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THURSDAY
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March 18
Course Introductions
What is Myth?:
"On
Myths and Sisyphean Tasks"
Some resources on chronology:
Chronology /
Timeline of Roman History
A Survey of Greek Goddesses
Greek Pantheon /
The Pantheon
/ The Major Gods /
The Olympian
Gods: Images and Texts /
Olympian Gods in www.theoi.com
About
Pandora
Pandora: Hesiod, Works and Days
53-105
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March 20
Powers of Primaeval Goddesses
Genealogy of the Gods
Read Hesiod's
Theogony:
Uranus and Gaia,
Chronos
and Rhea, Hecate
Structure of Hesiod's Theogony
Hesiod's
Theogony Study Questions
Read
The Mother Goddess and Matriarchy:
Venus of Willendorf Website
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March 25
Theories of Myth
Lefkowitz introduction, chapter
2 and answer
Study Questions
Theories of Myth
and "The
Web of Myth" |
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March 27
A Survey
of Greek Heroines
Hesiod's
Catalogue of Women
The Hero Packet
The Hero Pattern applied
to Women in Myth, History and Literature
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Marie de Medici
Heroine Pattern Assignment
(Due April 8)
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3 |
April 1 Misogyny?
Read the story of Pandora in
Hesiod's
Theogony
(lines 507-616
Semonides on Women
Sappho's Hymn to Aphrodite /
Sappho Fragment 16 (alternative translations:
Sappho's
Poems)
Outline of Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite /
Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite /
Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite Study Questions
(due today)
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April
3 The Metaphor of the Vessel
In-Class Film:
Pandora's Box
with study questions
Hand in your detailed responses to
the study questions at the end of class.
Read Lefkowitz, chapter 13 and answer
Study Questions (due
via email by April 4) |
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4 |
April 8 Misogyny Cont.
Heroine Pattern Assignment
Due
Oresteia Powerpoint
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House of Atreus
Note: For the following, look at least at the summaries
and study guide. The translations are provided for those
of you who want to read deeper.
Aeschylus' Oresteia /
Oresteia (Study Guides)
Aeschylus' Agamemnon (translation) /
Aeschylus' Agamemnon
(analysis)
Aeschylus' Choephoroi (Libation Bearers):
Summary /
Translation
Aeschylus' Eumenides:
Summary /
Translation /
Analysis
Amazons
Amazons
Powerpoint
Herodotus on Amazons (IV.110-117)
Read
Lefkowitz 1 and
Study
Questions
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April 10
Amazons Cont.
Euripides' Hippolytus (translation)
Euripides' Hippolytus
(Study Guide)
/ Euripides'
Hippolytus (Analysis) /
Themes of
Hippolytus
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Cretan-Athenian Genealogy
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5 |
April 15
(Class cancelled)
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April 17
Heroic Women of Greek Epic
Read Lefkowitz 3 and
Study
Questions
Analysis /
Characters
/ Study
Questions /
More
Study Questions /
Struck's Odyssey Page /
Homer and Epic /
Art of the Odyssey /
Genealogy of Odysseus
Odysseus' Other Women (Powerpoint)
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April 22
Chosen
and Influential Women
Penelope
(Powerpoint)
Read Lefkowitz
4 / Study Questions
Theban
Cycle (Genealogy)
Semele
and Agave
in
Euripides' Bacchae /
Euripides' Bacchae (analysis)
Read Lefkowitz Chapter 11 and
Study Questions
Antigone in
Sophocles' Antigone
Sophocles'
Antigone
Hegel on
Antigone |
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April 24
Seduction and Rape
Lefkowitz 5 / Study
Questions
Polymele /
Tyro
/ Creusa (in
Euripides' Ion /
plot
summary)
Europa (Powerpoint) /
Europa and the Bull (art survey)
Europa /
Europa Legend /
Europa the Phoenician Princess /
Europa
and the Bull /
Europa
Mosaic /
Moschus'
"Europa"
Io (Apollodorus)
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April 29
Founders Day (no classes)
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May 1 Women Without Men
Read Lefkowitz Chapter 9
and Study
Questions
Demeter and Persephone
The Homeric Hymn to Demeter (Study
Questions)
Outline of Homeric Hymn to Demeter
Rape of
Persephone (Powerpoint)
Demeter and the Eleusinian Mysteries
Eleusinian Mysteries Schedule
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May 6 Wives
Lefkowitz Chapter 10
and Study
Questions
Euripides' Alcestis /
Alcestis
Structure
/ Alcestis
Themes |
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May 8
Reading Day
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Final
Meeting |
Tuesday, May
13 at 11:30
AM
Final Exam
Question. You have two options regarding this
exam. 1.) You can answer the essay question as a
take-home exam and bring a printed copy of your answer
to me at 11:30 AM. In this case you can use your study
questions, book, readings and class notes to help you
compose your answer.
or 2.) You can answer the question during the final exam
period (11:30-2:30). In this case you can bring no
materials to class and must respond to the question with
no aids. |
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