch and Lucian passages in Loeb Classical Library Reader. Week 12, November 14 - 16: Brief History of Ancient Greece, ch. XII; Terence, Cicero, and Caesar passages in Loeb Classical Library Reader. Week 13, November 21: Lucretius, Virgil, Horace and Livy passages in Loeb Classical Library Reader. November 23 25: Fall Break. Week 14, November 28 30: Tibullus poem on BeachBoard; Propertius, Ovid, Manilius and Seneca passages in Loeb Classical Library Reader. Week 15, December 5 - 7: Pliny, Petronius, Pliny the Younger, Juvenal, Apuleius and Jerome passages in Loeb Classical Library Reader.

There is a slight possibility that I may need you to read a few texts in addition to what I have listed above; if there are any texts for you to read that are not in your course textbooks, they will either be on BeachBoard or on the Perseus website: www.perseus.tufts.edu/cache/perscoll_Greco-Roman.html.