Prof: Peter Struck
265 Logan Hall
Office Hours: T 4.30 5.30; W 12 - 1
email: struck@sas.upenn.edu
BOOKS TO BUY:
Mary Beard and John Henderson, Classics : a very short introduction
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1995)
Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, James Strachey, trans.
(New York: Avon Books, 1965)
BUT, most readings are to be found in the Course Pack
GRADING:
Tests 50%
Quizzes, class engagement 10%
Midterm 20%
Final 20%
Papers 50%
Paper 1 (2 pages) 10%
Paper 2 (2 pages) 10%
Paper 3 (2 pages) 10%
Final Paper (5 pages) 20%
REFERENCE MATERIALS:
In the Van Pelt (DE5 O92) you will find the Oxford Classical Dictionary,
you may find it helpful. (3rd edition preferable, second edition ok).
SCHEDULE OF READINGS:
INTRODUCTION
Thurs. Sept. 9 Intro. "Good" and "Bad" dreams
Tues. Sept. 14 Introduction to the Classical World I
Primary: Mary Beard and John Henderson, Classics, a very short introduction,
pp. 1 - 67
Thurs. Sept. 16 Introduction to the Classical World II
Primary: Mary Beard and John Henderson, Classics, a very short introduction,
p. 68 - 121
BRONZE AGE AND ARCHAIC PERIOD
Tues. Sept. 21 Babylonian and Egyptian evidence
Primary: Section 8 (of Oppenheim, see below), dreams 15 33.
Secondary: A. Leo Oppenheim, The Interpretation of Dreams in
the Ancient Near East (Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society, 1956),
pp. 225 245.
Thurs. Sept. 23 Homer's Iliad
Primary: Iliad, book 1.1 - book 2.520 [=Homer, Iliad, Stanley
Lombardo, trans. (Indianapolis: Hackett, c1997), pp. 1 - 35]
Secondary: "Introduction," ibid, pp. xvii lviii.
Tues. Sept. 28 Homer's Odyssey
Primary: Odyssey, book 19 [=Homer, The Odyssey of Homer, Richmond
Lattimore, trans. (New York, Harper Perennial, 1991), pp. 282 - 297
Secondary: "Introduction," pp. 1 - 23.
Thurs. Sept. 30 Herodotus PAPER 1 DUE
Primary: Herodotus, Histories, book 1, secs. 1 91 [=Herodotus,
The Histories, Aubrey De Sélincourt, trans., John Marincola, ed.
(New York: Penguin, 1996), pp. 3 39]
Secondary: "Introduction," ibid, pp. ix - xxviii
DREAMS AS CURES
Tues. Oct. 5 Medicine / Religion?
Primary: Emma J. Edelstein, Asclepius: Collection and Interpretation
of the Testimonies (Baltimore: John Hopikins Press, 1945), vol. I,
pp. 217 221, 229 - 237.
Secondary: ibid, vol. II, pp. 139 180.
Thurs. Oct. 7 Medicine / Science?
Primary: "Hippocrates," On Regimen I, IV [=Hippocrates,
Hippocrates, W. H. S. Jones, trans., Loeb classical library (New York,
Putnam, 1931), pp. 225 295, 421 447.]
Tues. Oct. 12 Medicine / Magic? PAPER 2 DUE
Primary: Hans Dieter Betz, The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation,
Including the Demotic Spells (Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
1986), pp. 99-100, 122-123, 127, 128, 137, 138, 140, 145, 147-148, 157-158,
167-169, 246, 261, 288.
DREAMS AND PHILOSOPHY
Thurs. Oct. 14 Plato
Primary: Plato Phaedo 60c - 61c, Republic 571a - 572b, Theatetus
157d - 160e, Timaeus 44d - 46c, 69b 72 [=Plato, The Collected
Dialogues of Plato, Edith Hamilton and Huntington Cairns, eds., Bollingen
Series 71 (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1963), pp.
43-44, 798-799, 862-866, 1173-1174, 1192-1195]
Secondary: David Gallop, "Dreaming and Waking in Plato," in Essays
in Ancient Greek Philosophy (Albany: State University of New York,
1971), pp. 187 201.
Tues. Oct. 19 Aristotle
Primary: Aristotle, On Dreams (entire); On Prophesying by Dreams
(entire) [=Aristotle, The Basic Works of Aristotle, Richard McKeon, ed.
(New York: Random House, 1941), pp. 618 - 630]
Thurs. Oct. 21 Stoics
Primary: Cicero, On Divination, book I, sections 39-65 [=Cicero,
De senectute; De amicitia; De divinatione, William Armistead Falconer,
trans., Loeb classical library (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University
Press, 1979), pp. 269 295]
Secondary: "Introduction," ibid, pp. 214 221.
