A grand tour of 5th cent. BCE Athens, a fascinating time of intellectual unrest and innovation. Readings include the founding fathers of drama (Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides), Old Comedy (Aristophanes), fragments of the Greek sophists, the historiographers Herodotus and Thucydides, Xenophon’s Recollections of Socrates and early Platonic dialogues, such as the Apology and the Phaedo.
Code
PL3116
Name
KEY TEXTS: SOCRATES, SOPHISTS AND THE STAGE
Credits
4
Pre-requisites
None
Co-requisites
None
Equivalencies
Can be taken twice for credit?
No
Discipline
PL (Philosophy)
Level
Undergraduate
Type
GE100
CAMS ID
4442
Last update with CAMS
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