Classical Mythology

Course Schedule:

Oct. 1: Introduction

Oct. 2: Out of Chaos: Ordering the Universe
Reading: Theogony (pgs. 53-82)
Works and Days (Handout)
Metamorphoses (pgs. 1-16)
Film: In Search of the Trojan War: The Singer of Tales

Oct. 3: What Constitutes a Hero?

• Reading: Iliad Books 1-4
• response paper due

Oct. 4: Campfire and Hearth: Models of Companionship

• Reading: Iliad Books 6, 9, & 10
  

Oct. 5: Death and Glory

• Reading: Iliad Books 16-18
• response paper due

Oct. 8: The Agony of Defeat

• Reading: Iliad Books 22 & 24
  

:Oct. 9: Models of Homecoming

• Reading: Agamemnon
• Film: The Odyssey

Oct. 10: The Age of Heroes in the Land of Democracy

• Reading: Eumenides
• response paper due

Oct. 11: Reversal of Fortune

• Reading: Troades

Oct. 12: First Exam

• response paper due

Oct. 15: Encounters with the Other

• Reading: Medea
• PROPOSALS FOR FINAL PROJECTS DUE

Oct. 16: The Politics of Reputation

• Reading: Hippolytus

Oct. 17: Challenging the Gods

• Reading: Bacchae
• response paper due

Oct. 18: Don't Look Now: Visual Obsessions and Transgressive Gazing

• Reading: Metamorphoses Book 3

Oct. 19: Portrait of the Artist: Myth Under Empire

• Reading: Metamorphoses Book 6, Book 8 (lines 154-271),
  Book 10 (lines 243-297) & 15 (lines 734-end)
• response paper due

Oct. 22: Second Exam

Oct. 23: Group Presentations

Oct. 24: Group Presentations

• FINAL ESSAY DUE