HUM 302W-4 The Golden Age of Greece

B-HUM
DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
AQ 5112, 778-782-8934, www.sfu.ca/humanities
HUM 302W-4 The Golden Age of Greece
Semester:
Instructor:
Spring (1151)
Dr. A. Feenberg-Dibon
E100
afeenber@sfu.ca
Harbour Centre
COURSE CONTENT
The humanities have traditionally included the study of history, philosophy, literature and later on, the arts, fields of human study that were developed or defined in the Golden Age of Greece, 5th century BC. Greek philosophers asked questions still debated today; literary studies still refer back to categories elaborated in the fifth century. Our first historiographers were the Greeks who explained the past in terms of human agency rather than myth. Greek art remains for many the ideal expression of creative endeavor. We will read primary sources in these disciplines and measure the distance we have travelled since, recognizing similarities but also differences in the ways we see the world. We will study and view works of art with the help of slides, video and film. REQUIRED TEXTS
Aeschylus, The Persians, in Prometheus Bound, London, New York: Penguin Books. Aristophanes, The Clouds, Lysistrata in Lysistrata and Other Plays. London: Penguin Aristotle, Aristotle’s Poetics, New York: Norton. Euripides, The Bacchae and other plays. Penguin Classics M.I. Finley, ed., The Portable Greek Historians. Penguin Books. Homer, The Odyssey, 2003, London: Penguin. Plato, The Apology, The Symposium, in Benjamin Jowett, trans, Six Great Dialogues: Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Phaedrus, Symposium, The Republic, Thrift Edition Sophocles, Oedipus Rex in The Theban Plays, 2000, trans. R. Fagles: Penguin Classics. RECOMMENDED TEXTS
Jean Pierre Veernant, The Origins of Greek Thought,
1982, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press.
Pomeroy, Burstein, Donlan, Roberts, A Brief History of
Ancient Greece, Oxford University Press.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS
Presentation and class participation Four 4-­‐page mini-­‐papers Term paper Final exam 20%
40% 20% 20% SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY ENGAGING THE WORLD