Topics and sources
Fate, hubris, and expiation.
Allan, W. 2006. “Divine Justice and Cosmic Order in Early Greek Epic,” Journal of Hellenistic Studies 126: 1-35.
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Health in Asclepian and Hyppocratic medicine.
Todman, D. 2008. “Epilepsy in the Graeco-Roman World: Hippocratic Medicine and Asklepian Temple Medicine Compared,” Journal of the History of the Neurosciences 17: 435-441.
Write a critical, scholarly essay on one of the following topics, gathering and properly quoting information from at least four academic sources. Evaluation will based on your ability to draw on the notions discussed in class and on other academic sources, and to elaborate further ideas in the form of an academic essay.
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Conceptions of justice.
Vlastos, G. “Solonian justice”, in G. Vlastos. 1993. Studies in Greek Philosophy I: The Presocratics, pp. 32-56. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
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Vlastos, G. “Isonomia”, in G. Vlastos. 1993. Studies in Greek Philosophy I: The Presocratics, pp. 89-111. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
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