Professor Jacques A. Bailly
Classics Dept.
481 Main St., Room 300
656-0993
jbailly@zoo.uvm.edu Classics Home
This syllabus is posted on the web at:
http://www.uvm.edu/~jbailly/courses/tragedy2016 (or something like
that): find it and bookmark it.
If additions or modifications to it become necessary in the course
of the class, they will be found there.
Attendance: Required. See below under "Graded elements."
Texts:
Substance: Three tragedies, one by Euripides, one by Sophocles, one by Aeschylus.
Grades: 91-100%=A, 81-90%=B, 71-80%=C, 61-70%=D, 60% or
lower fails. Plus and minus will be given for the top three and
bottom three points of each range respectively.
| Graded Elements of this Course | |
| Final and Midterm |
18% each |
| 2 Papers |
18% each |
| Sentence Analyses |
28% |
| Daily Comments |
0-3 missed comments = minus 0% from final grade 4-6 missed comments = minus 1.5-4.5% from final grade 7-9 missed comments = minus 6.5-10.5% from final grade 10-12 missed comments = minus 13-18% from final grade etc. |
Contacting me: E-mail is fine. You can also try dropping by my office. If it is not during office hours and I am there, I might be busy, so be ready to make an appointment for later. My home phone is 859-9253, but I am mostly in my office or out and about during the day.
Procedure:
Mondays: read Greek!
Wednesdays: discuss an article and read Greek.
Fridays: read more Greek!
Sentence Analysis Assignments: you will take a chunk of
Greek and fully identify the syntax and morphology of each word in
it. Unless announced otherwise, assignments are as follows:
undergrads do first 8 lines of next assignment; Grads do last 12
lines of next assignment. This assignment is due whether it is
announced in class or not. Due Tuesdays by 6PM and Thursdays by
6PM: please hand in via email in a Word document.
Education is not preparation for life; education is
life itself.
(John Dewey, UVM 1879)