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Syllabus
Gilgamesh, Arts and Culture (hereafter, AC) 12-14, 19-32 (background reading), 32-5 (text), 'Mesopotamian Protest Against Death" in Blue Book of Readings (hereafter, BB), "The Return" (BB)
Week 2--Sept. 6-10
Bible: AC 206-225 (background), 225-9 (text),
Genesis: 12, 22 (BB), Exodus: 20 Ten Commandments (BB)
PAPER #0 DUE TODAY--SEPT. 6
PAPER #1--ASSIGNED--SEPT. 6
Week 3--Sept. 13-17
Bible: Sermon on the Mount, Letters of Paul AC 233-7 (text) PAPER #1--FIRST DRAFT DUE--SEPT. 13
Week 4--Sept. 20-24
Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism: AC 274-89, 294-303
(background); "The Hymn of Man", "The Song of Creation",
"The Laws of Manu", Bhagavad Gita" (BB); "Enlightenment of
Buddha", "Sermon at the Deer Park" (BB); selections from
Mencius, (BB)
Week 5--Sept. 27-Oct. 1
Plato: AC 98-128 (background), Euthyphro, Apology PAPER #1--FINAL DRAFT DUE--SEPT. 27
Week 6--Oct. 4-8
Plato, Apology (cont'd), Thucydides: "Pericles' Funeral
Oration: AC 131-113, PAPER #2--ASSIGNED--OCT. 4
Week 7--Oct. 11-15
Aristotle, AC: 155-7, Politics (BB); Ethics (BB);
Song of Roland: AC 358-60, secs. 161-76 (BB); Marie de
France, The Nightingale: AC 360-1
PAPER #2--FIRST DRAFT DUE--OCT. 11
Week 8--Oct. 18-22
Dante, The Divine Comedy: AC 397-404 (Introductory Canto
I, Inferno : Cantos III, V, VJI), 412-6 (Inferno: Cantos
XXXIII, XXXIV), 416-7 (Purgatorio: Canto I), 423-6
(Paradiso: Canto XXXII, XXXIII)
PAPER #2--FINAL DRAFT DUE--OCT. 18
Week 9--Oct. 27-29
Diaz, The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico (BB);
The Broken Spears (BB); "The Spaniards Arrive in
Tenochtitlan" (BB); Montaigne, "0f Cannibals"
(BB) ; AC 314-21, 328-9.
Week 10--Nov. 1-5
Equiano in Gates: 11-50, 66-96, 166-78 PAPER #3--ASSIGNED--NOV. 1
Week 11--Nov. 8-12
Shakespeare, Tempest
PAPER #3--FIRST DRAFT DUE--NOV. 8
Week 12--Nov. 15-19
Shakespeare, Tempest
Machiavelli, The Prince (BB); Pico "Dignity of Man"
(BB), Dante, The Banquet (BB)
PAPER #3--FINAL DRAFT DUE--NOV. 15
Week 13--Nov. 22-23
Copernicus in Matthews: 33-43; Galileo in Matthews: 53-86
Week 14--Nov. 29-Dec. 3
Descartes, Discourse on Method
PAPER #4--ASSIGNED--NOV. 29
Week 15--Dec. 6-10
Newton in Matthews: 133-58
PAPER #4--FIRST DRAFT DUE--DEC. 6
PAPER #4--FINAL DRAFT DUE--DEC. 13