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M 1/7 |
Ancient Epic: When and
What |
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W 1/9 |
Historical Context of
Greek & Roman Epic |
Works & Days 106-79 (Caldwell 108-10) |
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F 1/11 |
Composition &
Transmission of Epic |
Odyssey 1.325-55; 8.72-95; 22.330-53; (35-6; 123, 329-30) Nagy An Evolutionary Model pp. 29-43 (link: www.stoa.org/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Stoa:text:2003.01.0006:page=29) |
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Creation Epic |
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M 1/14 |
Non-Greek
Creation Accounts QUIZ #1 |
Enuma Elish (link: http://www.ancienttexts.org/library/mesopotamian/enuma.html) Genesis Chapters 1-8 (any
translation is fine, or download) Near Eastern Theogonies (Caldwell
22-6) |
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W 1/16 |
Greek Creation Epic I |
Theogony (Caldwell 27-85) Apollodorus: Creation (Gods & Heroes 1-31) |
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F 1/18 |
Greek Creation Epic II |
Works and Days (Caldwell 87-108) Apollodorus: Prometheus (Gods & Heroes 32-53) |
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January 21: UF Holiday |
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W 1/23 |
Maintaining the Divine
Order |
Iliad 1.493-611; 4.1-126;
8.1-62; 24.1-159 (72-5, 113-5, 182-3, 475-7) Homeric Hymn to Demeter (download) |
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The Iliad |
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F 1/25 |
The Wrath of Achilles QUIZ #2 |
Iliad Book 1 (30-75) |
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M 1/28 |
The Iliad in Context |
Iliad Book 2 (76-99) www.stoa.org/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Stoa:text:2003.01.0004) Apollodorus: The Trojan
War (Gods & Heroes 231-47) M. Lord Withdrawal & Return pp. 241-8 (link) must be on UF-linked computer |
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W 1/30 |
The Plan of Zeus in Action |
Iliad Books 3-8 (100-97) |
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F 2/1 |
The Consequences of
Achilles' wrath QUIZ #3 |
Iliad Books 9-13 (198-293) |
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M 2/4 |
The Turning Point |
Iliad Books 14-17 (294-374) |
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W 2/6 |
The Return of Achilles |
Iliad Books 19-22 (375-449) |
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F 2/8 |
Ending the Iliad |
Iliad Books 23-24 (450-96) |
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The Odyssey and Gilgamesh |
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M 2/11 |
In the Shadow of Odysseus QUIZ #4 |
Odyssey Books 1-4 (1-87)
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W 2/13 |
Odysseus in Context |
Odyssey Book 5 (88-101) Apollodorus: The Returns (Gods & Heroes 271-90) Gilgamesh Tablet 1 (download) |
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F 2/15 |
Odysseus Tells His Story |
Odyssey Books 6-9 (102-151) Gilgamesh Tablets II-V (download) |
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M 2/18 |
To Hell and Back |
Odyssey Books 10-12 (152-97) Apollodorus: Herakles in Hades (Gods &
Heroes 99-100) Gilgamesh Tablets VI-XII (download) |
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W 2/20 |
Odysseus Returns QUIZ #5 |
Odyssey Books 13-15 (198-239) |
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F 2/22 |
Prelude to Slaughter |
Odyssey Books 16-19 (240-97) |
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M 2/25 |
Revenge & Recognitions |
Odyssey Books 20-23 (298-344) |
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W 2/27 |
The Aftermath QUIZ #6 |
Odyssey Books 24 (345-59) Apollodorus: Death of Odysseus (Gods &
Heroes 291-304) |
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| F 3/1 |
return and go over quiz |
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3/4-3/8 |
spring break: no
class |
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| M 3/11 |
Review for Exam #1 |
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W 3/13 |
Exam
#1 |
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F 3/15 |
A Hellenistic Epic |
Argonautica
Books 1-2 (Rieu pp. 9-108) |
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M 3/18 |
Jason
& Medea |
Argonautica
Books 3-4 (Rieu 109-195)
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Virgil's Aeneid |
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W 3/20 |
From
Jason to Aeneas QUIZ #7 |
Aeneid Book 1 (vii-xiii. 3-24;
295-7) |
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F 3/22 |
Leaving Troy |
Aeneid Books 2-3 (25-68; 300-4) |
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M 3/25 |
Aeneas & Dido |
Aeneid Books 4-5 (69-114) |
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W 3/27 |
To Hell and Back QUIZ #8 |
Aeneid Books 6-7
(115-188; 291-3) |
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F 3/29 |
The War in Italy |
Aeneid Books 8-10
(189-271; 294) |
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M 4/1 |
End of the War |
Aeneid Book 11-12 (272-332) |
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Ovid's Metamorphoses |
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W 4/3 |
Ovid
Tweaks the Tradition QUIZ #9 |
Metamorphoses Books
1, 3.250-end, 5, 7 (ix-xxxvii, 1-24, 51-73, |
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F 4/5 |
Pre-Trojan War Heroes |
Metamorphoses Books 8-11.1-219
(171-256)
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M 4/8 |
Ovid's Trojan War |
Metamorphoses Books 11.220-13.622 (256-313) |
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W 4/10 |
From Aeneas to Augustus |
Metamorphoses Book 13.623-15 (314-79) |
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Lucan's
Civil War (aka Bellum Civile or Pharsalia) |
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F 4/12 |
The Civil War Begins |
Civil War Introduction, Books 1-3 |
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M 4/15 |
The Road to Pharsalia |
Civil War Introduction, Books 4-7 |
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W 4/17 |
Caesar Triumphant |
Civil War Introduction, Books 8-10 |
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F 4/19 |
The Afterlife of Ancient
Epic |
link:
Selections from
Dante's Inferno |
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M 4/22 |
Review for Exam 2 |
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W 4/24 |
Exam #2 |
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