General Studies 145/6: Antiquity and Modernity

2007-2008 Schedule of Readings

(assignments by book or chapter unless otherwise noted)

Fall: Antiquity

8/29 W Gilgamesh, I-III

8/31 F Gilgamesh, IV-VIII

9/3 M Gilgamesh, IX-XI

9/5 W Herodotus, The Histories, pp. 3-45 (I.1-95)

9/7 F Herodotus, The Histories, pp. 49-61 (I.106-30), 95-98 (II.1-10), 109-119 (II.35-57), 170-89 (III.1-43)

9/10 M Herodotus, The Histories, pp. 197-210 (III.61-86), 413-439 (VII.1-60)

9/12 W Herodotus, The Histories, pp. 448-51 (VII.101-107); 456-64 (VII.128-45); 477-500 (VII.175-239)

9/14 F Herodotus, The Histories, pp. 501-43 (VIII.1-120); 600-603 (IX.114-22)

9/17 M Euripides, Medea (entire)

9/19 W Euripides, Medea

9/21 F Euripides, Bacchae (entire)

9/24 M Euripides, Bacchae

9/26 W Tragedy Comparison

9/28 F Plato, Euthyphro (entire)

10/1 M Plato, Symposium, pp. 1-47

10/3 W Plato, Symposium, pp. 48-60

10/5 F Plato, Symposium, pp. 61-77

10/8 M Fall Break

10/10 W The Tanakh, Genesis 1-11

10/12 F Genesis 12-22

10/15 M Exodus 1-15

10/17 W Exodus 16-23; 32

10/19 F Job 1-27; 29-31

10/22 M Job 38-42

10/24 W The Bible, the Gospel of Luke 1-11

10/26 F Gospel of Luke 12-21

10/29 M Gospel of Luke 22-24

10/31 W The Bible, Paul, Romans 1-8

11/2 F Paul, Romans 9-end

11/5 M Apuleius, The Golden Ass I-III

11/5 M Mandatory Kimball Lecture, Maxey Auditorium, 7 P.M.

11/7 W Apuleius, The Golden Ass IV-VI

11/9 F Apuleius, The Golden Ass VII-IX

11/12 M Apuleius, The Golden Ass X-XI

11/14 W Vibia Perpetua, Perpetua’s Passion (What Would You Die For?), pp. 61-95

11/16 F Vibia Perpetua

11/19-23 Thanksgiving Break

11/26 M Augustine, Confessions I-III

11/28 W Augustine, Confessions IV-VI

11/30 F Augustine, Confessions VII

12/3 M Augustine, Confessions VIII-IX

12/5 W Augustine, Confessions X

12/7 F Last Day

Spring: Modernity

1/14 M Machiavelli, Prince, cc. 1-11

1/16 W Machiavelli, Prince, cc. 12-20

1/18 F Machiavelli, Prince, cc. 21-26

1/21 M Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday

1/23 W Shakespeare, Othello, Act I

1/25 F Shakespeare, Othello, Act II

1/28 M Shakespeare, Othello, Act III

1/30 W Shakespeare, Othello, Act IV

2/1 F Shakespeare, Othello, Act V

2/4 M Descartes, Discourse on Method, parts 1-2

2/6 W Descartes, Discourse on Method, parts 3-4

2/8 F Descartes, Discourse on Method, parts 5-6

2/11 M Harvey, On the Motion of the Heart, cc. 1-2; 7-14

2/13 W La Mettrie, Man a Machine (entire)

2/15 F La Mettrie, Man a Machine

2/18 M President’s Day holiday

2/20 W Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, pp. 1-18

2/22 F Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality I

2/25 M Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality II

2/27 W Kant, What is Enlightenment?

2/29 F What is Enlightenment?/Comparison Day

3/3 M English Romantic Poetry, Bright Star, I Wandered Lonely, My Heart Leaps Up

3/5 W Wordsworth, Tintern Abbey

3/7 F Keats, Ode to a Nightingale, Ode On A Grecian Urn, Ode on Melancholy; Wordsworth, Mutability. On-line: Shelley, Mutability

3/10-3/21 Spring Break

3/24 M Marx, Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts, pp. 54-97

3/26 W Marx, Theses on Feuerbach, pp. 98-101; Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, pp. 209-13.

3/28 F Marx, Communist Manifesto (complete)

3/31 M Marx, Communist Manifesto

4/2 W E. Brontë, Wuthering Heights, cc.. 1-5

4/4 F E. Brontë, Wuthering Heights, cc.. 6-12

4/7 M E. Brontë, Wuthering Heights, cc.. 13-20

4/9 W E. Brontë, Wuthering Heights, cc. 21-29

4/11 F E. Brontë, Wuthering Heights, cc.. 30-34

4/14 M Kafka, Metamorphosis, cc. 1, 2

4/16 W Kafka, Metamorphosis, c. 3

4/18 F Frayn, Copenhagen Act I

4/21 M Frayn, Copenhagen Act II

4/23 W Morrison, Beloved, pp. 3-51 (end of carnival)

4/25 F Morrison, Beloved, pp. 52-124 (Beloved’s dress in water)

4/28 M Morrison, Beloved, pp. 125-195 (end of section one)

4/30 W Morrison, Beloved, pp. 199-277 (the end of section two)

5/2 F Morrison, Beloved, pp. 281-end

5/5 M Last Day