Classics 1640 The Trojan War

Syllabus


Graded Materials and Assignments


NOTES
Student Presentations
Introduction: First Day of Class
Berlioz Les Troyens
Ari Connelly Presentation
Book One: a curated and eclectic tour
The Penelopiad by Atwell
Hannah Zumwalt Presentation document and Hannah Z Powerpoint
The Epic Cycle
Hephaestus and Aphrodite and Ares: Logan Spicer Presentation document and ppt.
Iliad and Odyssey are from an ORAL tradition
Cross-Stitch Andromache!
Lanie Clark: document and slide show
Type Scenes
Rebecca Fitzgerald's presentation and materials
Reactions to Homer: Plato's Ion
Katy Dykes' presentation
Wrath V. War Story
Kieran Roberts' presentation
and materials
Another (complementary) option for how we get to the Iliad as we know it:
Martin West's linguistic and character analysis of Iliad and 'pre-epic'
Astrid Foster
Homeric Ethics: the 'Heroic Code'

Reactions to Homer: Herodotus and Thucydides
Concluding Thoughts on Iliad

Homeric Ethics cont'd: a friendlier side: Xenia (Guest Friendship/Hospitality)
Odyssey and plot

allegory

Ithaca

What's up with these gods?

Reception Studies

Sofia Podgorski presentation
Men, Women, Gender?

More about Women and Men

MIDTERM

Tragedy and introduction to Agamemnon

Tragedy: some production facts

Tragedy: list of extant tragedies and very quick intellectual introduction