| Time and place | MWF 9:30-10:20 TC 309 |
| Instructor | Aara Suksi 429 Talbot College 661 2111 ex. 82278 asuksi@uwo.ca |
| Office hours | Wednesdays 1-3 or by appointment |
| Description | A comparative study of the Iliad, the Odyssey and the Aeneid in translation. Topics may include: the Mesopotamian precursors; the composition of oral epic; the epic hero; the evolution of the genre in Greece and Rome; literary epic; Roman epic as propaganda. |
| Texts | Homer, The
Iliad, translated by Robert Fagles, Odyssey of Homer, translated by Richmond Lattimore. Harper Collins Publishing, ISBN 0060931957 Virgil, The Aeneid, Vintage Classics, ISBN 0679729526
Required secondary reading material will be made available |
| Evaluation | Essay:
due Friday December 2:
30% Absence from a test or exam will result in a grade of zero. If extreme and unforeseeable circumstances prevent you from completing any of the above, you must let me know as soon as possible and also contact your academic counsellor to request accomodation. Please do not ask to do extra work to make up for a disappointing grade. Plagiarism Students must write their essays and assignments in their own words. Whenever students take an idea or a passage from another author, they must acknowledge their debt both by using quotation marks where appropriate and by proper referencing such as footnotes or citations. Plagiarism is a major academic offence (see Scholastic Offence Policy in the Western Academic Calendar). All required papers may be subject to submission for textual similarity to the commercial plagiarism detection software under licence to the University for the detection of plagiarism. All papers submitted will be included as source documents in the reference database for the purpose of detecting plagiarism of papers subsequently submitted to the system. use of the service is subject to the licensing agreement, currently between the University of Western Ontario and Turnitin.com (http://www.turnitin.com).
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| Note From the Dean of Arts and Humanities | You are responsible for ensuring that you have successfully completed all course prerequisites and that you have not taken an antirequisite course. Lack of prerequisites may not be used as basis of appeal. If you are not eligible for a course, you may be removed from it at any time, and you will receive no adjustment to your fees. These decisions cannot be appealed. |