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Courses Taught

INTELLECTUAL HERITAGE (at Temple University)

Course Info:
Sample Syllabus

Calendar

Course Themes

Delphi- A Focal Point for IH 51 Texts

Writing Guides:
Writing Guidelines

style guide

Writing Analogies

Subject Study Aids:
Aeschylus' Agamemnon Study Guide

Aeschylus' Libation Bearers Study Guide

Aeschylus' Eumenides Passages

Sophocles' Oedipus and the Sphinx Lecture

Dr. J's Illustrated Pericles' Funeral Oration

Dr. J's Illustrated Pericles and America

Dr. J's Illustrated Pericles and Philadelphia

Dr. J's Illustrated Aeschylus' Oresteia

Dr. J's Curse of the House of Atreus Outline

Dr. J's Background Lecture on Greek Philosophy

Dr. J's Apology Study Questions

Dr. J's Illustrated Plato's Apology

Socrates and the Apology Lecture

Dr. J's Plutarch's Pericles

Judaism Study Guide

Sundiata Study Guide

Epic Qualities of the Sundiata Lecture

Othello Study Guide

Machiavelli Study Guide

Galileo and Humanism Lecture

RELIGIOUS FOUNDATIONS OF CLASSICAL GREECE

ENGLISH 40

Courses Proposed
(needs some pruning):

Topics in Classical Culture:
The Legend of the House of Atreus: Greek Tragedy in Greece

Religious Foundations of Greek Culture

The Intersection of Myth and History

The Ancient Greek Cultural Nexus- Art, Archaeology, Literature and Topography

From 1996-2001 I taught in the Intellectual Heritage Program at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This page is part of my teaching materials for Intellectual Heritage 51, a course covering literature and ideas from Sappho through Shakespeare...


DR. SIEGEL
IH 51 Section
032
TTh 11:40-1:00
Tuttleman 301!!!!!

UNIT ONE: CLASSICAL GREEK FOUNDATIONS
midterm review

Tuesday January 16 Introduction to the Course
Thursday January 18 Greek History Lecture
recommended reading:
Dr. J's Illustrated Archaic Age
Dr. J's Illustrated Classical Age

Dr. J's Illustrated Persian Wars
Tuesday January 23  Pericles' Funeral Oration
Dr. J's Illustrated Pericles' Funeral Oration
Dr. J's Illustrated Pericles' Funeral Oration and America
Dr. J's Illustrated Pericles' Funeral Oration and Philadelphia
OUTLINE of Pericles' speech: not paragraphs or sentences, just main points
Thursday January 25
January 29: last day to drop!
Pericles' Funeral Oration
introduction to the plague
Dr. Tompkins' notes on the plague
Tuesday January 30
Introduction to Greek Theater
Dr. J's Illustrated Greek Theater
Dr. J's Illustrated Greek Drama
Thursday February 1 Sophocles' Oedipus the King
Dr. Mitchell-Boyask's Oedipus Study Guide
Tuesday February 6 Sophocles' Oedipus the King
Thursday February 8 Sophocles' Oedipus the King
Tuesday February 13 Sophocles' Antigone
Dr. Mitchell-Boyask's Antigone Study Guide
Thursday February 15 Sophocles' Antigone
Tuesday February 20 Introduction to Plato
Dr. J's Background Lecture on Greek Philosophy

An Outline of Plato's
Apology by Professor Daniel Tompkins
Thursday February 22 Plato's Apology
Dr. J's Illustrated Plato's Apology
Tuesday February 27 Plato's Apology
Dr. J's Socrates Lecture
Sappho's poetry
Thursday March 1 Midterm Examination (review)
Paper #1 DUE (topics)
Introduction to the Bible

UNIT TWO: RELIGIOUS FOUNDATIONS

March 4-11

Spring Break - NO CLASS

Tuesday March 13 to be re-done from here down (2/15/01)Introduction to the Bible, Genesis chapters 1-4

Dr. J's explanatory notes on the Old Testament
Dr. Ward's most excellent introduction to the Bible and IH
The Old Testament: Genesis chapters 1-4, 6-9
The Old Testament: Genesis chapters 12, 15-23

Thursday March 15 The Old Testament: Exodus 1-17
Tuesday March 20 The Old Testament: Exodus 18-35
Paper #1 rewrite DUE
Thursday March 22 The New Testament: Gospel of Matthew 1-14
Tuesday March 27 The New Testament: Gospel of Matthew 15-28
Thursday March 29 Qur'an: Surah 2, 4, 81, 83, 84
   

UNIT THREE: HUMANIST FOUNDATIONS

Tuesday April 3 Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali
Dr. J's Guide to the Sundiata
Thursday April 5 Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali quiz!
AND Koran, surah 2 
Tuesday April 10 Introduction to Humanism
Galileo's Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina
Dr. J's Galileo Lecture
Thursday April 12

April 16:
last day to withdraw!
Machiavelli's Prince: introduction
Machiavelli, chapters 8, 12-17
Dr. J's Machiavelli's The Prince study guide
Tuesday April 17
Machiavelli's Prince, chapters 18, 19, 25, 26
Paper #2 DUE  (topics)
Thursday April 19 Shakespeare's Othello Acts I
Dr. J's Shakespeare's Othello study guide
Tuesday April 23 Shakespeare's Othello Act II and III
Thursday April 26 Shakespeare's Othello, Acts IV and V

FINAL EXAMINATION
Thursday, May 3, 11:00-1:00
Tuttleman 301
you will bring a two-page paper with you to the exam - topic TBA


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send comments to: Janice Siegel (jfsiege@ilstu.edu)

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