Sunoikisis Greek 294/394: Greek Literature from the 4th Century BCE
Agenda, Fall 2015
Seminar Consultant: Håkan Tell (Dartmouth University)
Course Director: Bryce Walker (Sweet Briar) and Ryan Fowler (F&M College)
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Seminar Participants:
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D. Ben DeSmidt is an Associate Professor of Great Ideas and Classics at
Carthage College.
Ryan Fowler is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics at Franklin and
Marshall College.
Hal Haskell is a Professor of Classics at Southwestern University.
Polyvia Parara is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland.
Danilo Piana is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Classics at the Johns
Hopkins University.
Joseph Romero is an Associate Professor at the University of Mary
Washington.
Bryce Walker is an Assistant Professor of Classics at Sweet Briar College
Luis Salas is an Assistant Professor of Classics at Washington University in St.
Louis
Chuck Platter is a Professor and Department Head of Classics at the University
of Georgia
Håkan Tell is an Associate Professor of Classics at Dartmouth University
A note on the reading assignments: All primary readings for the sessions are in italics and
are assigned only to participants not presenting secondary sources in that session. For
secondary sources, the first person named is the primary reader and second person is the
secondary reader. Basic texts to bring with you: Nicholas Denyer, ed., Plato:
Alcibiades. Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics. Cambridge (2001).
Thurday, June 11
Time
Event
8:009:00
Breakfast
a.m.
9:0010:30
First Session
a.m.
General Introductions and Goals
• Introductions
• Course tour
• Assessment update
Location
Dining Room
House A
10:3011:00
a.m.
11:00
a.m.12:30
p.m.
Coffee Break
House A
Second Session
House A
Situating Alcibiades I
Secondary Readings:
1.
N. Denyer, “Introduction.” In Plato: Alcibiades. Cambridge Greek
and Latin Classics. Cambridge (2001): 1-29. [PDF]
[Desmidt and Parara]
2.
M. Frede, “Plato’s Arguments and the Dialogue Form.” Oxford
Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Supplementary Volume 1992: 201-220.
[PDF]
[Piana and Romero]
3.
C. G. Rowe, “Preliminaries: reading Plato.” In Plato and the Art of
Philosophical Writing. Cambridge (2010): 1-51. [PDF]
[Haskell and Salas]
4.
Alcibiades’ reception in the renaissance (Ficino et al.). “Ficino
Marsilio.” In A. Grafton and G. W. Most, eds., The Classical Tradition.
Cambridge, MA. (2010): 360-361. [PDF]
[Fowler and Platter]
12:302:00
p.m.
2:003:30
p.m.
Lunch
Dining Room
Third Session
House A
What did the ancients say about Alcibiades I?
Secondary Readings:
1.
Olympiodorus: Life of Plato and On Plato First Alcibiades 1-9.
Translated by M. Griffin. (London) 2015: 77-85. [PDF]
[Parara and DeSmidt]
2.
Proclus: Alcibiades I. Translated by W. O’Neill. The Hague (1965):
1-8. [PDF]
[Salas and Haskell]
3.
M. Griffin, “Introduction. In Olympiodorus: Life of Plato and On
Plato First Alcibiades 1-9. London (2015): 1-66. [PDF]
[Romero and Piana]
3:304:00
p.m.
4:005:30
p.m.
Coffee Break
House A
Fourth Session
House A
Authenticity and the Canon
Secondary Readings:
1.
F. Schleiermacher, Schleiermacher’s introductions to the dialogues of
Plato. Translated by W. Dobson. Cambridge (1836): 328-36. Google Books
[Haskell and Salas]
2.
N. D. Smith, “Did Plato Write the Alcibiades I?” Apeiron (2004): 93108. [PDF]
[DeSmidt and Parara]
3.
N. Denyer, “The authenticity of the Alcibiades.” In Plato: Alcibiades.
Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics. Cambridge (2001): 14-26. [PDF]
[Piana and Romero]
4.
M. Joyal, BMCR review of Denyer 2001.
[Walker]
5.
J. Porter, “What is ‘Classical’ about Classical Antiquity?” in J. I.
Porter, ed., Classical Pasts: The Classical Traditions of Greece and Rome.
Princeton (2006): 1-65. [PDF]
[Platter and Fowler]
6:008:00
p.m.
Dinner
TBA
Friday, June 12
Location
Time
Event
8:009:00
Breakfast
Dining Room
a.m.
9:0010:30
First Session
House A
a.m.
Seduction and Corruption: ἡ ἐρωτικὴ τέχνη
Alcibiades 131b4-132a7
[assigned to all]
Secondary Readings:
1.
E. Belfiore, “Eros and self-knowledge in Alcibiades I.” In Socrates’
daimonic art. Cambridge (2012): 31-65. [PDF]
[Romero and Piana]
2.
V. Wohl, “the Eye of the Beloved: Opsis and Eros in Socratic
Pedagogy.” In M. Johnson and H. Tarrant, eds., Alcibiades and the Socratic
lover-educator. Bristol (2012): 45-60. [PDF]
[Fowler and Platter]
3.
