Honors Humanistic Traditions I: Week 3

Fiero Ch. 4

Questions:

• How should we live?
• How do our obligations to ourselves, our families, our state, and our gods relate to each other?
• What is democracy?
• What is reason?
• What is justice?

Greece part I:

• Ancient History Sourcebook: Greece
• Greek Myth sites on the web
• Greek art and architecture

Heroic Age

• Homer
  • Iliad and Odyssey Pages
  • Mythological Background of the Iliad
  • Outline of the Iliad
  • Timeline of the Iliad

Athens and the Golden Age

Greek Society: The obligation of state, moral law, and individual integrity

• Sophocles, Antigone
  • Antigone summary
  • Themes and symbols
  • Questions:
    • What is tragedy? What makes something tragic?

Philosophers: Presocratics, Socrates, Plato

• Presocratics
  • Thales
  • Heraclitus
  • Parmenides & Zeno
    • Zeno's Paradoxes (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
• Socrates & Plato
  • The Ring of Gyges (Republic 1)
  • Plato's Cave
  • The Divided Line
  • Who Does Plato Think We Are?
• History of Ancient Philosophy lecture notes (S. Marc Cohen)

What Does The World Look Like?

• The World According to a New Yorker (New Yorker Magazine)
• Some Greek Maps of the Ancient World
  • Ancient Maps
    • Timeline of Ancient Maps
    • Four Frames of the Greek World
    • Frame of the Greek World
    • Hecataeus
    • Homer's View of the World (reconstruction)
    • Ephorus' Parallelogram
    • Herodotus' World
    • Strabo's World
    • Ptolemaic Map
  • Maps of the Ancient Greek World

Women in the Ancient World

• Diotima - the resource site