Outline of the Fall Quarter

1. Breakdown the Quarter: SLE

2. Wk 1: SLE, the Humanities, and an
Ethics of Criticism
• Apology, Crito
• Rob Reich: What is the
Socratic Method?
• Marsh McCall: The Last
Days of Socrates I & II
• La Jetee (Marker,
1966)

3. Wk 2: Hebrew Bible
• Genesis, Exodus
• Mark Mancall: Intro to
the Hebrew Bible
• Steven Weitzman:
Genesis
• Ron Hendel: Exodus

4. Wk 3: The Odyssey and Greek Culture
• Poems and Fragments
(Sappho), Odyssey
• Patrick Hunt: Sappho
• Barbara Clayton: Odyssey I & II
• Contempt (Jean-Luc Goddard,
1963)

5. Wk 4:Drama and Dialogue
• The Oresteia, Symposium
• Patrick Hunt: Greek Art
• Rush Rehm and Courtney
Walsh: Greek Tragedy
• Robert Harrison: Plato’s
Symposium

6. Wk 5: Plato’s Republic
• Christopher Bobonich: The
Republic
• Reveil Netz: Greek
Mathematics and
Philosophy

7. Wk 6: Aristotle
• Josh Ober: Aristotle’s Ethics,
Aristotle’s Politics
• Ian Morris: Greek History

8. Wk 7: China I
• The Essential Chuang Tzu
• Lee Yearly: Intro to Chinese Thought,
Daoism
• Hero (Zhang Yimou, 2002)

9. Wk 8: China II: Confucianism
• The Analects of Confucius, With Selections
from Traditional Commentaries (Mengzi), On
the Road from the Capital to Fengxian
• Lee Yearly: Confucianism I & II

10. Wk 9: Christianity Among the Romans
• The Book of Mark, Paul’s
Epistle to the Romans
• Tom Sheehan: Who was Jesus?
• Barbara Pitkin: The Gospel
• Kirsti Copeland: St. Paul

11. Wk 10: Roman Classical Culture
• Jacob Mackey: The Aeneid
• Richard Saller: Aeneid as a
Work of National Identity
at the Pivotal Moment in
Roman History
• Caroline Winterer: The
Legacy of Greece and
Rome in America