Schedule of Readings for GRW 6347: Graduate Seminar on Hesiodic Epic & the Homeric Hymns
Fall 2010
Please note: some readings are direct links; others are accessed through UF's ARES SYSTEM
Week 1 (August 23) organizational
(no readings)
Week 2 (August 30) Introduction to Hesiodic Poetry
read the Theogony and Works & Days quickly in ENGLISH
link: http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/hesiod/theogony.htm
link: http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/hesiod/works.htm
Gregory Nagy “Hesiod and the Poetics of Pan-Hellenism” (Chapter 3 of Greek Mythology & Poetics)
link: http://chs.harvard.edu/wb/5/wo/UHDSgEaJ8hQnqDKlgCweWg/0.0.0.0.19.1.7.15.5.1.1.1.5.7.1.1
note: sometimes this link is
slow to respond; simply go to http://chs.harvard.edu/wb/wa/default,
click on "Publications" and follow links to this reading
Week 3 (September 13) the Theogony: creation, persona & Muses
Theogony 1-452
diagram of the Hesiodic creation account
Martin West “Hesiod” (Chapter 6 of The East Face of Helicon)
Ares reserves
Kate Stoddard “The Muses and the Mortal Narrator” (Chapter 3 of The Narrative Voice in the Theogony of Hesiod)
Ares reserves
Week 4 (September 20) the Theogony: the rise and power of Zeus
Theogony 452-end
Robert Lamberton “The Succession Myth and the Titanomachy”
Ares reserves
Week 5 (September 27) the Works & Days: “Hesiod” v. Perses
Works & Days 1-318
comparison of the Hesiodic accounts of Prometheus
Andre Lardinois “The Wrath of Hesiod”
link: http://muse.jhu.edu/content/oai/journals/arethusa/v036/36.1lardinois.pdf
Jenny Clay “The Two Prometheuses” (pp. 100-28 = Chapter 5 of Hesiod’s Cosmos)
link: http://uf.aleph.fcla.edu/F/8616F6NRC4VMQ9CQE3M85D6QGPT8Q9RUSPH98GFG4YBUDHV9J7-06307?func=item-global&doc_library=UFU01&doc_number=003173142&year=&volume=&sub_library=UFER
Week 6 (October 4) the Works & Days: the “Almanac”
Works & Days 319-end
E.F. Beall “The Plow That Broke the Plain Epic Tradition”
link: http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/25011180.pdf
Deborah Steiner “Nautical Matters”
link: http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1086/500437
Week 7 (October 11) Hesiodica: the Aspis and the Catalogue of Women
Aspis 1-480
link: http://www.library.northwestern.edu/homer/html/application.html (click “Shield of Herakles”, then “retrieve”)
Catalogue of Women
link: http://www.theoi.com/Text/HesiodCatalogues.html (pay special attention to the “Suitors of Helen”)
overview of the Catalogue of Women
Robin Osborne “Ordering Women in Hesiod’s Catalogue”
Ares reserves
Andrew Becker “Reading Poetry Through A Distant Lens”
link: http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/295122.pdf
Week 8 (October 18) introducing the Homeric Hymns
performance contexts: Thucydides 3.104
link http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Thuc.+3.104&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0199
the Homeric Hymns to Dionysos (Hymns 1, 7 and 26)
link: http://www.library.northwestern.edu/homer/html/application.html (click “Homeric Hymns”, then “retrieve”)
Jenny Clay “The Politics of Olympus: Introduction”
Ares reserves
Week 9 (October 25) the Homeric Hymn to Demeter: gender dynamics
Hymn to Demeter 1-305
Mary Lord “Withdrawal and Return: An Epic Story Pattern in the Hymn to Demeter & Homeric Hymns”
(CJ 62/6 (1967) 241-248)
http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/3296324.pdf?acceptTC=true
Louise Pratt “The Old Women of Ancient Greece and the Homeric Hymn to Demeter"
(TAPA 130, (2000) 41-65)
http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/284305.pdf
Week 10 (November 1) the Homeric Hymn to Demeter: return & resolution
Hymn to Demeter 305-end
Helene Foley “Interpretive Essay”
Ares Reserves
Deborah Beck “Direct and Indirect Speech in the Homeric "Hymn to Demeter"
(TAPA 131 (2001) 53-74)
http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/20140963.pdf
Week 11 (November 8) the Homeric Hymn to Apollo: Delos to Chios
the Homeric Hymn to Apollo 1-182
Steven H. Lonsdale "Homeric Hymn to Apollo: Prototype and Paradigm of Choral Performance”
(Arion 3rd Series 3/1 (Fall 1994 - Winter 1995) 25-40)
http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/20163563.pdf
Week 12 (November 15) the Homeric Hymn to Apollo: Olympos to Delphi
the Homeric Hymn to Apollo 183-end
Egbert Bakker “Remembering the God’s Arrival”
(Arethusa 35/1 (2002) 63-81)
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/arethusa/summary/v035/35.1bakker.html
Marcel Detienne “This Is Where I Intend to Build a Glorious Temple”
(Arion 3rdSeries 4/3 (1997) 1-27
http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/20163633.pdf
Week 13 (November 22) the Homeric Hymn to Hermes
the Homeric Hymn to Hermes (all)
Sarah Iles Johnston. 2002. “Myth, Festival, and Poet: The Homeric Hymn to Hermes and its Performative Context.”
(CP 97: 109-132)
http://www.jstor.org/stable/1215457
Fletcher, J. 2008. “A Trickster's Oaths in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes.”
(AJP 129/1: 19-46)
http://uh7qf6fd4h.search.serialssolutions.com/?sid=jstor:jstor&genre=article&issn=00029475&eissn=10863168&volume=129&pages=+19-46&spage=19&epage=46&atitle=A+Trickster%27s+Oaths+in+the+%22Homeric+Hymn+to+Hermes%22&date=2008&issue=1
Weeks 14-15 (November 29 / December 6) the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite
the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite (all)
Ann Bergren. 1989. "The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite: Tradition and Rhetoric, Praise and Blame.”
(ClAnt 8/1:1-41)
http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/25010894.pdf
Andrew Faulkner. 2008. “The Legacy of Aphrodite: Anchises’ offspring in the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite.”
(AJP 129: 1-18)
http://uh7qf6fd4h.search.serialssolutions.com/?sid=jstor:jstor&genre=article&issn=00029475&eissn=10863168&volume=129&pages=+1-18&spage=1&epage=18&atitle=The+Legacy+of+Aphrodite%3A+Anchises%27+Offspring+in+the+%22Homeric+Hymn+to+Aphrodite%22&date=2008&issue=1
[teaching Hesiod and the Hymns]
abstracts due Monday 12/13