Tues. Oct. 26 Skeptics in the New Academy PAPER 3 DUE
Primary: Cicero, On Divination, book II, sections 119-148 [=Cicero,
De senectute; De amicitia; De divinatione, William Armistead Falconer,
trans., Loeb classical library (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University
Press, 1979), pp. 505 - 537]
Thurs. Oct. 28 MIDTERM (followed by discussion of Prof. Struckís dreams)
DREAMS AND ROMAN LIFE
Tues. Nov. 2 Dreams and Politics
Primary: Cicero, "Dream of Scipio," book 6 of Ciceroís De Republica
[=Macrobius, Commentary on the Dream of Scipio, William Harris Stahl, trans.,
Records of civilization, sources and studies. no. 48 (New York: Columbia
University Press, 1952), pp. 69 77]
Secondary: Sally Davis and Gilbert Lawall, "Introduction," Ciceroís
Somnium Scipionis, Davis and Lawall, eds., (White Plains, NY: Longman,
1988), pp. 1 5.
Thurs. Nov. 4 Medicine II
Primary: excerpts from Aelius Aristides, Sacred Tales.
[=Behr, Charles Allison, Aelius Aristides and The Sacred Tales (Amsterdam:
A. M. Hakkert, 1968), pp. 223 240]
Secondary: C. A. Behr, "Introduction," Aristides, Loeb Classical
Library (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1973), pp. vii
xiii.
Secondary: E. R. Dodds, "Dream-Pattern and Culture Pattern,"
in The Greeks and the Irrational (Berkeley: University of California
Press, 1951), pp. 102 134.
Tues. Nov. 9 Early Christianity in the Roman Empire
Primary: Passion of Perpetua, from Tertullian, in Early Church Fathers,
Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. III (copyright expired) NOT IN COURSEPACK
http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/ANF-03/anf03-54.htm
Secondary: Patricia Cox Miller, "Perpetua and her Dream Diary,"
in Dreams in Late Antiquity: Studies in the Imagination of a Culture
(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press,1994), pp. 148 183.
Thurs. Nov. 11 Dreams and Daily Life
Primary: Artemidorus, Dream Book,, book I, sections 1 49
[=Artemidorus, Daldianus, The Interpretation of Dreams, Robert J. White,
trans. (Park Ridge, N.J.: Noyes Press, 1975), pp. 13 - 40]
Secondary: "Introduction," ibid, pp. 1 11.
Tues. Nov. 16 Dreams and Daily Life, cont'd
Primary: Artemidorus Artemidorus, Dream Book,, book I, sections
50 82 [=Artemidorus, Daldianus, The Interpretation of Dreams, Robert
J. White, trans. (Park Ridge, N.J.: Noyes Press, 1975), pp. 40 -
66]
Secondary: John Winkler, Constraints of Desire: The Anthropology
of Sex and Gender in Ancient Greece (New York: Routledge, ), pp.
23 44.
Thurs. Nov. 18 Neoplatonism
Primary: Synesius, Concerning Dreams (entire) [=Synesius, Essays and
Hymns of Synesius of Cyrene, Augustine Fitzgerald, trans. (Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 1930), vol. II, pp. 326 359.]
Tues. Nov. 23 Neoplatonism, cont'd
Primary: Macrobius, Commentary on the Dream of Scipio, book I, chapts.
1 4, book II, chapts. 9 12 [=Macrobius, Commentary on
the Dream of Scipio, William Harris Stahl, trans., Records of civilization,
sources and studies. no. 48 (New York: Columbia University Press,
1952), pp. 81 94, 124 137]
Thurs. Nov. 25 -- No class, Thanksgiving
FREUD AND CONTEMPORARY THEORIES
Tues. Nov. 30 Freud
Primary: Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, James Strachey,
trans. (New York: Avon Books, 1965) pp. TBA
Thurs. Dec. 2 Freud, cont'd
Primary: Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, James Strachey,
trans. (New York: Avon Books, 1965) pp. TBA
Tues. Dec. 7 Freud, cont'd
Primary: Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, James Strachey,
trans. (New York: Avon Books, 1965) pp. TBA
Thurs. Dec. 9 Conclusions and Review FINAL PAPER 4 DUE
Primary: Re-read everything!
FINAL EXAM Tentative date: Tues., Dec. 21, 11:00 to
1:00
verify time and date at:
http://www.upenn.edu/registrar/roster/tfinals.html