European Humanities EH 31 Spragins 2014-15		“Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.”  (Kant)
		Carey Hall Room 202 Office Hours: 2:15-3:30 p.m. (daily) jspragins@gilman.edu (410) 337-9060   ODD DAYS: First Period EVEN DAYS: Second Period 4th Period Classes: Days 4,5,9,10 Fall Outline: Course Description Orientation Texts for 2014-15
	Nike Adjusting Her Sandal 410 BC.	The Greeks Geography Quiz  Powerpoint Projects:  From the Big Bang to the Bronze Age in Twenty Minutes Achilles vs. Odysseus: Changing Conceptions of the Greek Hero Greek Philosophy, Art, Architecture, and History Plato, Apology Thucydides, “Pericles' Funeral Oration”  The Spartans Darker Aspects of the Athenian Golden Age Plato and Aristotle: The Greek Ideal Sophocles, Oedipus Rex Essay Workshop: The Greek Ideal
	God Speaks to Job from the Whirlwind (William Blake)	Hellenism, Judaism, Christianity and the Roman World Roman World Project  Judaism  Christianity  Roman Stoicism
	The Rose Window at Notre Dame Cathedral	Medieval England Story of English Internet Hunt Beowulf Creative Writing Assignment Medieval Music
	Cowper Madonna c.1505 (Raphael)	The Renaissance Romanesque Art and Architecture Gothic Art and Architecture Early Renaissance Art High Renaissance Art Renaissance Music Chaucer Renaissance Readings
		Shakespeare’s Macbeth (1606)
	Juan de Pareja 1650 (Velazquez)	The Seventeenth Century Historical Backgrounds  The Reformation Economic Renewal and Wars of Religion Rise of the Sovereign Monarch and the Nation State Baroque Art and Architecture Baroque Music Revolution in Scientific Thought: Copernicus, Galileo, Newton Revolution in Political Thought: Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke
	Voltaire, 1778 (Houdon)	The Enlightenment The Enlightenment Philosophy in the 18th Century: The Problem of Evil  Introduction to Voltaire The Lisbon Earthquake (1755)  Swift, A Modest Proposal (1729)  Hogarth's The Rake's Progress Voltaire, Candide (1758) (Study Guide) Music of the Classical Era Mid-Year Exam

Month

Day

Cycle Day

Day

Assignment

08/

28

Day 0

Thurs.

MINI-SCEDULE

Bright newborn stars shape a nebula
-- a glowing cloud of dust and gas
-- through their luminous energy,
while the nebula keeps the energy
from dissipating into the galaxy.
Hubble Space Telescope

The Big Bang!

Big Bang Briefly

Universe Timelines

Course Orientation: 

Course Description
Texts for 2014-15
Daily Grammar & Vocabulary Drills (Books in Classroom)

The Creation: Hubble Space Telescope Photos

Powers of Ten  (The Size of the Universe)

Deep Time Exercise:
The History of Deep Time

If every step you take measures a year, how far would you have to walk from Gilman (heading west on Northern Parkway) to get to the following moments in the history of the universe? Where would you wind up?

Extra Credit: At three feet per step and fifteen minutes per mile (5280 feet), how long would it take you to get there? Draw a line graph on the chalkboard to represent the data as close to scale as possible.

a. Greek Golden Age Begins: 500 BC 
b. Agricultural Revolution: 10,000 BC 
c. Ice Age Ends: 18,000 BC 
d. Cave Art: 50,000 BC 
e. Homo sapiens: 250,000 BC 
f.  Lucy (Australopithecus afarensis): 3,200,000 BC  (3.2 X 10>6)
g. Luca: Life on Earth Begins: 3,500,000,000 BC  (3.5 X 10>9)
h. Earth Forms: 4,570,000,000 BC (4.57 X 10>9)
i.  Big Bang: 13,700,000,000 BC (13.7 X 10>9)

Conversions; Calculator; Map, The Solar System (map)

Answers

Homework: 

• Summer Reading Speeches
• Portrait of Self as a Writer (Semester Goals)  Due Tuesday at 3:30 p.m.

 08/        

29

Day 1

Fri.

Long Assembly

George Orwell (1903-1950)

Grammar: Diagnostic Test

Gilman School Computer Network Resources: 

• Gmail (BMS and RCPS girls need to supply accurate email addresses.)
• Googledocs
• Google Classroom
• Google+
  

Summer Reading Speeches

• Summer Reading Pledge Sheet
• Summer Reading Table

Multimedia:

• 1984 Apple's Macintosh Commercial
• Trailer from Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) dir. Michael Radford

Homework: 

• Portrait of Self as a Writer
• (Before you start, take a look at the thirteen steps to college level writing.)
• Read Gaarder, Sophie's World, pp. 1-22: "The Garden of Eden"; "The Top Hat"

09/

01

Day 0

Mon.

LABOR DAY

09/           

02

Day 2

Tues.

Mediterranean Colonies

Archaic Greece

Finish Grammar Diagnostic Test

Due at 3:30 p.m.: Portrait of Self as a Writer

Gaarder, Sophie's World, pp. 1-22 "The Garden of Eden"; "The Top Hat"; (Notes)

The European World According to Herodotus (500 BC)

The Greeks: Backgrounds

Geography Project: Ancient Greece Map

Use these maps to get ready for a geography quiz.  
Ancient World Maps for Students (UNC) 
Ancient Greece

PDF Maps: 
Map of Greece (place names)

Homework: 

Finish Ancient Greece Map
Read Gaarder, Sophie's World, pp. 23-29 "The Myths"

09/

03

Day 3

Wed.

Lascaux Cave, France

Venus of Willendorf
c. 24,000-22,000 BC
(Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna)

The Great Pyramid of Khufu 2530 BC  Khafre's Pyramid c. 2500 BC The Pyramid of Menkure c. 2460 B.C.

The Greeks (Backgrounds):

Discussion: Sophie's World, pp. 21-27 "The Myths"
Sophie's Questions
The Myths

Powerpoint Projects: Western Ancient History in Twenty Minutes: The Age of Mythology:

Powerpoint: Pre-History, Mesopotamia, Egypt
Backgrounds: Historical Period Table

Homework: 

Powerpoint Projects: 
Western Ancient History in Twenty Minutes: The Age of Mythology
Directions: In a two-three minute presentation summarize the information on your topic and identify its key idea, or tell the story of your myth in an imaginative way. 
Powerpoint Guidelines (The Siliciano Rules)
MLA Form (Purdue)

Mythology Assignment Table 2014

Neat Resources:

• Carlos Parada’s Mythology Site
• Laura Gibbs’ Site on Mesopotamia and the Ancient Near East

"Hieroglyphics." 
ca. 300 B.C. London, British Museum.

09/

04

Day 4

Thurs

Minoan Snake Goddess
from Knossos, Crete
c. 1600 BC

Western Ancient History in Twenty Minutes: The Age of Mythology

Powerpoint: Crete, Mycenae, Greece

Powerpoint Guidelines (The Siliciano Rules)

Mythology Assignment Table 2014

Homework:

Powerpoint Projects

Read Norris, “A Brief History of Athens from the 6th to the 4^th Centuries B.C.” (2000)

4^th Period: Man in the State of Nature: “The Dawn of Man” from
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) dir. Stanley Kubrick;  
(Strauss, Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1896))

09/

05

Day 5

Fri.

Death Mask of Agamemnon
10 1/8 inch beaten gold
1550 BC

Homeric Geography

Attic, black-figure, ca. 530 B.C.

Student Presentations:

Western Ancient History in Twenty Minutes: The Age of Mythology
Powerpoint Guidelines (The Siliciano Rules)

Mythology Assignment Table 2014

Homer:

“The Iliad and the Odyssey have been known in the Western world continuously from the time that they were made available.”

Essay Contrasting Achilles and Odysseus due Wednesday at 3:30 p.m.
Essay Process

Homework:

• Read Homer, The Iliad, episode one: "The Quarrel by the Ships" (Study Guide)

Additional Resources:

• Iliad Outline
• A Synopsis of The Iliad
• Knox Notes: Achilles as Tragic Hero
• Achilles’ Shield, from Book 18 of The Iliad
• Origins of Homer’s Epics in oral tradition. (Kagan)
  rhapsodes- stitchers of songs

  Online: Multimedia: 

  You can listen to Stanley Lombardo reading the Greek text of Homer's Iliad online. Although it sounds very strange to us, Stefan Hagel's recitation is probably much closer to what Homer might have sung. (Gibbs)

  Homer, The Iliad: The Rage of Achilles (Mosaic) 
  The Illiad: Achilles and Agamemnon Argue (Mosaic)
  Images from the Trojan War in Greek Art (Temple U.)

  
  Krater, second half of 8th century B.C.
  Geometric Greek, Attic

09/

08

Day 6

Mon.

Lion Gate, Mycenae, c. 1300-1250 B.C.E.
(Smarthistory video)

Birth of Athena (560 B.C.)

The Shield of Achilles (1821)
made for George IV’s coronation banquet

Western Ancient History in Twenty Minutes:  The Age of Mythology

Mythology Assignment Table 2014

Paragraph on Mythology

Homer (750 B.C.): Introduction to The Iliad

Proem to The Iliad (Listen to The Iliad in ancient Greek (and here))

Sing, Goddess, sing of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus—
that murderous anger which condemned Achaeans
to countless agonies and threw many warrior souls
deep into Hades, leaving their dead bodies
carrion food for dogs and birds—
all in fulfillment of the will of Zeus.

Start at the point where Agamemnon, son of Atreus,

that king of men, quarreled with noble Achilles.

Which of the gods incited these two men to fight?

(Essay Contrasting Achilles and Odysseus due Wednesday at 3:30 p.m.)

Homer, The Iliad, episode one: "The Quarrel by the Ships" (Study Guide)
Paragraph on Achilles as Hero

Homework:

Read Homer, The Odyssey, Book Nine: "Ismarus, the Lotus Eaters, and the Cyclops";  Study Guide; also read the short excerpt from Book 12: Hades where "Odysseus Meets Achilles"

Maps: Odysseus' Journey Home; Odyssey Map

The Sirens

09/

09

Day 7

Tues.

PARENTS NIGHT

The Cyclops Polyphemus (Sperlanga)

ODYSSEUS & POLYPHEMOS;
Attic Black Figure 510 - 490 BC Louvre

Homeric Geography

Statue of Odysseus and Polyphemus
in the Sperlanga Museum

Mythology Assignment Table 2014

Homer, The Odyssey,

• Book Nine: "Ismarus, the Lotus Eaters, and the Cyclops"
• excerpt from Book 12: Hades: "Odysseus Meets Achilles"

Homer Odyssey Book Nine Study Guide

Homework:

(Essay Contrasting Achilles and Odysseus due Wednesday at 3:30 p.m.)

For Further Reading: 

• Images from the Trojan War in Greek Art (Temple U.)

Odysseus Defying the Cyclops, drawing Shutzenburger (1894)	Odysseus's Escape
Painted kylix, showing a trireme. 490 B.C.  (London: British Museum)	Odysseus and his men blinding Polyphemus (detail of a proto-attic amphora, c. 650 BC, museum of Eleusis)

09/

10

Day 8

Wed.

Head of Odysseus (marble, ca. A.D. 50, from
the "Cave of Tiberius" at Sperlonga).

(Essay Contrasting Achilles and Odysseus due at 3:30 p.m.)

Mythology Assignment Table 2014

Introduce: Internet Research Project

The Greek Ideal Essay due Monday, October 14th.

Homework:

Read: "The Greek Miracle" (Hamilton vs. Kelley)

09/

11

Day 9

Thurs.

