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Assignment 3
Remember to "REFRESH."
Hellas Pt. 2
"The Death of Sarpedon" by Euphronios, ca. 515
BC.
I
transcribed some of the inscriptions from the Greek Alpha-Beta to the Latin
alphabet in white.
Readings:
For Monday:
- Read - Davies: 115-133:
Drama, Music, Science, Alpha-beta, Math, Stoics, Sport, Government, and
Sparta... and more.
- Read these 3 PDFs on
the Etruscans from the Oxford Classical Dictionary, Homer's story of the Death of Sarpaedon,
Euphronios' vase painting of this story and the story of how this vase was
looted from an Etruscan tomb.
- Hornblower-Etruscans-452MB.pdf
[very short]
- Homer-DeathOfSarpedon_Iliad16a.pdf
[4.5MB] [pretty short]
- Silver-Lost_Chalice-Euphronios-Sarpedon_excerpt.pdf
[4MB] - Read pp. 30-49 and look at the pictures.
- Optional: Look over these
pictures of the Euphronios Krater and a nice image of Achilles and his best
friend, Patroclus. This PDF walks you through the Euphronios Krater it in a bit
more detail. EuphronSarpedonWeb.pdf
[812KB]
For Wednesday: Remember to "REFRESH."
- Read the following
sections from Plato's Republic: Plato_RepublicExcerptsCornford-120min-5.7MB.pdf
-Women and Family Issues: pp.
144-164. [20pp]
-The Cave: pp. 227-235. [8pp]
- Optional: The Myth of
Er [celestial harmonies]: pp. 348-359.
- Read this extremely
short piece from Homer's Odyssey on Odysseus' extremely old dog Argos. The set up is as follows. Odysseus has returned to his home
estate after being gone for 20 years: 10 fighting the Trojans and 10 sailing
back. The prevailing assumption in
his homeland is that he is dead, but his wife, Penelope, is loath to admit it,
and continues to push away the local flashy singles who are continually
courting her is the crassest fashion imaginable. These guys are scum.
In modern terms I imagine them as the slacker sons from rich families
who drive around in a slick sports car, wear fancy shiny suits, and are always
talking to their buddies on a blingy cell phone. They are vapid boasters... hubris to the max. However, there are many of them and
they have veritably moved in and they party at Odysseus' home day and
night. They drink his booze, eat
his food, play with his toys, fondle his servant girls, and are actively
attempting to bed his wife, who they perceive as an extremely wealthy,
attractive, and available widow.
Odysseus realizes that he cannot just show up and announce that he is
finally back to reclaim his status of old. These spoiled brats would kill him right there on the spot.
His return threatens all they have been working towards, the hand of Penelope
in marriage, which brings with it much wealth. So Odysseus, disguised as a beggar, enters his estate to get
the lay of the land and formulate a plan for getting rid of all the suitors and
reclaiming his position and his wife, who has been faithful all these years.
This story describes a scene where he is talking to Eumaeus, a swineherd who is
a good guy, but at this point Odysseus doesn't tell him who he is.
Homer-ArgosXVII_TwoWays.pdf
[295KB]
Optional articles that will most
certainly help you get the grade you desire:
-Simms, D. L. "Archimedes
and the Invention of Artillery and Gunpowder." Technology and Culture 28, no. 1 (1987):
67-79. Simms-Archimedes-Gunpowder-296KB.pdf
-Katz,
Marilyn. "Ideology And "The Status of Women" In Ancient
Greece." History
and Theory 31, no. 4 (1992): 70-97.
Feel free to just read part of this article if you so choose. Katz-Status_of_Women-Ancient_Greece.pdf
[589KB]
"Essay": Due Wednesday. Write a 1-page
+, single-spaced essay (or the equivalent in another medium) that engages the
assigned readings for this week.
You could focus on a particular issue from one of the readings that
interests you or you could take a broader approach and synthesize all the
readings into one essay. You could
explore issues of imagery, eugenics, analogies to movies, music theory,
statistics, dog psychology, craft tech, epistemology, ontology, theories of
perception, spirituality, the ethics of archeology, ethical relativism, the
economics of grave robbing, international law, violence in the death of
Sarpedon, an analysis of Euphronios' depiction, the Etruscans... etc. I'm impressed when you can refer to
readings from previous weeks and I am impressed when you can incorporate the
optional readings that I post.
Remember to cite sources including a reference to the reading
itself.
Citations
to the assigned readings other materials from this week.
Davies, Norman. Europe : A
History. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Homer. The Odyssey. Robert Fitzgerald trans.
Vintage Classics. New York: Vintage Books, 1990.
Homer. The Iliad. Translation
by Ian Johnston. See PDF for more
information. Homer-DeathOfSarpedon_Iliad16a.pdf
[4.5MB]
Homer. The Iliad.
Robert Fagles and Introduction by
Bernard Knox. New York: Penguin, 1990.
-Death of Sarpedon in book 16. Homer-DeathOfSarpedon_Iliad16a.pdf
[4.5MB]
Hornblower, Simon, and Antony Spawforth eds. The Oxford Classical Dictionary. 3rd ed. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. Hornblower-Etruscans-452MB.pdf
Plato, and Francis Macdonald Cornford. The Republic of Plato. Francis Macdonald Cornford. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1941.
Silver,
Vernon. The
Lost Chalice: The Epic Hunt for a Priceless Masterpiece. 1st ed. New York,
NY: William Morrow, 2009. -
Silver-Lost_Chalice-Euphronios-Sarpedon_excerpt.pdf
[4MB]
Simms, D. L. "Archimedes and the Invention of Artillery and Gunpowder." Technology and Culture 28, no. 1 (1987): 67-79. Simms-Archimedes-Gunpowder-296KB.pdf
Katz, Marilyn. "Ideology And "The Status of Women" In Ancient Greece." History and Theory 31, no. 4 (1992): 70-97. Katz-Status_of_Women-Ancient_Greece.pdf [589KB]
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