SCHEDULE & SOURCES FOR TERM II (WINTER 2006) I. Power and justice among nation-states Jan. 8th: Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War - Book 1; Book 2 sections 1-65 *Special focus on the following passages: Thucydides' Introduction [I: 1-33]; disputes over Epidamnus and Corcyra [I: 34-67]; outbreak of war [II: 1-9]; Pericles' funeral oration, the plague, and the policy of Pericles [II: 34-65] [Perseus e-text: Thucydides] Jan. 15th: Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, Book 2 [sections 66-103]; Books 3 -4 *Special focus on the following: Revolt of Mytilene and Mytilenian Debate [III: 1-50]; civil war in Corcyra [III: 69-85]; Brasidas captures Amphopolis [IV: 102-116] [Perseus e-text: Thucydides] Jan. 22nd: Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, Books 5-8 *Special focus on the following: Melian Dialogue [V: 84-116]; Sicilian Expedition [VI: 8-32]; destruction of Athenian expedition [VI: 72-87]; the oligarchic coup [VIII: 45-98] [Perseus e-text:: Thucydides] Jan. 19th: excerpts from T. Hobbes, Leviathan and N. Machiavelli, The Prince [U.Adelaide e-text: Hobbes, Leviathan] [Constitution e-text: Machiavelli, The Prince] Secondary source readings: Thomas Pangle and Peter Ahrensdorf, Justice among Nations: On the Moral Basis of Power and Peace; Daniel Mendelsohn, “Theatres of War,” New Yorker 1/12/04 pp. 79-84 [On-line version [NB read Thucydides et al. first; THEN look at the secondary source readings] II. Power and difference Feb. 5th: Usamah, “An Arab Opinion of the Crusaders” [Portable Medieval Reader pp. 447-52]; Montaigne, “On Cannibals” [1588]; Captain John Smith on the Algonquians and Pocahontas [UCDavis e-text: Usmah] [Project Gutenberg etext; adapted version] Feb. 12th: Aphra Behn, Oroonoko [1688]; John Locke: on slavery [Two Discourses on Government, 1690]; Robert Boyle, “The Blackness of the Skin, and Hair of Negroes” [Experiment XI in Considerations and Experiments Touching Colours] [Project Gutenberg e-texts: Locke [scroll down to Ch. iv] and Boyle [scroll down to Experiment XI]] Feb. 19th: WINTER BREAK! Feb. 26th: Behn, Oroonoko [1688]; Locke: on slavery [Two Discourses on Government,1690]; Boyle, “The Blackness of the Skin, and Hair of Negroes” [Experiment XI in Considerations and Experiments Touching Colours] + PAPER PROPOSAL AND BIBLIOGRAPHY DUE Mar. 5th: documentary excerpts on slavery from the US and French revolutions Secondary source reading: Jared Diamond, Guns Germs and Steel III. The politics of gender and the family Mar. 12th: Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, Wife of Bath's “Prologue” and “Tale” [c. 1400] [ELF e-text: Chaucer] Mar. 19th: King Lear [1605]; Margaret Cavendish, Preface to The World's Olio [1655] and Female Orations [1662] [Online Lit: King Lear] Mar. 26th: FINAL PAPER DUE! Apr. 2nd: J-J Rousseau, excerpts from Emile [1762]; Olympe de Gouges, Declaration of the Rights of Woman [1791] [Modern History Sourcebook: de Gouges] Secondary source reading: Simon Baron Cohen, The Essential Difference FINAL EXAM – date T.B.A. ArtSci 1A06: Introduction to Western Civilization Schedule of Assignments and On-line Sources: Fall 2006 | Winter 2007 Course Summary | Requirements | Resources (Printable Syllabus, Handouts, etc.) Sara Mendelson - Email Annette Yoshiko Reed - Email | Homepage McMaster University || Program in Arts and Science