Humanities 110

Assignment

• Introduction and resources
• Christina Riggs, “Forty Centuries,” in Egypt: Lost Civilizations (London: Reaktion Books, 2017), pp. 33-57, 191-192.
• Christina Riggs, excerpt from “Four Little Words,” in Ancient Egyptian Art and Architecture: A Very Short Introduction (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 3-18
• Gallery: Narmer Palette and Great Pyramid

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• Introduction and resources
• “The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant,” in The Tale of Sinuhe and Other Ancient Egyptian Poems, ed. Parkinson, pp. 54-88
• Charles Freeman, “Egypt, the Gift of the Nile, 3200-1500 BC,” in Egypt, Greece and Rome: Civilizations of the Ancient Mediterranean, second ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004), pp. 40-62

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• Introduction and resources
• “The Tale of Sinuhe,” in The Tale of Sinuhe and Other Ancient Egyptian Poems, ed. Parkinson, pp. 21-53

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• Visual images:  study these images before lecture and conference
• "The Great Hymn to Osiris" (Lichtheim II 81-86) 
• "Coffin Text 148" (Simpson 263-265) 
• "Horus and Seth" (Lichtheim II 214-223)
• "The Book of the Dead 125" (Lichtheim II 124-132)
• “The Dialogue of a Man and His Soul,” in The Tale of Sinuhe and Other Ancient Egyptian Poems, ed. Parkinson, pp. 151-165
• "Harper Songs" (Simpson 332-333; Lichtheim II 115-116)

Assignment

• Introduction and resources
• Jan Assmann, “The Temple” and “Image and Cult,” in The Search for God in Ancient Egypt, trans. David Lorton (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001), pp. 27-47, 248-249. 
• Richard H. Wilkinson, “Amun, Amun-Re,” “Khonsu,” “Min,” “Mut,” and “Montu,” in The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt (New York: Thames and Hudson, 2003), pp. 92-97, 113-114, 115-117, 153-156, 203-204
• Richard H. Wilkinson, “Karnak and Luxor,” in The Complete Temples of Ancient Egypt (New York: Thames and Hudson, 2000), pp. 154-171 
• Video: "Digital Karnak - Terms and Definitions" 
• Video: "Digital Karnak - Temple Development"

Assignment

• Introduction and resources
• “Obelisk Inscription of Hatshepsut,” in Writings from Ancient Egypt, trans. Toby Wilkinson (London: Penguin, 2016), 191-196
• “The Birth Narrative from Deir el-Bahri: Hatshepsut’s Birth and Coronation Narratives,” ed. and trans. Thomas Landvatter (2019)
• Gallery: Hatshepsut

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• Introduction to Egyptian Love Lyrics
• Selections from Love Lyrics of Ancient Egypt, trans. Barbara Hughes Fowler (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994), pp. xiii-xv, 6-9, 17, 38-41, 57-58, 66-67
• Selections from Love Songs of the New Kingdom, trans. John L. Foster (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1974), front matter, pp. 67, 70-73, 102-103.

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Note: the lecturer advises that you begin watching the lecture before beginning the reading for today.

• Introduction and resources
• Introduction to Achaemenid Era Inscriptions 
• Inscriptions from the Achaemenid era, from The Persian Empire, vol. I, ed. Amelie Kuhrt (New York: Routledge, 2007), pp. 70-74, 117-122, 141-158, 492-495, 503-505
• Gallery: Achaemenid Persians in Egypt and Beyond

Assignment

• Visual Images: explore these images from the University of Chicago Oriental Institute before lecture and conference.
• Margaret C. Root, "Circles of Artistic Programming: Strategies for Studying Creative Process at Persepolis," in A. C. Gunter (ed.), Investigating Artistic Environments in the Ancient Near East (Washington, DC, 1990), 115-39.

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• Introduction and resources
• Genesis, chapters 1-20 (focus on 1-11), plus introduction to Genesis from The Jewish Study Bible 
• Martin S. Jaffee, excerpts from Early Judaism: Religious Worlds of the First Judaic Millennium, second ed. (Bethesda:  University Press of Maryland, 2006), pp. 1-28.

