Week & Day

Reading Assignment

Books/ Pages

N.B.

Sept. 4 & 6

Tuesday

Homer, Iliad

Bk. 1-6

Images

Thursday

Homer, Iliad

Bk. 7-12

Sept. 11 & 13

Tuesday

Homer, Iliad

Bk. 13-18

Thursday

Homer, Iliad

Bk. 19-24

Sept. 18 & 20

Tuesday

Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

Thursday

Hymn to Demeter

Sept. 25 & 27

Tuesday

Homer, Odyssey

Bk. 1-12

Thursday

Homer, Odyssey

Bk. 13-24

Oct. 2 & 4

Tuesday

Herodotus, The Histories

I. §1-140; II. §1-5, 33-51, 112-20; III. §17-38; IV. §1-5, §59-80, §168-197; VII. §1-239

Thursday

Aristotle, On Poetry and Style

Poetics (pp.3-62)

Paper 1

Oct. 9 & 11

Tuesday

Aeschylus, Oresteia

Agamemnon

Thursday

Aeschylus, Oresteia

The Libation Bearers,
The Eumenides

Oct. 16 & 18

Tuesday

Sophocles, Oedipus

Thursday

Euripides, Bacchae

Oct. 23 & 25

Tuesday

Midterm

Thursday

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

I. pp. 35-87; II. pp. 124-64

Oct 30, Nov 1

Tuesday

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

III. pp. 194-245; V. pp. 382-8, 400-8; VI. pp. 414-29, 447-9, 465-70; VII. pp. 525-37.

Thursday

Aristophanes, Frogs

Nov.6 & 8

Tuesday*

Election Day*

Thursday

Plato, Five Dialogues

Paper 2

Nov. 13 & 15

Tuesday

Plato, Symposium

Thursday

Nov. 20 & 22

Tuesday

Genesis

Thursday*

Thanksgiving*

Nov. 27 & 29

Tuesday

Exodus

Thursday

Job

Dec. 4 & 6

Tuesday

Matthew

Thursday

John

Dec. 14

Friday

Final Exam

Time: 12:30-3:30