The Modern Scholar - Timothy B. Shutt - A History Of Ancient Sparta - Valor, e-biznes, Copywriting, CopyWriting i ...
[ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
A H
ISTORY OF
A
NCIENT
S
PARTA
:
V
ALOR
, V
IRTUE
,
AND
D
EVOTION IN THE
G
REEK
G
OLDEN
A
GE
COURSE GUIDE
Professor Timothy B. Shutt
KENYON COLLEGE
A History of Ancient Sparta:
Valor, Virtue, and Devotion
in the Greek Golden Age
Professor Timothy B. Shutt
Kenyon College
Recorded Books
™
is a trademark of
Recorded Books, LLC. All rights reserved.
A History of Ancient Sparta:
Valor, Virtue, and Devotion in the Greek Golden Age
Professor Timothy B. Shutt
Executive Producer
John J. Alexander
Executive Editor
Donna F. Carnahan
RECORDING
Producer - David Markowitz
Director - Matthew Cavnar
COURSE GUIDE
Editor - James Gallagher
Design - Edward White
Lecture content ©2009 by Timothy B. Shutt
Course guide ©2009 by Recorded Books, LLC
7
2009 by Recorded Books, LLC
Cover image: Sculpture of a Spartan warrior, ca. fifth century BCE, found in Sparta by British
archaeologists in 1925; © The Art Archive/Archaeological Museum Sparta/Gianni Dagli Orti
#UT134 ISBN: 978-1-4361-7818-1
All beliefs and opinions expressed in this audio/video program and accompanying course guide
are those of the author and not of Recorded Books, LLC, or its employees.
Course Syllabus
A History of Ancient Sparta:
Valor, Virtue, and Devotion in the Greek Golden Age
About Your Professor ...................................................................................................4
Introduction...................................................................................................................5
Lecture 1
Aura and Overview: “Come and take them.” .........................................6
Lecture 2
Geography and Origins .......................................................................11
Lecture 3
Institutions: What Made the Spartans So Different? ...........................16
Lecture 4
Government and Religion ....................................................................21
Lecture 5
Spartan Art and Culture.......................................................................27
Lecture 6
Women in Sparta .................................................................................31
Lecture 7
The Early Days: Before the Persian Wars ..........................................35
Lecture 8
The Ionian Revolt to Marathon, 490 BCE ...........................................40
Lecture 9
Their Finest Hour: Artemisium and Thermopylae,
490–480 BCE (Part I) ..........................................................................46
Lecture 10 Their Finest Hour: Artemisium and Thermopylae,
490–480 BCE (Part II) .........................................................................51
Lecture 11 The Triumph of the Greeks: Salamis and Plataea, 480–479 BCE......56
Lecture 12 Earthquake, Revolt, Stormclouds Gathering:
The Peloponnesian War to the Peace of Nicias..................................61
Lecture 13 Sparta Triumphant: From the Peace of Nicias to Aegospotami ..........66
Lecture 14 Triumph and Nemesis: From the Destruction of the
Long Walls at Athens to Leuctra and Beyond .....................................72
Course Materials ........................................................................................................77
3
About Your Professor
Timothy B. Shutt
For more than twenty years, Professor Timothy Baker Shutt has taught at
Kenyon College, famed for splendid teaching, literary tradition, and unwavering
commitment to the liberal arts. No teacher at Kenyon has ever been more often
honored, both by the college and by students, for exceptional skills in the class-
room and as a lecturer. Professor Shutt’s courses in Kenyon’s interdisciplinary
Integrated Program of Humane Studies and, before that, in the Department of
English, have always been heavily oversubscribed.
Shutt is a native of Ohio, raised in Michigan and schooled in Connecticut.
During his high school years at the Hotchkiss School, he was honored as an
All-American swimmer and devoted much of his time to drama. He majored in
English as an undergraduate at Yale (’72). After three years at St. Mark’s School
of Texas, where he taught English and history and coached swimming, Shutt
went on to graduate school in English, specializing in medieval literature and the
history of ideas at the University of Virginia as a Du Pont Fellow. After earning
his Ph.D. in 1984, Shutt spent two further years at Virginia as a Mellon Post-
Doctoral Research Fellow and took a position at Kenyon in 1986, where he has
taught happily ever since, deeply enjoying interaction with his students and the
peaceful life of the Ohio countryside.
Shutt is a jovial extrovert and a polymath—a born teacher and lecturer—interest-
ed in nearly everything and everybody. In the Integrated Program in Humane
Studies, he teaches literature, philosophy, history, art history, religious studies,
and, at times, the history of science. He has written on military history, baseball,
and birding in addition to his academic studies and gives regular talks at the
Brown Family Environmental Center at Kenyon on migratory birds and on obser-
vational astronomy and the lore of the stars. He also works, when time permits, as
a sports announcer for Kenyon football games, and for championship swimming
meets nationwide, claiming longtime Detroit Tiger announcer Ernie Harwell as his
inspiration. Shutt also travels regularly as a spokesperson for Kenyon, giving talks
and lectures on behalf of the college from coast to coast. But his real vocation is
reading and the classroom.
4
[ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]