SPRING QUARTER, 2006
Department of History
University of California, Irvine
 Instructor:    Dr. Barbara J. Becker

Week 1.  Soul

Supplementary readings for Week 1's lectures include excerpts from:

• "Vulcan's Marvels," from The Iliad, Book XVIII (6th c. BCE?) attributed to Homer (?)

• works (c. 350 BCE) by Aristotle (384-322 BCE):
  • Meteorology
  • On the Soul
  • On the History of Animals
  • On the Parts of Animals
  • On the Generation of Animals
• On Stones (c. 315 BCE) by Theophrastus (c. 370-288 BCE)

• "Talos, the Bronze Giant of Crete," from The Argonautica, Book IV (c. 200 BCE) by Apollonius Rhodius (born c. 296-260 BCE)

• "The Story of Pygmalion and the Statue," from Metamorphoses, Book X (c. 1 CE) by Ovid (43 BCE-17 CE)

• The Pneumatics (c. 62 CE) by Hero of Alexandria (fl. 62 CE)

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