Section outline

  • Week XIV:  (December 1-5)

    Readings: Thucydides VI. 53-55

    Secondary Reading:  Murray, Oswyn (1990). “The Affair of the Mysteries: Democracy and the Drinking Group,” in Sympotica: A symposium on the symposium, ed. Murray, Oxford: 149-161.

    Supplementary Reading:

    ·       Andocides, On the Mysteries

    ·       Dover, K.J., (1970). “Excursus:  The Herms and the Mysteries,” in A Historical Commentary on Thucydides, by A. W. Gomme, A. Andrewes, and K.J. Dover, vol. iv, Clarendon Press: Oxford: 264-288.

     

    Commentary Assignment Due December 5