CSTS 119 Fall 2022
For you final discussion forum post, we’d like you to reflect on the experience of the game. Respond to the prompt below, or to the comments of your fellow students. Please complete your post before class on Monday, Dec. 5th. […]
This week, our Assembly meetings focus on the fundamental nature of the Athenian state: who should be in power? How much power should Athens have over the rest of the Greek world? For our discussion forum, we’d like you to […]
Surprise: no forum this week! As a holiday gift, we’re offering everyone a free week of forum credit. We’ll return to our regularly scheduled forum next week.
This week, our Assembly sessions focus on questions of citizenship: who should be a citizen in Athens? What incentives should there be to encourage citizens to participate in governing the city? Pick a text from the first half of the […]
In this section of the course website, Thucydides will be sharing with all of Athens the notes they have created for their famous history book. This is the home of their unfiltered thoughts on what is spoken about in this […]
As you prepare to step into your characters this week, think back over the plays of Aristophanes and the dialogues of Plato we read in the first half of the semester; pick one text we read, and consider briefly how […]
As you read Plato’s Republic this week, consider the new city Socrates proposes (“Kallipolis”) as an example of the kind of utopian thinking we’ve been examining over the past two weeks. Respond to one of the following prompts below, or […]
As you read Aristophanes’ Birds, focus your attention on the new polis that Peisetaerus creates in the clouds (“Cloudcuckooland” or “Nephelokokkygia”). Respond to one of the following prompts below, or to comments from your fellow students. Remember that to receive […]
For our discussion forum this week, I’d like you compare the Socrates we meet in the Clouds with the versions of Socrates you’ve encountered in the Apology and Prof. Shirazi’s lectures. Respond below to one of the following prompts, or […]
According to your reading of the Apology, who is/was Socrates? There are many ways to approach this broad question, and you’re free to describe in your own ways, the impression Socrates made on you after reading his defense speech. Your […]
