English 27/Hum. 95: Literature of the Western Tradition

Fall 1997


B132 L/LB
MWF 10:10-11:00

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


Last updated: 21 September 1997
Send Comments to: Eleanor Rodgers, erodgers@uclink4.berkeley.edu
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