EH 280 Syllabus
EH 280
Greco-Roman Literature in Translation
Classroom: H-C 303 Professor: Michael L. McInturff
Office: H-C 302
Office Phone: (226)- 7831
Books in Bookstore:
Homer, The Iliad
Homer, The Odyssey
Sappho, Poems, Trans. Mary Barnard
Sophocles, The Theban Plays
Euripides, Medea
Vergil, The Aeneid
Ovid, The Metamorphoses
On-line readings
Materials to be distributed
Additional texts and Resources for EH 280:
Lots of library and on-line material
Numerous readings on Moodle
Readings: Our reading load will be substantial, but not difficult if you plan carefully. Be sure to keep up with assignments. There will be brief reading quizzes to help you focus on the readings and details.
PAPERS: 1 long paper (12 to 15 pages) due near the end of the term. Topics will be distributed.
2 shorter papers (4 to 5) pages.
Some presentations, annotations, comments and activities.
EXAMS: We will have a comprehensive final.
We will have a midterm of some sort
We will have brief reading quizzes.
We will have “activities” that involve readings and in-class work
GRADES: All work will receive some sort of evaluation and comment.
The final grade will reflect your work over the course of the term, in a way that acknowledges the kind of learning you should do during the term.
ATTENDANCE: Be there. Be Prepared. Participate, even if it is only active listening.
Learning Outcomes:
Students completing this course successfully will be able to do the following:
· Contribute to ongoing class discussions
· Make effective oral presentations
· Identify strengths and weaknesses of different points of view and approaches to problems
· Position themselves in an ongoing conversation or argument
· Engage in library and/or other research appropriate to the content of the seminar
· Articulate the different ways in which theorists approach space and place
· Apply theories of literature and literary culture to a wide range of texts
As an Exploration in Scholarship seminar, this course assumes that learning and understanding begin with curiosity. Our understanding grows as we collaborate with others, connect ideas, do research, and give and receive feedback. In this class, we present our ideas in writing, in oral presentations, in class discussions. All of these modes provide us opportunities to practice and hone our learning strategies, strategies that can serve us in this class and in all college coursework and endeavors. In the end, we arrive in a new place, seeing the world in a new way. Identifying new ways of being, doing, and knowing is the essence of learning in college.
READING SCHEDULE
Week 1
Aug 25 Introduction and Explanations The Epic of Gilgamesh, sections 1 and 2
Aug 27 The Epic of Gilgamesh, sections 3 and 4
Week 2
Sept. 1 The Epic of Gilgamesh, finish the readings.
Sept. 3 The Iliad, Books I, and II
Week 3
Sept. 8 The Iliad, Books V, VI, XI, and XIV
Sept. 10 The Iliad, Books XVI, XXII, XXIII, and XIV
Week 4
Sept. 15 The Odyssey, Books I to III
Sept. 17 The Odyssey, Books IV to VIIII
Week 5
Sept. 22 The Odyssey, Books IX to XIV
Sept. 24 The Odyssey, Books XV to IXX
Week 6
Sept. 29 The Odyssey, Books XX to XXIV
Oct. 1 Review of Homer and Homeric texts.
Week 7
Oct. 6 Sappho and Greek Lyric Poetry
Oct. 8 Sappho and Greek Lyric Poetry
Week 8
Oct. 13 Readings in Greek Tragedy and Comedy- Oedipus Tyrannos
Oct. 15 Readings in Greek Tragedy and Comedy- Oedipus Tyrannos and Euripides Medea
Week 9
Oct. 20 Readings in Greek Tragedy and Comedy- Oedipus Tyrannos and Euripides Medea
Oct. 22 Begin Greek Comedy with Lysistrata by Aristophanes
Week 10
Oct 27 Finish Lysistrata
Oct 29. Read Satiric works posted on line- Possibly reading Plautus’ Menaechmi
Week 11
Nov. 3 Read the Ovid as assigned
Nov. 5 Continue the discussion of Ovid and read the Catullus poems posted on Moodle
Week 12
Nov. 10 Vergil’s Aeneid Book I and the Mythology of Rome
Nov. 12 Vergil’s Aeneid Books II and IV
Week 13
Nov. 17 Vergil’s Aeneid Book VI, VIII, and XII
Nov. 19 Review and Reconsideration- new thoughts from a final perspective.
FINAL EXAM—AS SCHEDULED BY THE COLLEGE.