US 220: The Great Conversation II

Supplementary Resources

Spring 2000

Stephen H. Blackwell, Ph.D.
Phone: 974-4536
Office: 701 McClung Tower
Hours: TBA or make an appointment
Email: sblackwe@utk.edu

Alvin Burstein, Ph.D.
Phone: 974-3348
Office: 303E Austin Peay
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Email: burstein@utk.edu

Bruce MacLennan, Ph.D.
Phone: 974-5067
Office: 110A Ayres
Hours: TBA or make an appointment
Email: maclennan@cs.utk.edu

This page: http://www.cs.utk.edu/~mclennan/Classes/US220/

• Schedule
• Unversity Studies site.
• Hints on Pronouncing Ancient Greek Names

• Perseus Project. Contains many online texts, both selections and complete; look under Texts. See also the Perseus Encyclopedia Subject Index
  • Intermediate Liddell-Scott ("Middle Liddell") Greek Lexicon (good for most purposes). [Perseus]
  • Searchable Liddel-Scott-Jones Greek Lexicon ("Great Scott"): comprehensive; citations link you directly to primary source texts. [Perseus]
  • Some important Greek words (definitions from Middle Liddell): aretê - atê - dikê - erôs - hubris - nomos vs. phusis - sophia
  • Searchable Lewis-Short Latin Dictionary. [Perseus]
• The Internet Classics Archive [ICA] (from MIT) also contains classical texts (in translation). The ICA texts are in larger units (books or whole plays) than the Perseus texts (paragraphs).
• Exploring Ancient World Cultures [EAWC] also contains many texts. See especially the section on Rome.
• Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World
• Ancient History Sourcebook: Greece or Rome

• US 210 page
• MacLennan's home page
• UTK Home Page

1. Euripides' Medea: This is not one of the assigned readings for this course, but we will be seeing a video of it; you can find the text at:
   • Medea (Kovacs tr.) [Perseus]
   • Medea (Coleridge tr.) [ICA]
2. Aristotle's Poetics:
   • Poetics (Fyfe tr.) [Perseus]
   • Poetics (Butcher tr.) [ICA]
   • Some Greek terms relevant to Aristotle's Poetics: "purification" (katharsis) - "fear" (phoberon) - "pity" (eleeinon) - "imitation, representation" (mimêsis) - "plot, story" (muthos) - "reversal, turning" (peripeteia) - "discovery, recognition" (anagnôrisis) - "calamity" (pathos) - "complication, binding" (desis) - "dénouement, loosing" (lusis) - "failure" (hamartia) - "choice, will" (proairesis) - "character" (êthos)
   • Some background information on ancient Greek drama:
     • Background information on the City Dionysia, at which the plays were performed.
     • An overview of typical structure of the Greek play and in particular concerning tragedies.
     • A short description of the theater of Dionysos, where the plays were performed.
3. Lucretius' On the Nature of Things:
   • On the Nature of Things (Leonard tr.) [ICA]
   • Lucretius ideas are based on the work of Epicurus; see his: Principal Doctrines (Hicks tr.) [ICA] and Letter to Menoeceus (Hicks tr.) [ICA]
   • Notes on Lucretius, including philosophy in late antiquity. (This file was converted automatically by MS Word and may look odd with some font selections on some browsers.)
4. Cicero's Manilian Law, Catiline, For Caelius:
   • Manilian Law (On Pompey's Command) (Yonge tr.) [Perseus]
   • Against Catiline (Yonge tr.) [Perseus]
   • For Caelius (Yonge tr.) [Perseus]
5. Plutarch's Lives:
   • Coriolanus (Dryden tr.) [ICA]
   • Julius Caesar (Dryden tr.) [ICA]
   • Marc Antony (Dryden tr.) [ICA]
6. Vergil's Georgics and Aeneid:
   • Georgics (Greenough tr.) [Perseus]
   • Georgics (Greenough tr.?) [ICA]
   • Some of the sources/inspirations for the Georgics
     • Hesiod's Works & Days [Perseus] or [ICA]
     • Varro's De Re Rustica
     • Cato's De Agri Cultura
     • Lucretius' On the Nature of Things
   • Aeneid (Williams tr.) [Perseus]
   • Aeneid (Dryden tr.) [ICA]
7. Tacitus' Annals (III.19-76, IV-VI, XIV.14-65):
   • Annals (Church & Brodribb tr.) [ICA]
8. Marcus Aurelius' Meditations:
   • Meditations (Lamb tr.) [ICA]
   • Meditations (Lamb tr.) [EAWC]
   • Notes on Marcus Aurelius. (This file was converted automatically by MS Word and may look odd with some font selections on some browsers.)
   • Some Stoic technical terms (be sure to look for special Stoic meanings): ruling principle (hêgemonikon) - impression/representation (phantasia) - impulse (hormê) - desire (orexis) - apprehension/cognition (katalêpsis) - joy (eupatheia) - pleasure (hêdonê) - duty (kathêkon) - serenity (ataraxia) - autonomy (autarkeia) - fellowship (koinônia)
   • Marcus Aurelius was strongly influenced by the Stoic doctrines of Epictetus. See his: Discourses [ICA], Handbook (Carter tr.) [ICA] and Golden Sayings [ICA]
   • For another example of Stoicism from a Roman perspective, see Cicero's On Duties (De Officiis):
     • On Duties (Miller tr.)
     • You may also be interested in: Materials for the Construction of Shakespeare's Morals: The Stoic Legacy to the Renaissance
9. St. Augustine's Confessions:
   • Confessions [CCEL]

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