GRW 6105 Greek TraditionDr Ifigeneia Giannadaki

Demosthenes

Email: giannadaki.if@ufl.eduOffice: 115A, Dauer Hall Office hours: Tuesday 9-11 am; or by appointment.

Classes: Monday, Wednesday, Friday 8.30-9.20am.

Attendance is mandatory and essential for passing the course. Attendance, preparation and participation counts towards 30% of the final mark to the module (see assessment and UF policies below). Students are required to prepare the texts and readings ahead of each week.

The death of Socrates, J.L. David

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Course Outline: This course offers a survey of Greek literature across genres and focuses on the study of selected works of some of the greatest Greek authors of Classical period. After introducing the students into the periods and genres of Greek literature starting from the Archaic era, our emphasis shall be on prose texts from the major literary genres, such as historiography, oratory, and philosophy and the authors we will be survey include Thucydides, Lysias, Demosthenes, and Plato. The module aims to offer the historical and political context of these texts, as well as literary and rhetorical analysis of the sources. The students will have a great opportunity to study key texts of the Greek literature of the flourishing 5th and 4th centuries and ultimately learn about major political and historical events (Peloponnesian war), Athenian law and society through the close study of prosecution and defence speeches, as well as Greek philosophy and political thought, areas which have shaped modern history, oratory and political thinking. Finally, students will have the opportunity to study one of the most famous trials in the ancient world, the trial of Socrates, as told by Plato. The literary genres we aim to cover this term include ancient Greek historiography, Attic oratory, and Ancient Greek Philosophy.

Aims and Objectives: Course specific aims

After the completion of the module, the students should be in a position: to understand and interpret key prose texts from canonical Greek authors of the

Classical Period (set texts) to understand in depth and approach the set texts from a historical, political, legal

and rhetorical perspective and engage critically with modern interpretations of these texts

to translate accurately a range of set Greek texts and authors into English to be able to understand the development of the Greek literature and the genres

flourished in the course of the Classical period, with emphasis on the prosaic literature.

General skills search, analysis, and interpretation of evidence using the necessary technology

and other available resources (e.g. IT, databases etc.) independent work development of critical thinking

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Pericles’ Funeral Oration, P. Foltz.

Provisional schedule:

(Please note that the schedule is subject to change over the semester)

W1 Preliminaries and historical framework; introduction to Greek literatureW2 Historiography – Thucydides bk 2.35-36

Recommended reading: Boswarth B. (2000) “The Historical Context of Thucydides’ Funeral Oration”, JHS 120, 1–16.

W3 Thucydides bk 2.37-39Recommended reading: Pelling, C. (2009) ‘Thucydides’ speeches’ in Rusten, J. (ed.) Thucydides, OUP.

W4 Thucydides bk 2. 40-41Recommended Reading: Hornblower, S. (1987) Thucydides, Duckworth. Chapters 2 and 4.

W5 Oratory – (private speeches) Lysias 1.1-7 Recommended reading:Wolpert, A. (2001) ‘Lys. 1 and the Politics of the oikos’, CJ 96, 415-424.

W6 Lysias 1.8-13Recommended reading:Gagarin, M. (2003) ‘Telling Stories from Athenian Law’, TAPA 133, 197-207.

W7 Lysias 1.21-30Recommended reading:

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Porter (2007) ‘Adultery by the book: Lysias 1 and comic diegesis’ in Carawan, E. (ed.) The Attic Orators, OUP.

W8 Oratory (political speeches) – Demosthenes 22.1-3, 24-27Recommended reading: Giannadaki, I. (2018) ‘Reconstructing the Athenian legal system’, in Carey, Giannadaki, Griffith-Williams (eds) Use and Abuse of Law in the Athenian Courts, Brill.

W9 RevisionFirst in-class exam – Friday 18 October

W10 Demosthenes 22.28-33, 42-46Recommended reading: Kapparis, K. (2019) ‘The prostitute and the Law’, pp. 153-171.

W11 Demosthenes 22.47-55W12 Philosophy – Plato, Apology 17a-18b

Recommended reading:Cartledge, P. (2009) Political Thought in Action, Cambridge: Chapter 7, ‘The Trial of Socrates’.

W13 Plato, Apology 30c-32aRecommended Reading: Blyth, D. (2000) ‘Socrates’ trial and Conviction of the Jurors in Plato’s Apology’, Philosophy and Rhetoric 33, 1-22.

