Seminar readings due as
assigned - plan
for the course:
check this out – it may be useful: http://www.questia.com/Index.jsp
For week 2 (these are handed out in class 1):
Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon
Week 3:
#1: Polybius
Get this reading from the following link – call me right away if it isn’t working!
http://duke.usask.ca/~porterj/DeptTransls/Polybius.html
#2: Livy
Here again - call me right away if ANY link isn’t working! -
The Preface and selections from Livy Book 1
1) Click on the following link and read the entire short
preface to Livy’s work:
2) Then click on the following link and read 1.1 to 1.4 of
Book one (no more, no less):
#3: Tacitus
Fragments (about 4 pages) remain of Book 5 of the “Annals” – read this here:
http://classics.mit.edu/Tacitus/annals.5.v.html
#4: Plutarch and Josephus
(both in this one file)
www.raz7.com/columbia/research/alcibiadesjosephus.pdf
Week 4:
#1: Eusebius
1) A piece from this early Christian/Roman historian - about 300 AD – showing off attempted critical use of religious sources:
http://www.csun.edu/~hcfll004/euseb_ch.html
2) Also read this short piece by Eusebius concerning Constantine the Great:
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/conv-const.html
#2: Ammianus Marcellinus
A short fragment from this Late Roman historian – about 400 AD:
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/ammianus-history14.html
#3: Procopius
Read each of the
following:
http://procopius.net/bythehistorian.html
http://procopius.net/procopiuschapter1.html
Week 5:
1) Froissart and Villehardouin are in the following file: www.raz7.com/columbia/research/vfreadings.rtf
The others are here:
2) Bede
www.raz7.com/columbia/research/bede.rtf
3) Gregory of
www.raz7.com/columbia/research/gregory.rtf
4) Anna Comnena
www.raz7.com/columbia/research/anna.rtf
Week 6:
1) Machiavelli
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/machiavelli-histflo-lorenzo.html
2) Guicciardini
http://faculty.wm.edu/rbsche/H111_doc_guicciardini.html
3)
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1650bradford.html
Week 7:
1) Vico
http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/new_science.html
2)Voltaire,
on this next one read just letter 9 on government:
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1778voltaire-lettres.html#Letter%20IX
3) Gibbon
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/gibbon-fall.html
Week 8:
1) Hegal
Hegel: Introduction to the Lectures on the Philosophy of History
2) Herder
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1784herder-mankind.html