Greek and Phoenician Trade Routes

The Nile

Boeotia: Mt. Helikon from Osios Loukas

Discuss: "The Greek Miracle" (Hamilton vs. Kelley)

Mythology Assignment Table 2014

Dr. J.’s Timeline of Classical Greece

Internet Research Project:
Assignment Table 2014

Homework:

The Emergence of Athens:

• Map of the Persian Empire at its Height
• Notes on Herodotus: The Persian Wars (440 B.C.) (complete text)
• Excerpts: Xerxes at the Hellespont (Book 7)
• Leonidas and the 300 at Thermopylae (Mosaic)

Check out the Maps:
Battle of Marathon (Map)
Battle of Thermopylae (Another Map) 
Battle of Salamis (Map)

For further reading:

Dr. J's Illustrated Persian War Site

09/

12

Day 10

Fri.

The Persian Empire at its Height

Thermopylae Monument

The reconstructed trireme Olympias at sea.
It was launched with due ceremony on 27 June 1987.

A Trireme Bearing Down on You!

Mythology Assignment Table 2014

Internet Research Project:
Assignment Table 2014

The Greek Ideal Essay due Monday, October 13th.

Greek Ideal Questions on Homer and Herodotus

The Emergence of Athens:
Leonidas, Themistocles and The Persian Wars (490-479 BC)

Clips from 300: "This is Sparta!"; "Earthquake? No Battle Formations!"

The Persian Wars: The Test of Greek Democracy 
Herodotus: The Persian Wars (Quiz)
Leonidas and the 300 at Thermopylae (Mosaic)

Historiē: “research” or “inquiry”; To Herodotus’ audience, the term would have had a vaguely clinical air, coming, as it did, from the vocabulary of the newborn field of natural science. (Herodotus was born in Ionia.) Prior to Herodotus, people conceived of their ‘story’ in epic terms, ie a poem recounting the exploits of a hero, like Achilles in The Iliad. (Notes on The Invention of History)

Homework:

Read: Gaarder, Sophie's World, pp. 28-55: The Natural Philosophers; Democritus; Fate (Study Guide)

4th Period: The Elements of Music: Melody and Harmony

Map of the Battle of Thermopylae

09/

15

Day 1

Mon.

Tour of Miletus (480 B.C.)  (Notice the gridplan introduced
by the architect Hippodamus a native of Miletus.)

Cosmos with Neil Degrasse Tyson, National Geogaphic Channel episode Season 1 Episode 6 "Deeper, Deeper, Deeper Still" (20 minutes in): Thales and Democritus

Thales of Miletus (624-547 BC)

Anaximander, detail  from Raphael,
The School of Athens (1510)

Internet Research Project:
Assignment Table 2014

The Greek Ideal Essay due Monday, October 13th

Introduction to the Natural Philosophers: Sophie's World, pp.28-55 (quiz) (answers)

Greek Ideal Essay: The Pre-Socratic Philosophers

• physis vs. nomos: nature vs. custom
• philosophy:  Greek word, from phileîn, “to love,” and sophía, “wisdom,” 
• cosmology: the study of the origin, nature, and structure of the physical universe.
• metaphysics: the study of the nature of reality, including the relationship between mind and matter, substance and attribute, time and space, fact and value.
• axiom: a sentence or proposition that is not proved or demonstrated and is considered to be self-evident. Therefore, it is taken for granted as true and serves as a starting point for deducing other truths. (How is an axiom different from a theorem?) (Euclid’s Axioms)

Powerpoint Presentations:

• The Natural Philosophers: The Ionian School: Thales, Anaximander, and Anaximenes
  
• The Natural Philosophers: The Eleatic School: Pythagoras, Parmenides, Heraclitus and Zeno

Homework: 

Read Plato, Apology (The Trial of Socrates) (Socrates Study Guide)

For further reading:

• The Trial of Socrates (UMKC)
• Brief Biography of Socrates
• Metaphysics today? Particle Theory/ String Theory

09/

16

Day 2

Tues.

Pythagoras from Raphael,
The School of Athens (1510)

The Union of Earth and Water
(1618) Reubens

Internet Research Project:
Assignment Table 2014

The Greek Ideal Essay due Monday, October 13th

Introduction to the Natural Philosophers: Sophie's World, pp.28-55 (quiz) (answers)

Paragraph Work: The Pre-Socratic Philosophers

• Why did philosophy emerge in Ionia during the late 7th century BCE? 
• What is the relationship between philosophy, economics and democracy?
• What contrasting cosmologies did the early philosophers develop?
• How did the materialists (empiricists) (see Heraclitus) and the idealists (rationalists) (see Parmenides and Pythagoras) differ in their understanding of the world?
• How did Empedocles and Democritus try to resolve the conflict between the materialists and the idealists?
• What place did morality and ethics have in their thinking?
• Use words like skeptic, moral relativism, rhetoric

Powerpoint Presentations:

• Pre-Socratic Philosophy: The Sophists: Protagoras, Gorgias, Hippias
• The Philosophy of Socrates

Homework: 

Read: Gaarder, Sophie's World, pp. 56-77: Socrates, Athens

For further reading:

• The Trial of Socrates (UMKC)
• Athens Internet Tour: The Ancient City of Athens [At Indiana]
  A photographic archive of the archaeological and architectural remains of ancient Athens. 

09/

17

Day 3

Wed.

David, Jacques-Louis
The Death of Socrates 1787

Socrates speaking with Alcibiades,
a detail of The School of Athens,
a fresco by Raphael.  (Wikipedia)

Bust of Socrates (Roman Copy of Lyssipos)

Internet Research Project:
Assignment Table 2014

The Greek Ideal Essay due Monday, October 13th

“the life which is unexamined is not worth living” - Socrates

The Greek Ideal Essay

V. The Greek Ideal

• Why are Socrates, Plato and Aristotle justly regarded as the most important thinkers
  in the history of Western civilization?
• What was Socrates' great accomplishment?

Powerpoint Presentation::

• The Philosophy of Socrates

The Athenian Golden Age: Discussion of Plato's Apology; Socrates Study Guide (Quiz)

• True Eloquence
• True Wisdom
• The Purpose of Life
• The Gadfly
• The Greatest Good
• The Soul
• Death?

Gaarder, Sophie's World, pp. 56-77: Socrates, Athens

• Sophie on Socrates
• Steve Martin: Death of Socrates]

Homework:

• Backgrounds: The Peloponnesian Wars

• Thucydides Pericles’ Funeral Oration (431 BCE)

• Apology for inadequacy of his words
• Honor to Ancestors
• Thesis
• The Characteristics of Democratic Society
• The Characteristics of the Citizen in a Democracy
• The Advantages of a Democracy in War: Citizen Soldiers
• Honor to the Fallen
• The Obligation of the Living to the Dead: Love of Country

Compare to Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address

For further reading

• Dr. J’s Illustrated Funeral Oration
• Plutarch’s Life of Pericles
• Philosophical Backgrounds of the 5th Century BC
• Rhetorical Forms

09/

18

Day 4

Thurs.

Marble Bust of Pericles British Museum

Athens and Sparta during the Peloponnesian Wars

The names of the 58,209 American soldiers either killed or missing in action during the Vietnam War. As a memorial at Arlington reads: "All gave some . . . some gave all."

View of the Acropolis and the South Slope from the southwest (from near the Philopappos Monument).

Internet Research Project:
Assignment Table 2014

The Greek Ideal Essay due Monday, October 13th

The Greek Ideal in Politics

VI. The Greek Ideal in Politics

• How were the characteristics of the Greek Ideal reflected in the principles of Athenian democracy? (see Pericles' Funeral Oration)
• What problems can be observed in the application of these ideals to the realities of Athenian society?
• How did Plato criticize Democracy?

Powerpoint Presentation:

• The Rise of Greek Democracy: Draco, Solon, Pisistratos, Cleisthenes, and Themistocles
• Thucydides and The Peloponnesian Wars

Backgrounds:

• The Peloponnesian Wars
• Cobbald, A Narrative History of the Peloponessian War: The Funeral Speech
• Kagan Lectures: First Peloponnesian War (460-445 BC); Interregnum (445-431 BC); Second Peloponnesian War (431- 404 BC); Pericles' Strategy

Discuss the characteristics of Athenian Democracy as reflected in Pericles' speech:

Thucydides Pericles’ Funeral Oration (431 BCE)  (Outline)

1. Apology for inadequacy of words
2. Honor to Ancestors
3. Thesis
4. The Characteristics of Democratic Society
5. The Characteristics of the Citizen in a Democracy
6. The Advantages of a Democracy in War: Citizen Soldiers
7. Honor to the Fallen
8. The Obligation of the Living to the Dead

• Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and
  John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address

Homework:

• Xenophon, The Customs of the Spartans; The Spartan War Machine
• Poetry of Tyrtaeus
• Archidamus Characterizes the Strength of the Spartans

For further reading:

• Kagan Lecture on Sparta (2009)
• slavery
• education
  
• Two Faces of Greece: Athens and Sparta (PBS)
• Plutarch’s Life of Lycurgus

09/

19

Day 5

Fri.

Bust of a Spartan Warrior: "Our friend brings us good news.
If the Persians darken the sun with their arrows,
we will be able to fight in the shade." (Dieneces)

Peloponnesian Wars

Internet Research Project:
Assignment Table 2014

The Greek Ideal Essay due Monday, October 13th

Sparta: (Quiz)

• Poetry of Tyrtaeus
• Xenophon, The Customs of the Spartans; The Spartan War Machine
• Archidamus Characterizes the Strength of the Spartans
• Sparta Notes
• Two Faces of Greece: Athens and Sparta (PBS)

Homework:

Darker Aspects of The Athenian Golden Age: 

• Thucydides, The Melian Dialogue
• Aristotle on Greek Slavery
• The Lot of Hellenic Women

For further reading:

• Melos Role Playing Site
• Was Athens really a democracy?
• The Democratic Aristocracy of Athens (Georg Busolt)
• Was Athens in the Age of Pericles Aristocratic? (Van Hook)

09/

22

Day 6

Mon.

View of the Acropolis and the South Slope from the southwest (from near the Philopappos Monument).
(Ancient City of Athens)

The Athenian Empire (450 BCE)

An Athenian Slave Helps an Athlete
Prepare to Compete  510-500 B.C

Internet Research Project:
Assignment Table 2014

The Greek Ideal Essay due Monday, October 13th

"Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack being made. And we cannot fix the exact point at which our empire shall stop; we have reached a position in which we must not be content with retaining but must scheme to extend it, for, if we cease to rule others, we are in danger of being ruled ourselves. Nor can you look at inaction from the same point of view as others, unless you are prepared to change your habits and make them like theirs." Alcibiades' Oration before the Sicilian expedition as recorded by Thucydides, (VI, 18]

Darker Aspects of  The Athenian Golden Age: 

• Thucydides, The Melian Dialogue (Notes)
• Documents on Greek Slavery (Notes)
• The Lot of Hellenic Women
• A Narrative History of the Peloponessian War

Problems with Greek Democracy:

1. Can democracy compete with authoritarian enemies? (Athens v. Sparta)
2. Can citizens meet their responsibilities? (voting, community service, military service)
3. Will the leaders of a democracy be corrupted by moral relativism and power? (Alcibiades' imperialism, Aristotle's justification of economic exploitation;  the us vs. them syndrome)
   

Homework:

Read Gaarder, Sophie's World, pp.78-120 "Plato"; "Aristotle"  

Read Plato: The Allegory of the Cave; Notes; Student Cave Drawings

For further reading
Plato: excerpts from The Republic: Notes

09/

23

Day 7

Tues.

