Class Syllabus

The plan:  We will be proceeding according to the following schedule (please take careful note of due dates now and check this syllabus often so you aren't taken unawares).  Schedule is subject to change (within reason) at the discretion of your instructor.

Week 1:

T 9/4:  Introduction; Homer, Iliad, tr. Lattimore

R 9/6:  Homer, Iliad

Week 2:

[by M 9/10, 9 pm:  RR #1 to Class CUBBoard]

T 9/11: Homer, Iliad

R 9/13: Homer, Iliad

Week 3: 

[by M 9/17: RR #2 and response to RR #1]

T 9/18:  Hymn to Demeter, tr. Athanassakis; PAPER #1 DUE

R 9/20:  Homer, Odyssey, tr. Lattimore

Week 4:  

First Required Conference

[by M 9/24: RR #3 and response to RR #2]

T 9/25:  Homer, Odyssey

R 9/27:  Homer, Odyssey  (Yom Kippur)

Week 5:

 [by M 10/8: RR #4 and response to RR #3]

T 10/2:  Herodotus, The Histories, tr. de Selincourt

R 10/4:  Herodotus, The Histories

Week 6: 

[by M 10/15:  RR #5 and response to RR #4]

T 10/9:  Aeschylus, Oresteia, tr. Lattimore

R 10/11:  Aeschylus, Oresteia

Week 7: 

T 10/16:   Sophocles, Oedipus, tr. Grene; PAPER #2 DUE

R 10/18:   Euripides, Bacchae, tr. Arrowsmith

Week 8: 

T 10/23:  MID-TERM EXAM (in-class)

 R 10/25:  Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, tr. Warner

Week 9: 

Second Required Conference

[by M 10/29:  RR #6 and response to RR #5]

T 10/30:  Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian              War

R 11/1:  Aristophanes, Frogs, tr. Lattimore

Week 10: 

T 11/6: Election Day – no class

[by W 11/7:  RR #7 and response to RR #6]

R 11/8: Plato, Symposium, tr. Nehamas & Woodruff

Week 11: 

T 11/13:  Plato, Symposium; PAPER #3 DUE

R 11/15:  Genesis, New Revised Standard (Oxford)

Week 12: 

[by M 11/19:  RR #8 and response to RR #7]

T 11/20:  Genesis

R 11/22:  Thanksgiving – no class

Week 13: 

Third Required Conference

[by M 11/25:  RR #9 and response to RR #8]

T 11/27: Exodus

R 11/29: Job

Week 14:

[by M 12/3:  RR #10 and response to RR #9]

T 12/4: Matthew

R 12/6: John

Week 15:

M 12/10: PAPER #4 DUE by 4 pm

UNIVERSITY-WIDE FINAL EXAM: December 14, 12:30-3:30 pm