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Monday,
July 28: HISTORY: Museum
and Laboratory
Due
at start of class: 100-word description of final project
Readings:
Herodotus, Histories: Prologue (start of HO) - I.12,
III.79-87(Tells how Darius, who would launch the first Persian
War against Greece, became king of Persia - HO),
Knox pp. 285 – 295; Thucydides, History
of the Peloponnesian War I.1-2, 9, 20-23 (Thucydides explains
how and why he writes history - HO); Knox
334 – 347, 354-356; Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of
the Roman Empire I.1 & 38 (the introduction and
summary of the collapse of Rome - HO)
Be
sure to read the introductions to Herodotus and Thucydides in
Knox before reading the assignmed selections;
the Gibbon HO contains a brief introduction
to his life and works.
Presentation:
1) Primo
Levi’s “The Canto of Ulysses” (Rachel &
Meghan); 2) Hesiod,
Works and Days, "The Five Ages" (Cordelia)
Resources
for Herodotus:
Resources for Thucydides:
Resources for Gibbon:
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