HUM 2220, Greek and Roman - Valencia College
HUM 2220, Greek and Roman Dr. Heard
COURSE OUTLINE
Jan. 7 Introduction.
Jan 14 The Beginnings of Civilization.
Read Culture and Values, Chapter 1, pp. 1-10 (to “Ancient Egypt”); pp. 18-27 (“Aegean
Culture in the Bronze Age” to end of chapter); Reading #1 (The Epic of Gilgamesh”), pp. 295-296.
Jan. 21 MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY. NO CLASS.
Jan. 28 Ancient Egypt.
Read pp. 11-18 to (“Aegean Culture”).
Feb. 4 Early Greece.
Read Chapter 2, pp. 29-36 (to “Art and Society in the Heroic Age”); Reading #2 (from
Book XXIV, The Iliad), pp.302-305.
Feb. 11 Early Greece.
Read pp. 36-51 (to end of chapter); Reading #3 (Sappho’s poems), p. 305; #6, Herodotus
(History of the Persian Wars), pp. 306-308.
PAPER #1 DUE.
Feb. 18 Classical Greece.
Read Chapter 3, pp 53-59 (to “The Athenian Tragic Dramatists”); pp. 62-63
(“Philosophy in the Late Classical Period”).
EXAM #1 on Chapters 1 and 2, including assigned Readings # 1, 2, 3, 6.
Feb. 25 Classical Greece.
Read pp. 59-62 (“Athenian Tragic Dramatists” to “Philosophy in the Late Classical
Period”); Reading #7 (Oedipus the King), pp. 308-321.
PAPER #2 DUE.
March 4-8 SPRING BREAK.
March 11 Classical Greece. Visual Arts.
Read p. 64 (“Greek Music”) to p. 75 (The Hellenistic Period); Reading #8 (Plato’s
“Phaedo”), pp. 323-326; Reading #9 (Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave”).
pp. 326-327.
March 18 The Hellenistic Period.
Read pp. 76-81; Antigone,
Class Activity: The Trial of Antigone.
March 25 The Roman Legacy.
Read Chapter 4, pp. 83-88 (To “Republican Rome”).
EXAM #2 on Chapter 3, including assigned Readings # 7, 8, 9, and Antigone.
April 1 Republican Rome.
Read pp. 88-94 (to “Imperial Rome”).
CULTURAL ACTIVITIES PROJECT DUE.
April 8 Imperial Rome.
Read pp. 95-100 (to “The Evidence of Pompeii”); Virgil’s Aeneid, Book IV (all),
virgil/aeneid
PAPER # 3 DUE.
April 15 Pompeii. Imperial Architecture. End of Roman Empire.
Read pp. 100-112; Reading #15 (Juvenal, “Satire III”) and #16 (Marcus Aurelius,
The Meditations, Book II), pp. 342-345.
April 22 FINAL EXAM. 7:45 p.m. to 10:15 p.m., in our classroom, on Chapter 4, including
assigned Readings #13, 15, 16, and The Aeneid, Book IV (Internet).
Changes may be made at the discretion of the instructor.
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