Classical Studies 2200
Course Schedule
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Topic |
Read this before class |
Links |
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September 11 &
13 |
Introduction to Course |
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September 18 &
20 |
Background, Definitions, Evidence |
Harris and Platzner Ch. 1 |
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September 25 &
27 |
A
Near Eastern Hero |
Epic of Gilgamesh in Dalley |
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October 2 & 4 |
Creation of the World |
Hesiod, Theogony |
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October 9 &11 |
Thanksgiving Creation of People |
Hesiod, Works and Days
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October 16 & 18 |
Prometheus at Athens |
[Aeschylus] Prometheus Bound |
theatre of Herodes Atticus 2nd C AD, at the foot of the Acropolis Epidaurus theatre in landscape Prometheus Bound Theatre of Delphi, 1930 |
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October 23 & 25 |
Zeus, Hera, Hestia, Poseidon, Ares, Aphrodite |
Homer, Odyssey |
Zeus
Hurling a thunderbolt, Dodona, ca 470 BC |
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October 30 & November
1 |
Demeter, Persephone, Hades |
Homeric Hymn to Demeter |
Votive tablet Hades and Persephone Persephone as Queen of the Underworld |
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November 6 & 8 |
Apollo and Artemis |
Homeric Hymn to Apollo |
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November 13 & 15 |
Athena, Hephaestus, Hermes and Dionysus |
Homeric Hymn to Hermes |
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November 20 & 22 |
The Underworld Early heroes: Perseus |
(283-314 |
Acrisius, Danae, Perseus, and the chest Danae and Perseus in the chest Metope relief from acropolis at Selinus (Sicily, 6th C. BC) Joachim Wtewael, 16thc., Perseus and Andromeda terms |
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November 27 & 29 |
Heracles |
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December 4 & 6 |
Jason, Theseus |
(323-333) |
Plan of Bronze Age palace of Knossos on Crete Toreador Fresco (15th c BC) |
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January 8 & 10 |
Causes
of the Trojan War |
Read ahead |
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January 15 & 17 |
The Trojan War (Achilles) |
Homer, Iliad |
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January 22 & 24 |
The Trojan War (con't) |
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January 29 & 31 |
Returns: Odysseus |
Homer, Odyssey |
Odysseus consulting Tiresias in Hades |
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February 5 & 7 |
Returns: Agamemnon |
Aeschylus, Agamemnon |
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February 12 & 14 |
Myth and Ritual Term
Test February 12
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Aeschylus, Libation-Bearers, Eumenides
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February 19 & 21 |
Oedipus
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Sophocles, Oedipus Rex (649-697 |
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February 26 & 28 |
Conference Week |
Read ahead |
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March 5 |
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Euripides. Medea |
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March 12 & 14 |
Amazons and Bacchants |
Euripides, Bacchae (800-853) |
See links for Dionysus |
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March 19 & 21 |
Roman Myth |
Ch. 18. |
The she-wolf with Romulus and Remus Rembrandt's Lucretia 1666 |
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March 26 & 28 |
Aeneas |
Virgil, Aeneid |
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April 2 & 4 |
Ovid |
Ovid, Metamorphoses By request, because some students are observing Passover,
slides from Monday's class are here. Slides
from Wednesday's class will appear here. |
Orpheus Leads Eurydice from the Underworld Corot 1861 Eurydice recedes into the Underworld Bergamo, Renaissance Orpheus entertaining the beasts |
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April 9 & 11 |
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3 hours |
