READINGS AND CLASS SCHEDULE: 2211-002
(Tuesday night class); Link to Monday/Wednesday schedule
Before each class, you should print
and read the notes on the website and read the assigned texts on this
schedule. Follow the links on this schedule for the notes
for each class;
see the Schedule of Printouts or the announcements on
the MyUSF/Blackboard
site for advice on
what notes to print each week.
UNIT 1: HOMER: MORTAL VALUES, IMMORTAL VERSES
8.29: Introduction: Homer’s
Iliad: oral poetry,
myth, legend, and history
READING: Iliad, pp. 11-27, 37-45 (introduction)
9.5: The Iliad : Epic scope, a cast of
thousands
READING: Iliad, pp. 59-112, 153-67 (intro., bks. 1-3, 6)
9.12: The Iliad: fateful
choices/the price of glory
READING: Iliad, pp. 198-233, 330-53, 375-403 (bks. 9-10,
16, 18-19)
9.19: The Iliad: Achilleus’ anger,
part two/lessons learned?
READING: Iliad, pp. 404-96 (bks. 20-24)
9.26: Test 1 (The Iliad), followed
by a fifty-minute
lecture: Archaic Greece: a
search for order
UNIT 2: CLASSICAL ATHENS: TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY
10.3: Archaic and Classical
Greek culture: an overview
READING: Summary of the Odyssey; Lyric
poems (one-page handout); story of Solon and Croesus
from Herodotus’ Histories (Procopy packet); webnotes on Greek pottery; webnotes on the temple of Zeus at Olympia and the
Parthenon
10.10: Greek tragedy and the
tragedy of Athens
READING: Theban Plays, pp. 59-128, 159-251 (Antigone and Oedipus Rex);
excerpts from
Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War: Pericles’ Funeral
Oration, the Plague in Athens, the Policy of Pericles (Procopy packet).
Be sure to continue to the webnotes
for Oedipus Rex and Thucydides
10.17: Athens defeated, Socrates
condemned: crisis and critique
READING: excerpts from Thucydides’ History of the
Peloponnesian War: the Civil War in Corcyra, the Melian Dialogue
(Procopy packet); Great Dialogues of Plato, Apology and
Crito, pp. 423-59; selections from the Republic,
pp.
118-25 (editor's summary of the Republic), 155-89 (the origins and
nature of
justice in the city; the poets’ portrayal of the gods); a selection of
Plato's own myths and stories: pp. 214-17 (the
necessary lie), 286 (the ship of state), 415-22 (the Myth of Er). Be
sure to continue to the webnotes on
Plato's Republic and the concluding remarks on "The Republic in Unit Two".
10.24: Test 2 (Archaic Greece and
classical Athens); followed by one hour lecture: Introduction to Rome
and the Aeneid (please
bring the Aeneid and a printout
of the webnotes and commentary to class)
UNIT 3: FROM PAGAN TO CHRISTIAN ROME: CONVERSIONS AND TRANSFORMATIONS
10.31: From Troy to Italy...from
Homer to Virgil
READING: Aeneid , pp. 1-80 (bks.
1-3)/pp. 1-78 in newer printings of
the Aeneid
***note: page
numbers
of the Aeneid may vary slightly in different printings of Mandelbaum's
translation - follow the "book" and "line" numbers***
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11.7: Death unmerited, false
dreams, empty
pictures, unhappy endings...the price of empire
READING: Aeneid, pp. 81-104, 133-62, 191-214, 221-31, 253-73, 321-36
(bks. 4, 6, 8, bk. 9,
lines 232-667; bk.
10, lines 399-1248; and bk. 12, lines 674-1271 - all lines numbers are
taken from the Mandelbaum translation)/pp.
79-102, 131-60, 188-211, 218-28, 249-69, 316-31 in newer printings. Be
sure to continue to the webnotes
for books 6-12
11.14: Epic stories and Roman
history: different views in poetry and art
NEWLY POSTED COURSE NOTES ON OVID, Nov. 10, 2006
READING: Ovid’s Metamorphoses,
selections from books 13 and 14 (Procopy
packet). Be sure to continue to the webnotes for Roman art and architecture.
11.21: Early Christianity and late
antiquity: an end or a beginning?
READING: Augustine's Confessions, pp. 3-40, 52-65, 72-103, 133-54. Be
sure to continue to the webnotes for Augustine's
Confessions.
11.28: The early middle ages: lost
worlds
READING: The Anglo-Saxon World, pp. 44-56 (Elegies), 61-142 (Beowulf),
144-48, 182-85 (The Dream of the
Rood), 251-59 (Allegories), 272-75 (The Fortunes of Men)
12.5: The end of the journey
READING: Dante, Inferno, pp. 3-47 (cantos 1-5), pp. 69-83, 95-101,
217-45 (cantos 8-9, 11,
24-26)
12.12
(6:00-8:00): Test 3
(Rome and the Middle Ages)
I enjoy reading these books and looking at these works of art, and I
hope you will too.
Revised December 5, 2006
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