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Class Schedule for CLC 223L: Masterpieces of Greek Tragedy
& Comedy
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| 1/22 - Introduction to Ancient Greece HW: Begin Iliad |
| 1/27 - Introduction to Ancient Greece; Homer, Iliad
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| 1/29 - Homer, Iliad
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| 2/3 - Homer, Iliad HW: Heroic Paradox essay |
| 2/5 - Heroic Paradox (Whitman) Cedric Whitman Essay on the Epic Hero (from Heroic Paradox) HW: read Agamemnon |
| 2/10 - Aeschylus, Orestia (Agamemnon)
Discuss Agamemnon HW: read Libation-Bearers |
| 2/12 - Aeschylus, Orestia (Libation-Bearers) Discuss Libation-Bearers HW: read Eumenides |
| 2/17 - No Class: Presidents' Day Vaccination
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| 2/19 - Aeschylus, Orestia (Eumenides) Discuss Eumenides HW: Thucydides, Book I |
| 2/24 - Thucydides, Peloponnesian War: Books I & II;
Midterms Distributed HW: J. P. Vernant, "The God of Tragic Fiction"
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| 2/26 - Thucydides, Peloponnesian War: Book II; Guest
Lecturer: Will Spina HW: Oedipus Tyrannous |
| 2/28-3/9 - Spring Broke
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| 3/10 - Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannous; Midterms Due HW: Oedipus at Colonus |
| 3/12 - Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannous & Oedipus at
Colonus Consider the implications of agency. What does it mean to be 'guilty'? Define autonomy in Oedipus Tyrannous. What, exactly, IS the heroic paradox in this play? HW: finish Oedipus at Colonus |
| 3/17 - Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus What is the significance of Oedipus at Colonus? Was this a case of Athenian myth-making with a political agenda? (see Strauss) HW: begin Antigone |
| 3/19 - Sophocles, Antigone What is happening in the play? What is at stake in Antigone? HW: Segal, Whitman & Vernant articles (tba) |
| 3/24 - Sophocles, Antigone; Segal; Whitman What is the significance of Sophoclean Drama? According to Segal? Whitman?
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| 3/26 - Whitman; Segal
HW: finish Hippolytus |
| 3/31 - Euripides, Hippolytus
HW: begin Medea |
| 4/2 - Euripides, Medea
HW: finish Medea |
| 4/7 - Pres. on Segal & Vernant; (Jairo) Presentation
on Suicide in Tragedy; Euripides, Medea
HW: begin Poetics |
| 4/9 - (Angela) Presentation on Female Deaths in
Tragedy; Aristotle's Poetics What is Aristotle saying? how valid is his analysis? etc. HW: finish Poetics, read Halliwell's commentaries |
| 4/14 - Aristotle's Poetics What are the implications of Aristotle's treatise on Poetics? HW: read Fathers & Sons in Athens |
| 4/16-20 - Easter Break
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| 4/21 - Fathers & Sons in Athens (Strauss) What are the implications of both the sociopolitical climate of 5th Century Athens upon Greek Drama and to what degree is Drama the 'tool' of historians for this period? What problems do such dynamics give rise? HW: begin Lysistrata |
| 4/23 - Aristophanes, Lysistrata
HW: finish Lysistrata, read Clouds |
| 4/28 - Aristophanes, Lysistrata & Clouds
HW: read Frogs |
| 4/30 - Aristophanes, Clouds & Frogs HW: read essay on Aristophanes (tba) |
| 5/3 - Aristophanes essay Discuss Aristophanes' body of work. In particular, consider Aristophanes' comedies as a response to Philosophy, Politics & Tragedy.
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| 5/5 - Distribute Final Exams; course evaluations
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5/7 - Reading Day
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| 5/14 - Final Exams Due All term papers and final examinations MUST be submitted to me in my office (HU 385) by 5:30pm on Wednesday, May 14. After 5:30pm, penalties will occur as outlined in the course grading policies. |
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