Plato (left) and Aristotle (right),
a detail of The School of Athens,
a fresco by Raphael.  (Wikipedia)

Plato’s Cave

Internet Research Project:
Assignment Table 2014

The Greek Ideal Essay due Monday, October 13th

Gilman Punctuation Rules

Powerpoint Presentations: Socrates' Students:

• The Philosophy of Plato and the Academy
• The Philosophy of Aristotle and the Lyceum
• Sophie on Plato and Aristotle

Plato:

• excerpts from The Republic: The Philosopher King; Notes
• The Allegory of the Cave; Notes; Student Cave Drawings

Homework:

• Paragraphs on Greek Democracy and The Greek Ideal

Sculpture from Parthenon's East Pediment (Smarthistory)	"The Winged Victory of Samothrace" 200-190 BC (Smarthhistory video) (Louvre)

09/

24

Day 8

Wed.

Sculpture from the Parthenon's East Pediment

(Smarthistory)

Temple of Hera at Paestum (550 BC)

Temple of Athena at Paestum (500 BC)

(Smarthistory Video)

The Parthenon,
(Ancient City of Athens)

The Parthenon 477-438 BC The Fibonacci Sequence

(Smarthistory)

The Golden Ratio (Khan Academy) The Construction of the Parthenon  (NOVA)

Internet Research Project:
Assignment Table 2014

The Greek Ideal Essay due Monday, October 13th

Socrates' Students:

• Review: Plato and Aristotle (Topic Sentence) Quotes? Use: Sophie on Plato and Aristotle
• Philosophy Review: Raphael's The School of Athens (Interactive)

The Parthenon embodies the supreme ideal of the Greeks: there is harmony and order in the universe that is discernible to the human intellect. (see Disney Headquarters) 

Presentations:

• Ancient Greek Architecture: The Rise of the Classical Ideal
• Sculpture of the Golden Age: The Rise of the Classical Ideal
• The Fibonacci Sequence and The Golden Proportion in Art
• The Parthenon
  

Homework:

Backgrounds to Greek Tragedy: 
Review: Bullfinch's Mythology: Dionysus (Bacchus), Cadmus and Europa; The Sphinx

For further reading:

From Ovid, Metamorphoses, Books 3 and 4
The House of Cadmus:
Europa, Acteon, Semele, Tiresias, Narcissus and Echo, Pentheus,
Athamas and Ino

Sculpture from the Parthenon Frieze (Smarthhistory)	Kouros (youth), ca. 590–580 (Smarthistory video)
Polykleitos, Doryphoros 450-440 (Smarthhistory video)	Dying Gaul 240-200 BC (Smarthistory)

09/

25

Day 0

Thurs.

Rosh Hashanah

09/

26

Day 9

Fri.

Dionysian Revels

Internet Research Project:
Assignment Table 2014

The Greek Ideal Essay due Monday, October 13th

Powerpoint Presentation: The Origins of Greek Tragedy

Backgrounds to Greek Tragedy:

Dionysus and the Origins of Tragedy: (Crete, Mycenae, Greece Powerpoint)

Dionysus Cadmus and Europa; The Sphinx (Quiz)

From Ovid, Metamorphoses, Books 3 and 4: The House of Cadmus and the Problem of Undeserved Suffering (Acteon, Semele, Tiresias, Narcissus and Echo, Pentheus, Athamas and Ino)

Homework:

• The Origins of Tragedy
• The Athenian Festival
• Greek Tragedy Study Guide
  

For further reading: 

• Nietzsche, from The Birth of Tragedy (1871)
• Ancient Greek Theatre (Reed College)
• Dr. J's Illustrated Greek Theatre
• Backgrounds to Greek Tragedy (Brooklyn College)
• Classical Greek Tragedy and Theatre (Damen)
• Recreation of the Theatre of Dionysus in Athens
• Ancient Greek Stage Craft
• The Ultimate Online Study Guide to Sophocles' Three Theban Plays

Titian, Bacchus and Ariadne (1518)

09/

29

Day 10

Mon.

The Theatre at Epidauros
from Skenotheke

The Theatre of Dionysus
next to the Acropolis in Athens

Internet Research Project:
Assignment Table 2014

The Greek Ideal Essay due Monday, October 13th

The Theme of Tragedy: The Mystery of Human Suffering 

From Bullfinch's Mythology: Dionysus (Bacchus), Cadmus and Europa; The Sphinx; From Ovid, Metamorphoses, Books 3 and 4: The House of Cadmus and the Problem of Undeserved Suffering (Acteon, Semele, Tiresias, Narcissus and Echo, Pentheus, Athamas and Ino)

The Origins of Tragedy:

• The Origins of Tragedy
• The Athenian Festival
• Greek Tragedy Study Guide
• Backgrounds Quiz
• Damen Argument

Homework:

• Read: Sophocles Oedipus Rex: Prologue and Parados (Study Guide)
• Ask questions and comment in online text.
  

For Further Study: 

• Thucydides Histories: The Plague in Athens (more)
• Classical Greek Tragedy and Theatre (Damen)
• excerpts from Aristotle’s Poetics

09/

30

Day 1

Tues.

Khnopff The Caress 1896.

Pronomos Vase (c. 400 B.C.)

Internet Research Project:
Assignment Table 2014

The Greek Ideal Essay due Monday, October 13th

• How did Sophocles question the foundation of the Greek ideal in his tragedy Oedipus Rex?
• What ancient understanding of our place in the natural world resurfaces in the ritual of tragedy?
• How might Socrates have responded to Sophocles' tragic vision in Oedipus Rex? (No doubt, he saw the play.)

Sophocles, Oedipus Rex (Discussion) Prologue and Parados (Study Guide) (Quiz)

The Influence of the Greek Chorus on Entertainment (You Tube)

Homework:

• Read: Sophocles Oedipus Rex: Scene 1 and Ode 1;
  
• Study Guide: Scene 1/ Ode 1
• Ask questions and comment in online text.

(Discussion outline)

Six Choristers (490 BC)

10/

01

Day 2

Wed.

Teiresias Accuses Oedipus

"You yourself are the pollution of this country."
(Scene 1)

Internet Research Project:
Assignment Table 2014

The Greek Ideal Essay due Monday, October 13th

• How did Sophocles question the foundation of the Greek ideal in his tragedy Oedipus Rex?
• What ancient understanding of our place in the natural world resurfaces in the ritual of tragedy?
• How might Socrates have responded to Sophocles' tragic vision in Oedipus Rex? (No doubt, he saw the play.)

Sophocles, Oedipus Rex (Discussion outline) Scene 1 and Ode 1 (Study Guide) (Quiz)

Irony: Dramatic Irony, Perepetea, Catharsis
The Soothsayer's Prophecy

Homework:

• Read: Sophocles Oedipus Rex: Scene 2; Ode 2 (Study Guide)
• Ask questions and comment in online text.

10/

02

Day 3

Thurs.

Internet Research Project:
Assignment Table 2014

The Greek Ideal Essay due Monday, October 13th

• How did Sophocles question the foundation of the Greek ideal in his tragedy Oedipus Rex?
• What ancient understanding of our place in the natural world resurfaces in the ritual of tragedy?
• How might Socrates have responded to Sophocles' tragic vision in Oedipus Rex? (No doubt, he saw the play.)

Sophocles Oedipus Rex: (Discussion outline); Scene 2; Ode 2 (Study Guide) (Quiz) (Jocasta's Entrance)

Irony: Dramatic Irony, Perepetea, Catharsis

Dramatic Irony in Scene 2: Example 1 ; Example 2

Homework

Read Oedipus Rex: 

• The Messenger from Corinth: Scene 3 and Ode 3; Study Guide: Scene 3/ Ode 3
• Recognition: Scene 4; Ode 4; Study Guide: Scene 4/ Ode 4
• Ask questions and comment in online text.

10/

03

Day  4

Fri.

Polybos was not your father." Oedipus Rex iii

Internet Research Project:
Assignment Table 2014

The Greek Ideal Essay due Monday, October 13th

• How did Sophocles question the foundation of the Greek ideal in his tragedy Oedipus Rex?
• What ancient understanding of our place in the natural world resurfaces in the ritual of tragedy?
• How might Socrates have responded to Sophocles' tragic vision in Oedipus Rex? (No doubt, he saw the play.)

Sophocles, Oedipus Rex: 

• The Messenger from Corinth: Scene 3 and Ode 3
• Study Guide: Scene 3/ Ode 3
• Recognition: Scene 4; Ode 4
• Study Guide: Scene 4/ Ode 4: (Quiz)

Discussion: The Messenger from Corinth; Recognition

Homework:

• Sophocles Oedipus Rex: Catharsis :Exodos (Study Guide)
• Ask questions and comment in online text.

10/

06

Day 5

Mon.

"God. God. Is there a sorrow greater!"
Oedipus Rex, exodus

Internet Research Project:
Assignment Table 2014

The Greek Ideal Essay due Monday, October 13th

Sophocles Oedipus Rex: Catharsis :Exodos (Study Guide) (Quiz)

• How did Sophocles question the foundation of the Greek ideal in his tragedy Oedipus Rex?
• What ancient understanding of our place in the natural world resurfaces in the ritual of tragedy?
• How might Socrates have responded to Sophocles' tragic vision in Oedipus Rex? (No doubt, he saw the play.)

Discussion: Catharsis

Aristotle's Definition of Tragedy:

• tragos: "goatsong"
• choral odes: dithyrambs (Parados) (Ode 1) (Ode 2) (Ode 3) (Ode 4)
• "Tragedy, then, is an imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude; ... in the form of action, not of narrative; through pity and fear effecting the proper purgation of these emotions."
• Action (plot) is not merely the sequence of events but "a movement of the spirit through a community."
• The building blocks of tragedy: dramatic irony and perepeteia lead to catharsis

Homework:

• The Greek Ideal Essay due Monday, October 13th.

10/

07

Day 6

Tues.

"terracotta mask of Dionysus" Greek,
Myrina; second century BCE Paris, Louvre Museum.

Internet Research Project:
Assignment Table 2014

The Greek Ideal Essay due Monday, October 13th

Essay Workshop: The Greek Ideal

Homework:

• The Greek Ideal Essay due Monday, October 13th.

10/

08

Day 7

Wed.

"God. God. Is there a sorrow greater!"
Oedipus Rex, Exodos

Internet Research Project:
Assignment Table 2014

Essay Workshop: The Greek Ideal

Homework:

The Greek Ideal Essay due Monday, October 13th

MLA Citation Format

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09

Day 8

Thurs.

"Oh child of evil,
To have entered that wretched bed-- the selfsame one! 
More primal than sin itself, this fell to me."
Oedipus Rex, Exodos

The Greek Ideal Essay due Monday, October 13th

Internet Research Project:
Assignment Table 2014

Essay Workshop: The Greek Ideal

 :Peer Review with the Laptop

MLA Citation Format

10/

10

Day 9

Fri.

Diogenes the Cynic (Detail from Raphael's School of Athens)

Diogenes and Alexander the Great

The Greek Ideal Essay due Monday, October 13th

Essay Peer Review with the Laptop

MLA Citation Format

The Cynics; Alexander The Great

Hellenism: The Cynics, The Stoics, the Epicureans, and the Neo-Platonists
The Origins of the Olympic Games

Homework:

Read Sophie's World, "Hellenism", pp.121-39

10/

13

Day 10

Mon.

Alexander Mosaic from Pompeii, from
a 3rd century BC original Greek painting, now lost)

The Regions Conquered by Alexander 
(Mosaic Sources on Alexander the Great)

The Greek Ideal Essay due today at 3:30 p.m.

The Cynics; Alexander The Great:

• Hellenism: The Cynics, The Stoics, the Epicureans, and the Neo-Platonists
• The Origins of the Olympic Games
• Sophie on Hellenism

Roman Art (Powerpoint) 

• Choose Topic for Roman World Project
• Assignment Table 2014
• Roman World Paragraph Test on Thursday, October 23rd.

