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Persuasion in Ancient Greece

Andrew Scholtz, Instructor

Schedule of Assignments
(Syllabus here, group oral reports schedule at myCourses)

  • All assignments — readings, papers, etc. — are to be completed by date/time indicated. Readings, journal entries, etc. to be completed before class
  • LIGHT BLUE BACKGROUND = important deadline, due-date, or similar
  • Assignments subject to change at discretion of instructor. Last update: 24-Apr-2017
Introduction: Issues, Focus
17-Jan Introduction to class, no assignment.
19-Jan Gorgias pt. 1. Web reading. Read sections 447a (beginning)-481b (about half way, it's where Callicles takes over as main interlocutor).

A crucial reading, as it's the basis of your first formal written exercise, due 29-Jan (on which more here).

  • Read study guide (req'd!)
  • Read Plato's Gorgias 447a-481b
  • Do Journal Entry via myCourses course site, "Journal"
    • For more on journal entries, see under Syllabus
23-Jan (Mon) through 27-Jan (Fri): MAJOR PAPER 1 TOPIC CONFERENCES — schedule yours NOW! <ascholtz@binghamton.edu>
  • Purpose: To guide you to a topic, even if the material is unfamiliar!
  • Procedures: View instructor's schedule. Send E-mail to suggest a 15-min slot to discuss suitable. . .
    • PRIMARY (ancient) texts (2+) from 19-Jan through 23-Feb readings
    • THEORETICAL LENS (at least one of the 26-Jan readings, below) through which to view preceding
    • RATIONALE for that match-up, what issue(s) within the stated topic thereby illuminated
  • Stumped? Check out a few ideas here
24-Jan Gorgias pt. 2. Web reading. Sections 481b-527e. Read and comment on (comment via myCourses course site > Journal). Review as well Study guide for Journal prompt.

A crucial reading, as it's the basis of your first formal written exercise, due 29-Jan (on which more here).
Theories of Discourse and Democracy
26-Jan REGULAR READING ASSIGNMENT: Modern theory and related 1. Read: Study guide with access to readings. Readings accessed via myCourses and Bingweb (this site); more here.
29-Jan DUE: SHORT (3-slide) PowerPoint with NOTES-AREA ESSAY (300 words) on Plato's Gorgias due via myCourses > Assignments @ 12 midnight (single submission). (The submission link will disappear promptly at 00:01 the morning of 30-Jan.)
30-Jan DUE: PAPER 1 PROPOSALS via E-mail:
  • For more on MAJOR PAPER 1 proposal, click here. For ORAL REPORT TOPIC CHOICES (first, second, third), here
Peithō: From Myth to Athenian Reality
31-Jan Persuasion reified, personified in cult, myth, art. Click here for study guide, here for the readings. For all readings from now on, please remember to file journal entries, as per study guide.
2-Feb Aeschylus' Agamemnon (Fagles, Penguin). Study guide.
7-Feb Aeschylus' Libation Bearers (Fagles, Penguin). Study guide.
9-Feb Aeschylus' Eumenides (Fagles, Penguin). Study guide.
14-Feb TWO THINGS: QUIZ 1 on readings & lectures 19-Jan through 14-Feb. Early Political Theory and Practice. Click here for study guide, here for access online to readings.
16-Feb Plutarch's Themistocles (Penguin). Study guide.
17-Feb MAJOR PAPER 1 FIRST SUBMISSION DUE BY 12 MIDNIGHT.

More here. . .

21-Feb Thucydides, part 1 (Hackett). Page 1 (= bk 1 sect. 1), 12-36 (1.20.2-22, 1.68-88, 1.140-146), 39-46 (2.35-46), 52-58 (2.59-65). Study guide.
23-Feb Plutarch's Pericles (Penguin). Study guide.

27-Feb through 10-Mar: MAJOR PAPER 2 TOPIC CONFERENCES.

  • Purpose: To guide you to a topic, even if material unfamiliar
  • Procedures: View instructor's schedule. Send E-mail to suggest a 15-min slot to discuss suitable. . .
    • PRIMARY (ancient) texts (2+) from 2-Mar through 2-May material
    • THEORETICAL LENS (at least one, 28-Febt readings, below) through which to view preceding
    • RATIONALE for that match-up, what issue(s) within the stated topic thereby illuminated
  • Stumped? Check out a few ideas here
Democracy and its Discontents: Peitho in Crisis
28-Feb Modern theory and related 2: Weber, Finley, Michels, Ober. For access etc., see study guide.
2-Mar Readings in the sophists. Click here for readings; here for study guide.
7-Mar No class (winter break)
9-Mar Political oratory: Lysias Preserving the Ancestral Constitution; Demosthenes Third Olynthiac, First Philippic, accessed via myCourses > Persuasion course site > PDF Course Readings.

Study guide.
14-Mar [Class cancelled, snow day]
14-Mar MAJOR PAPER 2 proposal due via E-mail 12 midnight; click here for more. . .
16-Mar Re-read Gorgias' Epitaphios with instructor's introduction and discussion of figures; see if you can pick figures out in the (very brief!) reading itself (click here). Read Pseudo-Xenophon's/Old Oligarch's (also brief!) Constitution of the Athenians, which access via myCourses course site > Course Docs > "Old Oligarch." Click here for study guide and more on access to readings.
16-Mar MAJOR PAPER 1 FINAL SUBMISSION DUE BY 12 MIDNIGHT.

More here. . .

21-Mar Aristophanes' Clouds (Focus). Study guide.
23-Mar Aristophanes' Knights (penguin) Study guide.
28-Mar Thucydides, part 2 (Hackett): pp. 46-50 (2.47-54), 66-76 (3.37-51), 89-95 (3.81.2-3.85, 4.47.3-4.48), 101-109 (5.84-116), 111-123, (6.2-26), 155-160. Study Guide.
30-Mar Aristophanes' Lysistrata (Focus) Study guide.
4-Apr Plutarch's Alcibiades (Penguin). + quiz #2 (on readings 2-Mar through 30-Mar). Study guides:
6-Apr Aristophanes' Assemblywomen (Penguin). Study guide.
7-Apr MAJOR PAPER 2 FIRST SUBMISSION DUE BY 12 MIDNIGHT. Upload electronic copy to Turnitin via myCourses. More here. . .
11-Apr No class (spring break)
13-Apr No class (spring break)
18-Apr Epideixis day 1. You must attend class to deliver and/or hear speeches. More here.
20-Apr Epideixis day 2. You must attend class to deliver and/or hear speeches. More here.
25-Apr Epideixis day 3. You must attend class to deliver and/or hear speeches. More here.
27-Apr Epideixis day 4. You must attend class to deliver and/or hear speeches. More here.
2-May Plato Phaedrus, pt. 1.
5-May No class (Mon schedule)
9-May Read and comment on (via myCourses course site, "Journal") Plato Phaedrus, pt. 2 (section 257b to end).
18-May MAJOR PAPER 2 FINAL SUBMISSION DUE BY 12 MIDNIGHT. Upload electronic copy to Turnitin via myCourses. More here. . .

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