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UPDATE:
(4/23/08) Gradeable assignments revised; final exam set.
(3/12/08) Revised session meeting and midterm dates.
Seven sages and a sphere; Roman era mosaic
Time:
Wed, 12:30-1:20
222 Shatzel
Instructor:
James
M. Pfundstein, Ph.D.
Shatzel
222
Office
Hours: Tues. & Wed.
12:30-1:20 and by appointment.
Office
phone: 419-372-8278
email:
jmpfund@bgnet.bgsu.edu
web-page:
http://personal.bgsu.edu/~jmpfund/JMP.html
Texts:
(required)
Cicero, On
Academic Scepticism (Hackett) ISBN: 0872207749
Cicero, The
Nature of the Gods (Oxford World Classics) ISBN: 0192825119
Lucretius, On
the Nature of the Universe (Penguin) ISBN: 0140446109
Seneca, Letters
from a Stoic (Penguin) ISBN: 0140442103
Seneca, Dialogues
and Essays (Oxford World Classics) ISBN: 0192807145
Plutarch, Essays
(Penguin) ISBN: 0140445641
Cleomedes, On
the Heavens (California) ISBN: 0520233255
but may be available cheaper direct from the publisher
(supplementary)
Plutarch "On the Face Which Appears in the Orb of the Moon" (online at Bill Thayer's Lacus Curtius)
Online resources:
The
Perseus Project, when it's not being glitchy, is the best
all-round
source for classics on the internet: texts, translations, images, etc.
The Internet Encyclopedia of
Philosophy (a peer-reviewed, edited site, not a wiki) is useful for
background, though rather weak on our particular subject (philosophy in
Rome).
David Knox's Greek Philosophy Archive has stable
links to online public domain translations of philosophers who
originally wrote in Greek (including some from the Roman period).
| Weekly
meetings, discussions |
15% |
| 2
Midterms A: objective + essay B: 2 essays |
22.5% |
| Final
Exam (objective + 2 essays) Wednesday April 30 after 1:00 PM |
40% |
| No makeups given due to absence without prior arrangement with the instructor. |
| No one can pass the course without passing the final examination and turning in the paper. |
| No incompletes issued except for pressing reasons and by prior arrangement with the instructor. |
| "It's easier to get agreement between between philosophers
than between clocks."--Seneca |
| The instructor reserves the right to recognize significant improvement (or decline) in student performance when awarding the final grade. |
| The maximum amount of extra credit which may count towards the final grade = 5% of the total course points. |
| The syllabus is subject to change at the discretion of the instructor; changes will be announced in class and posted on-line. |
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