Classical Studies 2200
Course Schedule
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Topic |
Read this before class |
Links |
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September 8 & 10 |
Introduction to Course |
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September 15 &
17 |
Background, Definitions, Evidence |
Harris and Platzner Ch. 1 |
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September 22 &
24 |
A
Near Eastern Hero |
Epic of Gilgamesh in Dalley |
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September 29 &
October 1 |
Creation of the World |
Hesiod, Theogony |
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October 6 & 8 |
Creation of People |
Hesiod, Works and Days
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October 13 & 15 |
Thanksgiving Term
Test October 15 |
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October 20 & 22 |
Prometheus at Athens |
[Aeschylus] Prometheus Bound
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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 27 & 29 |
Zeus, Hera, Hestia, Poseidon, Ares, Aphrodite Demeter, Persephone, Hades |
Homer, Odyssey, "The Loves of
Homeric Hymn to Demeter
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Tim Rollins and Kids of Survival Prometheus Bound Project Zeus
Hurling a thunderbolt, Dodona, ca 470 BC Votive tablet Hades and Persephone Persephone as Queen of the Underworld |
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November 3 & 5 |
Apollo and Artemis |
Homeric Hymn to Apollo
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November 10 & 12 |
Athena, Hephaestus, Hermes and Dionysus |
Homeric Hymn to Hermes
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November 17 & 19 |
The Underworld Early heroes: Perseus |
(283-314 = 291-323
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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 24 & 26 |
Heracles |
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December 1 & 3 |
Jason |
(323-333 = 331-343)
Also please read the following excerpt from Euripides' Herakles |
Plan of Bronze Age palace of Knossos on Crete Toreador Fresco (15th c BC) |
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January 5 & 7 |
Causes
of the Trojan War |
Read ahead |
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January 12 & 14 |
The Trojan War (Achilles) |
Homer, Iliad
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January 19 & 21 |
The Trojan War (con't) |
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January 26 & 28 |
Returns: Odysseus |
Homer, Odyssey
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Odysseus consulting Tiresias in Hades |
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February 2 & 4 |
Returns: Agamemnon |
Aeschylus, Agamemnon
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February 9 & 11 |
Myth and Ritual Term
Test February 11
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Aeschylus, Libation-Bearers, Eumenides
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February 16 & 18 |
Conference
Week |
Read ahead |
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February 23 & 25 |
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March 2 |
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Euripides. Medea
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March 9 & 11 |
Amazons and Bacchants |
Euripides, Bacchae (800-853 = 817-870)
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See links for Dionysus |
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March 16 & 18 |
Roman Myth |
Ch. 18. |
The she-wolf with Romulus and Remus Rembrandt's Lucretia 1666 |
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March 23 & 25 |
Aeneas |
Virgil, Aeneid
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March 30 & April
1 |
Ovid |
Ovid, Metamorphoses
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Orpheus Leads Eurydice from the Underworld Corot 1861 Eurydice recedes into the Underworld Bergamo, Renaissance Orpheus entertaining the beasts |
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April 6 & 8 |
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7-10 pm |
3 hours |
