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Course Syllabus Pages: Class Schedule Course Information Website Information |
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Lectures Materials: Outline of the Iliad Ancient Readers on the Myths Modern Theories Chart Jung Tips Levi-Strauss reads Oedipus Vladimir Propp help page Vergil timeline and Aeneid summary |
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More on Myth: Other Links Typos Catchers |
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Introduction |
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Wed, Jan 16 |
Introduction |
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Thu/Fri, Jan 17/18 |
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Unit 1:
Growing up to be a hero |
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Weekend |
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Online
Assignment: Make sure you're familiar with the "Info" section of
the web site |
Books
1-4 |
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Mon, Jan 21 |
No
Class, Martin Luther King Day |
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Wed, Jan 23 |
Homer,
epic poetry and Trojan legends |
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Thu/Fri, Jan 24/25 |
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Unit 2:
Our man |
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Weekend |
Backgrounds |
Online
Unit 2: Intro to Odyssey |
Odyssey |
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Mon, Jan 28 |
Telemachus
and his troubles |
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Wed, Jan 30 |
Odysseus
and his troubles |
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Thu/Fri, Jan31 / Feb1 |
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Unit 3:
This world and the other one |
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Weekend |
Our
hero on a journey |
Online
Unit 3: Odysseus and the Trojan War |
Odyssey |
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Mon, Feb. 4 |
The
challenges of being out there |
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Wed, Feb. 6 |
The
challenges of home |
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Thu/Fri, Feb 7/8 |
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Unit 4:
Identity and Signs |
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Weekend |
Our
hero wins his place |
Online
Unit 4: Odysseus' Journey |
Odyssey |
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Mon, Feb 11 |
Odysseus
reveals himself |
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Wed, Feb 13 |
Odysseus
cleans house |
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Thu/Fri, Feb 14/15 |
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Unit 5:
Gods and humans |
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Weekend |
Hesiod
and his sources |
Online
Unit 5: Intro to Hesiod |
Hesiod,
Theogony, entire |
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Mon, Feb 18 |
The
births of the deathless ones |
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Wed, Feb 20 |
The
ascent of Zeus |
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Thu/Fri, Feb 21/122 |
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Unit 6:
Ritual and Religion |
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Weekend |
The
Homeric Hymns |
Online
Unit 6: Delphi and |
Homeric
Hymn to Demeter + intro (=Hom. Hymns, pp. 29-58) |
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Mon, Feb 25 |
Demeter
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Wed, Feb 27 |
Apollo
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Thu/Fri, Feb 28/29 |
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Unit 7: Chthonos vs. Aether Ð review
and preparation |
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Weekend |
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No
online assignment Ð review previous units |
Re-read
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Mon, Mar 3 |
Review
and Discussion |
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Wed, Mar 5 |
MIDTERM
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Thu/Fri, Mar 6/Mar 7 |
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Spring
Break: Initiation to Bacchic Rites |
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Unit 8:
Justice |
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Weekend |
Orestia |
Online
Unit 8: Family Values |
Aeschylus, |
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Mon, Mar 17 |
Justice,
family style |
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Wed, Mar 19 |
What
to do with guilt? |
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Thu/Fri, Mar 20/21 |
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Unit 9: Unstable
Selves |
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Weekend |
Intro
to Oedipus |
Online
Unit 9 |
Sophocles, Euripides,
Bacchae |
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Mon, Mar 24 |
Sophocles'
Oedipus |
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Wed, Mar 26 |
Dionysian
Dissolution |
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Thu/Fri, Mar27/Mar28 |
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Unit 10:
Vergil's Aeneid |
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Weekend |
Writing
poetry in the |
Online
Unit 10: Roma! |
Vergil, |
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Mon, Mar 31 |
A
new hero |
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Wed, Apr 2 |
Theory
vs. Myth |
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Thu/Fri, Apr 3/4 |
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Unit 11:
Vergil, cont'd |
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Weekend |
Culture-making
in Augustan Rome |
Online
Unit 11: Writing |
Vergil, |
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Mon, Apr 7 |
Myth
and history |
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Wed, Apr 9 |
Myth,
history, and culture-making |
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Th/Fri, Apr 10/11 |
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Unit 12:
Parodies - intentional and unintentional |
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Weekend |
Ovid |
Online
Unit 12: Ovid's version of things |
Ovid, Matt
Groening, et. al., "Homer's Odyssey," Simpson's segment available
on Blackboard. Wolfgang
Petersen, |
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Mon, Apr 14 |
OvidÕs
Metamorphoses and the beginnings of "mythology" |
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Wed, Apr 16 |
The
Trojan War, yet again:Ê Movies and TV |
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Thu/Fri, Apr 17/18 |
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Unit 13:
Mythologies now and then |
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