W14 Plato, Apology 38c1-39aW15 Revision

Second in-class exam – Wednesday 4 December

Assessment: Two in-class exams (35% each) and participation and attendance in the class (30%). The exam will contain a given passage(s) to translate from ancient Greek into English; question(s) about historical, political, legal or rhetorical aspects that the set texts raise; questions from the two works below on the history of Greek literature.

1. Rutherford, R.B. (2005) Greek Literature: A Concise History, Blackwell. Chapters: ‘Rhetoric’ (pp. 77-103), ‘History, Biography, and Fiction’ (pp. 104-123, i.e. only the historiography part), and ‘Thinkers’ (pp. 230-243). AND 2. Easterling, P. and Knox, B. M. W. (1985) The Cambridge History of Greek Literature, vol. 1, Cambridge: chapter 13 (Historiography), chapter 16 (Oratory).

Greek texts we will study over the term: available in the library and online (Perseus).

Suggested bibliography

i. Editions of the ancient texts

Carey, C. Lysias, Oxford Classical Text

Dilts, M. Demosthenes, Oxford Classical Text

E. A. Duke (Editor), W. F. Hicken (Editor), W. S. M. Nicoll (Editor), D. B. Robinson (Editor), J. C. G. Strachan, Platonis Opera, vol. 1. Oxford Classical Text

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Jones, H. S. Thucydides Historiae, vol. 1, Oxford Classical Text

ii. Secondary literature (commentaries and general studies)

Carey, C. - Reid, C. (1985) Lysias: Selected Speeches, OUP

Harris, E. (2005) Demosthenes, speeches 20-22, U. of Texas Press

Hornblower, S. (1997) A Commentary on Thucydides: Volume I, OUP

Rusten, J. (2003) Thycydides, The Peloponnesian War, CUP

Rutherford, R. (2005) Classical Literature: a Concise History, Oxford: Blackwell

Slings, S. R. (1994) Plato's Apology of Socrates, Brill

Taplin, O. (ed.) (2000), Literature in the Greek World, Oxford: OUP

Todd, S. (2000) Lysias, U. of Texas Press. 

Todd, S. (2007) A Commentary on Lysias, Speeches 1-11, OUP

Whitmarsh, T. (2004) Ancient Greek Literature, Oxford: Polity Press

iii. Online Sources, such as, TLG, APh, OCD, LSJ, Perseus Digital Library, MIT’s Internet Classics Archive.

1. Thesaurus Language Greacae: http://stephanus.tlg.uci.edu/

2. L'Année philologique (APh)

See https://guides.uflib.ufl.edu/c.php?g=147312&p=967895

3. Oxford Classical Dictionary: online (https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199545568.001.0001/acref-9780199545568) and in hard copy in the library (DE5 .O9 2012eb)

4. Liddel/Scott/Jones Lexicon (A Greek-English Lexicon):

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph

5. Translations of ancient Greek texts:

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/collection?collection=Perseus:collection:Greco-Roman

6. Oxford Bibliographies (Online resource for further reading).

iv. Open access resources in Classics: https://guides.uflib.ufl.edu/c.php?g=147312&p=968919

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Note: Additional references shall be given in the class.

POLICIES

1. Your regular attendance is expected. The university recognizes the right of the individual professor to make attendance mandatory. After due warning, professors can prohibit further attendance and subsequently assign a failing grade for excessive absences.

2. There will be no make-up work except in extraordinary and documented cases. I must have written documentation within 24 hours for any medical or other emergencies which result in a missed test or late essay.

3. Students with disabilities requesting accommodations should first register with the Disability Resource Center (352-392-8565 https://disability.ufl.edu/) by providing appropriate documentation. Once registered, students will receive an accommodation letter which must be presented to the instructor when requesting accommodation. Students with disabilities should follow this procedure as early as possible in the semester.

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5. The use of cellular devices during lecture is strictly prohibited. Refusal to comply results in immediate dismissal from class.

6. Academic honesty is expected at all times. We, the members of the University of Florida community, pledge to hold ourselves and our peers to the highest standards of honesty and integrity. On all work submitted for credit by students at the university, the following pledge is either required or implied: "On my honor, I have neither given nor received unauthorized aid in doing this assignment."

7. Students who face difficulties completing the course or who are in need of counseling urgent help may call the UF Counseling and Wellness Center: 352-392-1575, or U Matter We Care ( CARE 2273) Umatter@ufl.edu. Please do not wait until the end of the semester to seek help.

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9. If you are having trouble with the course—for example, if you fail the first test— you must come see me as soon as possible.

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