Directions:

1. Carefully read your texts.
2. While reading, think about how you will answer the study questions.
3. Write answers to the questions in sentences.
4. Report to the class about the main ideas of the reading. (Don’t just tell the story; explain its significance.)
5. Be ready to lead the class in a discussion of the review questions at the end of your section. 

Homework:

• Roman World Project

10/

14

Day 1

Tues.

Augustus as general, from Primaporta,
Italy, ca. 20 B.C. Marble, 6' 8" high.
Vatican Museums, Rome

A Virtual Reconstruction of Ancient Rome (Smarthistory)

The Pantheon (Smarthistory)

The Ara Pacis (Smarthistory)

The Colloseum  (Smarthistory)

Trajan's Column (Smarthistory)

Equestrian Sculpture of Marcus Aurelius (Smarthistory)

The Colossus of Constantine (Smarthistory)

Roman World Project; Assignment Table 2014
Roman World Paragraph Test on Thursday, October 23rd

Roman Art (Powerpoint) 

Judaism: (Historical Backgrounds)

• Genesis 1-3, 6-9
• Exodus 19-23
• The Prophets: Amos, Isaiah, Isaiah2
• Excerpts from Job

Directions:

1. Carefully read your texts.
2. While reading, think about how you will answer the study questions.
3. Write answers to the questions in sentences.
4. Report to the class about the main ideas of the reading. (Don’t just tell the story; explain its significance.)
5. Be ready to lead the class in a discussion of the review questions at the end of your section.

Homework: Read Sophie's World, "The Postcards" and "Two Cultures" (pp. 140-164)

Judaism:

• Genesis 1-3, 6-9
• Exodus 19-23
• The Prophets: Amos, Isaiah, Isaiah2
• Excerpts from Job

10/

15

Day 2

Wed.

PSAT-- No Class

10/

16

Day 3

Thurs.

God Speaks to Job from the Whirlwind (William Blake)

The View from atop Mt. Sinai

The Western Wall of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem

Roman World Project; Assignment Table 2014
Roman World Paragraph Test on Thursday, October 23rd.

Judaism: (Historical Backgrounds)

• Genesis 1-3, 6-9
• Exodus 19-23
• The Prophets: Amos, Isaiah, Isaiah2
• Excerpts from Job

1. How does the ambiguity of the ancient Hebrew myths (like The Garden of Eden, The Flood, and Job teach us about the nature of the covenant between God and his chosen people?
2. Describe the path to the truth that must be followed according to ancient Hebrew thought.

Homework:

Paragraphs on Judaism

Be ready for Christianity Presentations:

• Matthew, 4-7, The Sermon on the Mount
• The Acts of the Apostles
• St. Paul’s Letters to the Corinthians and the Romans
• St. Augustine’s City of God
  

Read

• Sophie's World, "The Postcards" and "Two Cultures" (pp. 140-164)

For further reading and listening:

• Catacomb of Priscilla, Rome (Smarthistory)
• Relief from the Arch of Titus, showing The Spoils of Jerusalem being brought into Rome (Smarthistory)
  

10/

17

Day 4

Fri.

Phrases Exercise

Roman World Project; Assignment Table 2014
Roman World Paragraph Test on Thursday, October 23rd.

Christianity:

• Matthew, 4-7, The Sermon on the Mount
• The Acts of the Apostles
• St. Paul’s Letters to the Corinthians and the Romans
• St. Augustine’s City of God

3. How does the teaching of Jesus integrate ancient Greek and ancient Hebrew thought?
4. What methods did the early church fathers (Peter, Paul and Augustine) use to successfully spread Christianity?
5. How did St. Augustine solve the theological problem of evil?.

For further reading: Mike S. Presentation on Job (10/01/03)

Homework:

Paragraphs on Christianity

4th Period: Music History: The Elements of Music Melody and Harmony

10/

20

Day 0

Mon.

AIMS Conference

10/

21

Day 5

Tues.

The Pont du Gard, a Roman Aqueduct

Map of the Roman Empire 117 AD
Paul Bigot's Model of Ancient Rome

The Coliseum in Rome

"Consul Titus Manlius Torquatus Beheading His Son"
by Ferdinand Bol (1661)

More Phrases

Roman World Project; Assignment Table 2014
Roman World Paragraph Test on Thursday, October 23rd.

Christianity:

• Matthew, 4-7, The Sermon on the Mount
• The Acts of the Apostles
• St. Paul’s Letters to the Corinthians and the Romans
• St. Augustine’s City of God

3. How does the teaching of Jesus integrate ancient Greek and ancient Hebrew thought?
4. What methods did the early church fathers (Peter, Paul and Augustine) use to successfully spread Christianity?
5. How did St. Augustine solve the theological problem of evil?.

Roman Thought:  

Livy, The History of Rome from its Foundation

• Preface
• Romulus and Remus
• The Rape of the Sabine Women
• Death of Lucretia
• The Death of Titus Manlius Torquatus' Son (Commentary)

Cicero, On the Laws
Lucretius, On the Nature of Things
Marcus Aurelius, Thoughts
Tacitus, Germania

6. What do the ancient founding myths of Rome (Romulus and Remus, The Rape of the Sabine Women, The Suicide of Lucretia, The Execution of Titus Manlius) teach us about Roman character and values?
7. How did Cicero define the law for the Roman Empire?
8. How did Lucretius teach us to overcome our fear of death and to lead our lives?
9. How did Marcus Aurelius' personal philosophy combine elements of Stoicism, Epicureanism and Materialism?
10. What vision of the barbarian 'other' did Tacitus create?

Homework:

• Paragraphs on Roman Thought

Extra Credit: How does Virgil's revision of Homer teach us about the central values of Roman culture?

• Virgil Aeneid: excerpts (19 BC)
• Dido and Aeneas (Images)

4th Period: Music History: The Elements of Music: Instrumentation and Timbre

10/

22

Day 6

Wed.

The Pantheon in Rome

Paul Bigot's Model of Ancient Rome
A Tour through Ancient Rome in 320 C.E.
(Smarthistory)

The interior of the Pantheon in Rome

Roman World Project; Assignment Table 2014
Roman World Paragraph Test on Thursday, October 23rd.

Roman Thought:

Lucretius, On the Nature of Things
Marcus Aurelius, Thoughts
Tacitus, Germania

6. What do the ancient founding myths of Rome (Romulus and Remus, The Rape of the Sabine Women, The Suicide of Lucretia, The Execution of Titus Manlius) teach us about Roman character and values?
7. How did Cicero define the law for the Roman Empire?
8. How did Lucretius teach us to overcome our fear of death and to lead our lives?
9. How did Marcus Aurelius' personal philosophy combine elements of Stoicism, Epicureanism and Materialism?
10. What vision of the barbarian 'other' did Tacitus create?

Virgil Aeneid, excerpts

Extra Credit: How does Virgil's revision of Homer teach us about the central values of Roman culture?

Homework:

Study for Roman World Project

10/

23

Day 7

Thurs.

Arch of Titus 81 AD

Equestrian Statue
Marcus Aurelius 161-180 AD

Roman World Project; Assignment Table 2014
Roman World Paragraph Test on Thursday, October 23rd.

Directions: Write a paragraph in answer to the following questions. Specific attention will be paid to your topic sentences: make sure that they are terrific!

1. How does the ambiguity of the ancient Hebrew myths (like The Garden of Eden, The Flood, and Job teach us about the nature of the covenant between God and his chosen people?
2. Describe the path to the truth that must be followed according to ancient Hebrew thought.
3. How does the teaching of Jesus integrate ancient Greek and ancient Hebrew thought?
4. What methods did the early church fathers (Peter, Paul and Augustine) use to successfully spread Christianity?
5. How did St. Augustine solve the theological problem of evil?
6. What do the ancient founding myths of Rome (Romulus and Remus, The Rape of the Sabine Women, The Suicide of Lucretia, The Execution of Titus Manlius) teach us about Roman character and values?
7. How did Cicero define the law for the Roman Empire?
8. How did Lucretius teach us to overcome our fear of death and to lead our lives?
9. How did Marcus Aurelius' personal philosophy combine elements of Stoicism, Epicureanism and Materialism?
10. What vision of the barbarian 'other' did Tacitus create?

Homework:

• European Map Exercise

Maps of Europe:

• World Atlas Maps (Rivers, Capitols, Regions, etc.)

10/

24

Day 8

Fri.

Indo-European Groups



Arm Bracelet from recently
discovered Staffordshire Hoard

The Story of English (ppt)

European Map Exercise

World Atlas Maps (Rivers, Capitols, Regions, etc.)

Homework:

• Sophie's World, “The Middle Ages” pp. 165-187

Map of Anglo-Saxon England 800 AD	Illuminated Bible of St. Jerome 698 AD

10/

27

Day 9

Mon.

The Cross of Murdoch 923 AD

Sutton Hoo
ceremonial helmet

The Middle Ages:

• Sophie on the Middle Ages (Sophie's World, pp. 165-187)
• The Staffordshire Hoard and Beowulf
• The Story of English
• Beowulf (2007): Grendel's Attack
• The 13th Warrior starring Antonio Banderas (1999) dir. John McTiernan and Michael Crichton:
  an imagined re-telling of the Beowulf story set in A.D. 922:  an Arab ambassador is exiled from his homeland and ends up meeting a group of warrior Norseman, who he soon discovers he is destined
  to join. (You Tube)

Homework:

Reading 

• Beowulf excerpts  (trans Seamus Heaney) (full text)
• Beowulf Lecture Notes

Multimedia:

Sound Files:

• Opening of the Poem - lines 1-52 
• Sea Journey - lines 194-22 
• Grendel's Approach; the Fight with Beowulf - lines 688-789

Old English:

• Prologue (Old English)
• Grendel's Approach (Old English)

For further reading:

• Seamus Heaney on Beowulf
• J.R.R. Tolkein on Beowulf, "The Monsters and the Critics" (1936)
• Beowulf in Cyberspace (With Dual Translation and many graphics... very cool!)

10/

28

Day 10

Tues.

Viking Invasions (8th c. AD)

Viking Conquests Around the World (6^th -10^th c.)

Beowulf excerpts  (trans Seamus Heaney) (full text)
Beowulf Lecture Notes

Beowulf Online Resources:

• Sound Files: from Beowulf. (trans Seamus Heaney)
• Prologue (Old English)
• Grendel's Approach (Old English)
• Beowulf the Comic Book
• Wikipedia's Beowulf page
• Wikipedia's Sutton Hoo page

Homework:

Beowulf Creative Writing Assignment
Due Thursday at 3:30 p.m.

Artifacts Essay Idea? Read Seamus Heaney on Beowulf and then J.R.R. Tolkein on Beowulf, "The Monsters and the Critics" (1936) Your research is nearly done.

4^th Period:

10/

29

Day 1

Wed.

Christ on the Day of Judgment
Tympanum Sculpture at St. Foy

The Last Judgment
at Sainte-Foy

Presentation on Romanesque Architecture and Sculpture

St. Augustine on the Problem of Evil

Homework:

Read: Chaucer and the Medieval World View

For further reading:

Chaucer Maps
Medieval Social Hierarchy Page (Furr)
Important Events in the Fourteenth Century (Jane Zatta)

10/

30

Day 2

Thurs.

Chaucer Ellesmere Manuscript Woodcut

Notre Dame de Paris

The Renaissance:

Introduction to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

• The Story of English
• Chaucer and the Medieval World View
• Sophie on "The Middle Ages" (pp.165-187)
• Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: The Pilgrim Project

Homework:

Memorize the Proem (lines 1-18): Proem read aloud: (lines 1-14; lines 15-29);
Proem Notes;  General Prologue: Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales (1397) (Towson University)
(Off-line Text) (Another website)

Other versions:

• (User Friendly Text Adobe PDF) 
  
• (Dual Text: Middle English/Modern)
• (Interlinear Translation:  Middle English/Modern)

Notre Dame Gargolyle	The extent of Christianity during the period of the Crusades.

