Schedule as of August 24, 2008 |
Introduction |
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August 28 |
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The Odyssey |
Bks 1 through 11 |
Aug. 28, Sept. 2 |
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Bks 12 through 24 |
Sept. 4, 9, 11 |
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The Oresteia |
Agamemnon |
Sept. 16, 18, 23 |
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Libation Bearers |
Sept. 25 |
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Eumenides |
Sept. 30, Oct. 2 |
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FIRST PAPER |
DUE |
Oct. 10 |
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The Aeneid |
Bks I, IV, VI |
Oct. 14, 16 |
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Gospel of John |
(xeroxed excerpts) |
Oct. 21, 23 |
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The Divine Comedy |
Inferno-Canto I-XI, XXVI, XXXII-XXXIV |
Oct. 28, 30 |
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Purgatory-Cantos I, XVI-XVIII, XXVI-XXX |
Nov. 4 |
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Paradiso (xeroxed excerpts) |
Nov. 6 |
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SECOND PAPER |
DUE |
Nov. 10 |
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| Luther |
(xeroxed excerpts) |
Nov. 13 |
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Moby Dick |
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from Nov. 20 to Dec 4
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| Conclusion |
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Dec. 9 |
THIRD PAPER |
DUE |
Dec 10 |
Required texts:
Homer (Fitzgerald,tr.), The Odyssey, (Random House)
Aeschylus (Latimore,tr.), Oresteia, (University of Chicago Press)
Virgil (Mandelbaum,tr.), Aeneid, (Bantam)
Dante (Ciardi,tr.), Inferno, (NAL)
Dante (Ciardi,tr.), Purgatorio, (NAL)
Melville, Moby Dick, (Signet)
Requirements: An average of 100 pages of reading per week, three 5 page papers, and attendance at lectures and weekly discussion sections.
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