Classical Studies 137
Course
Schedule
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Date |
Topic |
Have this read for class |
Links |
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September 9 |
Introduction to Course |
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September 14 &
16 |
Background, Definitions, Evidence |
Harris and Platzner Ch. 1 |
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September 21 &
23 |
Near Eastern Myth |
Epic of Gilgamesh in Dalley |
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September 28 &
30 |
Creation of the World |
Hesiod, Theogony |
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October 5 & 7 |
Creation of People |
Hesiod, Works and Days
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October 12 & 14 |
Prometheus at Athens |
[Aeschylus] Prometheus Bound |
theatre of Dionysus of Herodes Atticus 2nd C AD Epidaurus theatre in landscape Prometheus Bound Theatre of Delphi, 1930 |
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October 19 & 21 |
Zeus, Hera, Hestia, Poseidon, Ares, Aphrodite |
Homer, Odyssey |
Zeus
Hurling a thunderbolt, Dodona, ca 470 BC |
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October 26 & 28 |
Demeter, Persephone, Hades |
Homeric Hymn to Demeter |
Votive tablet Hades and Persephone Persephone as Queen of the Underworld |
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November 2 &
4 |
Apollo and Artemis Term Test November
4
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Homeric Hymn to Apollo |
Apollo on temple of Zeus at Olympia Artemis as Mistress of Animals
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November 9 & 11 |
Hephaestus, Hermes and Dionysus |
Homeric Hymn to Hermes |
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November 16 & 18 |
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 23 & 25 |
Heracles |
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November 30 & December
2 |
Jason, Theseus |
(322-333) |
Plan of Bronze Age palace of Knossos on Crete Toreador Fresco (15th c BC) |
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December 7 |
Causes
of the Trojan War |
Read ahead |
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January 4 & 6 |
The Trojan War (Achilles) |
Homer, Iliad |
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January 11 & 13 |
Returns: Odysseus |
Homer, Odyssey |
Odysseus consulting Tiresias in Hades |
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January 18 & 20 |
Returns: Agamemnon |
Aeschylus, Agamemnon |
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January 25 & 27 |
Myth and Ritual |
Aeschylus, Libation-Bearers, Eumenides |
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February 1 & 3 |
Oedipus |
Sophocles, Oedipus Rex (649-697) Sophocles, Antigone |
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February 8 & 10 |
Women in Greek Tragedy |
Euripides. Medea |
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February 15 & 17 |
Amazons and Bacchants
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Euripides, Bacchae (800-853) |
See links for Dionysus |
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February 22 & 24 |
Conference Week |
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March 1 & 3 |
Roman Myth |
Ch. 18. |
The she-wolf with Romulus and Remus Intervention of Sabines, J-L David, 18th c Rembrandt's Lucretia 1666 |
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March 8 & 10 |
Aeneas |
Virgil, Aeneid |
Aeneas and Anchises Bernini 1618 |
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March 15 & 17 |
Ovid |
Ovid, Metamorphoses |
Orpheus Leads Eurydice from the Underworld Corot 1861 Eurydice recedes into the Underworld Bergamo, Renaissance Orpheus entertaining the beasts |
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March 22 & 24 |
The Western Tradition |
Ch. 21 |
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March 29 & 31 |
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April 5 & 7 |
Review |
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