10/

31

Day 3

Fri.

1/2 DAY CLASSES

Read Beowulf Creative Assignments aloud.

Homework:

• Finish maps.

11/

03

Day 4

Mon.

The Ptolemaic universe. From Andraeus Cellarius,
Harmonia macrocosma (Amsterdam, 1660)

The Geometry of the Rose Window
at Chartres (animation)

The Renaissance:

Introduction to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
Sophie on "The Middle Ages" (pp.165-187)
Chaucer and the Medieval World View

The Medieval World View: Ulysses' Speech on degree
from Shakespeare's  Trolius and Cressida

St. Augustine on the Problem of Evil
St. Thomas Aquinas

Gothic Architecture and Sculpture

Homework:

• Thesis? Chaucer on The Problem of Evil
• Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: The Pilgrim Project
• Assignment Table
• Rough Draft of Paragraph on Group One 
• Spragins Notes Pilgrim Projects

Extra Credit: COLOR ME Mandala Coloring Book; Creation of Buddhist Sand Mandala

The Apostles at Chartres Cathedral	The Nave of Chartres Cathedral

11/

04

Day 5

Tues.

Research Pilgrim Projects

11/

05

Day 6

Wed.

The Knight


The Squire

Chaucer's General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales: 

Student Presentations on Group One:

• Thesis: The Proem: Earthly Love vs. Divine Love
  
• Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: The Pilgrim Project
• Assignment Table
• Check my notes for help: Spragins Notes Pilgrim Projects

Homework:

Paragraph on Group One

Read: Sophie's World, "The Renaissance", pp. 188-215

The extent of Christianity during the period of the Crusades.	Longbows at the Battle of Crecy (1356) in The 100 Years War

11/

06

Day 7

Thurs.

The Prioresse

The Friar

Student Presentations: Group Two: Chaucer's Canterbury Tales:

• Thesis: The Proem: Earthly Love vs. Divine Love
  
• Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: The Pilgrim Project
• Assignment Table
• Check my notes for help: Spragins Notes Pilgrim Projects

Homework:

Write rough drafts of paragraphs on Groups One and Two

11/

07

Day 8

Fri.

The Wife of Bath


The Franklin


The Seargeant at Law

Student Presentations: Group Three: Chaucer's Canterbury Tales:

• Thesis: The Proem: Earthly Love vs. Divine Love
  
• Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: The Pilgrim Project
• Assignment Table
• Check my notes for help: Spragins Notes Pilgrim Projects

Homework:

Write rough draft of paragraphs on Group Three

General Prologue: Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales (1397) (Towson University) (Off-line Text) (Another website)
(User Friendly Text Adobe PDF) 
(Dual Text: Middle English/Modern)
(Interlinear Translation:  Middle English/Modern) 
Proem read aloud: (lines 1-14; lines 15-29)
Proem Notes

4^th Period: Medieval Music (Powerpoint)

11/

10

Day 9 

Mon.

The Parson


The Peasants' Revolt 1381 The Death of Wat Tyler

Student Presentations: Group Four: Chaucer's Canterbury Tales:

• Thesis: The Proem: Earthly Love vs. Divine Love
  
• Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: The Pilgrim Project
• Assignment Table
• Check my notes for help: Spragins Notes Pilgrim Projects

Homework:

Write rough draft of paragraphs on Group Four:

General Prologue: Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales (1397) (Towson University) (Off-line Text) (Another website)
(User Friendly Text Adobe PDF) 
(Dual Text: Middle English/Modern)
(Interlinear Translation:  Middle English/Modern) 
Proem read aloud: (lines 1-14; lines 15-29)
Proem Notes

11/

11

Day 10

Tues.

The Miller


The Summoner
Presentation on Medieval Music (Powerpoint)

Student Presentation: Group Five: Chaucer's Canterbury Tales:

• Thesis: The Proem: Earthly Love vs. Divine Love
  
• Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: The Pilgrim Project
• Assignment Table
• Check my notes for help: Spragins Notes Pilgrim Projects

Homework:

Write rough draft of paragraphs on Group Five:

General Prologue: Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales (1397) (Towson University) (Off-line Text) (Another website)
(User Friendly Text Adobe PDF) 
(Dual Text: Middle English/Modern)
(Interlinear Translation:  Middle English/Modern) 
Proem read aloud: (lines 1-14; lines 15-29)
Proem Notes

11/

12

Day 1

Wed.

Presentation on Early Renaissance Art

Peer Review with the Laptop

Homework: (voluntary)

• The Wife of Bath's Prologue

For further reading:  Renaissance Florence

11/

13

Day 2

Thurs.

Masaccio Trinity
1427-28 Fresco
Santa Maria Novella, Florence


Giotto di BONDONE The Mourning of Christ c. 1305  Fresco Cappella dell'Arena,Padua
Text about "The Mourning of Christ"
from E.H. Gombrich, "The Story of Art

• The Wife of Bath's Prologue

Homework:

• Pico de Mirandolla, Oration on the Dignity of Man (1486)
• Machiavelli, from The Prince (1513), Intro, chapters 14-19, 26
  
• Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier (1528), short extracts 

The Drawings of Leonardo DaVinci

Possible Artifacts Essay:

• "The Miller’s Tale"; Interlinear Translation (offline)  (Class Notes)
• Barrie Lecture Notes on "The Miller's Tale"
• McDaniel Lecture Notes on "The Miller's Tale"
• Harvard’s Chaucer Site: “The Miller’s Tale”
• Patterson Lecture Notes (Harvard Chaucer) 
• The Great Plague of 1348-50
• Wat Tyler’s Peasant Revolt 1381
• Music: Orff, Carmina Burana (1936) 
• (The Lasting Appeal of Orff's 'Carmina Burana' (NPR))
• The Middle Ages and the Renaissance (History of Music)
• The Renaissance from Music History 102 (IPL)
• Renaissance Music from The Capistrano Elementary School

Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights (1490)

11/

14

Day 3

Fri.

Durer, Self-Portrait at 28 (1500)


Pico della Mirandola 1463-1494.
By an unknown artist, in the Uffizi, Florence.
The Explosion of 15th c. Printing: A Data  Visualization (Harvard)

Chaucer Essay Due by 3:30 p.m.

High Renaissance Art and Architecture

• Pico della Mirandolla, Oration on the Dignity of Man (1486)
• Machiavelli, from The Prince (1513), Intro, chapters 14-19, 26
  
• Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier (1528), short extracts 

The Drawings of Leonardo DaVinci

Art History Quiz

Homework:

The Reformation:

• Map: The Religious Division of Europe
• Martin Luther, Address to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation
• Economic Renewal and Wars of Religion: 1560-1648

11/

17

Day 4

Mon.

Lucas Cranach the Elder, Martin Luther (1483–1546)

The Religious Divisions of Europe during the Reformation

High Renaissance Art and Architecture

• Pico della Mirandolla, Oration on the Dignity of Man (1486)
• Machiavelli, from The Prince (1513), Intro, chapters 14-19, 26
  
• Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier (1528), short extracts

The Reformation:

• Martin Luther, Address to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation (1520) 
• Catholic vs. Protestant Art (ppt.)

Homework:

• Backgrounds to Shakespeare (Presentation)

For further reading:

• Economic Renewal and Wars of Religion: 1560-1648

Bruegel, Dulle Griet (Mad Meg) c. 1562

11/

18

Day 5

Tues.

Chandos Portrait of Shakespeare (1620's)

Shakespeare's Globe (Presentation)
De Witt's sketch of The Swan 1596

Presentation on Renaissance Music

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

• Why Study Shakespeare?
• Backgrounds to Shakespeare (Presentation)

• from Anonymous (2011) St. Crispin's Day Speech
• from Anonymous (2011), Chorus from Henry V: "O for a Muse of Fire..." (Go in 1:04)

Homework:

• Presentations on Backgrounds to Macbeth (1606)
  

Mountebank Stage, 15^th c.

11/

19

Day 6

Wed.

Elizabeth I (1533-1603)

Elizabeth I's Funeral Cortege

James I (1566-1625)

The Reformation in England

Backgrounds to Macbeth:

Group 1: Tell Macbeth's story as Shakespeare found it in Holinshed's Chronicles:
Group 2: How did James I try to reassert the power of the throne over Parliament?
Group 3: Describe the early 16th century's understanding of witchcraft and James I's particular fascination with this topic.
Group 4: Give the class a brief overview of the events which led to the attempted coup known to the English as The Gunpowder Plot.
Group 5: Review for the class the Ancient Greek understanding of tragedy.

Read Macbeth Act 1, scenes i

Homework:

• Read Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act I, scenes i-iii
• A Shakespearean Glossary
• Memory Passage: "Two truths/ are told as happy prologues"
  

Thunder1 Thunder2 Thunder3 Thunder4 Thunder5

Thunder6 Thunder7 Thunder8 Thunder9 Thunder10

Wind1 Wind2 Storm

The Gunpowder Plot Conspirators	Ducking a Witch in 16th c. England

11/

20

Day 7

Thurs.

Image from Macbeth, Davies/Dyer,

Royal Shakespeare Company, August 1983

Laurence Olivier as Macbeth (1955)

Nunn/McKellan 1976

Backgrounds to Macbeth Presentations:

Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act I, scenes i-iii

Video:

• Polanski: "When shall we three meet again?" (1971) (Act I scene i) (Act I scene ii) (Act I scene iii)
• Nunn/McKellan (1976): (Act I scene i) (Act I scene iii)
• Macbeth, "Two truths/ ..."(McKellan (8:30))

Paragraph One: 

• The Opening of Macbeth
• Machiavelli on Duncan's Leadership
• The Witches and Tragic Prophecy (compare to Oedipus Rex)
• Our First Impressions of Macbeth: the Warrior Thane
• The Prophecy and Macbeth's 1st Soliloquy "Two Truths..."

Homework:

• Read Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act I, scenes iv-vii
• A Shakespearean Glossary
• Polanski (Act I scene iii)
  

Memory Passage:

• The raven himself is hoarse: (Dench (1:58))
  
• If it twere done when tis done....

So foul and fair a day I have not seen...

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21

Day 8

Fri.

Henry V


Portrait of Machiavelli c. 1500



Vivian Leigh as Lady Macbeth (1955)

McKellan and Dench (1976)

Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act I, scenes i-iii

• What did Shakespeare get from Chaucer?
• Nunn/McKellan Macbeth, "Two truths/ ...  Video: McKellan (:20)

Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act I, scenes iv-vii

Macbeth and Machiavelli:

What kind of king is Duncan? How effective has he been? Why?

• Duncan: "Is execution done on Cawdor?" (I iv)
• Macbeth's Loyalty: "The service and the loyalty I owe,/ In doing it, pays itself." (I iv)
• Duncan: "My plenteous joys,/ Wanton in fulness, seek to hide themselves/ In drops of sorrow." (I iv)
• Duncan: Primogeniture: "The Prince of Cumberland" (I iv)
• Macbeth: "Stars hide thy fires!" (I iv) Video: McKellan (1:20)

Notes on Machiavelli:

• Virtue vs. Vertu
• The Medieval Mystery Play: Satan vs. Macbeth 
  
• Machiavelli, from The Prince Intro, chapters 14-19, 26 

Shakespeare on Machiavelli: Macbeth, Lady Macbeth (and the Baby):

• Lady Macbeth: "The raven himself is hoarse..." (I v) Video: (Dench (1:58))
• Macbeth: "If it were done when 'tis done" (I vii) 
• Lady Macbeth: "I have given suck" (I vii)

Paragraph:

• How is Shakespeare rebutting Machiavelli's thesis in "The Prince"?
• What will be the consequence of Lady Macbeth's actions?

