Preliminary List of Presentations: This list is subject to change depending on student interest and suggestions. If you know of a work (book, poem, artwork, anything) about which you think the other students would like learn, let me know.

1.            Patrick Shaw-Stewart, Untitled: a meditation on Troy from a brilliant soldier in WWI. (Ryan & Gui)

2.            Byron, Prometheus : An account of the punishment of humankind's greatest benefactor (Ren & Mia)

3.            Theocritus, Idyll 11: Polyphemus the Cyclops in Love! (Lauren & Audrey)

4.            Tennyson Ulysses: Reflections on Odysseus and the impulse to explore. (Carra & Rori)

5.            Cavafy, Ithaca: Reflections on Odysseus and nostalgia (Tiggy & Mollie)

6.            William Blake, On Homer’s Poetry: an eccentric challenges the cultural position of the Classics. [Optional]

7.            Shelley, Final Chorus to Hellas: a poet uses the Classical past to invoke a coming age of freedom (Carra & Anna)

8.            Primo Levi's "The Canto of Ulysses": a chapter from his shattering autobiography, Survival in Auschwitz. (Audrey & Mollie)

9.            "Pandora" from Hesiod's Works and Days: the story of how suffering came to the world at the unsuspecting hands of the first woman. (Arianne & Kerry)

10.         Hesiod, Works and Days, "The Five Ages": A myth explaining the development of humankind. (Florence & Arianne )

11.         Kafka, Metamorphosis, Gregor Samsa awakes to find he is an insect – a seminal work of modern fiction. (Ren & Rori)

12.         Courtly Love: Classicism fuses with feudalism to create “Courtly Love.” Countess of Dia (Meredith & Kerry); Andreas Capellanus's Art of Courtly Love (Gui & Ted)

13.         Nietzsche, Selection from The Birth of Tragedy: an idiosyncratic but influential theory about the nature of art from an idiosyncratic but influential philosopher. (Tiffany & Meredith )

14.         Selection from Cervantes's Don Quixote: The notorious Don embarks upon his "quixotic" quest. (Anna & Tiffany)

15.         Shakespeare’s Falstaff: Selection from Shakespeare Henry IV & Merry Wives of Windsor: One of Shakespeare’s most famous and fully wrought characters. (Lauren & Ted)

16.         Shakespeare, Sonnet 121. (Florence & Mia)

17.         Whitman, Oh Captain and the metaphor of the ship of state. (Tiggy & Ryan )