Assignment

• Introduction and resources
• Genesis, chapters 21-50 (focus on 22, 37-38)
• Martin S. Jaffee, excerpts from Early Judaism: Religious Worlds of the First Judaic Millennium, second ed. (Bethesda:  University Press of Maryland, 2006), pp. 50-67, 86-87.

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• Introduction and resources
• Exodus, chapters 1-15, plus introduction to Exodus from The Jewish Study Bible

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• Introduction and resources
• Exodus, chapters 15-25, 32-35, 40

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• Introduction and resources
• Esther

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• Hesiod, Theogony

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• Introduction and resources
• Hesiod, Works and Days
• Orlando Patterson, Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1982), vii-xi, 1-14.

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• Introduction and resources
• “Archilochus” in Greek Lyric: An Anthology in Translation, pp. 1-12
• “Tyrtaeus” in Greek Lyric: An Anthology in Translation, pp. 13-19
• “Solon” in Greek Lyric: An Anthology in Translation, pp. 64-76
• “Hipponax” in Greek Lyric: An Anthology in Translation, pp. 104-106

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• Introduction and resources
• “Sappho” in Greek Lyric: An Anthology in Translation, pp. 51-63

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• Introduction and resources
• Gallery: Sarpedon vase
• Khan Academy: Ancient Greek vase production and the black-figure technique
• Khan Academy: Exekias, amphora with Ajax and Achilles playing a game
• Excerpt from Richard T Neer, Style and politics in Athenian vase-painting : the craft of democracy, ca. 530-460 B.C.E. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002) pp. 1-3, 9-13, 32-35, 39-43, 65, 86.
• Optional reading: Homer, Book sixteen, The Iliad of Homer, pp. 351-374, University of Chicago Press, 2011

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• Introduction and resources
• Presocratics Reader: Xenophanes (pp. 31 -38); Heraclitus (pp. 39-54); Parmenides (pp. 55-65)

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• Introduction and resources
• Aeschylus, The Oresteia: “Agamemnon”

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• Introduction and resources
• Aeschylus, The Oresteia: “Libation Bearers” and “Eumenides” 
• Gallery

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• Introduction and resources
• Herodotus, Histories, 1.1-12, 1.25-94, 1.107-140, 1.201-216

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• Introduction and resources
• Herodotus, Histories, 2.1-64, 2.113-120, 2.142-151, 2.164-182, 3.1-4, 3.13-15, 3.30-38, 3.61-89, and "Structural Outline" pp. 607-614.

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• Introduction and resources
• Herodotus, Histories, 6.125-130, 7.8-57, 7.101-104, 7.138-144, 7.201-238, 8.40-99, 9.114-122

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• Introduction and resources
• Gallery: Parthenon 
• Rachel Kousser, “Destruction and Memory on the Athenian Acropolis,” Art Bulletin 91.3 (2009): pp. 263-282

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• Introduction and resources
• Susan Lape, “Theorizing Citizen Identity,” in Race and Citizen Identity in the Classical Athenian Democracy (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010), 1-50.

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• Introduction and resources
• Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, ​1.1-23, 1.31-55, 1.66-88, 1.139-146, ​2.34-65

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• Introduction and resources
• Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, 3.36-50, 3.69-85, 5.83-116, 6.8-24

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• Introduction and resources
• Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War,​​ 6.1-41, 6.88-93, 7.1-18, 7.49-87

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• Introduction and resources
• Aristophanes, Lysistrata

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• Conference leader’s discretion.

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• Introduction and resources
• Plato, “Euthyphro,” “Apology,” and “Crito” in Trial and Death of Socrates, pp. 1-54

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• Introduction and resources
• Plato, Republic, 1-2

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• Introduction and resources
• Plato, Republic, 3-5

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• Introduction and resources
• Plato, Republic, 6-7

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• Introduction and resources
• Republic, 8-10

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• Introduction and resources
• Plato, Symposium, 1-44

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• Introduction and resources
• Plato, Symposium, 45-78