Interpretations of Lady Macbeth (The Prophecy):
Sarah Siddons: The Monster vs. Ellen Terry: The Loving Wife (See Rosenberg, The Masks of Macbeth)

Sarah Siddons as Lady Macbeth (1785)	"Ellen Terry as Lady Mcbeth" John Singer Sargent (1889)

Homework:

• Read Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act II, scenes i-iv
• A Shakespearean Glossary
• Memory Passage Choices: Macbeth: "Is this a dagger I see before me"
• For further reading:  A. C. Bradley from Shakespearean Tragedy (1904)
  Bradley on Macbeth; Sigmund Freud on Macbeth
  

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24

Day 9

Mon.

Henry Irving as Macbeth (1890)

Francesca Annis as Lady Macbeth (1969)

Scotland (Here is a neat interactive map
of Macbeth's Scotland)

The Emergence of the Soul:

• "Two truths are told ..." (I iv) Video: McKellan (:20)
• "If it were done when 'tis done" (I vii) Video: McKellan (6:30)
• Lady Macbeth: "I have given suck" (I vii) Video: Dench and McKellan
• "Is this a dagger I see before me" (II i) Video: McKellan

Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act II, scenes i-iv:

Crossing the Threshold:

• Macbeth: "Is this a dagger I see before me" (II i) Video: McKellan
• Lady Macbeth: "Had he not resembled/ My father as he slept,
  I had done't." (II ii) Video: Dench and McKellan
• Macbeth: "Methought I heard a voice cry 'Sleep no more!'" (II ii)
• Macbeth: "What hands are here? ha! they pluck out mine eyes." (II ii)
• Porter: "Knock, Knock, Knock... Who's there?" (II iii)  Video: McDiarmid
• Lady Macbeth's Faint "Help me hence, ho!" (II iii)

Paragraph: How is Shakespeare rebutting Machiavelli's thesis in "The Prince"? What will be the consequence of Lady Macbeth's actions?

Paragraph: Explain The Magic in Macbeth: Shakespeare's Crowning Irony

Paragraph: What is Shakespeare's understanding of the nature of evil? (How is it derived from Chaucer?)

Homework:

• Read Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act III, scenes i-iii
• A Shakespearean Glossary
• Trevor Nunn's production of Macbeth (1976) with Ian McKellan and Judy Dench (full play)
  

Blake, "Pity" (1795)

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Day 10

Wed.

1/2 DAY CLASSES

THANKSGIVING BREAK

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1

Day 1

Mon.

Laurence Olivier and Vivian Leigh

McKellan 1976


 Peter O'Toole and Frances Tomelty 1980

The Emergence of the Soul:

• "Two truths are told ..." (I iv) Video: McKellan (:20)
• "If it were done when 'tis done" (I vii) Video: McKellan (6:30)
• Lady Macbeth: "I have given suck" (I vii) Video: Dench and McKellan
• "Is this a dagger I see before me" (II i) Video: McKellan

Crossing the Threshold:

• Macbeth: "Is this a dagger I see before me" (II i) Video: McKellan
• Lady Macbeth: "Had he not resembled/ My father as he slept,
  I had done't." (II ii) Video: Dench and McKellan
• Macbeth: "Methought I heard a voice cry 'Sleep no more!'" (II ii)
• Macbeth: "What hands are here? ha! they pluck out mine eyes." (II ii)
• Porter: "Knock, Knock, Knock... Who's there?" (II iii)  Video: McDiarmid
• Lady Macbeth's Faint "Help me hence, ho!" (II iii)

Holding the Throne:

• Banquo: Thou hast it now (III i)
• Macbeth: To be thus is nothing (III i)
• Lady Macbeth: Nought's had, all's spent (III ii)
• Macbeth: "We have scotch'd the snake not kill'd it."

Paragraphs:

• Why is the relationship between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth disintegrating?

Homework:

• Read Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act III, scenes iv-vi
• A Shakespearean Glossary

Laurence Olivier and Vivian Leigh

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2

Day 2

Tues.

Confronting Banquo's Ghost

"Let it come down"
(Murderer #2 in Macbeth, III iii)

Crossing the Threshold:

• Macbeth: "Is this a dagger I see before me" (II i) Video: McKellan
• Lady Macbeth: "Had he not resembled/ My father as he slept,
  I had done't." (II ii) Video: Dench and McKellan
• Macbeth: "Methought I heard a voice cry 'Sleep no more!'" (II ii)
• Macbeth: "What hands are here? ha! they pluck out mine eyes." (II ii)
• Porter: "Knock, Knock, Knock... Who's there?" (II iii)  Video: McDiarmid
• Lady Macbeth's Faint "Help me hence, ho!" (II iii)

Holding the Throne:

• Banquo: "Thou hast it now" (III i)
• Macbeth: "To be thus is nothing" (III i)
• Lady Macbeth: "Nought's had, all's spent" (III ii)
• Macbeth: "We have scotch'd the snake not kill'd it."
• The Murder of Banquo: "Let it come down." (III iii)

The Climax of the Action: The Banquet Scene (III iv)

• The Murder's Report: "There's blood on thy face." (III iv)
• The Ghost's First Entrance: "Prithee, see there! behold! look! lo!”
• The Ghost's Second Entrance: "Avaunt! and quit my sight! let the earth hide thee!" (III iv)
• Macbeth and Lady Macbeth Alone: "It will have blood; they say, blood will have blood:" (III iv)

Paragraphs:

• How is Shakespeare rebutting Machiavelli's thesis in "The Prince"? What will be the consequence of Lady Macbeth's actions?
• What is Shakespeare's understanding of the nature of evil? (How is it derived from Chaucer?)
• Why is the relationship between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth disintegrating?
• Explain The Magic in Macbeth: Shakespeare's Crowning Irony
• What is the terrible irony of Macbeth's superhuman achievement in banishing the ghost of Banquo?

Homework:

Read Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act IV, scenes i-iii

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3

Day 3

Wed.

Montana Shakespeare in Schools 2012




McKellan (1976)

The Climax of the Action: The Banquet Scene (III iv)  

• The Murder's Report: "There's blood on thy face." (III iv)
• The Ghost's First Entrance: "Prithee, see there! behold! look! lo!”
• The Ghost's Second Entrance: "Avaunt! and quit my sight! let the earth hide thee!" (III iv)
• Macbeth and Lady Macbeth Alone: "It will have blood; they say, blood will have blood:" (III iv)

The Second Visit to the Witches:  (Video: McKellan)

• The Cauldron: "Finger of birth-strangled babe/ Ditch-deliver'd by a drab" (IV i)
• Macbeth's Entrance: "How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags!" (IV i)
• 1st Vision: The Armed Head: "Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! beware Macduff" (IV i)
• 2nd Vision: The Bloody Child: "none of woman born/ Shall harm Macbeth." (IV i)
• 3rd Vision: A Child crowned, with a tree in his hand: "Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill" (IV i)
• 4th Vision: The Masque: "Show his eyes, and grieve his heart"

Paragraph:

• What has Macbeth turned into by the end of his second encounter with the Weird Sisters?

Homework:

• Read Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act V scene i-viii

Gielgud 1962

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4

Day 4

Thurs.

(Lady MacDuff and her son in Macbeth IV ii)

Lady Macbeth Sleepwalking

MacDuff Mourns his Children

The Murder of Lady Macduff and her Children: (Video: McKellan)

• Macduff fled: "from this moment/ The very firstlings of my heart shall be/ The firstlings of my hand" (IV i)
• Lady MacDuff: "What are these faces?" (IV ii)

Macbeth, Act V scene i-viii

Lady Macbeth Sleepwalking: 

• The Sleepwalking Scene: "Out, damned spot! out, I say!"(V i) (Video: Dench) (Video: Polanski)

MacDuff Learns of his Family's Murder:

• MacDuff and Malcolm in England: "O Scotland, Scotland!" (V iii)
• MacDuff's Response to News of his Family's Murder: "I must also feel it as a man" (V iii)

Paragraphs:

• How is Shakespeare rebutting Machiavelli's thesis in "The Prince"? 
• What will be the consequence of Lady Macbeth's actions?
• Explain The Magic in Macbeth: Shakespeare's Crowning Irony
• What is Shakespeare's understanding of the nature of evil?
  (How is it derived from Chaucer?)
• Why has the relationship between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth disintegrated?
• What is the terrible irony of Macbeth's superhuman achievement in
  banishing the ghost of Banquo?
• What has Macbeth turned into by the end of his second encounter
  with the Weird Sisters?
• On what does the stability of a country depend once Macbeth has been deposed?

Homework:

• Read Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act V scene i-viii

Lady Macbeth Sleepwalking

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05

Day 5

Fri.

Birnam Wood Comes to Dunsinane


No Man of Woman Born Can Harm Macbeth

Macbeth, Act V scene i-vii

Birnam Wood Comes to Dunsinane: 

• Birnam Wood Moves: Malcolm: "Let every soldier hew him down a bough/ And bear't before him..." (V iv)
• Macbeth's Final Soliloquy: "Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow..." (V v)
• Macbeth Cornered: "They have tied me to a stake; I cannot fly,/ But, bear-like, I must fight the course..." (V vii)

The Final Fight:

• The Final Fight: MacDuff: "Turn, hell-hound, turn!"
• Video: Throne of Blood (1957) dir. Akira Kurosawa (Go to 98:20
  for Sleepwalking Scene and then watch to the end of film.) (10 min.)
  (Time Magazine appreciation)

Homework:

• Notes on Machiavelli: Virtue vs. Vertu
• Machiavelli, from The Prince Intro, chapters 14-19, 26 

For further reading:

• Isaiah Berlin on Machiavelli (NYRB) (notes)

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08

Day 6

Mon.

"Let it come down"
(Murderer #2 in Macbeth, III iii)

"He has killed me, mother..."
(MacDuff's Son in Macbeth IV ii)

It seems that drink gave thee the lie last night!

Essay on Macbeth (Outline)

Gilman Shakespeare Festival

• General Instructions
• Festival Rules
• Promptbook Instructions
• Promptbook- Company Report
• Promptbook: Character Report

Rehearsal Instructions:

• Shakespeare Set Free (Opening lesson)
• Rehearsal Day One
• Rehearsal Day Two
• A Shakespearean Glossary
• Oxford English Dictionary

Scene Choices:

• “Two truths are told…” (I iii) cut (t actors)
• “The raven himself is hoarse…” (I v cut)(3 actors)
•  “If it were done when ‘tis done” (I vii cut) (2 actors)  
• “How goes the night, boy?” (II i cut) (3 actors)
• “Macbeth does murder sleep…” (II ii cut) (2 actiors)
• “Knock, knock, knock…” (II iii cut (4 actors)
• “Is’t known who did this more than bloody deed?” (II iv cut) (3 actors)
• “We have scotch’d the snake, not killed it….” (III ii cut)
• “Let it come down….” (III iii cut) (5 actors)
• The Banquet Scene (III iv cut) (10 actors)
• “How now, you secret, black and midnight hags!” (IV i cut)
• “What, you egg! Young fry of treachery!” (IV ii cut) (6 actors)
• The Discovery Scene (7 actors) l. 56-112/138
• “Out, out damned spot!” (V i cut) (3 actors)
• “Bring me no more reports; let them fly all” (V iii cut) (4 actors)
• “Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow…” (V iii cut)
  

Homework:

Start memorizing your lines!

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09

Day 7

Tues.

"All Hail Macbeth that shalt be King hereafter!"

Essay on Macbeth (Outline)

Gilman Shakespeare Festival

• General Instructions
• Festival Rules
• Promptbook Instructions
• Promptbook- Company Report
• Promptbook: Character Report

Rehearsal Instructions:

• Shakespeare Set Free (Opening lesson)
• Rehearsal Day One
• Rehearsal Day Two
• A Shakespearean Glossary
• Oxford English Dictionary

Homework:

Divide up Promptbook responsibilities.

