Fall Lecture Schedule.doc
Spring Lecture Schedule.doc
Fall 2009
Lecture Meeting: Monday 11.35–12.25
Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium
(53 Wall Street)
1. TTH 2:30- 3:45 Kathryn Slanski
2. TTH 9:00-10:15 Charles Hill
3. TTH 2:30- 3:45 Stuart Semmel
4. MW 2:30- 3:45 Paul Freedman
5. MW 9:00-10:15 Cynthia Farrar
6. MW 9:00-10:15 Emily Levine
7. TTH 9:00-10:15 Justin Zaremby
Books are available at Labyrinth Books, 290 York Street:
Herodotus, The History, trans. David Grene
(University of Chicago, 1987)
Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War,
trans. Rex Warner (Penguin, 1954)
Plato, Plato: Complete Works, ed. John Cooper (Hackett, 1997)
Aristotle, The Politics and the Constitution of Athens, ed. Steven Everson (Cambridge, 1996)
Livy, The Rise of Rome: Books 1–5, trans. T.J. Luce (Oxford, 1998)
Polybius, The Rise of the Roman Empire, trans. Ian Scott-Kilvert (Penguin, 1980)
Tacitus, The Annals of Imperial Rome, trans. Michael Grant
(Penguin, 1956)
Augustine, City of God, trans. Henry Bettenson (Penguin, 2004)
Aquinas, Treatise on Law, trans. Richard D. Regan (Hackett, 2000)
Lectures and Reading Assignments
Lectures provide historical and intellectual context to help frame the week’s readings and discussions. Where noted, (a) and (b) indicate suggested reading assignments for the first and second discussion meeting of that week. Unless page numbers are provided, assignments are written in the format: “Book number.Chapter number.”
Week 1 (classes begin Wed, Sept 2)
Reading: Herodotus, History 1.1–91 (that is, Book 1, chapters 1–91); 3.27–38, 3.61-89
No lecture this week.
Week 2/ Sept 7
Reading: Herodotus, History
(a) 6.94–140; 7.1–60, 7.99–124
(b) 7.133–152, 7.172–175, 7.201–239; 8.1–26, 8.50–125, 8.140–144
Lecture: Monday, Sept. 7, on Herodotus’ History (K. Slanski)
Week 3/ Sept 14
Reading: Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
(a) 1 (entire)
(b) 2.7–65
Lecture: Mon, Sept 14, on Thucydides’ Peloponnesian War (E. Levine)
Week 4/Sept 21
Reading: Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
(a) 3.1–50, 3.69–85; 4.1–41; 5.84–116; 6.1–61, 6.72–93
(b) 7.1–18, 7.42–87; 8.1–2, 8.45–98
Lecture: Mon, Sept 21, Athenian Democracy in Thucydides’s History, and on the Ground. (C. Farrar)
Week 5/Sept 28
Reading: Plato, The Republic
(a) Book I
(b) Books II–IV
Lecture: Mon, Sept 28, on Plato’s Republic (J. Zaremby)
Week 6/Oct 5
Reading: Plato, The Republic
(a) Books V–VII
(b) Books VIII–X
Lecture: Mon, Oct 5, on Plato’s Republic (N. Thompson)
Week 7/Oct 12
Reading: Aristotle, The Politics
(a) Book I (entire); II.1–9
(b) Book III (entire)
Lecture: Mon, Oct 12, on Aristotle’s Politics (B. Garsten)
Week 8/Oct 19
Reading: Aristotle, Politics
(a) IV.1–13; V.1–5, 8–9
(b) VI.1–3; VII.1–15
Lecture: Mon, Oct 19, on Aristotle’s Politics (C. Hill)
Week 9/Oct 26
Reading: Livy, The Rise of Rome
(a) (author’s) Preface; I 1–21, 46–60; II 1–13, 23–40, 54–61; III 44–58; 64–9
(b) IV 1–7, 58–61; V (entire)
Lecture: Mon, Oct 26, on Livy (J. Zaremby)
Week 10/Nov 2
Reading: Polybius, Rise of the Roman Empire
(a) I.1–6; III (entire)
(b) VI (entire); IX.1–2, 12 (“On Generalship”), 22–26 (“The Character of Hannibal”); X.2–3 (“The Character of Scipio”); XV.6–8
Lecture: Mon, Nov 2, on Polybius (C. Hill)
Week 11/Nov 9
Reading: Tacitus, Annals of Imperial Rome
(a) Pp. 31–128; 157–197
(b) Pp. 284–344; 360–381
Lecture: Mon, Nov 9, on Tacitus (S. Smith)
Week 12/Nov 16
Reading: Augustine, City of God
(a) I.4, 14–35; II.4–7; IV.3–4; V.1–26; VIII.3–13; XI.1; XII.1–14, 21–23; XIII.21
(b) XIV.1–6, 11–28; XV.1–6; XVIII.49–53; XIX (entire)
Lecture: on Augustine (P. Freedman)
Thanksgiving Break
Week 13/Nov 30
Reading: Thomas Aquinas, selections on Law from Summa theologiae
Lecture: Mon, Nov 30. on the political and intellectual setting of Thos. Aquinas (P. Freedman)
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Spring 2010
Lecture Meeting: Monday 11:35-12:25
Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium
(53 Wall Street)
Texts: Books are available at Labyrinth Books, 290 York Street.
