Textbooks: (1) The Iliad of Homer, trans. Richmond Lattimore; (2)
Homer, Odyssey, trans. Richmond Lattimore; (3) Aeschylus I: Oresteia, trans.
Richmond Lattimore; (4) Sophocles, Plays; (5) Euripides, Ten Plays; (6)
Susan Woodford, The Trojan War in Ancient Art.
Other reading: Michael Wood, In Search of the Trojan War
Overall Course Outline: Weekly Quizzes; Attendance Slips
(28 Aug.-30 Aug.) Introduction
(4 Sept.-25 Sept.) Homer's Iliad
27 September TEST ONE (emphasis Iliad)
(2 Oct. - 23 Oct) Homer's Odyssey
25 October TEST TWO (emphasis Odyssey)
(30 Oct. - 15 Nov. Greek drama (selections)
20 November TEST THREE (emphasis drama)
(27 Nov. - 4 Dec.) Trojan War in later literature
13 December (8 PM) FINAL EXAM (=TEST FOUR), comprehensive
COURSE OBJECTIVE: Introducing students to a careful reading of ancient works of literature which deal with the general theme of the war between Greeks and Trojans. The theme of the Trojan War was a part of the Greek sense of self-identity, and it was used again and again as the historical-mythological background against which Greeks and their successors turned in recurrent searches to know themselves.
GRADES will be assigned according to the following (approximate) formula:
Ten Quizzes (±40%), Four Tests (±60%)
NOTE: If you plan to take Classics 42 in spring semester, check
the reading list
before you sell the textbooks for this course back to the bookstore!
QUIZZES will be of three sorts: (1) brief identifications of persons or places; (2) brief details of plot and action; (3) brief interpretive questions. Each type of quiz will serve as a sample for portions of mid-term test and final exam.
ATTENDANCE LOGS are not (at least not entirely) a way to ìsee if you
are in class.î You will jot down and turn in a question or problem
or comment on that dayís lecture or on the reading which it covered.
This provides the teacher with some ongoing feedback. Keep the same sheet
and use it over.
CLAS 24/GLIT 24 Fall 1999
Tu 28 Aug. Introduction; Synoptic Story
Woodford, ch. 1-2
Th 30 Aug. Quiz # 1 Epic as Literary
Genre Iliad Bks.
1-4
Tu 4 Sept. Homerís Iliad
Woodford, ch. 3-4, Iliad Bks. 5-8
Th 6 Quiz # 2
Iliad Bks. 9-12
Tu 11 Homerís Iliad
Woodford, ch. 5-6, Iliad Bks. 13-16
Th 13 Quiz # 3
Iliad Bks. 17-20
Tu 18 Homerís Iliad
Woodford, ch. 7-8, Iliad Bks. 21-24
Th 20 Quiz #4
Woodford, epilogue
Tu 25 Homer and History
Th 27 Test #1 (emphasis Iliad)
Odyssey Bks. 1-4
Tu 2 Oct. Homerís Odyssey
Odyssey Bks. 5-8
Th 4 Quiz #5
Odyssey Bks. 9-12
Tu 9 Homerís Odyssey
Odyssey Bks. 13-16
Th 11 Quiz #6
Odyssey Bks. 17-20
Tu 16 Homerís Odyssey
Odyssey Bks. 21-24
Th 18 Quiz #7
Tu 23 Homer in the Polis
Th 25 Test #2 (emphasis Odyssey)
Aeschylus, Agamemnon
Tu 30 Oct. Athenian Drama
Aeschylus,The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
Th 1 Nov. Quiz #8
Sophocles, Ajax, Philoctetes
Tu 6 Athenian Drama
Euripides, Andromache, Iphigenia at Aulis
Th 8 Quiz #9
Tu 13 Athenian Drama
Euripides, Trojan Women
Th 15
Tu 20 Test #3 (emphasis drama)
Th 22 THANKSGIVING RESPITE
Virgil, Aeneid Book 2
Tu 27 Greece in Italy; Rome; Julius and the Caesars as Trojan
heirs
Th 29 Quiz #10
Tu 4 Dec. The Trojan Story as a Theme in European Traditions
Th 13 (8 PM) FINAL TEST (comprehensive)