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CCIV 110 SPRING 2000
For each class, the assignment comprises: 1. Reading in a text, which may or may not include Explanatory Notes [1a. Supplementary reading (sometimes), usually drawn from the Introduction to the volume] 2. Background Information on a Web Site designed for the course, with links to other Web sites, both ones designed for the course and ones on the Internet 3. Illustrations and Study Questions, a Web site designed for the course, and links to other Web sites. There are also various optional resources: Paper Topics: To browse these, click on this link.
 January
31Homer, Iliad, Book I (Fagles translation) "Introduction" to Fagles, Iliad, pp. 1-5 (plot summary), pp. 23-30 ("The Trojan War") Web Sites: Background Information; Illustrations and Study Questions; Iliad I on Perseus If you did not read Katz, Daughters of Demeter before the first class, you should read it sometime within the next week Optional Background Reading: Katz, Women, Children, and Men Return to Syllabus Summary Check Announcements Go to WebBoard Go to Paper Topics
 February
2Homer, Iliad Book III (Fagles translation) Web Sites: Background Information; Illustrations and Study Questions; Iliad III on Perseus; Optional: Vase Representations of Helen in the Perseus Database Return to Syllabus Summary Check Announcements Go to WebBoard Go to Paper Topics
February
7Homer, Iliad Book VI (Fagles translation) Web Sites: Background Information; Illustrations and Study Questions; Iliad VI on Perseus Optional: Vase Representations of Andromache in the Perseus Database. Return to Syllabus Summary Check Announcements Go to WebBoard Go to Paper Topics
 February
8Training Session for WebBoard in preparation for posting of papers on February 10; 8pm; ST Lab (Mac Side) located in Science Tower Rm 103 Exercise: link to Illustrations and Study Questions; prepare an answer to the first question (Compare and contrast the appeals to Hector by Priam and Hecuba in the opening section of Book XXII. How do they differ and how are they similar? ) Return to Syllabus Summary Check Announcements Go to WebBoard Go to Paper Topics
 February
9Homer, Iliad Book XXII, Book XXIV, lines 850-912 (pages 612-14); (Fagles translation) Web Sites: Background Information; Illustrations and Study Questions; Iliad XXII on Perseus PAPER #1A DUE 2/10; TOPICS; POST BY MIDNIGHT Return to Syllabus Summary Check Announcements Go to WebBoard Go to Paper Topics
 February
14Homer, Odyssey Books 1, 2 (Fagles translation) Web Sites: Background Information; Illustrations and Study Questions; Odyssey 1 on Perseus Return to Syllabus Summary Check Announcements Go to WebBoard Go to Paper Topics
 February
16Homer, Odyssey Books 6-8 (Fagles translation) Web Sites: Background Information; Illustrations and Study Questions; Odyssey 6 on Perseus, Odyssey 7 on Perseus, Odyssey 8 on Perseus COMMENTS ON #1a DUE 2/17; POST BY MIDNIGHT Return to Syllabus Summary Check Announcements Go to WebBoard Go to Paper Topics
February
21Homer, Odyssey Books 16, 18, 19 (Fagles translation) Web Sites: Background Information; Illustrations and Study Questions; Odyssey 16 on Perseus, Odyssey 18 on Perseus, Odyssey 19 on Perseus Return to Syllabus Summary Check Announcements Go to WebBoard Go to Paper Topics
 February
23Homer, Odyssey Books 21, 23 (Fagles translation) Web Sites: Background Information; Illustrations and Study Questions; Odyssey 21 on Perseus, Odyssey 23 on Perseus PAPER 1B DUE 2/24; TOPICS; POST BY MIDNIGHT Return to Syllabus Summary Check Announcements Go to WebBoard Go to Paper Topics Listen to the first 16 verses of the Iliad (requires Apple Quicktime 3.0; download free) Listen to Iliad 6.466-475 (=6.555-567 Fagles, p. 211)
 February
28Hesiod, Theogony, lines 1-534, 617-1022 (pages 13-26, 28-38) Web Sites: Background Information; Illustrations and Study Questions; Theogony on Perseus Return to Syllabus Summary Check Announcements Go to WebBoard Go to Paper Topics
March
1Hesiod, Theogony, lines 535-616 (pages 26-28); Hesiod, Works and Days, lines 47-106 (pages 68-69); Semonides, fragment 7 (Web Site; see below) Web Sites: Background Information; Illustrations and Study Questions; Pandora myth in Theogony on Perseus, Pandora myth in Works and Days on Perseus, Pandora Myth in Works and Days on Diotima, Semonides, poem 7 on Diotima PAPER 1C DUE 3/2; TOPICS; COMMENTS ON 1B DUE 3/2; POST BOTH BY MIDNIGHT Return to Syllabus Summary Check Announcements Go to WebBoard Go to Paper Topics
March
6Homeric Hymn to Demeter, lines 1-242 (course packet) Web Sites: Background Information; Illustrations and Study Questions; HH Demeter, lines 1-242 on Perseus Return to Syllabus Summary Check Announcements Go to WebBoard Go to Paper Topics
March
8Homeric Hymn to Demeter, lines 243-495 (course packet) Web Sites:Background Information; Illustrations and Study Questions; HH Demeter, lines 243-495 on Perseus PAPER 2A DUE 3/9; TOPICS; COMMENTS ON 1C DUE 3/9; POST BOTH BY MIDNIGHT Return to Syllabus Summary Check Announcements Go to WebBoard Go to Paper Topics
