Calendar

Jul
20
Thu
Understanding Historical Change
Jul 20 all-day

lecture-eight-sullas-reforms-undone-and-pompey-and-crassus

lecture-nine

The Spartacus War

Rubicon (Unabridged)

Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome’s Greatest Politician

Caesar: Life of a Colossus

The Commentaries

The standard undergraduate biography of Sulla,

https://www.amazon.com/Sulla-Last-Republican-Arthur-Keaveney/dp/0415336619/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1500517131&sr=8-1&keywords=Sulla

 

Jul
21
Fri
Understanding Historical Change
Jul 21 all-day

Powerpoint lecture-seven-2

Powerpoint lecture-eight

lecture-nine-2

Caesar’s Siege of Alesia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxyv3LGmL58

Cicero’s Speeches against Antony The Philippics – LibriVox

Aug
4
Fri
Understanding Historical Change: Ancient Rome
Aug 4 all-day
Sep
12
Tue
Philosophy Homework
Sep 12 all-day

**Homework**

Please spend twenty minutes practicing the following exercise:

https://www.quia.com/mc/2240067.html?AP_rand=1865047311

 

Sep
13
Wed
Philosophy Homework
Sep 13 all-day

**Homework**

Please complete the activity, and write out each of the fifteen words on a sheet of paper.  To be collected tomorrow.

Note also that long o (ō) signifies omega, and short o (o) signifies omicron

Practice the Greek Alphabet 1 – tabney.com

Sep
14
Thu
Philosophy Homework
Sep 14 all-day
Regular Order
Regular Order
with Answers
Random Order
Random Order with Answers
Sep
27
Wed
Philosophy Homework
Sep 27 all-day

**Homework**

Verbal Analogy Exercise 2 

**Please submit by email to Mkeil2@schools.nyc.gov**

Sep
28
Thu
Philosophy Homework
Sep 28 all-day

**Homework**

Analogy Exercise 

**Please submit the answers to me by email at Mkeil2@schools.nyc.gov**

Sep
29
Fri
Birth of Learning
Sep 29 – Oct 5 all-day

Dear Class,

Here is the Google Books version of the Marrou text for this week.  It is unfortunately incomplete, but read as much as you can of it.

Use this link, and scroll down to page 229

A History of Education in Antiquity

Also, here is Plutarch’s life of Cicero

plutarchs-life-of-cicero

And Demosthenes

plutarchs-life-of-demosthenes

In your imitation of Plutarch’s biographical style for this week, be guided by his characteristic statement at the beginning of his Life of Alexander:

For it is not Histories that I am writing, but Lives; and in the most illustrious deeds there is not always a manifestation of virtue or vice, nay, a slight thing like a phrase or a jest often makes a greater revelation of character than battles when thousands fall, or the greatest armaments, or sieges of cities. Accordingly, just as painters get the likenesses in their portraits from the face and the expression of the eyes, wherein the character shows itself, but make very little account of the other parts of the body, so I must be permitted to devote myself rather to the signs of the soul in men, and by means of these to portray the life of each, leaving to others the description of their great contests.