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USEM 9B Course Syllabus: Spring 2006
Professor Cheryl L. Walker
Office: Rabb 138, tel. (781)-736-2190 (voicemail)
Department Office: Rabb 140, x6-2180
Email: cwalker@brandeis.edu
Office Hours: Tuesdays and Fridays 12:00 - 2:00 p.m., Thursdays 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m., and by appointment.
Class Meets: Block H, Tuesdays and Fridays, 10:40 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
If you are a student with a documented disability on record at Brandeis University and wish to have a reasonable accommodation made for you in this class, please see me immediately.
READING SCHEDULE
JANUARY
17 Introduction
20 The Descent of Inanna (in Wolkstein and Kramer, Inannna: Queen of Heaven and Earth)
24 The Descent of Inanna (in Wolkstein and Kramer, Inannna: Queen of Heaven and Earth)
27 The Descent of Inanna (in Wolkstein and Kramer, Inannna: Queen of Heaven and Earth)
27 Paper 1 (1-2 pp.; 10%)
31 Homer, Odyssey 1-4 (Robert Fitzgerald translation)
FEBRUARY
3 Odyssey 5-8; Discussion: Olympus and the world of men
7 Odyssey 9-12: Underworld in the Middle
10 Odyssey 13-16
10 Paper 2 (2-3 pp.; 15%)
14 Odyssey 17-20
17 Odyssey 21-24: return in the end
********* Spring Break************
28 Euripides, Alcestis (in Grene & Lattimore, Euripides 1); Discussion: Heracles, god and human
28 Midterm Assessment
MARCH
3 Aristophanes, Frogs: the comic Underworld
7 Aristophanes, Frogs: the comic Underworld
7 Paper 3 (4-6 pp.; 20%)
10 Vergil, Aeneid 1-2 (Robert Fitzgerald translation)
14 Aeneid 3-4: Roman literate reworking of Homeric epic/drama
17 Aeneid 5-6: geography and system of Underworld
21 Aeneid 7-8: Hercules, again
24 Aeneid 9-10: conflicts of the old and new orders
28 Aeneid 11-12: Rome and the new order
31 Aeneid: conclusion
APRIL
4 Ovid, Metamorphoses, pp 94-99, 209-61 (Rolfe Humphries translation): Juno, Hercules, and Orpheus
7 Ovid, Metamorphoses, pp 94-99, 209-61 (Rolfe Humphries translation): Juno, Hercules, and Orpheus
11 Ovid, Metamorphoses, pp 94-99, 209-61 (Rolfe Humphries translation): Juno, Hercules, and Orpheus
11 Paper 4 (4-6 pp.; 20%)
***********Passover Break************
25 The Gospel of Luke: the impact of Christianity
28 The Gospel of Luke: the impact of Christianity
MAY
2 Medieval and modern tales (handout)
11 Final Paper (20%)
Photograph: Hades abducting Persephone, fragment, terracotta relief,
Greek, 470-460 BCE, Locri, now in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Photographic Credit: Paula Chabot, 2000)
by courtesy of the VRoma Project: http://www.vroma.org/images/mcmanus_images/paula_chabot/hadespersephone.jpg.
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