• Week 1

  Class: begin Odyssey, CM 436-481, browse Atlas, browse Robert Graves

  Section: For next week, read Book 1 of The Iliad. There's a copy on reserve at Moffitt, and several translations are available online. Try the Perseus Project (Samuel Butler translation) and The Internet Classics Archive for a start.

• Week 2

  Class: Odyssey 1-6, CM 482-504, 1-50

  Section: For next week, write one page (preferably typed) on the goddess Athena. If you want to double-space it, which is in fact preferable, write two pages. Think approximately 500 words. [Section 103: due 2/7; Section 116: due 2/4]

• Week 3

  Class: Odyssey 7-12, Atlas 1-60, CM 404-435

  Section: None, but make sure you're caught up in your reading!

• Week 4

  Class: Odyssey 13-24, Aeschylus Agamemnon

  Section: Read "The Wasteland" by T.S. Eliot, and consider the following questions: How does this poem relate to what we've been discussing in lecture and in section? Who was the Sibyl of Cumae and why did she want to die?

• Week 5

  Class: Euripides Iphigeneia at Aulis, Medea, CM 573-601

  Section: For next week, write a page or two on the following question: "How do Medea's actions establish, represent, and further her status as an outsider?" (Look at her whole story, not just the play.) [Section 116: due 2/25]

• Week 6

  Class: Euripides The Trojan Women; Hesiod Theogony, CM 51-146, Atlas 62-157, CM 147-170

  Section: For next week, read Genesis, chapter 1 and chapters 6-8

• Week 7

  Class: Euripides Ion; CM 602-620

  Section: TBA

• Week 8

  Class: Midterm (March 8)

  Section: Write a few blog entries from the point of view of an ancient Greek hero or heroine. Pick anyone you like. Please e-mail them to me or post them online; a couple of free and popular clients are LiveJournal and Xanga. Be sure to send me the web address if you put them up online. For both sections, this is due before Spring Break.

• Week 9

  Class: CM 505-572, Atlas 160-213, Euripides Hippolytus

  Section: TBA

• Week 10

  Class: CM 226-273, Sophocles Oedipus the King

  Section: No homework

• Week 11

  Class: Sophocles Antigone, Oedipus at Colonus; CM 372-403, 200-225

  Section: For next week: 1) read Pericles' funeral oration, and 2) figure out a convincing genealogical reason for Theseus to have killed both his father and his son.

• Week 12

  Class: Euripides Iphigeneia in Tauris, CM 171-199

  Section: read Pindar's ninth Pythian ode (about Apollo and Cyrene).

• Week 13

  Class: CM 307-327, Euripides Bacchae

  Section: TBA

• Week 14

  Class: Euripides Alcestis; CM 274-306, 328-369

  Section: TBA

A few helpful links:

Greek Myth.org - A comprehensive site on ancient Greek myth, as well as the main website for our class! This is a great place to start any search, whether you want to find information on the class itself or things about mythology at large.

The Perseus Project - This site provides texts and translations of a very large number of classical works, including all of the ones you will be reading for this class. It also has an atlas tool, some commentaries, many images of ancient art, and a variety of other potentially helpful features.

The Beazley Archive - A limited search function for a database that comprises a very large percentage of the known Greek vases. There are images available here of vases showing scenes from many of the most common myths.

The image at the top of the page is a bust of Hermes, from the collection at the Hermitage in St. Petersburg. You can tell that it's Hermes from the wings attached to his head.

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