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Class Schedule

Wk	Month & Date	Topic	Reading Assignment Due That Day
1	January 2	Introduction to course Structure of the Odyssey Background on the Trojan war Homer's formulaic language	None
	January 4	Homer, Odyssey the Agamemnon theme the role of the gods the maturation of Telemakhos images of Odysseus	Books 1-3

2	January 7	Homer, Odyssey Homeric hospitality poets and storytelling	Books 4-7
	January 9	Homer, Odyssey extended similes and interruptions theme of nature v culture	Books 8-10
	January 11	Homer, Odyssey Odysseus' lying tales	Books 11-13

4	January 21	No Class: Martin Luther King Day
	January 23	Aeschylus, Agamemnon Paper 1a (Summary) due introduction to Greek drama your worst nightmare: Greek women in drama	Lines 1-793
	January 25	Aeschylus, Agamemnon the chorus: character, scenery, atmosphere imagery of the family curse what difference does the translation make?	Lines 794-end

5	January 28	Aeschylus, Agamemnon	Review
	January 30	Euripides' Medea Klytemnestra v Medea
	February 1	Euripides' Medea the agon or debate in Euripides' drama

6	February 4	Midterm Review
	February 6	Midterm Exam Paper 1b due
	February 8	Vergil, Aeneid The Roman Empire The Wolf as an Emblem of Rome the Trojan war from the other side Aeneas v Odysseus the serpent and the flame: imagery of book 2 Laocoon El Greco Laocoon Aeneid as a Roman epic	all excerpts in book

7	February 11	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Introduction to the Middle Ages pacing and symmetry	lines 1-1647
	February 13	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight	1648-2530
	February 15	Dante, Inferno Dante as poet and character	Cantos I-V

8	February 18	Holiday: Presidents' Day
	February 20	Dante, Inferno	Cantos VI-X
	February 22	Dante, Inferno	Cantos XI-XV

9	February 25	Dante, Inferno Final Paper Proposal due	Cantos XVI-XX
	February 27	Dante, Inferno	Cantos XXI-XXV
	March 1	Dante, Inferno	Cantos XXVI-XXX

10	March 4	Dante, Inferno	Cantos XXXI-XXXIV
	March 6	Boccaccio	Proem, Introduction, all excerpts in book (pp. 1431-1457)
	March 8	Exam Review Paper 2 due