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Week 14 - Athens Loses the War and a Gadlfy (but Wins the World?)
Tuesday April 18
Read
ARISTOPHANES, Lysistrata
BUCKLEY, Ch. 22 ("The Rise and Fall of the Oligarchic Movement in Athens")
Presentation: Oracles (Dorrie & Lauren)
Thursday April 27
Read
Plato, Apology and Crito (pp. 34-96)
Also, peruse some of the Euthyphro, which concerns the nature of piety, to get a sense of Socrates's Method and why so many Athenians would have found him so exasperating (e.g. pp. 16-19).
RECOMMENDATION: At some point this summer, read ARISTOPHANES, Clouds--a withering and funny satire of Socrates, education, practical minded parents (and students), not to mention professors--what better vacation reading could there be!
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