Classical Studies 137
Course
Schedule
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Topic |
Read this before class |
Links |
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September 8 |
Introduction to Course |
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September 13 &
15 |
Background, Definitions, Evidence |
Harris and Platzner Ch. 1 |
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September 20 &
22 |
Near Eastern Myth |
Epic of Gilgamesh in Dalley |
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September 27 &
29 |
Creation of the World |
Hesiod, Theogony |
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October 4 & 6 |
Creation of People |
Hesiod, Works and Days
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October 11 & 13 |
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 18 & 20 |
Zeus, Hera, Hestia, Poseidon, Ares, Aphrodite |
Homer, Odyssey |
Zeus
Hurling a thunderbolt, Dodona, ca 470 BC |
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October 25 & 27 |
Demeter, Persephone, Hades |
Homeric Hymn to Demeter |
Votive tablet Hades and Persephone Persephone as Queen of the Underworld |
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November 1 & 3 |
Apollo and Artemis Term
Test November 3
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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 8 & 10 |
Hephaestus, Hermes and Dionysus |
Homeric Hymn to Hermes |
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November 15 & 17 |
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 22 & 24 |
Heracles |
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November 29 & December
1 |
Jason, Theseus |
(322-333) |
Plan of Bronze Age palace of Knossos on Crete Toreador Fresco (15th c BC) |
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December 6 |
Causes
of the Trojan War |
Read ahead |
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January 10 & 12 |
The Trojan War (Achilles) |
Homer, Iliad |
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January 17 & 19 |
Returns: Odysseus |
Homer, Odyssey |
Odysseus consulting Tiresias in Hades |
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January 24 & 26 |
Returns: Agamemnon |
Aeschylus, Agamemnon |
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January 31 & February
2 |
Myth and Ritual |
Aeschylus, Libation-Bearers, Eumenides |
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February 7 & 9 |
Oedipus |
Sophocles, Oedipus Rex (649-697) |
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February 14 & 16 |
Women in Greek Tragedy Term
Test February 16
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Euripides. Medea |
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February 21 & 23 |
Amazons and Bacchants |
Euripides, Bacchae (800-853) |
See links for Dionysus |
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February 28 & March
2 |
Conference Week |
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March 7 & 9 |
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 14 & 16 |
Aeneas |
Virgil, Aeneid |
Aeneas and Anchises Bernini 1618 |
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March 21 & 23 |
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 28 & 30 |
The Western Tradition |
Ch. 21 |
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April 4 &
6 |
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April 11 |
Review |
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9-12 Alumni Hall |
