Homework Page, General Humanities, Spring 2001 -- Mr Furr

General Humanities, Spring 2001 -- Mr Furr

Homework Page

I will post all writing assignments on this page.. You should create a 'bookmark' of your own to this page, so you can go to it without having to first go to the Home Page for the course.

NOTE: BE SURE TO USE THE PROPER SUBJECT LINE ON ALL HW ASSIGNMENTS! SEE BOTTOM OF HOME PAGE FOR EXAMPLE!

Be sure to "send a copy to yourself" of ALL your homework assignments!

NOTE: See note on Home Page at top about World of Odysseus. Very important!

HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS

For Friday, January 19
- send me two emails, from different email servers. See the full instructions on the Internet page.
- See the list of free web-based email providers at the bottom of our Home Page.
- Make sure that the Subject line of the email messages conforms to the model at the bottom of our Home Page.
- GET A COPY OF FINLEY, WORLD OF ODYSSEUS. Follow directions on the Home Page. You have a week to get the book and read the first two chapters. This is plenty of time -- enough even to order a used copy and receive it, if you do it today or tomorrow.
  I'm not going to give any HW extensions on the assignment for a week from now, on Finley Chapters 1-2.
- Also, for Friday, January 19, do this assignment.
  Before you do this, be sure to read the syllabus, and the pages on Internet and e-mail requirements and How To E-mail An Essay. Both are linked on our Home Page.
For Tuesday, January 23.

Assignments on Finley, World of Odysseus

For Friday, January 26: Here's what I want you to do:
- GET A COPY OF FINLEY, WORLD OF ODYSSEUS. Follow directions on the Home Page, or get one from a library.
  You have a week to get the book and read the first two chapters. This is plenty of time -- enough even to order a used copy and receive it, if you do it today or tomorrow.
  I'm not going to give any HW extensions on the assignment for a week from now, on Finley Chapters 1-2
- NOTE: If you don't have Finley, World of Odysseus, yet, go here for the reading for today.
- Here is a quotation from a post on a Classics mailing list in 1998:
  "Now when I was in Greece, I asked John Camp what, in his opinion, was the best single thing to read on the subject of Bronze Age archaeology and the Homeric epics. Before he could answer, a chorus of Bronze Age archaeologists in the group shouted in unison, "M.I. Finley's _The World of Odysseus." He didn't gainsay them, so I assumed that he thought it worthwhile as well, and since *ipsi dixerunt*, I, being a mere philologist amongst archaeologists, assumed it represented the accepted wisdom on the subject, at least in American archaeological circles." Full citation here.
- Here is a 1997 post from the same Classics list on which Finley, World of Odysseus, is included on a short list of "must read" books on the Classical period. Another such list.
- Here is a good page on the archaeology of the same topic as Finley's book (which is also mentioned positively) -- what the historical background of Homer's poem is.
For Tuesday, January 30
For Friday, February 2
For Tuesday, February 6
For Friday, February 9

Homework on Plato, Apology:

For Tuesday, February 13.

Homework on the article "I.F. Stone Breaks the Socrates Story":

For Friday, February 16.

Homework assignments on Winspear and Silverberg, Who Was Socrates?:

For Tuesday, February 20.
For Friday, February 23.
For Tuesday, February 27.

NOTE: Spring Break runs from March 5 to March 11. I have put up the first two HW assignments for the week after the Break in case any of you wants to get a head start on your work.
For Friday, March 2.

Homework assignments on The Origins of Christianity:

For Tuesday, March 13.
For Friday, March 16.
For Tuesday, March 20.
NOTE: Professor Robert Price will be a guest speaker in our class today! Read his essay carefully.
Your assignment, in class, will be to prepare, and ask, at least ONE intelligent question based either upon Price's essay (which you will have read), or his lecture.
For Friday, March 23.
Tuesday, March 27: CLASS CANCELLED! (I'm sick).
. 3/27 HW becomes HW for 3/30.
For Friday, March 30.
For Tuesday, April 3.
For Friday, April 6.

Homework Assignments on the History of Islam and Judaism

For Tuesday, April 10.
For Friday, April 13.
NOTE: THIS HW ASSIGNMENT IS STILL DUE FRIDAY, APRIL 13, EVEN THOUGH CLASSES ARE CANCELLED BECAUSE OF GOOD FRIDAY.
For Friday, April 20.

Homework Assignments on G.E.M de Ste Croix, The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World

For Tuesday, April 24.
For Friday, April 27.

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