Niccolò Machiavelli, Selected Political Writings (Hackett, 1994)
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, ed. E. Curley (Hackett, 1994)
John Locke, Second Treatise of Government, ed. C.B. MacPherson (Hackett, 1980)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Basic Political Writings, trans. D.A. Cress (Hackett, 1987)
Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (edition to be determined)
Immanuel Kant, Perpetual Peace and Other Essays, trans. T. Humphrey (Hackett, 1983)
Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, ed. C.C. O'Brien (Penguin, 1982)
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, The Federalist Papers, with Letters of "Brutus", ed. T. Ball (Cambridge, 2003)
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, ed. H. Mansfield and D. Winthrop (Chicago, 2002)
Karl Marx, Selected Writings, ed. L. Simon (Hackett, 1994)
Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morality, ed. K. Ansell-Pearson (Cambridge, 1994)
Hannah Arendt, Origins of Totalitarianism (Harcourt, 1973)
Reading Assignments and Lectures:
Week 1/Jan 11
Reading: Machiavelli, The Prince: Letter to Vettori, The Prince
Lectures: Mon, Jan 11, on Machiavelli (S. Smith);
Fri, Jan 15, on the Reformation, the English Civil War, and Thos. Hobbes (S. Pincus)
Week 2/Jan 19—22
Reading: Machiavelli, Discourses on the First Ten Books of Titus Livy; Hobbes, Leviathan
(i) Machiavelli, Discourses: Letter to Buondelmonti and Rucellai; Book I: Preface, Chaps. 1-13, 26, 29, 55, 58; Book II: Preface, Chaps. 1-2; Book III: Chap. 3
(ii) Hobbes, Leviathan, [Author's] Introduction; chs. 1-2, 4-6, 8, 10-1, 13-21
**No Lecture**
Week 3/Jan 25
Reading: Hobbes, Leviathan
(i) Leviathan, Chs. 26, 28–31
(ii) Leviathan, Chs. 12, 27, 32, 43, 47
Lecture: Mon, Jan 25, on Hobbes’ Leviathan (B. Garsten)
Week 4/Feb 1
Reading: Locke, Second Treatise
Lecture: Mon, Feb 1, on Locke’s Second Treatise (S. Pincus)
Week 5/Feb 8
Reading: Rousseau, The Social Contract
Lecture: Mon, Feb 8, on Rousseau (S. Smith)
Week 6/Feb 15
Reading: Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations
Lecture: Mon, Feb 15, on Adam Smith (S. Semmel)
Week 7/Feb 22
Reading: Kant, “What is Enlightenment”, “Perpetual Peace”,
“Idea for a Universal History”,
Lecture: Mon, Feb 22, on Kant and the German Enlightenment
(E. Levine)
Week 8/Mar 1
Reading: Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
(i) 84–205
(ii) 244–50; 266–85; 330–42; 367–77
Lecture: Mon, Mar 1, on Burke’s Reflections (J. Zaremby)
Spring Break
Week 9/Mar 22
Reading: Hamilton, Madison, and Jay, The Federalist Papers
(i) 1, 6, 9, 10, 14-15, 30-31, plus the Constitution & Bill of Rights.
(ii) 37-40, 45, 48-51, 68-70, 84.
Lecture: Mon, Mar 22, on The Federalist Papers (R. Burt)
Week 10/Mar 29
Reading: Tocqueville, Democracy in America
(i) Democracy in America, vol. I: Introduction; Part 1, chs. 2, 4, 5 (pp. 56-65); Part 2, chs. 1, 2, 5 (pp. 187-192, 212-220), 7, 8, 9.
(ii) Democracy in America, vol. II: Notice (pp. 399-400); Part 1, chs. 1-2, 5; Part 2, chs. 1-10, 13; Part 3, chs. 1-2, 8-12; Part 4, chs. 1-8.
Lecture: Mon, Mar 29, on Tocqueville’s Democracy (F. Prochaska)
Week 11/Apr 5
Reading: Marx, German Ideology and Communist Manifesto
Lecture: Mon, Apr 5, on Marx (K. Mantena)
Week 12/Apr 12
Reading: Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morality
Lecture: Mon, Apr 12, on Nietszche (K. Slanski)
Week 13/Apr 19
Reading: Arendt, Origins of Totalitarianism
Lecture: Mon, Apr 19, on Arendt (Emily Levine)