Week
1 |
Introduction
to Attic Drama & Euripides; Medea |
| Jan. 27 |
Introduction
to Attic Drama & Workshop on Quantity and Scansion
Group
Assignment: Scan and sight read opening of Medea
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| Jan. 29 |
Primary Readings: Euripides Medea 1-15
Readings in Translation: Euripides Medea
(all by Friday)
Secondary
Readings: P. Wilson, "Powers
of horror and laughter: The great age of drama" in
Literature in the Greek and Roman Worlds, Oliver
Taplin ed. Oxford Univ. Press 2000. pp. 88-132
Assignment: Parsing Sheet; Scanning Sheet
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| Jan. 31 |
Primary Readings: Euripides Medea
16-48
Readings
in Translation: Euripides Medea
Assignment:
Parsing Sheet
Quiz:
Basics of Scanning (Open Book) & Plot of the Medea
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Week
2 - 147 |
Greece's
"Golden Age" |
| Feb. 3 |
Primary
Readings: Euripides Medea 48-8680
Secondary
Readings: "Greece: The History of the Classical
Period" by S. Hornblower in The Oxford History
of the Classical World. Oxford, 1988. pp. 124-145
(Handout also includes history of 4th BCE down
to rise of Alexander the Great (pp. 145-155)
Assignment:
Parsing Sheet
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| Feb. 5 |
Primary Readings: Euripides Medea 8781-115110
Secondary Readings: "Life and Society in
Classical Greece" by O. Murray in The Oxford History
of the Classical World. Oxford, 1988. pp. 204-233.
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| Feb. 7 |
SICK
DAY
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Week
3 - 270 |
Theater
& Audience: Ion |
| Feb. 10 |
Primary
Readings: Euripides Medea 116-130
Assignment:
Scanning Sheet
Quiz:
Vocabulary & 5th Greek History
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| Feb. 12 |
Primary
Readings: Euripides Medea 214-243
Readings
in Translation: 130-213
Secondary
Readings: "The Theater of Dionysius" in
R. Rhem, Greek Tragic Theater, 1992, pp. 31-42.
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| Feb. 14 |
Primary
Readings: Euripides Medea 244-270
Assignment:
Parsing Sheet
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Week
4 - 409 |
Ritual
& Context: Bacchae |
| Feb. 17 |
SNOW
DAY |
| Feb. 19 |
Primary
Readings: Euripides Medea 271-315
Secondary
Readings: "The Festival Context" in R. Rhem,
Greek Tragic Theater, 1992, pp. 12-19.
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| Feb. 21 |
Primary Readings: Euripides Medea 316-356
Assignment: Parsing Sheet
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Week
5 - 575 |
Euripides
& the Gods: Hippolytus |
| Feb. 24 |
Primary
Readings: Euripides Medea 446-491
Readings
in Translation: Euripides Medea 357-445
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| Feb. 26 |
Primary
Readings: Euripides Medea 492-541
Assignment:
Parsing Sheet
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| Feb. 28 |
Primary
Readings: Euripides Medea 542-575
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Week
6 - 748 |
Medea:
Pindar, Argonautica, & Ovid |
| Mar. 3 |
Primary Readings: Euripides Medea 576-626
[read to at least 608 in Greek; read remainder
in English if necessary]
Readings
in Translation: Pindar Pythian IV |
| Mar. 5 |
Primary
Readings: Euripides Medea 663-707
Readings
in Translation: Apollonius Argonautica II.248-IV.1781
Ð This assignment is rather lengthy; you will want to
start it as soon as possible. |
| Mar. 7 |
Primary
Readings: Euripides Medea 708-748
Readings in Translation: Euripides Medea 746-763; Ovid, Metamorphoses, VII.1-402
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Week
7 - 905 |
Theory
& Application; Aristotle & Plato on Drama |
| Mar. 10 |
Primary
Readings: Euripides Medea 764-797
FIRST PAPER DUE: 3-4 page comparison of Euripides's Medea to that of Apollonius or
Ovid
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| Mar. 12 |
Primary
Readings: Euripides Medea 798-824
Readings
in Translation: Aristotle, Poetics Sections:
1-19, 26
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| Mar. 14 |
Primary
Readings: Euripides Medea 866-905 (read at
least 30 lines, all if possible)
Readings
in Translation: Euripides Medea 824-865 Plato,
Republic 595a-608b
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SPRING
BREAK |
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Week
8 - 1080 |
Aeschylus:
Choephoroi |
| Mar. 24 |
Primary
Readings: Euripides Medea 908-944
Readings in Translation: Euripides Medea
945-975
Secondary Reading: Read the "Aeschylus"
entry in the Perseus Encyclopedia available on-line @
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0004
Type "Aeschylus" in the "Go to" field
and enjoy!; Read also http://www.sparknotes.com/drama/libationbearers/context.html
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| Mar. 26 |
Primary
Readings: Euripides Medea 1002-1039
Readings
in Translation: Euripides Medea 976-1001
Secondary Reading: Handout on the House of Atreus;
"Introduction to Aeschylus" @ http://www.columbia.edu/~ebz5/html_files/Aeschylus.html
This is a long document and it is not necessary to read
it in its entirely. If you have questions about the dramatic
trilogy, however, it will provide you with a handy summary
and commentary on the Agamemnon and the Eumenides.
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| Mar. 28 |
Primary
Readings: Euripides Medea 1040-1080
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Week
9 - 1230 |
Sophocles:
Electra |
| Mar. 31 |
Primary
Readings: Euripides Medea 1116-1155
Readings
in Translation: Euripides Medea 1081-1115
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| Apr. 2 |
Primary
Readings: Euripides Medea 1156-1189
Readings
in Translation: Introduction to Sophocles @ http://www.sparknotes.com/drama/electra/context.html
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| Apr. 4 |
Primary
Readings: Euripides Medea 1190-1230 |
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Week
10 - 1415 |
Euripides:
Electra |
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Apr. 7 |
Primary
Readings: Euripides Medea 1231-1250, 1293-1300
Readings
in Translation: Euripides Medea 1251-1292
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| Apr. 9 |
Primary
Readings: Euripides Medea 1301-1330 |
| Apr. 11 |
Primary
Readings: Euripides Medea 1331-1360 |
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Week
11 - |
Euripides
the Comedian: Cyclops |
| Apr. 14 |
Primary
Readings: Euripides Medea 1361-1390
Paper
due: Cf. of "3 Electras" |
| Apr. 16 |
Primary
Readings: Euripides Medea 1391-1419 |
| Apr. 18 |
Readings
in Translation: Aristophanes, Thesmopohoriazusae
Lecture: Introduction to Attic Comedy |
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Week
12 |
Euripides
& Aristophanes; Thesmophoriazusae |
| Apr. 21 |
Primary Readings: Aristophanes, Thesmopohoriazusae
75-98 (Prologue) |
| Apr. 23 |
Primary Readings: Aristophanes,
Thesmopohoriazusae 785-813 (Parabasis) |
| Apr. 25 |
Readings in Translation: Aristophanes,
Frogs |
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Week
13 |
Battle
of Poetics & Tragedy in memoriam: Frogs |
| Apr. 28 |
Primary Readings: Aristophanes,
Frogs 51-96 |
| Apr. 30 |
Primary Readings: Aristophanes,
Frogs, Parabasis 686-736 (read Choral sections
in English) |
| May 2 |
Primary Readings: Aristophanes,
Frogs, Agon, 1137-1179 |
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FINAL
EXAM: Self-Scheduled |
