READINGS AND CLASS SCHEDULE: 2211-001
(Monday/Wednesday class); Link to
Tuesday night 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
8.28: Introduction
8.30 : Homer’s Iliad: oral poetry,
myth, legend, and history
READING: Iliad, pp. 11-27, 37-45 (introduction)
9.4: LABOR DAY, NO CLASS
9.6: The Iliad : Epic scope, a cast of
thousands
READING: Iliad, pp. 59-112 (intro., bks. 1-3)
9.11: The Iliad: the price of glory
READING: Iliad, pp. 153-67, 198-233 (bks. 6, 9, 10)
9.13: The Iliad: fateful choices
READING: Iliad, pp. 330-53, 375-403 (bks. 16, 18-19)
9.18: The Iliad: Achilleus’ anger,
part two
READING: Iliad, pp. 404-49 (bks. 20-22)
9.20: The Iliad: lessons learned?
READING: Iliad, pp. 450-96 (bks. 23-24)
9.25: Test 1 (The Iliad)
UNIT 2: CLASSICAL ATHENS: TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY
9.27: Archaic Greece: a
search for order
READING: Summary of the Odyssey; Lyric
poems (one-page handout); story of Solon and Croesus
from Herodotus’ Histories (Procopy packet)
10.02: Art and
architecture in Archaic Greece: order, representation, and narrative
READING: webnotes on Greek pottery;
10.04: Greek tragedy
(Antigone): human
and divine law
READING: Theban Plays, pp. 59-128 (Antigone)
10.09: Oedipus Rex and the tragedy
of Athens
READING: Theban Plays, pp. 159-251 (Oedipus Rex); excerpts from
Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War: Pericles’ Funeral
Oration, the Plague in Athens, the Policy of Pericles (Procopy packet)
10.11: The Parthenon and classical
Athens: temples of gods, cities of
men
10.16: 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, pp. 423-59 (Apology and
Crito).
10.18: Plato's Republic: a new foundation for law
and justice
READING: Great Dialogues of Plato, 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);
webnotes - "The Republic in Unit
Two", Concluding Remarks
10.23: Test 2 (Archaic Greece and
classical Athens)
UNIT 3: FROM PAGAN TO CHRISTIAN ROME: CONVERSIONS AND TRANSFORMATIONS
10.25: Virgil’s Aeneid: a Roman epic
READING: Aeneid , pp. 1-27 (bk. 1) ***note: page numbers
of the Aeneid may vary slightly in different printings of Mandelbaum's
translation - follow the "book" and "line" numbers***
10.30: From Troy to Italy...from
Homer to Virgil
READING: Aeneid, pp. 29-80 (bks. 2-3)/pp.
28-78 in newer printings of the Aeneid.
11.1: The tragedy of Dido: the
price
of empire
READING: Aeneid, pp. 81-104 (bk. 4)/pp.
78-102 in newer printings
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11.6: False dreams, empty
pictures...
READING: Aeneid, pp. 133-62 (bk. 6)/pp.
131-60 in newer printings.
11.8: ...unhappy endings
READING: Aeneid, pp. 191-214, 221-31, 253-73, 321-36 (bk. 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.
188-211, 218-28, 249-69, 316-31 in newer printings.
11.13: Epic stories: other views
NEWLY POSTED COURSE NOTES, Nov. 10, 2006
READING: Ovid’s Metamorphoses,
selections from books 13 and 14 (Procopy
packet)
11.15: Roman art and architecture:
the art of empire (Link
corrected, Nov. 14, 2006)
11.20: Early Christianity and late
antiquity: an end or a beginning?
READING: Augustine's Confessions, pp. 3-40
11.22: “Pick up and read...”:
another journey (Augustine's Confessions)
READING: Augustine’s Confessions, pp. 52-65, 72-103, 133-54
11.27: The early middle ages: a
blending of cultures
READING: The Anglo-Saxon World, pp. 144-48, 182-85 (The Dream of the
Rood), 251-59 (Allegories), 272-75 (The Fortunes of Men)
11.29: The early middle ages: lost
worlds
READING: The Anglo-Saxon World, pp. 44-56 (Elegies), 61-142 (Beowulf)
12.4: A Christian epic
READING: Dante, Inferno, pp. 3-47 (cantos 1-5)
12.6: The end of the journey
READING: Dante, Inferno, pp. 69-83, 95-101, 217-45 (cantos 8-9, 11,
24-26)
12.11
(10:30-12:30): 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 4, 2006
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