Instructor

Aara Suksi, Department of Classical Studies

My office: Talbot College 420

Phone 661 2111 ex 84519

e-mail: asuksi@uwo.ca

web-site: http://publish.uwo.ca/~asuksi/  

Time and Place Monday, 1:30-3:30 TC 403

Description

We will read all of Daphnis and Chloe in Greek and other selected ancient Greek prose romances in translation. We will consider the novel in the context of the Greek literary tradition and as an example of the genre of Greek romance, exploring a variety of interpretative approaches. We will also consider the history of the novel's reception in Western culture. 

Evaluation

preparation and participation                            10%

presentation (20-30 minutes)                            20% presentation schedule

research paper (due Dec. 1, 2008)                    20 %

test (translation and commentary) Oct. 27          20%

final exam (translation, commentary and essay)  30%

Texts

Shannon Byrne and Edmund P. Cueva. Longus' Daphnis and Chloe. Bolchazy-Carducci, 2004.
B.P. Reardon, ed. Collected Ancient Greek Novels. University of California Press, 2008.

You should own a good Greek-English lexicon

Secondary readings will also be assigned.

Assigned Readings

For September 22:

Luginbill, Robert D. "A Delightful Possession: Longus' Prologue and Thucydides,"
The Classical Journal, Vol. 97, No. 3 (Feb. - Mar., 2002), pp. 233-247

For September 29:

Zeitlin, Froma I. "The Poetics of Eros: Nature, Art, and Imitation in Longus' Daphnis and Chloe, in David Halperin, John J. Winkler and Froma I. Zeitlin, eds. Before Sexuality: The Construction of Erotic Experience in the Ancient Greek World. Princeton. 1990. 417-464.

There will be a copy of this in the Readings Box in the TA office.

For October 6:

Chalk, H. H. O. "Eros and the Lesbian Pastorals of Longos" JHS 80 (1960) pp. 32-51

For October 20:

John J. Winkler. "The Education of Desire: Hidden Injuries of Sex" in The Constraints of Desire: the anthropology of sex and gender in ancient Greece. New York and London. 1990. 101-126.

There will be a copy of this in the Readings Box in the TA office.

For Nov. 3: David Konstan. Sexual Symmetry: Love in the Ancient Novel and Related Genres. Princeton. 1994. 79-90.

There will be a copy of this in the Readings Box in the TA office.

Also please read the Sappho fragments circulated by Adriana.

For Nov. 10.

Readings assigned by Mary Lim. Excerpt from Ovid's Metamorphoses (Pan and Syrinx) and Philippides article (sent as e-mail attachments)

For Nov. 17:

Richard Hunter. 2008. "Ancient Readers", in Tim Whitmarsh, ed. The Cambridge Companion to the Greek and Roman Novel. Cambridge (of course). 261-271.

There is a copy of this in the Readings Box in the TA office.

Bibliography

For an extensive bibliography on the ancient novel, see http://www.chss.montclair.edu/classics/petron/PSNBIB/FMBIB.HTML

Here is a select bibliography on Longus.

Theocritus' Idylls

Virgil's Eclogues

Primary Sources and Images of Pan at theoi.com