FLIT 150
HANDOUTS and NOTES
(revised: 4/18/2013)
- Themes of the Course
- Psalm 23: Two translations.
- The Enuma Elish (selections)
- Notes on the Enuma Elish
- The Sumerian King List. The Flood, and Gilgamesh.
Study materials for The Epic of Gilgamesh - Questions on the Gilgamesh Epic.
- Some notes on Mesopotamia .
- Genesis An outline.
- Some Questions on Genesis.
- Blood and mana (substance of power)
- Greece, seen from a space satellite.
- Dates: 8th to 6th centuries, B.C.
- Some Greek Dates 6th to 4th centuries
- Homer and Hesiod complete texts (English). [FYI: NOT a class assignment]
- The site of Ancient Troy , seen from a space sattelite
- Homer: The military . (some texts)
- Homer: notes
- Sophocles, Oidipous Tyrannos Outline.
- Oedipus: The Family History .
- Oedipus: : Questions
- Aristotle, The Politics Notes.
- Aristotle, The Poetics Notes.
- The Histories of Herodotus : An outline (Book I)
- Herodotus: Study helps. Notes and aids on Solon.
- After the Persian Wars
- Xenophon on the Spartans: Lycurgus
- Notes on the Spartans
- Some Spartan Stories (Plutarch)
- Athens, seen from a satellite.
- Pericles' Last Speech (Thucydides, Virtues of a statesman)
- THE DEMOSION SEMA, the public tombs (recent archaeological discovery)
- Thucydides: notes & aids
- The Trial of Socrates: some ancient reports.
- The Apology of Socrates, by Plato: an outline.
- A comparison of some features of Socrates .
- Xenophon on Socrates .
- Chronology of Plato's writings.
- Study aids and texts for Plato's Apology of Socrates are presented by Prof. Dunkle [Brooklyn College, CUNY].
- Aristophanes: The Clouds: text (English).
- Changes in Greece: Philip II and Alexander III.
- Studying for the Midterm
- The area of Rome , from a space satellite
- Livy texts in Gochberg
- Livy's Preface: Some notes.
- What holds Rome together? [PowerPoint presentation]
- The Twelve Tables (selections).
- The Twelve Tables: selections and Notes.
- The Roman concept of Fides .
- Plutarch, on the genre of Biography .
- Theon of Alexandria, on Biography. [not a class assignment]
- The career of Marcus Porcius Cato: Plutarch Life of Cato
- Cato and Scipio the Elder: A Comparison
- More Plutarch on the Internet (texts) [not a class assignment].
- Meeting Places of the philosophers and their followers in Athens.
- The Great Swerve (Lucretius)
- Lucretius: An outline .
- (1.) Lucretius and Epicurus: Questions.
(2.) Study aids and texts for Epicureanism (Epicurus and Lucretius).
- Thomas Jefferson: an admitted Epicurean (Letter of 1819).
- Cicero, On the Laws (de legibus): The Cicero Page (Andrew M. Riggsby, U. Texas)
- Stoics: Some quotations.
- Epicureanism and Stoicism, compared
- The Birth of Jesus and the dates of his Ministry.
- Paul on the Road to Damascus
- An outline of Paul's Second Letter to the Corinthians
- Romans and Christians
- Religions in the Roman state: a comparison chart
- Christian Virtue
- Early Christian Organization
- St. Augustine of Hippo: Events and dates.
- ASSESSMENT QUESTIONNAIRE
09/18/2001, 7/20/2003, 11/20/2003 08/21/2004, 04/15/2005, 08/12/2006, 02/09/2008
