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The Greeks: The Histories

$1.00/elective term
The Greeks: The Histories
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03/30/2020 - 05/14/2021
Special Elective
0.5 credits in
Grades 7-12

Taught by:

Timothy Enloe

About the course

Greeks: The Histories introduces students to three of history's most influential early historians. Students will learn about Herodotus, the “Father of History”, as they read his masterpiece, The Histories, and its inquiries into the origins of the Greco-Persian Wars. They will read and learn about Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War and its forays into the earliest expressions of political philosophy. And last they will read Xenophon's Anabasis, the famous account which reads like a novel as it chronicles the march of ten thousand Greeks soldiers on their treacherous journey home through enemy territory. Join Wesley and experience his contagious enthusiasm for learning as he draws from decades of teaching experience by summarizing, expositing, and drawing connections from the texts.

Course Objectives:

  1. To become proficient in the conversational approach to learning: close readings, interpretive questions, and Socratic discussions of the texts.
  2. To gain a grasp of the literary figures and the historical framework of the time period.
  3. To develop lateral thinking skills by analyzing and synthesizing themes and motifs.
  4. To cultivate an appetite for learning as a way of life (the life of the mind).
  5. To cultivate a desire to pursue the highest things.
  6. To be able to think Christianly and write persuasively about perennial human questions.

Texts or Required Materials:

  • Homer, (The Iliad & The Odyssey)
  • Aeschylus (The Oresteia)
  • Sophocles (Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonus)
  • Aristophanes (The Clouds & The Frogs)
  • Euripides (The Medea and The Trojan Women)
  • Sappho & Pindar (various poems & odes)
  • Theocritus (Idyls I, VI, VII, and XI)
  • Hesiod (Works and Days)
  • Quintus of Smyrna (The Fall of Troy)
  • Apollonius of Rhodes (The Argonautica)
  • The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories
  • The Landmark Thucydides
  • Xenophon: The Persian Expedition
  • Plato: Six Greek Dialogues
  • The Basic Works of Aristotle

Materials for this course will be made available free of charge by the instructor.

About the teacher

Timothy Enloe Timothy Enloe lives in Nyssa, Oregon with his wife and six daughters. He holds a B.A. in Liberal Arts from New St. Andrews College and an M.A. in Humanities from the University of Dallas. He has taught Latin, Greek, Bible, History, and Literature.
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