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Saturday, March 11, 2006

For those of you (ahem, ahem) who must know...

...here is our scope and sequence. The Teaching Company (TTC) lecture titles are in bold, other topics to cover are in CAPS, books used are italicized

Foundations
Epic of Gilgamesh
Gilgamesh
Genesis
Children's Golden Bible
Deuteronomy
Isaiah
Job
CREATION
Excerpts from:
"Theogony"
MYTHOLOGY
D'Aulaire's Book of Greek Myths
A Wonderbook for Boys and Girls
Tanglewood Tales
Till We Have Faces
"Deucalion and the Flood" (FMOG)
"Cadmus and the Dragon" (FMOG)
"Perseus" (FMOG)
"Hercules" (FMOG)
"Jason and the Golden Fleece" (FMOG)
"Theseus" (FMOG)
"Agamemnon" (FMOG)
"Achilles" (FMOG)
"Hector" (FMOG)
"Ulysses" (FMOG)
GENERAL
Eyewitness: Ancient Greece
Famous Monuments Past and Present: Ancient Greece
The Librarian Who Measured the Earth
Modern Rhymes About Ancient Times: Ancient Greece

Iliad of Homer (TTC)
Intro to Homeric Epic
The Homeric Question
Glory, Honor, and the Wrath of Achilles
Within the Walls of Troy
The Embassy to Achilles
The Paradox of Glory
The Role of the Gods
The Longest Day
The Death of Patroklos
Achilles Returns to Battle
Achilles and Hektor
Enemies' Tears - Achilles and Priam


Odyssey of Homer (TTC)
Heroes' Homecomings
Guests and Hosts
A Goddess and a Princess
Odysseus Among the Phaiakians
Odysseus Tells His Own Story
From Persephone's Land to the Island of Helios
The Goddess, the Swineherd, and the Beggar
Reunion and Return
Odysseus and Penelope
Recognitions and Revenge
Reunions and Resolution
The Trojan War and the Archaeologists


AESOP
Esopus Hodie
Sappho and Pindar
Aeschylus
Excerpts from:
"Agamemnon"
"Libation Bearers"
"Eumenides"
Sophocles
Excerpts from:
"Oedipus at Colonus"
"Antigone"
"Ajax"
Euripides
Excerpts from:
"The Trojan Women"
"Hippolytus"
"Medea"
"The Bacchae"
Herodotus
The Histories
Thucydides
Excerpts from:
"History of the Peloponnesian War"
Aristophanes
Excerpts from:
"Birds"
"Clouds"
"Frogs"
"Lysistrata"
Plato
Plato, Socrates, and the Dialogues (TTC)
Ion
Symposium
Georgias
Euthyphro
Apology
Crito
Phaedo
The Republic


Menander and Hellenistic Literature
Plutarch
From Lives:
Lycurgus
Solon
Pisistratus
Militades
Leonides
Themistocles
Aristides
Cimon
Pericles
Alcibiades
Nicias
Alcibiades and the Peloponesian War
Lysander
Socrates
The Trial and Death of Socrates
The Best Things In Life
Xenophon
Epaminondas and Pelopidas
Philip of Macedonia
Alexander (The Great)
Demosthenes
Aristotle, Zeno, Diogenes, and Apelles

The Ethics of Aristotle (TTC)
Excerpts from:
"Ethics"
"Metaphysics"

Ptolemy
Pyrrhus
Cleomenes
Cleopatra
HIPPOCRATES
Excerpts from:
"The Oath"
"On Airs, Waters, Places"
EUCLID
Excerpts from:
Elements of Geometry (Book 1)
ARCHIMEDES
Archimedes and the Door to Science
THE FALL OF GREECE (FMOG)

All excerpts are from the two anthologies Norton's and The Portable Greek Reader.

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