The general aim of this curriculum is to examine the view of late fifth century B.C. Greeks on what is right and what is wrong conduct. This will be done by looking at the conduct and the attitude of Greeks toward captured and defeated people. The literature read will be Euripides’ Hecuba (425-424 B.C.) and selections from Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War (c. 404 B.C.). The main focus will be on the situations, events and circumstances which might turn a good and responsible person or state into a bad, immoral or evil individual or state. The literary analysis of Hecuba will include Aristotle’s Poetics.