Course syllabus
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SEMESTERS 1 & 2, 2020
30 points
Lecturer: Dougal Blyth
Office Location: Room 820 in ARTS 1 (Humanities)
Office Hours: by appointment)
Email: dougal.blyth@auckland.ac.nz
Telephone: (09) 9237421 (but e-mail is better)
Course delivery format: 2 hr seminar session each week
Semester 2 Zoom class meeting link (Mon 4-6): https://auckland.zoom.us/j/97552253695
Course Themes (2020): Power and Justice, Gods and Rulers, in Early Greece
In this study of archaic and early classical Greece we will read texts by Homer, Hesiod, Solon, early philosophical fragments and Aeschylus, from both a historical and literary point of view, as well as a range of important historical authors. Our aims will include critical appreciation of the poetry as poetry, and also as historical evidence for the development of the Greek city state and related political and religious ideas, practices and institutions, focusing mainly on Athens.
Students will be able to choose which aspects of the texts and topics they concentrate upon, without ignoring the others. Class meetings will include student seminars, and require regular preparatory reading and regular contribution to discussion.
For further details see the Course Outline under Files
Assessment will be on the basis of student seminars, two essays and two tests:
Test 1: 25% (2 hrs; Sem. 1 Wk 12)
Essay 1: 25% (3000 wds; due before Test 1)
Test 2: 25% (2 hrs; Sem 2. Wk 12)
Essay 2: 25% (3000 wds; due before Test 2)
Course summary:
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