Barbara Saylor Rodgers
481 Main Street Room 301
Office hours: M 1-2 T 9-11 W 12-1 and by appointment
656-4607
bsaylor@zoo.uvm.edu
Texts in the bookstore:
| Homer | Odyssey | trans. Richmond Lattimore |
| Greek Lyrics | trans. Richmond Lattimore | |
| Aeschylus | Oresteia | trans. Richmond Lattimore |
| Aristophanes | The Bacchae & the Frogs of Aristophanes | trans. F. Blessington |
| Latin Lyric and Elegaic Poetry | eds. Rayor & Batstone | |
| Virgil | Aeneid | trans. R. Fitzgerald |
| Plato | Symposium | trans. Woodruff & Nehamus |
| Cicero | On the Good Life | trans. M. Grant |
| Aristotle/Horace/Longinus | Classical Literary Criticism |
Written exercises: Four papers, one final exam; students may substitute a cumulative paper for the final, which will be due by the day the exam is scheduled (This option is only available with instructor's permission. In advance). Final examination date: Friday 12 December 8:00 a.m.
Grade will be based upon: papers (15% each), class participation (20%), final examination (20%).
| Day | Date | Assignment |
| September | ||
| W | 3 | Introduction; Homer and the Heroic Age; Homeric hymns (xerox) |
| F | 5 | Odyssey 1-5 |
| M | 8 | Odyssey 6-12 |
| W | 10 | Odyssey 13-18 |
| F | 12 | Odyssey 19-24 |
| M | 15 | Greek Lyrics Archilochus to Alcman |
| W | 17 | Greek Lyrics Stesichorus to Bacchylides |
| F | 19 | The discovery of prose; Paper 1 |
| M | 22 | Aeschylus Agamemnon |
| W | 24 | Aeschylus Libation Bearers and Eumenides |
| F | 26 | Aristotle Poetics (in Classical Literary Criticism) |
| M | 29 | Euripides Bacchae |
| October | ||
| W | 1 | Aristophanes Frogs |
| F | 3 | Logographers and the invention of history |
| M | 6 | Plato Symposium 1-39 (172a199c) |
| W | 8 | Plato Symposium 4077 (199c223d) |
| F | 10 | Fall recess |
| M | 13 | Fourth-century oratory and drama; Paper 2 |
| W | 15 | Alexandrian poetry |
| F | 17 | Catullus (Rayor and Batstone) and Lucretius |
| M | 20 | Cicero On Friendship |
| W | 22 | Cicero On Duties II |
| F | 24 | No class (VCLA day) |
| M | 27 | Cicero On the Orator I |
| W | 29 | Cicero Tusculans V, The Dream of Scipio |
| F | 31 | Paper 3 |
| November | ||
| M | 3 | Virgil Aeneid 1-4 |
| W | 5 | Virgil Aeneid 5-8 |
| F | 7 | Virgil Aeneid 9-12 |
| M | 10 | Horace (Rayor and Batstone) |
| W | 12 | Tibullus, Sulpicia, Propertius (Rayor and Batstone) |
| F | 14 | Ovid (Rayor and Batstone) |
| M | 17 | Horace Ars poetica (in Ancient Literary Criticism) |
| W | 19 | Silver Latin poetry and Roman historians |
| F | 21 | Longinus On the Sublime (in Ancient Literary Criticism) |
| M | 24 | Late antiquity and the middle ages; Paper 4 |
| December | ||
| M | 1 | Dante Inferno cantos I-XIII |
| W | 3 | Dante Inferno cantos XIIII-XXVI |
| F | 5 | Dante Inferno cantos XXVII-XXXIIII |
| M | 8 | Shakespeare Julius Caesar |
| W | 10 | Shakespeare The Rape of Lucrece |
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Last updated: 21 September 1997 Send Comments to: Eleanor Rodgers, erodgers@uclink4.berkeley.edu Copyright © 1997 UVM Classics Department All Rights Reserved. |