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
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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
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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...
Significant
Passages from Aeschylus' Eumenides
But what are you doing?/Up! Don't yield to the labor, limp with sleep./Never
forget my anguish./Let my charges hurt you, they are just;/deep in the righteous heart
they prod like spurs./You, blast him on with your gory breath,/the fire of your vitals -
wither him, after him,/one last foray - waste him, burn him out! Ghost of Clytemnestra (Eum.
131-137)
Lord Apollo, now it is your turn to listen./You are no mere accomplice in this
crime./You did it all, and all the guilt is yours. Chorus Leader (Eum. 196-199)
Embrace one? Expel the other? It defeats me./But since the matter comes to rest on
us,/I will appoint the judges of manslaughter,/swear them in, and found a tribunal here
for all time to come. My contestants,/summon your trusted witness and proofs,/your
defenders under oath to help your cause./And I will pick the finest men of Athens,/return
and decide the issue fairly, truly -/bound to our oaths, our spirits bent on justice.
Athena (Eum. 496-505)
I come/as a witness. This man, according to custom,/this suppliant sought out my house
and hearth./I am the one who purged his bloody hands./His champion too, I share
responsibility/for his mother's execution. Bring on the trial./You know the rules, now
turn them into justice. Apollo (Eum. 581-586)
Here is the truth, I tell you - see how right I am./The woman you call the mother of
the child/is not the parent, just a nurse to the seed,/the new-sown seed that grows and
swells inside her./The man is the source of life - the one who mounts./She, like a
stranger for a stranger, keeps/the shoot alive unless god hurts the roots./I give you
proof that all I say is true./The father can father forth without a mother./Here she
stands, our living witness. Look - /Child sprung full-blown from Olympian Zeus,/never bred
in the darkness of the womb/but such a stock no goddess could conceive! Apollo (Eum.
665-677)
My work is here, to render the final judgment/Orestes, I will cast my lot for you./No
mother gave me birth./I honor the male, in all things but marriage./Yes, with all my heart
I am my Father's child./I cannot set more store by the woman's death - /she killed her
husband, guardian of their house./Even if the vote is equal, Orestes wins. Athena (Eum.
749-756)
And the lightning stroke/that cuts men down before their prime, I curse,/but the lovely
girl who finds a mate's embrace,/the deep joy of wedded life - O grant that gift, that
prize,/you gods of wedlock, grant it, goddesses of Fate!/Sisters born of the Night our
mother,/spirits steering law,/sharing at all our hearths,/at all times bearing down/to
make our lives more just,/all realms exalt you highest of the gods. Furies (Eum.
968-978)
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2001 Janice
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send comments to: Janice Siegel (jfsiege@ilstu.edu)
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