Classics 1640 The Trojan War

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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 on a scholarly article
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 on a deck-building game adaptated to Homer
Reactions to Homer: Plato's Ion
Katy Dykes' presentation
Wrath V. War Story
Kieran Roberts' presentation
and materials on the use of the Greek word for "dearest" in Homer
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's Notes on Free will v. Fate articles
Homeric Ethics: the 'Heroic Code'
Aly Morrison notes on O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Reactions to Homer: Herodotus and Thucydides
Aaron Mayer
Concluding Thoughts on Iliad
Avery G on Cyclops and fossils
Homeric Ethics cont'd: a friendlier side: Xenia (Guest Friendship/Hospitality) Leica
notes on her wonderful game
Odyssey and plot
Grace Courtney Presentation on Helen and Penelope
and a copy of the article it is based on
allegory
Nathalie Crownover Presentation on Mycenaean Burials
Ithaca
Charlie Wager and Sylvan and John Franklin on a game they have been developing
What's up with these gods?
Sam Scott on Giunchi article about Fire Imagery in Odyssey 18
Reception Studies
Oliver Hsu presentation on HD and Helen in Egypt
Sofia Podgorski presentation Ella Tam  presentation on Beowulf and Achilles
and more extensive notes
Men, Women, Gender?
River Boyer: presentation on Thersites and additional notes
More about Women and Men
Casey Thornton's Presentation
MIDTERM
Emily Kandravy Presentation on Troilus and Cresida
Tragedy and introduction to Agamemnon
Sara Marroquin presentation and notes on The Song of Achilles
Tragedy: some production facts
Quinn Smida's game presentation and notes.
Tragedy: list of extant tragedies and very quick intellectual introduction
Erin O'Brien on Fate, Morality and Glory in Iliad
Tragedy and Homer
Michael Munnelly's presentation on the gendered construction of emotions in the Greek and Roman Worlds
Justice and Vengeance
Grace Courtney Presentation and notes on Medieval Manuscripts and Tapestries and the Trojan War
Sophocles' Ajax
Olivia Epkes presentation and notes
on ancient Greek horses as depicted in art
Sophocles' Philoctetes
Remy Blank presentation and notes
on video game Hades
Sophocles' Electra
Cassidy Adams presentation on Nikos Katzantzakis' Odyssey
Euripides' Hecuba and Trojan Women
Nathan Sirovatka presentation and notes
on Kullmann, W. (1985). 'Gods and Men in the Iliad and the Odyssey'
Women in Tragedy
Michael Jannuzzi presentation on Bilbo and Odyssey
Virgil's Aeneid, initial remarks and some 'backstory'
Symaira Elliot on Zoccola's Helen of Troy, 1993
Structure of the Aeneid
Alex Agne Game Presentation
Observations about Aeneid v. Homer and history
Dillon Goodwill Presentation on the cunning weaver and gendered intelligence
Review Article about Aeneid
Evan Sydnor Presentation on Arms in Homer





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