REVISED Schedule as of March 20, 2006 |
Introduction |
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January 16 |
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The Odyssey |
Bks 1 through 11 |
Jan. 18, 23 |
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Bks 12 through 24 |
Jan.25, 30 |
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The Oresteia |
Agamemnon |
Feb. 1, 6, 8 |
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Libation Bearers |
Feb. 13 |
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Eumenides |
Feb. 15, 20 |
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FIRST PAPER |
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Feb. 26 |
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The Aeneid |
Bks I, IV, VI |
Feb. 22, 27; March 1 |
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Gospel of John (xeroxed excerpts) |
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March 6, 8 |
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The Divine Comedy |
Inferno-Canto I-XI, XXVI, XXXII-XXXIV |
March 13, 15 |
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Purgatory-Cantos I, XVI-XVIII, XXVI-XXX |
March 20, 22 |
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Paradiso (xeroxed excerpts) |
April 3, 5 |
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SECOND PAPER |
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April 9 |
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Pascal’s Pensées
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April 5
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Moby Dick |
April 19th lecture CANCELLED
It will be rescheduled for a later date. |
from April 10 to May 3
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| THIRD PAPER |
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May 7 |
Conclusion |
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May 8 |
Required texts:
Homer (Fitzgerald,tr.), The Odyssey, (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Aeschylus (Latimore,tr.), Oresteia, (University of Chicago Press)
Virgil (Mandelbaum,tr.), Aeneid, (Bantam)
Dante (Ciardi,tr.), Inferno, (NAL)
Dante (Ciardi,tr.), Purgatorio, (NAL)
Pascal, Pensées, (Penguin)
Melville, Moby Dick, (New American Library)
Requirements: An average of 100 pages of reading per week, three 5-7 page papers, and attendance at weekly discussion sections.
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