SOCRATES, SOPHISTS, AND THE STAGE in Spring 2020 (CL3116)

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A grand tour of 5th cent. BCE Athens, a fascinating time of intellectual unrest and innovation. Readings include the founding fathers of drama (Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides), Old Comedy (Aristophanes), fragments of the Greek sophists, the historiographers Herodotus and Thucydides, Xenophon’s Recollections of Socrates and early Platonic dialogues, such as the Apology and the Phaedo.

Course Master: 
KEY TEXTS: SOCRATES, SOPHISTS, AND THE STAGE (CL3116)
Term: 
Spring 2020
Discipline: 
CL (Comparative Literature)
Credits: 
4 credits
Type: 
CCI
Level: 
Undergraduate
Can be taken twice for credit?: 
No
Cross Listed: 
SOCRATES, SOPHISTS, AND THE STAGE in Spring 2020 (PL3116)
Exam Date: 
Friday, May 8, 2020 - 15:30
Pre-requisites: 
None
Co-requisites: 
None

Professor(s)

Jula Wildberger

Syllabus

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Book List

TitleAuthorPublisherISBN Number
The Histories ((second book we read))
Herodotus
Penguin
9780140449082
The Last Days of Socrates. Trans. Trans. Hugh Tredennick Harold Tarrant ((11th book))
Plato
Penguin
9780140449280
The Complete Aeschylus: Volume II: Persians And Other Plays. Trans. P.Burian A.Shapiro ((also e-book AUP Library, 4th))
Aeschylus
Oxford University Press
9780195373288
Introducing the Ancient Greeks: From Bronze Age Seafarers to Navigators of the Western Mind ((first book we read))
Hall, Edith
W. W. Norton & Company
9780393351163
Gorgias. Trans. D. J. Zeyl ((10th book))
Plato
Hackett
9780872200166
On Justice, power and human nature. Trans. Paul Woodruff ((3rd book))
Thucydides
Hackkett
9780872201682
Clouds. Trans. Peter Meineck ((8th book))
Aristophanes
Hackett
9780872205161
Four Tragedies: Ajax. Women of Trachis. Electra. Philoctetes. Trans. Peter Meineck and Paul Woodruff ((5th book))
Sophocles
Hackett
9780872207639
Symposium. Transl. Avi Sharon ((9th book))
Plato
Hackett
9780941051569
Medea, Hippolytus, Heracles, Bacchae, ed. S. Esposito ((6th book))
Euripides
Hackett imprint: Focus
9781585100484
Frogs. Trans. Jeffrey Henderson ((clunky bilingual ebook version available at AUP, 7th book))
Aristophanes
Hackett/Focus
9781585103089

Schedule

Start Date: 
Monday, January 13, 2020
End Date: 
Friday, May 8, 2020
DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Tuesday
15:20
18:15
G-102