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10

Day 8

Wed.

"My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical,
Shakes so my single state of man that function
Is smother'd in surmise, and nothing is
But what is not.."

Essay on Macbeth (Outline)

Peer Review with the Laptop

Gilman Shakespeare Festival

• General Instructions
• Festival Rules
• Promptbook Instructions
• Promptbook- Company Report
• Promptbook: Character Report

Rehearsal Instructions:

• Shakespeare Set Free (Opening lesson)
• Rehearsal Day One
• Rehearsal Day Two
• A Shakespearean Glossary
• Oxford English Dictionary

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11

Day 9

Thurs

"Yet who would have thought
the old man to have so much
blood in him..."

Essay on Macbeth (Outline)

Peer Review with the Laptop

Dress Rehearsal

A Shakespearean Glossary
Oxford English Dictionary

Homework:

• Promptbooks Due at 3:30 p.m. Monday

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12

Day 10

Fri.

Shakespeare Festival

Shakespeare Festival during 5th period in Centennial Hall

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15

Day 1

Mon.

Promptbooks Due at 3:30 p.m. Monday

The Seventeenth Century:

 It was during the 1600s that Galileo and Newton founded modern science;
that Descartes began modern philosophy; that Hugo Grotius initiated international law;
and that Thomas Hobbes and John Locke started modern political theory. In the same
century strong centralized European states entered into worldwide international
competition for wealth and power, accelerating the pace of colonization in America
and Asia. The Dutch, French, Spanish, Portuguese, English, and others, all struggled
to maintain and extend colonies and trading-posts in distant corners of the globe,
with profound and permanent consequences for the whole world. They also fought
one another in Europe, where warfare grew increasingly complex and expensive.
To gain an edge against other powers in war, European governments invested in
research in military technology, and the seventeenth century was consequently an
age of military revolution, enabling Europeans from then on to defeat most non-European
peoples relatively easily in battle.  (Somerville)

Map of Europe, 1600

Sovereign: The Emergence of the Modern State (ppt.) (Animation: The Atlantic Slave Trade in Two Minutes)

The South Sea Bubble (movie)

Homework:

• Revolution in Scientific Thought: Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton
• Revolution in Political Thought: Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke
• The Enlightenment, pp.12-24 
• Study Guide Questions

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16

Day 2

Tues.

Approaching Jupiter via Voyager

Kepler's Laws of Motion

Hooker's Flea

"[Newton] believed that by the powers of his introspective imagination
he would read the riddle of the Godhead, the riddle of past and future events
divinely fore-ordained, the riddle of the elements and their constitution from
an original undifferentiated first matter, the riddle of health and of immortality."
                                                          (Keynes, Newton the Man (1946))

Revolution in Scientific Thought:

• Copernicus,
• Kepler,
• Galileo,
• Newton

Study Guide Questions

Aristotle Movie
Copernicus Movie
Kepler Movie

Homework:

• Revolution in Scientific Thought: Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton
• Revolution in Political Thought: Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke
• The Enlightenment, pp.12-24 
• Study Guide Questions

For further reading:

• Outline of 30 Years War: Economic Renewal and Wars of Religion; 
  
• Class Notes: Wars of Religion (html version)
• Absolutism and the divine right of kings,
• Contractarians, republicans & skeptics. (Somerville)
• Notes on Evil in the Modern World (Nieman)

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17

Day 3

Wed.

Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)

John Locke (1632-1704

)
Rene Descartes
(1596-1650)

Seventeenth Century English Political Thought: Absolutism vs. Parliamentarianism (Rogers)

• Revolution in Scientific Thought: Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton
• Aristotle Movie
• Copernicus Movie
• Kepler Movie
• Revolution in Political Thought: Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke
• The Enlightenment: pp.12-24 
• Study Guide Questions (Google Docs Study Guide)
  

Theories of Modernization: Achieving Sovereignty

Philosophical Implications of the New Cosmology:

• Deism, Newton, Leibniz, Pope and Optimistic Determinism
• Locke's Epistemology: Tabula Rasa

Homework:

• Homework: Prepare for a Quiz on Study Guide Questions
  

from Diderot,  Encyclopedia (1756-80)

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18

Day 4

Thurs.

Peter Paul Rubens,
The Elevation of the Cross, (1610-1611)
(Smarthistory video)


Rembrandt, Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp (1633)

Baroque and Mannerist Art

• Revolution in Scientific Thought: Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton
• Aristotle Movie
• Copernicus Movie
• Kepler Movie
• Revolution in Political Thought: Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke
• The Enlightenment: pp.12-24 
• Study Guide Questions
• (Quiz)

4th Period: Baroque Music

Homework:

Optional for over the break: Sophie's World (pp.226-341) or just read through my notes below:

• The Seventeenth Century
• the Baroque
• Descartes
• Spinoza
• Locke
• Hume
• Berkeley

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19

Day 5

Fri.

11:30 DISMISSAL

RIGAUD, Portrait of Louis XIV 
(1701) 1638-1715


Antoine or Louis Le Nain, Peasant Family in an Interior
(1640?) (Smarthistory)

Mid-Year Exam  (Exam Locations) (Exam Schedule)

The Enlightenment, pp.12-24 (Study Guide Questions) (Answers) 

All ideas come from sensation or reflection. Let us then suppose the mind to be,
as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas:- How comes it to be
furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store which the busy and boundless fancy of
man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of
reason and knowledge?  To this I answer, in one word, from EXPERIENCE.
                        -- John Locke,  An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690)

Enlightenment is man's leaving his self-caused immaturity. Immaturity is the incapacity to
use one's intelligence without the guidance of another. Such immaturity is self-caused if it
is not caused by lack of intelligence, but by lack of determination and courage to use one's intelligence without being guided by another. Sapere Aude! [Dare to know!] Have the
courage to use your own intelligence! is therefore the motto of the Enlightenment.
                        -- from Kant, "What is Enlightenment?" (full text) (1784)

Philosophical Implications of the New Cosmology:

• Locke's Epistemology: Tabula Rasa
• Newton and Deism
• The Optimistic Determinism of Leibniz, and Pope
• Brief Historical Chronology

Homework:

Optional for over the break:

Sophie's World (pp.226-341)

• The Seventeenth Century

• the Baroque
• Descartes
• Spinoza
• Locke
• Hume
• Berkeley

For further study:

Notes on Susan Nieman's Evil in the Modern World (2002)

• Alfonso's Accusation
• Bayle's Manichaeism (1698)
• Leibniz's Theodicy
• Pope's Essay on Man (1732)
• Rousseau's Second Discourse (1754)
• Rousseau's Emile (1762)
• Kant's Idealism
• Hume's Skepticism
• Hegel: Real and Rational

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20

Day 0

Sat.

WINTER BREAK

01/

05

Day 6

Mon.

Japanese Tsunami Video Tsunami Videos
Man Engulfed in Wave

Asia's Deadly Waves NY Times

The Great Fire of London (1666)

Mid-Year Exam  (Exam Locations) (Exam Schedule)

The Enlightenment of the 18th Century

• Enlightenment Review (Notes)
• Locke's Epistemology: Tabula Rasa
• Optimistic Determinism, Natural Evil and The Argument According to Design:
  

Rev. Charles Davy: "The Earthquake at Lisbon" (1755)
Responses to the The Lisbon Earthquake (1755) (Notes) (Questions)

• Malagrida
• Wesley
• Voltaire on Newton
• Pope
• Voltaire on Lisbon
• Rousseau (More on Rousseau)
• Hume (More on Hume)
• d'Holbach

Homework:

Read Swift, A Modest Proposal (1729) Notes (Quiz) Swift's Biography; Define Satire. (OED) The Reality: The Plantation System in 18th c. Ireland

For further reading: (mandatory for all Irish!):

from Desmond's Concise History of Ireland

• Ireland in the 18th c
• Map of Ireland 1600
• Map of Ireland 1700

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06

Day 7

Tues.

Irish Beggarwoman and Child
(Illustrated London News, 1843)

William Hogarth, Gin Lane (1751)
More Hogarth: The Rake's Progress

Mid-Year Exam  (Exam Locations) (Exam Schedule)

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)

Swift's Biography, (Gulliver's Travels, 1726) 

Define Satire. 

L. satira, satura satirical poetry, poetic medley, fr. (lanx) satura full plate, plate filled with various fruits. A poem or prose piece in which prevailing vices are held up to ridicule. (OED)

Swift, A Modest Proposal (1729) Notes (Quiz) (The Reality: The Plantation System in 18th c. Ireland; Map of Ireland 1700)

Study Questions:

1. At the outset of this essay what does the reader expect to be the author's point?
2. What is the real target of Swift’s attack in this savage satire?
3. What Enlightenment values are also under attack?
4. How is the real character of this landlord revealed beneath the highly rational surface of the prose? (Diction, Emphasis)
5. Does Swift ever overtly show his hand or deliberately drop his pose? (His true proposal)
6. Compare Swift's view of poverty with William Hogarth's depiction of the ravages of drug abuse (Gin Lane) in London.

Homework:

Swift Satire Writing Project (Due Friday by 3:30 pm)

for Further Study:

Swift's A Modest Proposal (In Our Time)

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07

Day 8

Wed.

Voltaire at Age 23

Houdon, Voltaire, 1781

Mid-Year Exam  (Exam Locations) (Exam Schedule)

Swift Satire Writing Project (Due Friday by 3:30 p.m.)

The Enlightenment of the 18th Century

• Introduction to Voltaire (ppt)

Philosophical Implications of the New Cosmology:

• Locke's Epistemology: Tabula Rasa
• Newton and Deism
• The Optimistic Determinism of Leibniz and Pope

Read Voltaire, Candide (1758):  Chapters 1-3 (Study Guide)

• Chapter 1: Candide's Expulsion from Westphalia (The Fall of Man)

Homework:

Voltaire, Candide (1758):  Chapters 1-3 (Study Guide)

• Chapter 1: Candide's Expulsion from Westphalia (The Fall of Man) (Googledocs Chapter 1)
• Chapter 2: The Recruiting Officers (Googledocs Chapter 2) 
• Chapter 3: The Seven Years War (Googledocs Chapter3)

01/

08

Day 9

Thurs.

The Baron ... seeing this cause and this effect
, 1787 edition

... chased Candide away with great kicks
in the rear, 1787 edition


Candide fled as quickly as possible
to another village, 1787 edition

Mid-Year Exam  (Exam Locations) (Exam Schedule)

Voltaire, Candide (1758):  Chapters 1-3 (Quiz1) 

"A man who thinks all the world exists for his benefit is no better than the pampered goose who believes that the farmer who fattens him exists for his." (Alexander Pope)

"Evil" defined: Evil cannot be defined as merely the consequence of crime or unfortunate events. Evil shakes our faith in the order of the universe:

• metaphysical evil suggests a defect in the relation between the physical structure of matter and time: entropy
• natural evil results from earthquakes, tsunamis, and the like
• moral evil results from deliberate human wrong-doing or from the reward of vice and the punishment of virtue.
• Defending Optimistic Determinism: "Everything is for the best in this the best of all possible worlds." (Prof. Pangloss) Evil must be part of a plan which will lead us to ultimate harmony.
• Voltaire on Final Causes from his Philosophical Dictionary

Voltaire, Candide (1758):  Chapters 1-3 (Study Guide) 

Chapter 1: Candide's Expulsion from Westphalia (The Fall of Man) (Googledocs Chapter 1)
Chapter 2: The Recruiting Officers (Googledocs Chapter 2) 
Chapter 3: The Seven Years War (Googledocs Chapter3) (notes)  Clip from Barry Lyndon (1975) dir. Stanley Kubrick: Barry's First Experience of War

• Does Voltaire believe that education and experience can condition us to avoid evil?
  
