Course Syllabus

January 15

• Overview of Class

January 22

• David M. Schaps, Handbook for Classical Research (London: Routledge, 2011), Part 1 (Chapters 1-5)
• Jeffrey Hunt, R. Alden Smith, and Fabio Stok, Classics from Papyrus to the Internet : An Introduction to Transmission and Reception (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2017), Chapter 1
• Notebook Entry 1

January 29

• Schaps, Part 2
• Hunt et al., Chapter 2
• Notebook Entry 2

February 5

• Schaps Part 3
• Hunt et al., Chapter 3
• Notebook Entry 3

February 12

• Schaps, Part 4
• Notebook Entry 4
• Short Essay 1
• Presentation 1

February 19 

• Schaps, Part 5
• Hunt et al., Chapter 4
• Notebook Entry 5

February 27

• Schaps, Part 6
• Hunt et al., Chapter 5
• Notebook Entry 6

March 5

• Schaps, Part 7
• Hunt et al., Chapter 6
• Notebook Entry 7

March 12

• Short Essay 2
• Presentation 2

March 19

• Spring Break

March 26

• Walter Scheidel W, Ian Morris, and Richard P. Saller, eds. The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), Chapters 1-6
• Notebook Entry 8

April 2

April 9

• Mark Golden and Peter G Toohey, eds. Sex and Difference In Ancient Greece and Rome (Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2003), Introduction and Chapters 1-2, 6, 9-11, 14, 16, 19
• Notebook Entry 10

April 16

• Eric Adler, Classics, the Culture Wars, and Beyond (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016), Chapters 1-6

  Notebook Entry 11

April 23

• Final Essay
• Final Presentation

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