Topic 14
Section outline
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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
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