These are questions from my fall, 2000 Intellectual Heritage Class after one session on the Funeral Speech. They may be a guide to what
     to expect in other sections.  --DPT

     1.  How did women react to all of the male-charged aspects of Athenian
     democracy? What is women's role in the speech?

     2.  "I'm sure what's most confusing is stuff that I'm entirely unaware of..."

     3. "Athenian democracy is shady.  I get it but it's weird.... I had to read
     some passages several times."

     4.  Democracy and the empire.

     5.  Distinctions between different sorts of parents.

     6.  What *are* the guiding metaphors?

     7.  "Was Pericles mocking Athens?""I'm confused about the tone the speaker is
     using."

     8.  How did Athens compare to the rest of the ancient world?

     9.  "How do the Athenians consider themselves a democracy? They show no
     evidence of being a democracy."  (There were other questions about democracy,
     too.)

     10.  A few students said they understood more in the class than in the group
     work.

     11.  What war is this? Why were they fighting?

     12.  I'm still confused about chapter 42; I'm not sure what is *distinctive*
     about AThens.

     13.  "Athenian democracy is not exactly equality for all but somehow more
     imperialistic.  I'm quite disheartened."

     14.  "I still don't understand Pericles' motives.  It is supposed to be a
     eulogy, but it does not seem like one.  It seems as though Pericles talks more
     about nationalism/patriotism than about the dead.  Why?"

     What this class considered important:

     1.  class discussion; get other people's views.

     2.  direct rather than vague questions from the teacher

     3.  using the text to illustrate points.

     4.  going over the text.