J. Gordon, “Eros and Philosophical Seduction in Alcibiades I.”
Ancient Philosophy 23 (2003): 11-30. [PDF]
[Salas and Haskell]
4.
R. Kraut, “Plato on Love.” In G. Fine, ed., The Oxford Handbook of
Plato. Oxford (2011): 286-310. [PDF]
[Parara and DeSmidt]
10:3011:00
a.m.
11:00
a.m.12:30
p.m.
Coffee Break
House A
Second Session
House A
Philosophy and Politics (will to power)
Alcibiades 104e6-105c7
[Parara and DeSmidt]
Secondary Readings:
1.
D. O’Connor, “Socrates and Political Ambition.” Proceedings of the
Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy 14 (1998): 31-52. [PDF]
[Platter and Fowler]
2.
S. Forde, “The Alicibidean Moment.” In The Ambition to Rule:
Alcibiades and the Politics of Imperialism in Thucydides. Ithaca (1989): 1267. [PDF]
[Haskell and Salas]
3.
Political aspirations and philosophy in the Gorgias. E. R. Dodds,
“Socrates, Callicles, and Nietzsche.” In Plato: Gorgias. Oxford (1959): 387-
91. [PDF]
[Piana and Romero]
12:302:00
p.m.
2:003:30
p.m.
Lunch
Dining Room
Third Session
House A
Cultivating the soul and neglecting the body
Alcibiades 130c1-130e8
[Romero and Piana]
Secondary Readings:
1.
T. M. Robinson, “The defining features of mind-body dualism in the
writings of Plato.” In J. P. Wright and P. Potter, eds., Psyche and Soma.
Oxford (2002): 37-56. [PDF]
[DeSmidt and Parara]
2.
O. Goldin, “Self, Samenes, and Soul in Alcibiades I and the
Timaeus.” FZPhTh 40 (1993): 5-19. [PDF]
[Salas and Haskell]
3.
B. Holmes, “Beyond the Soma: Therapies of the Psukhe.” In the
Symptom and the Subject. Princeton (2010): 192-227. [PDF]
[Fowler and Platter]
3:304:00
p.m.
4:005:30
p.m.
Coffee Break
House A
Fourth Session
House A
Sparta and Persia as models for emulation
Alcibiades 120e6-121b6
[Salas and Haskell]
Secondary Readings:
1.
K. Vlassopoulos, “The Barbarian repertoire in Greek culture.” In
Greeks and Barbarians. Cambridge (2013): 161-215. [PDF]
[Platter and Fowler]
2.
R. Morrow, “Sparta.” In Plato’s Cretan City. Princeton (1960): 4073. [PDF]
[Romero and Piana]
3.
A. Powell, “Plato and Sparta.” In A. Powell and S. Hodkinson, eds.,
The Shadow of Sparta. Routledge (1994): 273-322. [PDF]
[Parara and DeSmidt]
6:008:00
p.m.
Dinner
TBA
Saturday, June 13
Location
Time
Event
8:00Breakfast
Dining Room
9:00 am
9:0010:30
First Session
House A
am
The Wisdom of the Seven Sages: γνῶθι σαυτόν
Alcibiades 129a2-129a10
[Piana, Romero, Platter, and Fowler]
Secondary Readings:
1.
R. P. Martin, “The Seven Sages as Performers of Wisdom.” In C.
Dougherty and L. Kurke, eds., Cultural Poetics in Archaic Greece: Cult,
Performance, Politics. Cambridge (1993): 108-28. [PDF]
[Haskell and Salas]
2.
H. Tell, “Sophoi and Concord.” In Plato’s Counterfeit Sophists.
Washington, D.C. (2011): 61-92.
[DeSmidt and Parara]
10:3011:00
a.m.
11:00
a.m.12:30
p.m.
Coffee Break
House A
Second Session
House A
Self-knowledge
Alcibiades 132c1-133c7
[Parara and DeSmidt]
Secondary Readings:
1.
J. Annas, “Self-Knowledge in Early Plato.” In D. J. O’Meara, ed.,
Platonic Investigations, vol. 13. 1985: 111-38. [PDF]
[Piana and Romero]
2.
C. Gill, “Self-knowledge in Plato’s Alcibiades.” In S. Stern-Gillet and
K. Corrigan, eds., Reading Ancient texts. Volume 1: Persocratics and Plato.
Leiden (2007): 97-112. [PDF]
[Platter and Fowler]
3.
S. Rappe, “Socrates and Self-knowledge.” Apeiron 28 (1995): 1-24.
[PDF]
[Salas and Haskell]
12:302:00
p.m.
2:003:30
p.m.
Lunch
Dining Room
Third Session
House A
The figure of Alcibiades in Plato and beyond
Alcibiades 135c2-135e8
[Salas, Haskell, Platter, and Fowler]
Secondary Readings:
1.
D. Gribble, “Plato and the Socratics.” In Alcibiades and Athens.
Oxford (1999): 214-62. [PDF]
[Parara and DeSmidt]
2.
3:304:00
p.m.
4:005:30
p.m.
P. J. Rhodes, Alcibiades, Pen and Sword (2011): 21-69. [PDF]
Coffee Break
House A
Fourth Session
House A
Syllabus-Building:
Assignments and Schedule