Presentations (more to come)

1. Theocritus, Idyll 11: Polyphemus the Cyclops in Love! (Rachel & Pheobe)
2. Shelley, Final Chorus to Hellas (Kate & Lauren)
3. Primo Levi’s “The Canto of Ulysses”: a chapter from the shattering autobiographical account of suriving in Auschwitz (Rachel & Meghan)
4. "Pandora" from Hesiod's Works and Days: the story of how suffering came to the world at the unsuspecting hands of the first woman.
5. Aeschylus, Opening of Prometheus Bound; An account of the punishment of humankind's greatest benefactor (Jen & Melissa)
6. Hesiod, Works and Days, “The Five Ages”: A myth explaining the development of humankind
7. [Homer] Battle of Frogs and Mice: A mock-epic
8. Horace Satire II.5: Tiresias advises Odysseus on being a gold-digger (Trina
9. Horace Satire II.6: The advantages of country life
10. Rabelais, Selection from Gargantua & Pantegruel: one of the wittiest, raunchiest works ever written (this presentation will likely merit an "R" rating)
11. Selection from Cervantes’s Don Quixote: The notorious Don embarks upon his "quixotic" quest (Kevin
12. Cleopatra (Kate & Lauren)
13. Plato, Republic, Myth of Ur: A parable of the transmigration of the soul (Cordelia)
14. Plato, Republic: Plato on the role of literature in th perfect state (Melissa &
15. Whitman, "Oh Captain" and the metaphor of the ship of state (Jen &