Assignments

We will not hold our regularly scheduled class meeting on Thursday, November 3rd.

Read Shakespeare's Richard the III and Marlowe's Doctor Faustus before class on Tuesday, November 8th.

15.  Send me an e-mail in which your share some of your thoughts about the experience you had playing The Age of Athens.  Your responses will help ECU faculty and administration determine whether such games should be incorporated into the curriculum here.  Due before class on Tuesday, November 8th.

"The Age of Pericles" (1853) by Phillip Foltz

Submit Paper #2 (300-500 words). Address to the Athenian Assembly. Each faction--with the exception of the Indeterminates--must submit at least 1 paper 24 hours in advance of each of the following meetings: October 18, 25, 27, and November 1. Papers must be e-mailed to instructor (not as attachments) and delivered in hard copy form at the start of class. Indeterminates may choose when to submit their papers.

Submit Paper schedule (factions). Each faction--with the exception of the Indeterminates--must e-mail the instructor a schedule outlining the date which each faction member will submit an address to the Athenian Assembly. Paper are due 24 hours in advance of each of the following meetings: October 18, October 25, October 27, and November 1. Each faction must submit at least 1 paper per meeting date.  Due by the end of class on Thursday, October 13th.

14. Finish reading the first three books of Plato's Republic and be prepared to take a quiz on it at the beginning of class on Tuesday, October 11th.

Plato and Aristotle from The School of Athens (1510)
by Raphael 

13. Read pages 21-39 in the gamebook: The Threshold of Democracy: Athens in 403 BC and start reading Plato's Republic. Be prepared to take a quiz on the gamebook at the beginning of class on Thursday, October 6th.

12. Read pages 1-20 and 39-51 in the gamebook: The Threshold of Democracy: Athens in 403 BC and be prepared to take a quiz on it at the beginning of class on Tuesday, October 4th.

Submit Paper #1 (300-500 words), Option B. Who is the Greatest Greek? Due by the start of class on Tuesday, October 4th.

11. Complete quiz on Socrates and Alcibiades. Due at the end of class on Thursday, September 29th.

Submit Paper #1 (300-500 words), Option A: Should the Elgin Marbles be repatriated? Due by midnight on Friday, September 23rd.

Fill out the Assignment Sheet, listing first 10 assignments, distributed by the instructor in class. Return to instructor.

10. Which battle was most important: Salamis or Thermopylae? E-mail your answers, your reasons, and your sources. Due by the beginning of class on Tuesday, September 13th.

9. See 300 (2004), directed by Zack Snyder. I will screen the film at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, September 6th (during our regularly scheduled class) in the Estep Center. The film should be over around 4:00 p.m. If you cannot stay for the entire screening, you need to get a copy of the film and watch it on your own before class on Thursday, September 8th.

8. Complete Take-Home Quiz: Marathon, Themistocles, Salamis. Distributed in class on Thursday, September 1st. Due at the beginning of class on Tuesday, September 6th.

7. Complete Cleisthenes's Dilemma Quiz. Distributed in class on Tuesday, August 30th. Due at the end of class on Tuesday, August 30th.

6. Identify 5 differences between Troy and Apollodorus's Account of the Trojan War (distributed in class on Thursday, August 25th). E-mail your answers to the instructor. Due before class on Tuesday, August 30th.

5.  See Troy (2004), directed by Wolfgang Petersen.  I will screen the film at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, August 23rd (during our regularly scheduled class) in the ESTEP Center.  The film should be over around 4:45 p.m.  If you cannot stay for the entire screening, you need to get a copy of the film and watch it on your own before class on Thursday, August 25th.

4.  Read Book Three of Stanley Lombardo's translation of the Iliad (see post below).  This reading is also on electronic reserve at the Linscheid Library.  To access it that way, go to library.ecok.edu, click on “by professor” underneath “Course Reserves,” type in Benton, and then HUM 2113. Due before class on Thursday, August 25th.

3.  Send me an e-mail identifying eight significant claims made in the documentary we watched in class on Tuesday (Chapters One and Two of The Greeks:  Crucible of Civilization).  No more than half of the claims should be taken from the handout I gave you in class. Due before class on Tuesday, August 23rd.

2.  Research Greek geography and come to class on Thursday, August 18th prepared to identify Greece on a map and write five minutes worth of information about the Greek landscape and terrain, bordering nations and bodies of water, and continental position.

1.  Send me an introductory e-mail (from the address you use most frequently).  Put your name on the subject line.  In the body of the e-mail, give me: a) a phone number where I reach you; b) a description of what motivates you; c) an answer to this question:  how likely is it that you will miss more than four classes this semester?; d) any other information that might be helpful to me as your teacher this semester.  Due: before class on Thursday, August 18th.