March
27Sappho, Poem 1 (= Raynor 1), Fragment 31 (= Raynor 8), Fragment 16 (= Raynor 4), plus notes; read all translations in the course packet; read and think about the poem by HD referenced on the Study Questions Page Web Sites: Background Information; Illustrations and Study Questions; Sappho 1 (Lefkowitz), Sappho 1 (Lattimore, Powell), Sappho 1 (Myatt), read all together Sappho 31 on Diotima, more translations of Sappho 31 on Diotima, Sappho 31 translated by Myatt, read all together Sappho 16 on Diotima, more translations of Sappho 16 on Diotima, Sappho 16 translated by Myatt, read all together Return to Syllabus Summary Check Announcements Go to WebBoard Go to Paper Topics
March
29Sappho, Fragment 94 (= Raynor 14), Fragment 96 (= Raynor 15), Fragment 44 (= Raynor 51), plus notes; read all translations in the course packet Web Sites: Background Information,Illustrations and Study Questions; Sappho 94 on Diotima, another translation of Sappho 94 on Diotima (Raynor), Sappho 94 translated by Myatt, Sappho 94 (Barnard), read all together Sappho 96 on Diotima, Sappho 96 translated by Myatt, read all together Sappho 44 on Diotima, another translation of Sappho 44 (Powell), read all together PAPER 2B DUE 3/30; TOPICS; COMMENTS ON 2A DUE 3/30; POST BOTH BY MIDNIGHT Return to Syllabus Summary Check Announcements Go to WebBoard Go to Paper Topics
April
3Pindar, Pythian Odes IV (course packet) Web Sites: Background Information;Illustrations and Study Questions; Pythian IV on Perseus Return to Syllabus Summary Check Announcements Go to WebBoard Go to Paper Topics
April
5Pindar, Pythian Odes V and IX (course packet) Web Sites: Background Information;Illustrations and Study Questions; Pythian V on Perseus; Pythian IX on Perseus; student web site with translation of Pythian IX; student web site with commentary on Pythian IX PAPER 2C DUE 4/6; TOPICS; COMMENTS ON 2B DUE 4/6; POST BOTH BY MIDNIGHT Return to Syllabus Summary Check Announcements Go to WebBoard Go to Paper Topics
April
10Aeschylus, Agamemnon Web Sites: Background Information; Illustrations and Study Questions; Agamemnon on Perseus Return to Syllabus Summary Check Announcements Go to WebBoard Go to Paper Topics
April
12Aeschylus, Libation Bearers Web Sites: Background Information; Illustrations and Study Questions; Libation Bearers on Perseus PAPER 3A DUE 4/13; TOPICS; COMMENTS ON 2C DUE 4/13; POST BOTH BY MIDNIGHT Return to Syllabus Summary Check Announcements Go to WebBoard Go to Paper Topics
April
17Sophocles, Electra Web Sites: Background Information; Illustrations and Study Questions; Sophocles' Electra on Perseus Return to Syllabus Summary Check Announcements Go to WebBoard Go to Paper Topics
April
19Euripides, Electra Web Sites: Background Information; Illustrations and Study Questions,Euripides' Electra on Perseus PAPER 3B DUE 4/20; TOPICS; COMMENTS ON 3A DUE 4/20; POST BOTH BY MIDNIGHT Return to Syllabus Summary Check Announcements Go to WebBoard Go to Paper Topics
April
24Aeschylus, Eumenides Web Sites: Background Information; Illustrations and Study Questions; Eumenides on Perseus Return to Syllabus Summary Check Announcements Go to WebBoard Go to Paper Topics
 April
26PASSOVER (7th day) No class meeting Start working on Final Paper Outines Final Papers are due 8 am, Monday, May 15 (no late papers; no extensions) Return to Syllabus Summary Check Announcements Go to WebBoard Go to Paper Topics to check topics for Final Papers and to link to Final Paper Outline site
May
1Sophocles, Antigone Web Sites: Background Information; Illustrations and Study Questions; Antigone on Perseus Return to Syllabus Summary Check Announcements Go to WebBoard Go to Paper Topics
May
3Euripides, Medea Web Sites: Background Information; Illustrations and Study Questions; Medea on Perseus PAPER 3C DUE 5/4; TOPICS; COMMENTS ON 3B DUE 5/4; POST BOTH BY MIDNIGHT FINAL PAPER OUTLINES DUE 5/6; POST BY MIDNIGHT Return to Syllabus Summary Check Announcements Go to WebBoard Go to Paper Topics
May
8 (last class)Final Paper Outlines; discussion of paper topics by group Return to Syllabus Summary Check Announcements Go to WebBoard Go to Paper Topics
 May
10COMMENTS ON PAPER #3C DUE; POST BY MIDNIGHT Return to Syllabus Summary Check Announcements Go to WebBoard
Image Credits: Women weaving. Lekythos by the Amasis Painter; around 560-525 BCE. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fletcher Fund, 1931, no. 31.11.10. Transcript from D. B. Thompson, The Athenan Agora:. An Ancient Shopping Center, Excavations of the Athenian Agora Picture Book Number 12, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Princeton, N. J., 1971; fig. 17. Matzoh (April 26) http://www.bitsela.com/passover.htm Last updated 18 February 2000 |
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