• What is Voltaire’s vision of the heroic adventure of warfare?
  
• What do Anabaptists like Jacques believe? Why does he save Candide?

Homework:

Voltaire, Candide, Chapters 4-7  (Study Guide)

• Chapter 4: Pangloss with the Pox and Jacques the Anabaptist (Googledocs Chapter 4)
• Chapter 5: The Death of Jacques and The Lisbon Earthquake (Googledocs Chapter 5)
• Chapter 6:  The Inquisition’s Auto-da fe (Googledocs Chapter 6)
• Chapter 7:  Reunion with Cunegonde   (Googledocs Chapter 7)

For further study: God's Advocates: Leibniz and Pope vs. Bayle’s Manichaeism

• Bayle's Manichaeism (1698)
• Leibniz's Theodicy (1719)
• Pope's Essay on Man (1732)

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09

Day 10

Fri.

Lisbon Harbor During the Earthquake of 1755

Goya, Those Specks of Dust. 1796-1797

The Grand Inquisitor

An Auto-da-fe in Lisbon

Mid-Year Exam  (Exam Locations) (Exam Schedule)

Swift Satire Writing Project (Due Friday by 3:30 p.m.)
Readings of Modest Proposals

The Problem Of Evil (Review) (Answers)

Voltaire, Candide, Chapters 4-7 (Quiz) (Study Guide) 

Chapter 1: Candide's Expulsion from Westphalia (The Fall of Man)
Chapter 2: The Recruiting Officers
Chapter 3: The Seven Years War (notes)

• Does Voltaire believe that education and experience can condition us to avoid evil?
  
• What is Voltaire’s vision of the heroic adventure of warfare?
  
• What do Anabaptists like Jacques believe? Why does he save Candide?
  

Chapter 4: Pangloss with the Pox and Jacques the Anabaptist (Googledocs Chapter 4)
Chapter 5: The Death of Jacques and The Lisbon Earthquake (Googledocs Chapter 5)

• What is Voltaire’s implied point in Pangloss’ absurd justification of the horror of syphilis?
  (Is there a physical connection between immorality and the causes of STD's?)
• What is Jacques' opinion of Pangloss' philosophy?
• How does Jacques the Anabaptist die? What is Voltaire’s point?
• Does Voltaire believe that there is a moral reason for the terrible destruction
  of the Lisbon Earthquake?
• Why does Voltaire include the perverse frenzy of the looters who take advantage
  of the destruction?
• How does Pangloss try to comfort the survivors of the catastrophe?
• How does Pangloss get in trouble with the Spanish Inquisition?

Chapter 6:  The Inquisition’s Auto-da fe (Googledocs Chapter 6)
Chapter 7:  Reunion with Cunegonde   (Googledocs Chapter 7)

• How did the Inquisition respond to the Lisbon Earthquake?
• What happened immediately after the auto-da-fe? (What is Voltaire's take on the
  link between moral evil and natural evil?)
• Has Candide learned anything yet? How is Candide saved (once again)?
• How did Cunegonde survive? What do you make of Voltaire’s choice to make
  Candide and Cunegonde indestructible?

Homework:

• Voltaire, Candide, Chapters 8-12 (Quiz) (Study Guide)

Music of the Classical Era (Web Format)

• Mozart, Serenade for strings in G major, K. 525 (Eine Kleine Nachtmusik) (1787) 1. Allegro 2. Romanza 3. Menuetto  4. Rondo

• Sonata Form: Four Movements (Fast; Slow; Dance; Fast)
• Movement Form: (Exposition; Development; Recapitulation; Coda)
• Hayden, Drum Roll Symphony #103 London (1795)   1st Movement (Sonata Form) (10:05)

Mozart, Symphony #40 in G Minor, K. 550 (1788)

• 1. Allegro,  Sonata  2. Andante: Theme and Variations;  
• 3. Minuet and Trio;  4. Presto  (Sonata) (Score)

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12

Day 1

Mon.

Candide Murders the Inquisitor

The Old Woman Among the Moors


Delacroix, Death of Sardanopalus (1827)

Mid-Year Exam  (Exam Locations) (Exam Schedule)

Voltaire, Candide, Chapters 8-12 (Quiz) (Study Guide) 

The Problem Of Evil (Review) (Answers)

Chapter 8: Cunegonde's Story: Shared by the Inquisitor and the Jew  (Googledocs Chapter 8)
Chapter 9: Candide Commits Murder (Twice!) (Googledocs Chapter 9)
Chapter 10: Bound for the New World (Googledocs Chapter 10)

• Has Cunegonde learned anything thus far from her adventures?
  
• What compromise regarding the possession of Cunegonde was reached
  between the Inquisitor and Don Isaachar? (Can reason enable natural
  enemies to overcome their differences?)
  
• What moral judgment should we attach to Candide's killing of Don Isaachar?
  (Is it murder?) How about the killing of the Inquisitor which follows almost
  immediately thereafter? (Is that murder?)
  
• What conclusion should we draw from Voltaire’s obvious anti-Semitism?
  (To what extent does this irrational belief discredit him?)
• Who saves Candide and Cunegonde? (Why?)
• What is Candide's response when Cunegonde tells him that all of her jewelry
  has been stolen? (Has he learned anything?)
• Why does Candide believe that the New World will be different from the Old?
  (Has he learned anything by this point? How about Cunegonde?)

Chapter 11: The Old Woman's Adventures: The Wheel of Fortune (Googledocs Chapter 11)
Chapter 12: The Old Woman's Adventures: The Plague, Slavery, Cannibalism, Suicide (Googledocs Chapter 12)

• What should we make of Voltaire's racism?
  
• To what indignities was the young princess subjected? Who saves her? (Why?)
  What misfortune befalls her in Algiers?
  
• How did she lose her buttock in Russia?  
• Despite all her terrible ordeals, the Old Woman never commits suicide.
  What is the most important lesson she has learned?

Homework:

Voltaire, Candide, Chapters 13-18 (Study Guide)

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13

Day 2

Tues.

Candide Shoots the Apes

El Dorado, "The Gilded One"

Candide and Cacambo 

loading the Flying Sheep

Mid-Year Exam  (Exam Locations) (Exam Schedule)

The Problem Of Evil (Review) (Answers) 

Potential Artifacts Topic: The Mission and the Guarani Wars of 1750’s (“The Guarani”; “The Sword of the Word” (LOC)) The Jesuit Missions of Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil (ppt)

Voltaire, Candide, Chapters 13-18 (Quiz) (Study Guide)

Chapter 13:     The New World: Buenos Aires
Chapter 14: The Jesuit Utopia
Chapter 15: Candide Kills his Brother-In-Law
Chapter 16: The Biglugs: Man in the State of Nature

• Why does Cunegonde decide to dump Candide for Governor Don Fernando
  d'Ibaraa y Figueora y Mascarenes y Lampourdos y Souza?  Do you agree
  with the old woman’s advice? What about the ideal of love? Look carefully at
  Candide's response whn he learns that he has been dumped. Has he learned anything?
  
• Who is Cacambo? (Keep track of how many times he saves Candide's life.)
  
• Describe Voltaire's impression of the New World paradise  created by the
  Jesuits in South America. How different is it from the Old World?
  (See Jesuit Missions in South America)
• Who does the commandant of the Jesuit mission turn out to be? Why does
  Candide kill him?
• What does Candide find out right after saving the girls in the jungle by shooting
  the monkey men that had been chasing them? (Do we make this kind of judgment
  about foreign cultures often? See Pinker on the teddy bear named 'Muhammad'.)
• What did the Biglugs plan to do to Candide after they capture him? How does
  Cacambo save Candide once again?
  
• What is the most basic law of nature? (Would Voltaire call this law evil?) What version
  of the social contract would Voltaire embrace? (Compare to Hobbes and Locke)

Chapter 17: Eldorado
Chapter 18: The Government of Eldorado

• What was the legend of El Dorado? (See Time) ("The Gilded Man")
  
• After showing the reality of society in the New World, Voltaire presents his
  vision of Utopia.
  
• How do Candide and Cacambo find El Dorado? How was this community
  founded? What economy? What religion? What government?  What is the one rule
  you must follow if you want to live in El Dorado?
• Why does Candide insist on leaving El Dorado? What do you make of this choice?
  How does he and Cacambo get over the mountains?

Homework:

Voltaire, Candide, chapters 19-21 (Study Guide)

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14

Day 3

Wed.

REVIEW DAY

This is the price for the sugar 

you eat in Europe

Candide Reunited with Cunegonde

Mid-Year Exam  (Exam Locations) (Exam Schedule)

The Problem Of Evil (Review) (Answers)

Voltaire, Candide, chapters 19-21 (Quiz) (Study Guide) 

Chapter 19: Surinam
Chapter 20: Martin the Manichean
Chapter 21: More of Martin’s Philosophy

• How did the slave lose his hand and leg? Describe the conditions on
  sugar plantation in the French West Indies. These plantations were the most
  profitable in all the French Empire. (How do you think they financed their wars?)
• When Candide hears the black man's story, what does he finally conclude?
  (Is this a bad moment for him?)
  
• What is Candide’s plan to recover Cunegonde?
  
• How does Candide get ripped off by Mynheer Vanderdendur?
  
• How does Candide meet Martin the Manichean? (What is a Socinian? What
  is a Manichaean?) What is the topic of their conversations enroute to France?
  What is Martin's argument for the existence of Satan?
• Does what happens during the sea battle to confirm Martin’s philosophy?
  What is Voltaire’s point?
• What is the purpose served by the design of the universe, according to Martin?
  Would Voltaire agree with Martin? What is Martin’s conception of
  man in the state of nature?
  
• How has Candide emended Pangloss’ philosophy? What keeps Candide from
  embracing Martin's dark philosophy? What has he learned?

Homework:

• Voltaire, Candide, chapters 27-30 (Quiz) (Study Guide)

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15

Day 4

Thurs.

REVIEW DAY

Candide in his Garden

Houdon, Voltaire, 1781

Mid-Year Exam  (Exam Locations) (Exam Schedule)

The Problem Of Evil (Review) (Answers)

Voltaire, Candide, chapters 27-30 (Quiz) (Study Guide)

Chapter 27: Constantinople Bound: the Galleys of the Turks
Chapter 28: The Adventures of Pangloss and the Baron
Chapter 29: Reunion with Cunegonde and the Old Woman
Chapter 30: The Conclusion

• How did all our heroes wind up in this part of the world? (I thought the
  Professor and the Baron were both dead!)  How did the Baron wind up
  enslaved and tortured in the Pasha’s galley? How did Pangloss survive hanging?
  How did Pangloss wind up in hot water again? (How does Pangloss hint that he
  has modified his belief in optimistic determinism?)
  
• What sad event prevents Candide from achieving perfect happiness? How will
  this occurrence complete his education?
• Where do Candide and his friends decide to make their home? (Recognize this place?)
  Why does the family decide to get rid of the Baron? (How do they do it?) What is life
  like on Candide’s little farm? Is that so bad?
  
• What wisdom does the dervish share with the family about the origin of evil?
  What is their neighbor's philosophy of life? How does the existence of ice cream fit
  into Voltaire’s philosophy?
  
• Has Candide learned anything from his experience?

Homework:

• Mid-Year Exam  (Exam Locations) (Exam Schedule)
• The Problem Of Evil (Review) (Answers)

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16

Day 5

Fri.

READING DAY

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19

Day 0

Mon.

MLK DAY

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20

Day 6

Tues.

EXAMS

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21

Day 7

Wed.

EXAMS

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22

Day 8

Thurs.

EXAMS

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23

Day 9

Fri.

EXAMS

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26

Day 10

Mon.

EXAM MAKE-UP DAY

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27

Day 1

Tues.

SECOND SEMESTER BEGINS