N.B.: The editor's introduction to each text is always part of the reading assignment.
Week 1 (beginning 13 January):
Monday: Introduction to the course
Wednesday: The Tanakh (handout); The Book of Psalms:
psalms 1, 2, 8, 23, 24, and 3 more of your own choosing
Friday: Hamilton, Mythology: the entire Troy story (Part 4)
The Odyssey, Books 1ù3
Week 2 (beginning 20 January):
Monday: No class
Wednesday & Friday: Homer, Books 4-12 (Books 9-12 optional)
Week 3 (beginning 27 January):
Homer, Bks 13-20 (9-12 optional)
Week 4 (beginning 3 February):
Monday: Homer, Bks 20-22
Wednesday: Homer, Bks 23-24
Sappho (handout)
Friday: Sophocles, Oedipus the King
Hamilton: the whole story of Oedipus
Week 5 (beginning 10 February):
Monday: Sophocles
Wednesday & Friday: Euripides, Medea
Hamilton: the story of Jason and Medea
Week 6 (beginning 17 February):
Monday & Wednesday: Plato, Symposium
Friday: Test on Greek literature
Week 7 (beginning 24 February):
Monday: Virgil, Georgic I (handout)
Read the story of Aeneas in Hamilton
Wednesday: Catullus (handout)
(If you're smart, you'll start reading Ovid, too.)
Friday: Ovid, Metamorphoses: Bk I, Tiresias, Narcissus & Echo,
Pyramus & Thisbe
Hamilton, Mythology: as many stories as as you can read
Week 8 (beginning 3 March):
Monday & Wednesday: Ovid: Rape of Proserpine, Tereus, Procne &
Philomela, (Medea), Daedalus & Icarus, Orpheus & Eurydice,
Pygmalion, (Troy), Epilogue
Wednesday, 5 March: First paper due
Friday: No class
SPRING BREAK
Week 9 (beginning 17 March):
Chretien de Troyes, Ywain
Week 10 (beginning 24 March):
Dante, Inferno
Hamilton, Mythology: all stories referred to by Dante
Week 11 (beginning 31 March):
Dante
Monday: No class
Week 12 (beginning 7 April):
Boccaccio, Decameron: pp. 1-38 (162-65, 176-84), 235-43
Week 13 (beginning 14 April):
Boccaccio: pp. 250-59 (297-300), 376-79, (402-9), 672-end
Wednesday, 16 April: Second paper due
Friday: No class
Week 14 (beginning 21 April):
Cervantes, Don Ouixote: pp. 1-79
Week 15 (beginning 28 April):
Cervantes: pp. 192-244 (omit 238-41), 397-432.
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